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View of the Forum of Rome, 1732

Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “View of the Forum of Rome” of 1732 by Francesco Sabatini.  This masterpiece is gouache on cardboard and signed in the lower right corner.  It appears to be the very early work of Frncesco Sabatini who was born in Palermo, Sicily and studied architecture in Rome.  In 1752 he participated in the construction of the Caserta Palace for the king of Naples and when he became King Charles III of Spain eight years later, Sabatini was called to Madrid.  Royal patronage gained him entrance into the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and appointment as Great Master of Royal Works.  He designed and built many building during his long career which ended only in his death I 1792 in Madrid.  This work is 47 cm wide and 34 cm high.

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Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1795, Henry Fuseli

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

This is a reproduction of Henry Fuseli’s “Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis” that was painted between 1794 and 1796.  It depicts a scene from the Odyssey in which Odysseus sailed between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis traditionally associated with the strait between Italy and Sicily.  Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich as Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1741 and arrived in England in 1765 where he began a career as a painter.  He favored the supernatural subjects and eventually taught in the Royal Academy.  He died in 1825 in London.

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The Crowning with Thorns by Michelangelo Meresi Caravaggio, 1606

Caravaggio / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) / Renaissance - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Caravaggio’s “The Crowning with Thorns” of 1606.  The master wrote out a contract to Massimo Massini for the work the previous year.  The work is influenced by Ruben’s alterpiece depicting the same moment in the Passion of Christ and is based in the style of Titian’s treatment of the same incident.  Caravaggio alters the representation by minimizing the objects detracting from the focus on Christ and three principal tormentors.  As is usual, Caravaggio captures his subjects in their humanity and with dark tones.  The original work is in the Cassa di Risparmio di Prato.

Michelangelo Merisi was born in Caravaggio, near Milan, in 1571 and from the age of thirteen he studied painting for four years.  He went to Rome at twenty-one and became an associate of Cesare d’Arpino, an artist and art dealer.  He secured his first patron, Cardinal Del Monte, who gained Caravaggio’s first commission for side paintings in San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome.  From 1600 he was constantly in trouble with the law for assaults and libels but he continued to secure important commissions.  In 1606 Caravaggio was forced to flee Rome having been accused of murder.  He spent time in Naples and Sicily and became a Knight of St. John in the latter in 1608.  Before long he had to flee again after being imprisoned.  He received a pardon from the Pope and was one his way back to Rome when he died at the age of thirty-nine at Porto Escole.

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