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Jun 12 2011
View of the Forum of Rome, 1732
Academician / Greco-Roman / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Spanish - 12 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of the Forum of Rome” of 1732 by Francesco Sabatini. This masterpiece is gouache on cardboard and signed in the lower right corner. It appears to be the very early work of Frncesco Sabatini who was born in Palermo, Sicily and studied architecture in Rome. In 1752 he participated in the construction of the Caserta Palace for the king of Naples and when he became King Charles III of Spain eight years later, Sabatini was called to Madrid. Royal patronage gained him entrance into the Academia Real de Bellas Artes de San Fernando and appointment as Great Master of Royal Works. He designed and built many building during his long career which ended only in his death I 1792 in Madrid. This work is 47 cm wide and 34 cm high.
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Mar 7 2011
View of the Flower of Greece, 1836 by August Julius Ahiborn
Academician / German / Greco-Roman / Landscape / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of the Flower of Greece” of 1836 by August Julius Ahiborn. This painting by Ahiborn is a copy of the original by Karl Friedrich Schinkel which has been lost. This painting shows ancient Greek workmen constructing a temple capturing when the last block of its frieze is being heaved into place. The Greek inscription quotes Aristotle’s hymn to the virtues of battle. The original painting is 92.5 inches wide and 37 inches high. This masterpiece is in the Alte Nationalgalerie, staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
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Feb 27 2011
View of Amalfi, John Ruskin, 1844
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “View of Amalfi” of 1844 by John Ruskin. This artist is better known for his art criticism and social thinking and for the influence that he had on the Victorian Era in Britain. His support for Naturalism and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in art were instrumental in their acceptance. His first publication was at the age of fifteen and nine years later he published the first volume of Modern Painters in 1843. This became one of his most important works out of the over two hundred fifty works that were published. He died in 1900 in Creteil, France.
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Nov 2 2010
Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836
American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by Thomas Cole was created when the founder of the Hudson River School was thirty-five years old. The work was originally entitled “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm”. Cole’s work set the mode for the Romanticism and Naturalism which became the hallmark of the American Hudson River School. The artist died in 1848.
Oct 7 2010
View of Salisbury Cathedral by John Constable, 1823
Academician / British / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by John Constable, “View of Salisbury Cathedral” of 1823. The artist was a native of Suffolk who died in 1837 at the age of sixty-one years. He is one of the greatest English landscape painters but did not become recognized until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of fifty-two. He struggled financially until then with his works selling better in France than in England. This is one of his major works and displays the great cathedral from the southwest. It was created for Constable’s friend and patron, Dr. John Fisher, bishop of Salisbury. This painting is in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
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