Hero and Leander - Ferdinand Keller Art Print
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Hero and Leander opens on a signal already dead. Ferdinand Keller paints the Hellespont at its cruelest hour in an 1875 history painting of charcoal storm cloud and bone-white foam. Hero clings to the cliff at Sestos. Her torch is out. A plume of soot streams from it like a flag nobody in Abydos can read.
She was a priestess of Aphrodite, sworn to the lamp. Each night her small fire steered a swimmer across a strait of pewter water. Tonight the gale tore it loose. One arm clamps over her skull. One sandaled foot grips wet stone as her chiton snaps against a slate gray sky.
Below, Leander floats face up in the surf, ivory skin drained to ash, a linen cloth knotted at his hips. A gull dives toward him.
Keller trained in Karlsruhe and painted with the operatic swagger of Hans Makart, and this monochrome Greek mythology art print keeps that Neo-Baroque hunger for bodies in crisis. On this Romantic seascape’s highest rock, a woman stands one gust from following him down.
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1. Vertical
Use the sawtooth hanger at the top middle on the back of the frame and hang it on a single screw or nail.
2. Horizontal
Hang the two sawtooth hangers on two screws or nails at the same heightPut two screws or nails in the wall at the same height, spaced the same distance apart as the two sawtooth hangers, then hang your print on them.
Framed Canvas
1. D-rings (most secure)
Screw a D-ring onto the back of the frame on the left and right, both at the same height. A ruler helps here. Then put two screws in the wall where you want your canvas, level with each other and spaced the same distance apart as the D-rings. A spirit level makes this easier. Finally, hook the D-rings onto the screws.
2. Straight onto screws
Keep it simple: put two screws in the wall at the same height and rest the inner lip at the top of the back of the frame on them.
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Printed after you purchase at print labs across the USA, UK, EU & AUS. Produced, quality checked, packed with care and handed to trusted shipping carriers within 72-96 hours on average.
3. Production + Shipping =
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