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1st Art Gallery offers the option to receive your painting ready to hang or rolled in a tube.
Currently, for safety, we're able to ship framed paintings only up to a certain size. Once the maximum size is reached, the framing option is automatically disabled.
However, if you are interested in stretching or framing a painting larger than 24x36 inches (60x90 cm), please contact one of our customer success associates or let us know in your order notes. We will send you a catalog of our large framing styles and pricing options.
Unframed rolled canvas orders will arrive rolled inside a protective tube with an extra 1.5" white canvas on all sides so you can easily frame it locally.


The son of Aeolus, Sisyphus, was the first king of Ephyra, now known as Corinth. With his wicked intelligence, he managed to cheat death twice. When he died for the first time, Sisyphus managed to capture Thanatos and chain him so that no other human would die from thereon. Ares had to intervene to set free the personification of Death, but the King managed to escape from the Gods' wrath.
After a while, Sisyphus died again and returned to the underworld. Having made arrangements with his wife to not provide the common rituals with sacrifices and offerings for the occasion of the King's death, Sisyphus managed to plead with Persephone, Hades's wife, to be released from Death. He would then instruct his wife about the proper rituals, and them return to the domain of Death. When he succeeded and returned to life, the King made no attempt to die and return to Hades, living until old age, thanks to Death's fear of being chained up again.
King Sisyphus died again, for the third time, and now there was no escape from his destiny. Zeus decided to intervene on the subject to make sure that no other man would be encouraged by the accomplishments of the sneaky Sisyphus. According to Homer's Odyssey, when the legendary hero Odysseus descended to Hades, he saw Sisyphus in his eternal punishment, given by Zeus. He witnessed the King of Corinth carrying a huge stone with both hands uphill to the top. Every time he was almost taking the rock to the mountain top, the rock rolled down, forcing Sisyphus to repeat and fail this task for all eternity.
Tiziano Vecelli, also known as Titian, made this magnificent work of art in 1548. Painted with delicate and precise brush strokes, the artist used his impressive skill to portray Sisyphus climbing the mountain with the rock in his backs. Drawn with an uncared beard and hair, the painted represented an expression of sorrow in the King's face. The muscular body, traditional in the Renaissance paintings, is carefully depicted in this canvas. On his waist, there is a brown ribbon tied on top of his white loincloth. In the background, obscured by a volcanic explosion, we see the dense clouds of sulfur and lava rolling down on the mountain, with excellent execution of the chiaroscuro technique.
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Important Notes About Your Painting:
If you have any request to alter your reproduction of Sisyphus, you must email us after placing your order and we'll have an artist contact you. If you have another image of Sisyphus that you would like the artist to work from, please include it as an attachment. Otherwise, we will reproduce the above image for you exactly as it is.
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Free shipping is included in the price of the painting. Once the painting is ready and dry enough to ship, we will roll it and ship it in a sturdy cardboard tube.
We always ship express via courier to ensure your order reaches you as soon as possible - normally within three business days. The total delivery time from the moment you place your order until the package is delivered to your door is normally between three to four weeks.

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