Archive for posts tagged with ‘Thetis’


Jul 25 2010

Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811

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

Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811

This powerful images by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres by painted in 1811 in France. It depicts poignent moment from Book One of the Iliad when Thetis beseaches Zeus on behalf of her son Achilles.

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Jun 18 2010

Thetis Brings Armor to Achilles, Benjamin West, 1804

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

Thetis Brings Armor to Achilles, Benjamin West, 1804

This American Neo-Classical painting is by Benjamin West. It portrays Thetis attempting to console her son Achilles bereft by the death of his beloved Patroclus.  She is delivering his new armor as his old armor had been stolen by the slayer of his love, Hector of Troy.

Benjamin West was born in 1738 Pennsylvania and was self-taught.  He began painting at the age of eight and was patronized by Dr. William Smith from the time he was eighteen.  He also began learning from the English painter John Wollaston at the same time.  Four years later he was sent to Italy to study Titian and Raphael and in 1763 he was commissioned by George III to paint members of the royal family.  West founded the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768 with Joshua Reynolds and he died in London in 1820.

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