Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 1896 - Dramatic Poetry (Aeschylus) - fine art print

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This painting is a scaled-down version of an enormous canvas—over 14 × 7 feet—that Puvis de Chavannes painted as part of a cycle of nine murals for the Boston Public Library. The series, the French artist's first and only commission in the United States, represents the spheres of human knowledge contained in the library's holdings. Here we see the Greek playwright Aeschylus reading the text of his tragedy Prometheus Bound while the climactic scene from the play unfolds behind him.

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In 1896 the French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes created the artwork called Dramatic Poetry (Aeschylus). The original had the size: Overall: 48 7/8 x 24 7/8 in (124,1 x 63,2 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the medium of the piece of art. Nowadays, the artwork is in the the Barnes Foundation's collection. With courtesy of - Courtesy of the Barnes Foundation, Merion and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (public domain).The creditline of the artpiece is the following: . Besides, the alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 2, meaning that the length is 50% shorter than the width. The painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes was an artist from France, whose artistic style can mainly be attributed to Symbolism. The painter was born in the year 1824 in Lyon, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France and died at the age of 74 in the year 1898 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France.

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