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Oct 8 2010

Charon Ferrying the Shades by Pierre Subleyras of ca. 1737

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Charon Ferrying the Shades by Pierre Subleyras of ca. 1737

This French masterpiece of the the Baroque Era was created between 1735 and 1740, the work of Pierre Subleyras.  The artist won the Grand Prix in 1728 at the age of twenty-nine and went to Rome to study further.  He was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca there.  He became favored by the Papal Curia and his output was prodigious.  Claims are made that exhaustion caused his death in 1749.  This work is a sensitive depiction of the mythical Charon ferrying recently departed souls over the River Styx.  It is now displayed in the Louvre in Paris.
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