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The Flight of Aeneas from Troy

Baroque / Greco-Roman / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Flight of Aeneas from Troy” of 1598 by Frederico Barocci.  The artist was seventy-two when he painted this composition for Cardinale della Rovere.  It was gifted to Cardinale Scipione before 1613 when it enetered the Borghese collection.  The work displayed Barocci’s ability to portray natural movement as well as a natural anti-heroic depiction of human delicacy.  The scene is from Greco-Roman mythology showing the escape of Aeneas, his father, wife and son from the destruction of the city of Troy.  Barocci had been born in Urbino as Federico Fiori, Il Baroccio, the ox-cart, was a nick-name.  He died in 1612 at the age of about eighty-six years.
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Transfiguration of Christ, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, 1520

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

The future Pope Clement VII commissioned Raphael to create this masterpiece in 1516. It was not finished when the artist died in 1520 and was probably completed by his pupil Giulio Romano shortly thereafter. This is last work of the Italian High Renaissance and is housed in the Pinacoteca Vaticana in Rome.

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Disputation of the Eucharist, Raphael, 1511

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

This was painted by Raphael between 1508 and 1511 and represents Christianity’s victory over, and the transformation of, the multiple philosophical tendencies shown in the School of Athens fresco on the opposite wall.  It is a Renaissance masterpiece.

Raphael was born in Urbino, to the north of Rome, where his father was count painter to the ruler.  Though orphaned at the age of eleven, he had probably helped in his father’s workshop.  Completing his training by 1501 when he was eighteen years old, Raphael was soon completing art for churches in Urbino and Perugia.  Within three years he was working in Florence, Sienna, Perugia, Urbino and appears to come under the influence of the work of Leonardo da Vinci.

By 1508 Raphael settled in Rome at the invitation of Pope Julius II and where he was disliked by Michelangelo, who probably viewed the younger man as a rival for Papal commissions.  Raphael began working on the Stanze which included the School of Athens, the Parnassus and the Disputation of the Eucharist.  Michelangelo ungraciously accused Raphael of plagiarism of his Sistine Chapel work, particularly after Raphael’s death.

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