Paintings in Private collection

The Death Of Cook by Johann Zoffany

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October 14, 2015History Painting WesternNo comments

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Captain James Cook. We have heard this name for umpteen times in history periods, books and in historical references. He was the first circumnavigator of New Zealand, gave detailed maps of Newfoundland and the very first voyager to reach Australia and Hawaiian Islands.  We know him as the great explorer of 18th century who ultimately sacrificed his life during such expedition. Johann Zoffany has painted Cook’s very last moments in this painting. This is an unfinished painting. As we can see that the scenery in background is very plain-looking and the people on the right-hand rock are just shadowy figures without much details inserted. Though, the foreground seems completed with sufficient details. We can see Captain Cook in the foreground lying on the ground surrounded […]

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View Of A Terrace by Vincenzo Irolli

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October 13, 2015Still Life Painting WesternNo comments

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Vincenzo Irolli was a still life painter from Italy. He was well-known for his works of genre-paintings and portraits in late 19th century. Blending things with brush-strokes and creating a feel of similarity across the painting was his novice style. The unrealistic effect of his style gave more importance and dominance to the scene. He painted most of his work in unrealistic style, though having the subjects from real-life. In this oil-on-canvas still painting, is surrealistic view of a regular terrace filled with some flower-vases.  Irolli, instead of trying to make the scene more real, created a vague image of a simple terrace by making it surreal. Still, we can differentiate the terrace wall, flowers and the background, which looks like another high wall just […]

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Two Harnessed Calves by Heirich von Zugel

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October 13, 201520th Century Animal Painting WesternNo comments

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Award winner German painter Heirich von Zugel devoted his art towards depicting domestic animals. His paintings often described animals with their masters doing works farms or just wandering in meadow or in small lakes. Here he comes up again with the same relation between the human and the animals which represents the dependency of the both sides in old times. The animals were dependent on the people for food and protection while people were dependent on animals for ploughing, milk and fur. Though, nowadays this kind of relations is quickly fading away due to the alternatives for the animals. Instead, animals are mostly being prisoned harshly in the ‘animal-farms’. Here is a normal every day work in country-side. Artist has kept the farmer’s face unclear […]

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