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Nuptials of Cupid and Psyche, Pelagio Palagi, 1808

Greco-Roman / Italian / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This masterpiece was created in 1808, the Neoclassical work of Pelagio Palagi. The Italian artist died in 1860 in Turin, Italy when he was eighty-four years old. This oil on canvas is now displayed in the Institute of Art in Detroit, Michigan.

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The Fall of the Titans by Cornelis van Haarlem

Baroque / Dutch / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This is a reproduction of Fall of the Titans of 1588 by Cornelis van Haarlem. The original is in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. This work celebrates the casting into Tartarus of the Titans after their defeat by their children the Olympians led by Zeus and his brothers Poseidon and Hades. Van Harlem was a leading Dutch Mannerist and had been raised by a painter when his parents fled their native Haarlem when Cornelis was six years old. He stayed in Haarlem where he become a famous artist and quite wealthy through his marriage to the mayor’s daughter. He died in 1638 leaving many masterpieces and a strong tradition of Dutch painting.
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Portrait of the God from Olympia, 456 BCE

Caperton / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Statuary - 1 year ago - troycapc

Sminthian Apollo, the eternal son, Lord of Delphi and God of Manly Beauty and the Arts.  Apollo was the voice of the gods and a favored son of the All-Father Zeus.  This portrait is taken from the statue of Lord Apollo which was in the pediment of the temple of Zeus at Olympia in Greece that was built between 472 and 456 BCE.

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Zeus et Thetis, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1811

French / Greco-Roman / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

This powerful images by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres by painted in 1811 in France. It depicts poignent moment from Book One of the Iliad when Thetis beseaches Zeus on behalf of her son Achilles.

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