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Jun 11 2011
Time Saving Truth from Falsehood
Academician / Baroque / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy” of 1737 by Francois Lemoyne. This allegorical Rococo masterpiece was produced when Lemoyne was fifty-nine years old and completed the day before his suicide. He began his studies when he was thirteen and won the Prix de Rome in 1711. Seven years later at the age of thirty he became a member of the Academie and became a professor in 1733. He led in the in the fashion of large allegorical paintings which disappeared upon his death on June 4, 1737. His suicide was probably prompted by insanity which overcame him after the death of his wife.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Dec 15 2010
The Death of Ajax by Henri Serrur, 1820
Academician / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of the classic painting by the French Neo-classical great, Henri Auguste Calixte Cesar Serrur. It was painted in 1820 when the artist was twenty-six years old. He died in 1865. The story of the death of Ajax is not related in the Iliad and is motivated by the hero’s shame at having lost the argument over the armor of Patroklos which he lost to Odysseus. Ajax felt cheated by the gods whom he cursed before killing himself. He was worshiped as a hero in his native Salamis and at Athens.
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