8 x 10 wood mounted print - Spring by Auguste Pierre Cot (1873)
8 x 10 wood mounted print - Bathing nudes
Small framed print - Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian (1520 - 1523)
All $1.99 each @ Value Village.
What a score! I don't normally look at smaller prints, but I'm glad I decided to today. I love renaissance art, and all of these are fantastic!
$1.99 was a steal already, but they seemed even more worth it because they were also backed with wood. I've never seen that before!
I found out who made the first painting, but I can't find any info on the other ones. They're both so beautiful!
The first one, the girl's expression is just amazing...she looks so content and in love. I feel the same way when I look at it!
The other one has nudes, but it's just so tastefully done. A lot of older paintings feature fuller figured women, but these women have the kind of bodies I find beautiful.
A better look at the small framed picture:
I'm not too crazy about the print, but I do like it. I mostly like how it's presented...the frame is so neat! You can't tell from the picture, but the glass overlay is convex...it's a neat effect.
Upon chance, I found out who painted this...I really didn't think I could find out since there's really nothing I know to search for in there. This is the full painting:
Before I found that, I saw this picture painted by Dosso Dossi:
So of course, I thought he was the painter! That is some kind of plagiarism...but by looking up the guy depicted (Bacchus), I was able to find the correct one.
*edit*
5 months later, I just discovered that the other print was painted by no other than my favourite artist, William Bouguereau! The Nymphaeum, 1878.
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