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The Triumph of Achilles by Franz von Matsch; panoramic fresco (main hall, upper level). Achilles drags Hector's lifeless body at the Gates of Troy. [11] Paintings and statues of Achilles are abundant, both in the main hall and in the gardens, depicting contrasting heroic and tragic scenes of the Trojan War.
Finally, Achilles finds his prey. The Triumph of Achilles, fresco by Franz von Matsch in the Achilleion, Greece. Achilles chases Hector around the wall of Troy three times before Athena, in the form of Hector's favorite and dearest brother, Deiphobus, persuades Hector to stop running and fight Achilles face to face. After Hector realizes the ...
Franz Josef Karl Edler von Matsch (16 September 1861, in Vienna – 5 October 1942, in Vienna), also known as Franz Matsch, was an Austrian painter and sculptor in the Jugendstil style.
Achilles begins to draw his sword in anger upon hearing this, while Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, looks on in grief and sadness with her hand on her daughter's shoulder. David produced the work during his exile in Brussels. An 1825 copy of the painting is sometimes [1] attributed to Michel Ghislain Stapleaux under David's direction.
Thetis Receiving the Arms of Achilles from Vulcan is a c.1630 oil on panel painting by Peter Paul Rubens, originally produced as a cartoon for a tapestry and now in the musée des Beaux-Arts de Pau. [1]
The painting is in the neo-classical style and belongs to the school of Jacques-Louis David, in whose studio Ingres had trained. It also shows new influences from John Flaxman, whose work had just had its first Parisian exhibition. [2] A small oil-on-wood sketch for the painting is in the collection of the nationalmuseum of Sweden.