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Mar 17 2011
Ovid Banished from Rome, J. M. William Turner
British / Greco-Roman / Impressionist / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Ovid Banished from Rome” of 1838 by J. M. William Turner. The infamous Roman author of erotic poetry had often irritated Augustus who was intent on restoring the "old morals" to the Roman Empire. In the scandal over his own daughter’s infidelities, Publius Ovidius Naso was exiled from Rome to the barbaric lands on the shore of the Black Sea where he died after ten years. This masterpiece was produced when the artist was sixty-three years old and well advanced into the eccentricity which marked his life after the death of his father. He had repeated bouts of depression and died twelve years after completing this painting. The original painting is 49.2 inches wide and 37.24 inches wide and resides in a private collection.
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Mar 16 2011
Hamlet and Horatio at the Graveyard, Eugène Delacroix
Delacroix / French / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Hamlet and Horatio at the Graveyard” by Eugène Delacroix of 1839. This is an artistic rendering of Act Five, Scene One of William Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Delacroix was forty-one when this was completed and was at the height of his career. He had exhibited his "Medea" in the prior year and created a sensation at the Salon. When this was executed, Delacroix was in the midst of work in the Libraries of the Palais Bourbon and the Palais du Luxembourg. He died on August 13, 1863. The original painting is 66 x 81 cm and resides in the Louvre, Paris.
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Mar 6 2011
Sketch of Constance on the Bodensee, J. M. William Turner
British / Impressionist / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Sketch of Constance on the Bodensee” by J. M William Turner of 1842. 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 sixty-seven. 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 is in the British Museum, London.
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Mar 3 2011
Shipwreck of the Minotaur, J. M. William Turner, ca. 1810
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 11 months ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Shipwreck of the Minotaur” by J. M. William Turner of about 1810. This British warship was sailing from Gothenburg to Britain when it was wrecked on the night of December 22, 1810. Over a hundred of her crew reached the Dutch shore and twenty others were rescued by a pilot vessel. Yet Dutch authorities refused to send help to the vessel which was being pounded to pieces. Between 370 and 570 souls were lost and the 130 survivors were taken to France as prisoners of war. Turner had been working on shipwreck paintings and this one was named to take advantage of the scandal among the British public over the failure of the Dutch to rescue hundreds of people who could have been saved. This masterpiece is in the Calouste Gulenkian Museum in Lisbon.
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Feb 23 2011
Going to the Ball, William Turner, 1846
British / Italian / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Turner - 12 months 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.
Jan 27 2011
The Frigate Toivo by William Howard Yorke, 1872
Academician / British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of William Howard Yorke’s “The Frigate Toivo” of 1872. William Howard York was born in Canada, the son of the painter William Gay York. He moved to Liverpool with the family when he was eight years old. Within three years he was painting portraits of sailing ships and he continued this for the rest of his life in Liverpool even when his father left for America in 1871. This sailing ship, Toivo" was built in Oulu, Finland and its name means Hope. This ship came out of service in 1895. William Howard York died in 1921 at the age of seventy-four years. This masterpiece is on display in the Northern Osthrobothia Museum, Oulu, Finland.
Jan 7 2011
First Mourning of 1888 by William Adolphe Bouguereau
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of William Adolphe Bouguereau’s First Mourning of 1888. The French Academician chose an unusual scene, the reaction of Adam and Eve to the death of their son Abel. Abel was not only the victim of the first murder, he was the first person to experience death according to the traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The Christian also consider him the first martyr. The painting appears to avoid the drama of many depictions of death and very simply portrays the grief of the first parents. Bouguereau painted this after the death of his second son, a fact which had greater pathos to the scene. The original is at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.
Jan 2 2011
Douleur d’amour, William Adolphe Bouguereau, 1899
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a wonderful work of the Neo-Classical Master Bougereau which he entitled, Douleur d’amour. The artist suffered the death of four of his five children and this wonderful work may reflect his grief as his son was suffering from what became a fatal case of tuberculosis.
Oct 22 2010
The Lady of Shalott by John William Waterhouse, 1888
British / Paintings (Reproductions) / Pre-Raphaelite / Waterhouse - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of “The Lady of Shalott” of 1888 by John William Waterhouse. This work was inspired by Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem by the same name of 1883. The lady is cursed to see the world only through a reflections but, spying the irresistible Lancelot by chance, she cannot resist the temptation of looking at him directly. Her punishment is to drift in a boat downstream towards Camelot singing her last long and dying before reaching Arthur’s capital. The original painting is in the Tate Gallery in London.
Waterhouse often re-created scenes from the world of myth as did many of his fellow Pre-Raphaelites. Waterhouse was born to English painters in Rome who returned to England when he was five years old. He entered the Royal Academy of Art school in 1871 when he was aged 21 and within three years he had a successful painting. For the next forty years Waterhouse maintained his success and continued painting until his last illness made productin impossible in 1915. He died two years later.
Oct 11 2010
The Gods At Play by William Blake Richmond, ca. 1889
British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of a work by William Blake Richmond who died in 1921 at the age of eighty-nine years. His career began in 1861 and he was well received having studied in England and in Italy. He was knighted in 1897. This work is a beautiful imaginative rendition of the gods of Olympus at play, but we have been unable to find the real name of the work or where it may now be displayed.
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