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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.

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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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Election of Stanislaw II

German / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Election of Stanislaw II August at Wola in 1746″ by Bernardo Bellotto of 1776.  This Venetian artist was fifty-two when he created this spanning panoramic vista of the field at Wola during the election of the king of Poland.  He had worked in Rome and for Charles Emmaunel III of Savoy and in 1747 at the age of about twenty-five he moved to Dresden at the invitation of August III, king of Poland.  The Austrian empress Maria Theresa invited him to work in Vienna in 1758 which he did and then moved on to work in Munich and again in Dresden.  In 1764 he became court painter to Stanislaw II of Poland in Warsaw where he remained and died in 1780.  This work is in the National Museum in Poznan, Poland.
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Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, William Turner

British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Bridge of Sighs, Ducal Palace and Custom House, Venice” of 1833 by William Turner.  When the artist exhibited this masterpiece in 1840 he accompanied it with these lines based on Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,

“I stood upon a bridge, a palace
and a prison on each hand.”

Byron had named the bridge based on the fact that Venetian prisoners would last glimpse the open world upon this bridge before being led into prison cells.  The painting was given to the British nation in 1856.  This masterpiece is 81.6 cm wide and 51.1 cm high and is in the Tate, London.

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Going to the Ball, William Turner, 1846

British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Going to the Ball (San Martino)” by Joseph Mallord William Turner of 1846.  This master artist was one of the foremost English Romantic painters of all time.  He was controversial in his own day but he raised the art of landscape to rival that genre of historical painting.  He not only created wonderful oils, but he also was a master of watercolors and printing.  He created this wonderful work at the age of seventy-one.  He had receive formal training at the Royal Academy of Art from the age of fourteen and within eight years he was receiving enough patronage to insure his career in art.  He died in 1851 in London.  This masterpiece depicts a party in Venice on its way to a ball via gondola.  The painting is in a private collection.

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The Sacrifice of Isaac by Gregorio Lazzarini, 1705

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

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David Contemplating the Head of Goliath by Orazio Gentileschi, ca. 1610

Academician / Baroque / Inspirational prints / Italian / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

David Contemplating the Head of Goliath created about 1610 by Orazio Gentileschi, an Italian painter who happened to be a woman.  She was influenced by the works of Caravarrio and became the first female member of the Accademia di Arte del Disegno in Florence.  She was a great success in Florence between 1614 and 1620 when she moved to Rome.  Moving to Venice in 1627, she entered Naples three years later and joined her father in London in 1638.  Four years later she fled the English Civil War returning to Naples where she died 56.  This masterpiece of her is presently at the Galleria Spada, Rome.

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Venice Twilight, Claude Monet, 1908

Impressionist / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

A reproduction of “Venice Twilight” by Claude Monet of 1908. This impressionistic masterpiece seeks to capture the magical feeling of the Queen of Adriatic. The original is at the Bridgestone Museum of Art in Tokyo.

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