Blond and Blue, Troy Caperton, 2011

This is a reproduction of "Blond and Blue" of 2011, an image of young man at the peak of physical development standing in the shallows of a wide sea.  This can be interpreted as a figurative image of the nakedness of man set in the shallows of the sea of life in the midst of decision to go deeper into the depths.

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Young Man by the Sea, Hippolyte Flandrin

This is a reproduction of the 1837 masterpiece by Hippolyte Flandrin.  He painted this iconic work while in Rome studying there having won the Prix de Rome in Paris in 1832.  The emperor Napoleon III bought the painting in 1857.  The painting has brought forth commentary and ideas from most art critics since it appeared.  It is Flandrin's most famous work even though executed early in his career.  He was twenty-eight when this was completed and he died twenty-seven years later.  The work is currently at Louvre.

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Icarus by Leighton

A reproduction of a work by Lord Frederick Leighton, “Icarus”. This Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece of 1869 is a wonderful depiction of the preparations of Daedelus for the flight of Icarus. We see no foreshadowing of the tragic end of this great experiment. It may be an allegory of the efforts of Man to overcome his natural limitations.

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Bathing the Red Horse, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

A reproduction of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s masterpiece “Bathing the Red Horse”, of 1912. This Russian artist studied in St. Petersburg and Moscow and also traveled to Paris and North Africa. This work came during his period of attempting to synthesize Eastern and Western art. He fell out of favor during the Soviet Era and died in 1939 at the age of sixty-one years. This work is currently in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.

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Capture of Ganymede, Anton Domenico Gabbiani

This masterpiece of Anton Domenico Gabbiani was created in 1700. It depicts the ascension of Ganymede in the clutches of the eagle-form into which Zeus has transformed himself. This is one of the most Classical of the Italian master’s work of the Baroque Era. This work presently is in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy.

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Leonidas at Thermopylai, Jacques-Louis David

This French Neo-classical by Jacques Louis David depicts a scene from Greek history in which the Spartans held the pass against the invading Persians.  David spent almost fifteen years on this painting paying meticulous care to depict the heroic figures according to the classical proportions of ideal beauty.  The timing of the painting was perfect for the portrayal of a defeat as moral victory for it was the year of Napoleon's first abdication.  The original masterpiece is 209.84 inches wide and 154.33 inches high and is in the Louvre Museum.

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Cupidon

This French Neoclassical painting by William Adolphe Bouguereau is a beautiful and realistic image of Cupid or Eros in a modest pose with his famous bow lying at his feet. The work was created in 1875. The artist died in 1905 at the age of eighty years.  The original of this masterpiece is 20 inches wide and 37 inches high.  It is at the Bridgeman Art Library, London

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Young Shepherd

This is a reproduction of Juan Bela y Morales’ “Pastor joven” of 1899. Belda y Morales was a Spanish artist who died in 1944 at the age of seventy-two years. He was a Classical Academic artist and perfectly captures that genre in this wonderfully static depiction of a young shepherd. The original painting is in the Museo de Bellas Artes in Valencia, Spain.

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Profile

A reproduction of “Profile” of 2011. This classic stance of a nude male features the play of bright planes and shadowed curves of the body when viewed straight on with the head turned in profile.  The full disclosure of the form allows all the masculine proportions to be investigated.

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Summer Scene, Frederic Bazille

This is a reproduction of Frederic Bazille’s 1869 masterpiece, “Bathers”. While studying at the studio of Charles Gleyre from 1862 to 1863, the artist met Monet, Renoir, and Alfred Sisley, all of whom would become founding members of the revolutionary Impressionist movement of the late nineteenth century. As Bazille was comparatively wealthy, his studio became a meeting place for the artists. This work depicts a group of young men dressed in swimsuits enjoying a leisurely day in an idyllic setting. The artist transposed figures from drawings done in his studio into an outdoor setting along the banks of a river near Meric.

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Eros and Zeus by Peter Paul Rubens

This is a reproduction of "Cupid Supplicating Jupiter" by Peter Paul Rubens of about 1614.  The relation between Eros and Zeus was complicated by the power that the love had over the Father of the Gods.  His amorous adventures were legend and the source of constant difficulties with his wife and queen.  This work shows the frenetic energy and lust ebullience that mark many of Rubens' paintings and depicts the asking of Eros for the hand of Psyche in marriage.  Rubens was about fifty-one years old when he produced this work and he died twenty-six years later.  The masterpiece is at the Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey.

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Death of Seneca by Peter Paul Rubens

This is a reproduction of "The Death of Seneca" by Peter Paul Rubens of about 1615. This beautiful work of the Dutch master Rubens was completed in about 1615. It depicts the scene of Seneca’s suicide in his bath at the orders of the emperor Nero in A. D. 65. Seneca was the son of a philosopher who had exerted considerable influence on the young emperor. This work is currently displayed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.

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Polites, Hippolyte Flandrin, 1832

This is a reproduction of Hippolyte Flandrin’s “Polites Watching the Greeks” of 1832. The artist was born in Lyons in 1809 and studied in Paris under Ingres. In the year of this painting he won the Grand Prix de Rome. He spent the next five years in the papal city and returned to Paris where he enjoyed considerable fame. At the age of fifty-five he returned to Rome where he died of small pox. This early work of the French master has a brooding quality which expressed itself in many of Flandrin’s works. The original is in the Musee d’art Moderne in Saint Etienne.

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Dante and Virgil in Hades, William Adolphe Bouguereau

This is a reproduction of William Adolphe Bouguereau's "Dante and Virgil in Hades" of 1850.  In my opinion he never did better.  More elevated, but never better.  It also shows the imagined horrors of the underworld and has a dramatic theme of unbridled conflict, not between divine or eternal forces, but between men.  The scene is taken from the Inferno in the Eighth Circle where Capocchio the heretic is bitten by Schicchi the imposter.  The original work is 225 cm wide and 281 cm high and is currently at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

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Sistine Chapel Ignudo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1511

This is one of the works of the Frescoes in the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo Buonarroti, who died in Rome in 1564 at the age of 89 years, was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel which had been frescoed earlier by Piero Matteo d’Amelia with a star-spangled sky. The masterwork was completed between 1508 and 1512.

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Bacchus by Caravaggio, 1595

This is a reproduction of "Bacchus" of 1595 by Caravaggio.  This was painted shortly after the artist joined the household of Cardinal Del Monte which was focused on the love of young men.  Bacchus is portrayed as seductive ephebe offering the viewer a glass of wine.  There is wonderful detail in the painting, including a small image of the artist in the wine of the glass and a small image of the drunken god.  There has been some speculation that this is a self-portrait executed with the aid of a mirror.

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Boy Playing Recorder by Ter Brugghen, 1621

This Dutch masterpiece wonderfully shows the artist's preference for half-figures in dimmer lighting. This work is presently in the Staatliche Kunstammlungen, Kassel, Germany. Hendrick ter Brugghen was a leading Dutch follower of the Italian Michelangelo Caravaggio. He was born in about 1588 and at an early age moved with his family to Utrecht. He was in Rome in 1604 where he was heavily influenced by Caravaggio as well as Carracci, Domenichino and Reni. He favored half-length figures and strong contrasts between light and dark surfaces. Though he died early in 1629 at the age of 41, his influence was widespread in the next generation of Dutch Masters.

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Academic Study from Life by Joaquin Sorolla

This is a reproduction of Joaquin Sorolla's Academic Study from Life of 1887. In Spanish the title is Academia del natural. It is currently in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia en su Historia. Sorolla was born in Valencia in 1863. Orphaned at the age of two, he began studying painting in 1877 and went to Madrid four years later to study in the Museo del Prado. In 1885 he moved to Rome and Paris. He returned to Spain in 1890 and within three years was the acknowledged leader of the Spanish modern movement. He maintained that position with prodigious creativity until he suffered a stroke in 1920. He died three years later.

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Framed I'm So Sorry Painting

Please consider buying this painting, times are very hard indeed.

This is an original painting by Troy Caperton's "I'm So Sorry."  It represents the moment of confession when the possiblities of reconciliation and forgivenss are equally weighed with the possibilities of rejection and reprisal.

This is a real painting, stretched and framed!

This work is 16 inches wide and 20 inches tall.

The Plein Aire Mahogany frame is three inches wide on each side.

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The Torture of Prometheus, Jean Louis Cesar Lair, 1819

This is a reproduction of Jean-Louis-Cesar Lair's "The Torture of Prometheus" of 1819.  Lair was born in 1781 and died at the age of forty-seven.  This Neo-classical masterpiece portrays the sufferings of Prometheus whose name means "fore-thought".  In Greek mythology Prometheus store fire from the Olympians and gave it to man for he had pity on mankind because of human beings had no physical attributes with which to defend themselves.  For this betrayal of the gods, Zeus condemned Prometheus to have his liver torn out by an eagle on a daily basis because his liver would grow back each night.  Herakles finally liberated Prometheus from his torture.

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Swimming Hole, Thomas Eakins, 1885

Thomas Eakins’s masterpiece, “The Swimming Hole, 1885. This is the artist’s most accomplished portrayal of the male nude and depicts himself and five friends on a creek near Philadelphia. The piece was controversial in those Victorian times and the painting was returned by the commissioner and remained in the artist’s possession until his death in 1916. The original is in the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

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Surveying Ruin, Troy Caperton, 2011

A reproduction of "Surveying Ruin" of 2011. This is a fantasy image of a young naked man surveying the ruins of the classical world, a man marked by the figure of a scorpion.  The scorpion is ruled by the god of war making this image one reminiscent of the barbarians' desolation of the Classical World in the Fifth Century.

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Study of a Nude Man, Theodore Gericualt, 1816

A reproduction of "Study of Nude Man" of about 1816 by Theodore Gericault. This French master executed this work while in Rome and Florence when he was about twenty-six years old. This was during a period in which Gericault was refining his efforts to depict the human body. He returned to France where he inspired many young painters, among them Delacroix. He died in Paris in 1824.

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Exhausted by Troy Caperton of 2009

A reproduction of "Exhausted" of 2009. This is a study of the relaxed male nude form.
A challenging day of labor has been completed, dirty clothes stripped off, now just a moment to gather energy from this exhausted body for a delicious shower.

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Browns by Troy Caperton of 2010

This is a reproduction of "Browns" of 2010, a study in shades of browns, from rich shadowed woodwork to the shadowed curves of a beautifully toned young man.

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On the Ledge by Troy Caperton of 2010

This is a reproduction of "On the Ledge" of 2010, an attempt to portray the spiritual position of a man trying to take his ease perched upon what may be a precipice over the unknown space of the future. Of course the ledge may be a part of a vast continent of support and aid. It is only by standing and looking over the ledge that a true perspective may be gained.

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The Bather by Henry Scott Tuke, 1924

A reproduction of "The Bather" of 1925 by Henry Scott Tuke.  The artist was a native of York who moved to Falmouth with his family when he was less than two years old.  At seventeen he entered the Slade School of Art.  When he returned to England from studies in Italy and Paris, he joined the Newlyn School of painters in which he gained lucrative commissions.  He entered the Royal Academy has a full member in 1914 and died in March, 1929 in Falmouth leaving over 1300 paintings.  His twin abiding loves were the sea and boys.  This caused quite a stir in Victorian and Edwardian England, but he was nonetheless a member of the Royal Academy. 

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On the Steps by Troy Caperton, 2011

This is a reproduction of "On the Steps" of 2011.  This is a representation of eternal circumstance of a man stopping on the journey up the steps of life.  When the climb gets difficult, when seemingly impossible obstacles are encountered, a man can feel crushed by the pressures of the climb.

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Unknown by Henry Scott Tuke, ca. 1926

A reproduction of an unknown work by Henry Scott Tuke, of an unknown date.  The artist was a native of York who moved to Falmouth with his family when he was less than two years old.  At seventeen he entered the Slade School of Art.  When he returned to England from studies in Italy and Paris, he joined the Newlyn School of painters in which he gained lucrative commissions.  He entered the Royal Academy has a full member in 1914 and died in March, 1929 in Falmouth leaving over 1300 paintings.  His twin abiding loves were the sea and boys.  This caused quite a stir in Victorian and Edwardian England, but he was nonetheless a member of the Royal Academy.

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Adventurous Investigation, Caperton, 2011

This is a reproduction of "Adventurous Investigation" of 2011. It is an enhancement of an image the origin of which has not been determined. If you know of the photographer or models, please advise so they can be properly acknowledged.  It is a wonderful interpretation of the adventurous investigation that can be had between men.

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