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Dec 9 2010
Martirio de San Sebastiano by Menageot, ca. 1804
Academician / French / Inspirational prints / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Franoics Guilluame Menageot’s “Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian” of about 1804. Menageot was born in 1744 London and became a seminal figure in the development of French Classicism. He won the Prix de Rome in 1766 and became director of the French Academy in Rome in 1787. He died in Paris in 1816. This image is an unusual depiction of this oft-painted scene. Saint Sebastian has no arrows in his body which is a graphic essay on the male body. The original painting is in the Haggerty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sep 29 2010
Homer and His Guide by Adolphe William Bouguereau of 1874
Academician / Bouguereau / French / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Adolphe William Bouguereau was created in 1874. It depicts the blind master-poet of Ancient Greece being guided through the paths of the country-side by his sighted boy-guide. In the background figures scoff at the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. This work is in the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, USA.
Sep 22 2010
Map of Colonial North America by Dilly, 1781
American / British / Maps and charts - 1 year ago - troycapc
A New Map of North America Showing the Latest Discoveries by Jonathan Carver published by C. Dilly, London, 1781. Jonathan Carver was an early American explorer who, by 1763 became familiar with surveying and mapping techniques. His first personal expedition was launched in 1766 and he traversed much of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. He was not paid for his expedition and in 1769 left for England to pursue payment by the government. There he published a book of his travels in 1778 and died two years later. This map was produced the next year and purports to show the territories that Clark had explored.
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