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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
Feb 13 2011
Bonaparte Crossing the Saint Bernard Pass, Jacques-Louis David
French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” by Jacques-Louis David. It is one of five renditions of the same painting that were executed between 1801 and 1805 commissioned by Charles IV, the king of Spain. The event occurred in May of 1800 and David received the commission from the Spanish court. When Napoleon heard of the commission he instructed David to produce three additional paintings. On his own, David produced yet a fifth version which he retained in his own possession. The equestrian presentation and the dramatic pose of Napoleon had little relation to reality but the painting from the beginning was designed to be propaganda. However the effect of the painting on the history of art has been profound and long-lasting. This particular version in at Versailles.
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