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3 unusual facts about Antoine Wiertz


Antoine Wiertz

It had been presented to the city of San Francisco by Adolph Sutro in 1887.

During his stay in Rome, Wiertz worked on his first great work, Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle ("Greeks and Trojans fighting for the body of Patroclus", finished in 1836), on a subject borrowed from canto XVII of Homer's Iliad.

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It was first released as a bootleg called Frozen in Wacken, which featured the art of romantic painter Antoine Wiertz on the cover.



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