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03 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS BY WINSLOW HOMER – WITH FOOTNOTES, #54
Winslow Homer, (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine) The Gulf Stream, c.1899 Oil on canvas 28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in. (71.4 x 124.8 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Homer painted this dramatic scene of imminent disaster. A man faces his demise on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, sustained by only a few…
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03 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #20
Konstantin Korovin, (1861–1939) Portrait of Vera Fokina Oil on canvas 82 × 66 cm (32.3 × 26 in) Private collection Fokina, Vera (1886–1958), a Russian ballerina. Born Vera Petrovna in 1886; died in New York on July 29, 1958; graduated from the St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1904; married Michel Fokine, in 1905 (died 1942); children:…
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On the Anniversary of Jurji Zaydan’s Birth, that Bad Bitch Shajar al-Dur and 5 More
ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY Earlier this month, historian Kurt Werthmuller took the opportunity of the “badder than Taylor Swift” meme to direct our attention to Shajar al-Dur, or “Tree of Pearls”: Shajar al-Dur was the wife of a 13th century Ayyubid sultan based in Cairo. When he died unexpectedly, she pretended he was still alive,…
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04 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #57
Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 – 1934 Greenwich , 1905 Watercolour heightened with bodycolour 20.5 x 27 cm Private collection Greenwich is located within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, to which it lends its name. Notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time. The town became a…
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04 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 15 – With Footnotes
Edouard-Léon Cortès, (French, 1882-1969) Gare de l’Est, 1964 Oil on canvas 18 x 21-3/4 inches (45.7 x 55.2 cm) Private collection Gare de l’Est, officially Paris-Est, is one of the six large train termini in Paris. It is one of the largest and the oldest railway stations in Paris. The Gare de l’Est was opened…
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06 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #2
Elle Hanley, United States Venus Photograph 24 H x 36 W x 0.1 in Private collection The Birth of Venus. In Roman mythology, Venus was the goddess of love, sex, beauty, and fertility. She was the Roman counterpart to the Greek Aphrodite. However, Roman Venus had many abilities beyond the Greek Aphrodite; she was a goddess of…
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04 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #56
J. M. W. Turner, (1775–1851) The Fish Market at Hastings Beach, c. 1810 Oil on canvas Height: 908.05 mm (35.75 in). Width: 1,206.5 mm (47.5 in). Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Hastings is a town and borough in East Sussex on the south coast of England. It gives its name to the Battle of Hastings, which took…
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04 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #55
Charles Edward Dixon ‘Victory Opening Fire’ at Trafalgar, 1907 Watercolour 18 x 28 cm Private collection The Battle of Trafalgar was fought on the 21st of October 1805 off Cape Trafalgar on the Spanish coast, between the combined fleets of Spain and France and the Royal Navy. It was the last great sea action of…
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03 Carvings & Sculpture from the Biblel 15 – 19th Century. With Footnote, # 16
Mother of God Znamenie Russian icon, first half of 19th c. 38 x 30,5 cm Private collection The Icon of the Mother of God, named the “Sign” (“Znamenie”), shows the Most Holy Mother of God seated with prayerfully uplifted hands. On Her bosom, against the background of a circular shield (or sphere) – is the Divine…
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03 Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible!, by FRIEDRICH GOLDSCHEIDER,19th Century. With Footnote, # 16
FRIEDRICH GOLDSCHEIDER (1845-1897) Judith, with a decorated belt , a wrist bracelet Polychrome terracotta Height: 100 cm Private collection The Book of Judith is the Old Testament of the Bible. The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for not trusting God to deliver them from their…
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03 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #53
Marc-Aurèle Fortin, ARCA (1888-1970) “Port de Montréal”, c. 1928 Watercolour 9″ × 9¾” Private collection The Port of Montreal is a port and transshipment point on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. On the Saint Lawrence Seaway 1,600 kilometres inland from the Atlantic Ocean, it is on the shortest direct route from Europe and the…
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02 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS, THE LOWER POOL – WITH FOOTNOTES, #52
Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 – 1934 The Lower Pool, 1902 Watercolour 27 x 78 cm. Private collection The Pool of London is a stretch of the River Thames from London Bridge to below Limehouse. Part of the Tideway of the Thames, the Pool was navigable by tall-masted vessels bringing coastal and later overseas goods—the wharves there…
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02 Painting, Streets of Paris, by John Singer Sargent, Part 14 – With Footnotes
John Singer Sargent, (1856–1925) A Parisian Beggar Girl, circa 1880 Oil on canvas 64.5 × 43.7 cm (25.4 × 17.2 in) Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL By ‘79 Sargent begins his major portraits and he never particularly showed any desire to paint scenes of Parisian life, opting for more exotic locals for his…
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06 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 13
Flora Borsi, Hungary Dakota Photography 26.8 H x 24.4 W x 0.4 in Private collection “The essence of my photos is to visualize the physically impossible in a form of photo manipulation.I always pay attention to the rules of geometry, the color harmony and the lightning for the appropriate atmosphere of the pictures.I would like…
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05 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #48
Thomas Buttersworth, Jr, (1807-1842) Chasing a Pirate Ship Oil on canvas 15 x 20 in Private collection Thomas Buttersworth, Jr. (1807-1842), was named after his father, the well known marine painter Thomas Buttersworth Senior (1766-1841), who was to have a considerable influence on his son’s painting career. There exist few details about Thomas Junior’s private life. What…
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04 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by its Artists, 19 and 20 Centuary. Part 12 – With Footnotes
Constantin Kluge, French, 1912-2003 Notre-Dame (Dessin), c. 1963 Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches (73 x 73 cm) Private collection Constantin Kluge (1912–2003) was an award winning painter originally from Russia. Raised mostly in Manchuria and Beijing, Kluge eventually settled in Paris and became a French citizen. He is known for his French landscapes…
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11 Classic Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #21
Harry Hudson Rodmell, (1896–1984) Gale Force 8: Trawler in a Rough Sea, mid-20th C–late 20th C Oil on paper marouflage on board 457 x 55.9 cm National Maritime Museum, London Harry Hudson Rodmell (28 May 1896 – 3 March 1984) was an English painter and Commercial artist, specialising in marine art. He studied at Hull School of…
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This AI Can Spot Art Forgeries by Looking at One Brushstroke
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05 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #47
Edward William Cooke, RA (British, 1811-1880) ‘French Sloop entering the harbour of Tréport’ , c. 1869 Oil on canvas 81.3 x 134.6cm (32 x 53in). Private collection Le Tréport is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in north-eastern France. A small fishing port and light industrial town situated in the Pays de…
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