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Feb 22 2011
Lake Lucerne, Alexandre Calame, 1849
German / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Lake Lucerne” by Alexandre Calame of 1849. Alexandre Calame was a Swiss painter who produced this masterpiece when he was thirty-nine years old. He was began exhibiting in Paris and Berlin from 1835 after having secured a patron when he was nineteen. His specialty remained his Alpine landscapes of which this is a magnificent example. He died in 1864 and this wonderful work is in the Kunsthaus, Zurich.
Nov 12 2010
Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis, 1795, Henry Fuseli
Academician / British / Greco-Roman / Neoclassical / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Henry Fuseli’s “Odysseus in front of Scylla and Charybdis” that was painted between 1794 and 1796. It depicts a scene from the Odyssey in which Odysseus sailed between the monsters Scylla and Charybdis traditionally associated with the strait between Italy and Sicily. Henry Fuseli was born in Zurich as Johann Heinrich Füssli in 1741 and arrived in England in 1765 where he began a career as a painter. He favored the supernatural subjects and eventually taught in the Royal Academy. He died in 1825 in London.
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