Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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05 Works, Today, May 19th is Saint Nino’s day, her Story in Paintings #139
Nino was born in the small town of Colastri, in the Roman province of Cappadocia. Her father was Roman general Zabulon and her mother Sosana On her father’s side, Nino was related to St. George, and on her mother’s, to the patriarch of Jerusalem, Houbnal I. Nino was brought up by the nun Niofora-Sarah of…
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04 Works, Today, May 18th is Saint Theodotus’s day, his Story in Paintings #138
Saint Theodotus of Ancyra was a fourth-century (fl. 303 AD) Christian martyr. Theodotus was a married man who kept an inn at Ankara, the capital of the Roman province of Galatia. He is described as a man very zealous in the performance of his Christian duties, endowed with many virtues, especially charity towards his neighbour,…
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James McNeill Whistler, ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #91
Ellen Sturgis Hooper (February 17, 1812 – November 3, 1848) was an American poet. A member of the Transcendental Club, she was widely regarded as one of the most gifted poets among the New England Transcendentalists. Her work is occasionally reprinted in anthologies. Ellen Sturgis was born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1837, she married physician Robert…
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07 Works, Today, May 17th is Heraclius’s day, his Story – #137
Heraclius (c. 575 — February 11, 641) was the Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas. Heraclius’s reign was marked by several military campaigns. The year Heraclius came to power, the empire…
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Marcel Gromaire, Sailors carrying a boat, 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #277
Marcel Gromaire (24 July 1892 – 11 April 1971) was a French painter. He painted many works on social subjects, and is often associated with Social Realism, however, one can say that Gromaire created an independent oeuvre far away from groups and movements Gromaire was born in Noyelles-sur-Sambre, France. He studied classically at Douai, then continued…
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Suleiman Mansour, The Camel/Carrier of Hardships 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #24
Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held solo exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, Gaza and Stavanger, Norway. His group exhibitions include Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (1980), Palestinian Spring, Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 1985; New Visions, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts,…
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Eric Kroll, Wife in Field, Eastern Washington 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 86
Eric David Kroll (born October 23, 1946 in New York City) is a fetish photographer and book editor who has lived in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. He is currently living in Tucson, Arizona. He earned a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1969. A freelance photojournalist for eleven…
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Frank Townsend Lent; Sailing Regatta 01 Marine Painting – Frank Townsend Lent , With Footnotes, #276
Frank Townsend Lent (1855–1919) was a residential architect, painter and author. Lent designed many suburban and summer cottage homes in Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, and Ontario around the turn of the century in the Victorian and Edwardian architectural period. Several of these homes are protected by their town’s historical society. Lent lived in Cranford, New Jersey.…
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08 Works, Today, May 16th is St. Brendan’s day, his Story – #136
St. Brendan, (born c. 484/486, Tralee, now in County Kerry, Ireland — died 578, Annaghdown, County Galway; feast day May 16), was a Celtic saint, monastic founder, abbot, and hero of legendary voyages in the Atlantic Ocean. Reputedly raised and educated by Abbess St. Ita at her boys’ school, he later studied under Abbot St. Jarlath of…
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Sir William Russell Flint, THE SCALES 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 85
Flint’s expressive brushwork builds up the heavy clouds of a summer storm (the artist frequently remarked on the country’s sultry heat) while at the local public-scales women gather, the display of strength and sensuality a hallmark of Flint’s work. Sir William Russell Flint (4 April 1880 – 30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator…
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Rebecca Leveille, Give Me Pretty Things 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Rebecca Guay is an artist known early in her career as an illustrator, commissioned for work. Guay received a degree in Illustration from the Pratt Institute in New York City in 1992. She subsequently turned primarily toward gallery work, opening her first solo exhibition in 2013. After 2011,Guaye began focusing primarily on large scale gallery work…
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05 Works, Today, May 15th is St Dymphna’s day, Artists tell her Story – #135
According to Christian tradition, Dymphna was born in Ireland in the 7th century. Dymphna’s father Damon was a petty king of Oriel. Her mother was a devout Christian. When Dymphna was 14 years old, she consecrated herself to Christ and took a vow of chastity. Shortly thereafter, her mother died. Damon had loved his wife…
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Thomas Moran, Venice 02 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #78
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 — August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist. He…
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Egyptian Tourism Officials Just Moved Four Ancient Sphinxes to a Tahrir Square Roundabout—and Archaeologists Are Horrified
The heat and air pollution in the capital city threatens the preservation of the ancient artifacts, experts say. Source: Egyptian Tourism Officials Just Moved Four Ancient Sphinxes to a Tahrir Square Roundabout—and Archaeologists Are Horrified
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05 Works, Today, May 12th is Sts Nereus and Achilleus’s day, With Footnotes – #133
Nereus and Achilleus were Roman soldiers of the Praetorian Guard (the emperor’s bodyguards) who were martyred at the end of the first century, and were said to have been baptized by St. Peter himself. When they became Christians they gave up their posts which they saw as immoral and were exiled and then killed under…
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István Cene gál, Forbidden love III 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
István Cene gál was born in 1969 in Salgótarján, Hungary. He studied artistic drawing under the guidance of first Ödön Iványi, then Péter Földi. He also studied art history in a course led by Professor Dr. Lajos Végvári at the Association of Art in Miskolc. He got his degree at the College Department of the…
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Sliman Mansour, FROM JERUSALEM 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #23
Born in 1947, Birzeit, Palestine, Sliman Mansour studied fine art at the Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. He has held solo exhibitions in Ramallah, New York, Sharjah, Cairo, Gaza and Stavanger, Norway. His group exhibitions include Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow (1980), Palestinian Spring, Al-Hakawati Theatre, Jerusalem, 1985; New Visions, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts,…
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