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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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Sebastian and the Women

Academician / Baroque / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 12 months ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Sebastian und die Frauen” of 1746 by Paul Troger.  The artist was forty-eight when he created this masterpiece having been born in the Tyrol.  He began his apprenticeship at the age of sixteen and painted his first fresco in 1722 when he was twenty-four.  His patron sent him for four years to Italy where he perfected his style and returned to Austria in 1726.  Two years later he moved to Vienna where his work became the bridge between Baroque and Rococo tastes.  He died in 1762 and this work in the Austrian Belvedere Gallery in Vienna.

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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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Blick auf Salzburg, Jakob Roedler

German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “Blick auf Salzburg”, or View of Salzburg, of 1833 by Jakob Roedler.  The Austiran Jakob Roedler produced this landscape masterpiece when he was twenty-four years old.  He died twenty-nine years later in Vienna.  The painting captures a view of the famous Festung Hohensalzburg which was built originally in 1077.  The city is famous as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and was under the rule of the archbishop for 500 years ending in 1805.

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The Wedding Trip of 1841 by Carl Schindler

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of “The Wedding Trip” of 1841 by Carl Schindler.  This painting is one of the few by the Viennese native.  He died tragically at the age of twenty on August 22, 1842.  This masterpiece is in the Austrian Gallery in Vienna.

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