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Jun 13 2011
Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives
Academician / Baroque / German / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Prayer of Christ on the Mount of Olives” of 1730 by Sebastiano Ricci. This masterpiece was created when the artist was seventy-one years old. He was a Late Baroque artist of the Venetian school. He began as an apprentice at the age of twelve. He moved to Bologna after a scandal in Venice and began collecting commissions in 1682. He fled Bologna after another scandal and by 1692 was in Rome where he received a commission from the duke of Parma. He was back in Venice between 1698 and 1706 when he moved to Florence. He travelled to London and Paris for further commissions and returned to Venice in 1718 a wealthy man. He continued to work though his advanced age and influenced an entire school in Venice where he died in May, 1734. This work is 95 cm wide and 76 cm high and is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Reproduction for sale on Zazzle
Jun 7 2011
Tobias Fishing in the Presence of the Archangel Raphael
Impressionist / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Tobias Fishing in the Presence of the Archangel Raphael” of 1752 by Francesco Guardi. Francesco Guardi was one of the last of the Venetian school of painting and was forty years old when he produced this masterpiece. His most important works date from the years following this effort and his quick brushwork was to have an influence on the French Impressionists of the following century. He died in 1793, four years before the death of the Venetian Republic. This painting is in the Church of the Angel Raphael in Venice and measures 140 cm wide and 80 cm high.
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