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Caresana worked in Naples as a composer organist and singer from 1658 till 1709. His vocal tutors were influential and even reprinted for the Paris conservatoire in 1819.


Panting: Arcadia, 1911, by William Irving (British, 1866-1943) and Thomas Eyre Macklin (British, 1867-1943).


About the painting:


This wonderful painting, of exceptionally large size, depicts a group of women dancing and singing in 'Arcadia,' the Classical mythological idyll often invoked in poetry and literature as the true pastoral paradise.


By a pair of British artists working in the so-called Arts & Crafts movement that flourished in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, it consists of very large canvas, twice as wide as it is tall, set with a small narrow wooden frame of similar dimensions, and is decorated by a large, internal, painted border with Celtic-inspired designs.


Arcadia is a beautiful and ancient region of the Peleponnese in Greece. An insulated, mountainous landscape, it became celebrated as an unspoilt wilderness and place of oustanding beauty even in antiquity, and was thus chosen as the home of the gods Hermes and Pan and as the setting of many a pastoral poem, inspiring art for centuries to come.

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