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Blind Man’s Bluff

Academician / French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Blindekuhspiel” of 1776 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.  This French artist was forty-four when he created this Late Rococo landscape depicting a game of blind man’s bluff.  The vivid colors and veiled sensuality were precursors of later Romanticism.  He won the Prix de Rome in 1752 and four years later arrived at the Eternal City at the age of twenty-four.  He became influenced by the Dutch Masters and by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and returned to Paris in 1761 where he entered the Academy within four years.  He became a great favorite of the members of the court of Louis XV but fled Paris at the outset of the French Revolution.  He lived quietly in the south of France until near his death when he returned to Paris where he died in 1806.  This work is 198 cm wide and 216 cm high and is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

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The Sack of Rome by Joseph Noel Sylvestre of 1890

Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of J. N. Sylvestre’s “The Sack of Rome by the Visigoths on August 24, 410″ of 1890. The artist died in 1926 at the age of seventy-nine years having been born in Beziers, France. He studied under Alexandre Cabanel at th e Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He favored historical scenes, particularly those of Rome, and won prizes in the Prix de Rome and Prix de Salon becoming quite popular. On August 24, 410 the city of Rome was sacked by an enemy for the first time in 800 years. It was the beginning of the end. Christianity had been proclaimed the only legitimate religion of the empire twenty years before and many critics of the religious innovation blamed the ravaging of the eternal city on its having abandoned the gods of their ancestors. This painting depicts but a small scene from the devastation that the capital of the world endured.

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