Warrior with Shield

This is a reproduction of " Warrior with Shield" of 1808 by Jean Eugene Charles Alberti.  Alberti was a native of Maastrict in the Netherlands and studied in Amsterdam where he had lived since 1783.  He moved to Paris where he studied under the Neoclassical Master David.  He became of pensioner of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, and studied in Rome and made his home in Paris.  He left there in 1843 and nothing more is known of his activities; he was sixty-six years old when he disappeared.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and is 72.5 cm wide and 91.5cm high.

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Warrior with Drawn Sword

This is a reproduction of " Warrior with Drawn Sword" of 1808 by Jean Eugene Charles Alberti.  Alberti was a native of Maastrict in the Netherlands and studied in Amsterdam where he had lived since 1783.  He moved to Paris where he studied under the Neoclassical Master David.  He became of pensioner of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, and studied in Rome and made his home in Paris.  He left there in 1843 and nothing more is known of his activities; he was sixty-six years old when he disappeared.  The original of this masterpiece is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and is 73 cm wide and 92.5cm high.

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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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