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The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
This vivid oil painting captures the fateful moment when the citizens of Troy wheel the enormous wooden horse through the gates of their city, unaware of the Greek soldiers concealed within.
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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo painted The Procession of the Trojan Horse in Troy in 1773, and it stands as one of the most compelling narrative works of the Venetian Rococo tradition. The painting holds a permanent place in the collection of the National Gallery in London, and owning a hand-painted oil reproduction of it means living with a work of genuine historical and pictorial depth.
The scene draws from the legend preserved in Virgil and Homer, depicting the moment when the Trojans pull the great wooden horse through the gates of their city, unaware of the doom concealed within it. Domenico presents the crowd with warmth and humanity rather than judgment. The citizens are joyful, celebratory, and fully alive, which makes the weight of what they cannot know all the more affecting. The tension between their visible happiness and the invisible catastrophe within the horse gives the painting its lasting emotional charge.
Visually, the composition moves with energy and confidence. The diagonal thrust of the horse carries the eye across the picture plane while the crowd of figures, each differentiated by gesture and expression, builds a sense of collective motion. The palette of golden ochres, terracotta reds, and pale sky blues is rendered with the fluid brushwork that defines the Venetian tradition. The light falls from the upper left and gives the entire scene a theatrical warmth that rewards careful and repeated looking.
Every hand-painted oil reproduction at ByMuseum is created by a skilled artist working directly in oil on canvas, studying the original composition to preserve the layered brushwork, tonal depth, and surface texture that no print can replicate. Each piece is made entirely by hand, from the first ground layer to the final details of the crowd and the architecture.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas, made entirely by hand
- Gallery-wrapped and ready to hang
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your space
- Includes a certificate of authenticity
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