Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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11 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 9
Joyce Tenneson Angel and Lit Wings – 2016 Private collection Joyce Tenneson (born in Weston, Massachusetts on May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson earned her master’s degree in photography from George Washington University after starting as a model…
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10 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #36
Brian Coole, b. 1939 USS Franklin Enters New York Harbor Oil on Board 15″ x 22 1/2″, frame 23″ x 29″ Private collection USS Franklin of the United States Navy was a 74-gun ship of the line. Built in 1815, she was the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Franklin sailed…
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08 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 56
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828–1882) Lady Lilith, c. 1866-68 (altered 1872-73) Oil on canvas 97.8 × 85.1 cm (38.5 × 33.5 in) Delaware Art Museum Lilith, the subject of this painting, is described in Judaic literature as the first wife of Adam. She is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. The depiction…
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10 Ivory Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 & 16th Century. With Footnote, # 13
Maria lactans, c. mid-15th century, France Ivory Height: 17 cm Private collection The Nursing Madonna, Virgo Lactans, or Madonna Lactans, is an iconography of the Madonna and Child in which the Virgin Mary is shown breastfeeding the infant Jesus. The depiction is mentioned by Pope Gregory the Great, and a mosaic depiction probably of the 12th century…
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09 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by its Artists from 1850-1910 – With Footnotes – Part 10
Edouard Vuillard, circa 1908-1910 Café Wepler, circa 1908-1910 Oil on canvas Height: 62.2 cm (24.49 in.), Width: 103.2 cm (40.63 in.) Cleveland Museum of Art (United States – Cleveland, Ohio) For over a hundred years the Wepler has been the largest oyster house in Paris; located between Montmatre and Pigalle. The Brasserie Wepler celebrated its 100…
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes – # 46
Florentine school circa 1700, circle of P. Dandini Saint Cecilia Oil on canvas 25 1/4 X 20 7/8 IN. 64 X 53 CM Private Collection St. Cecilia is one of the most famous of the Roman martyrs, even if the familiar stories about her are apparently not founded. The existence of the martyrs, however, is a…
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10 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #10
Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973 Madame Canals, Benedetta Bianco. Paris, 1905 Oil and charcoal on canvas. 90 x 70 cm Museu Picasso, Barcelona Once he had settled down definitively in Paris in 1904, Picasso got back in touch with several of his old friends from Barcelona. Without doubt, it was the ties to Ricard Canals…
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10 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 51
Matthias Stomer, 1600 – 1652 Capture of Christ, c. 1640 Oil on canvas 208 x 272 cm Private collection. Courtesy Benappi Fine Art The arrest of Jesus is a pivotal event recorded in the canonical gospels. The event ultimately leads, in the Gospel accounts, to Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus was arrested by the Temple guards of the…
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #34
Montague Dawson, 1890 – 1973 Ships That Pass oil on canvas 28.25 x 42 in Private collection Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. Montague was the son of a…
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11 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #33
Montague Dawson, (1890–1973) The British Clipper Ship Thermopylae Watercolor and gouache on paper 16 1/4 x 26 in. Private Collection Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. In 1872, Thermopylae raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London.…
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11 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 9
Jan Miel, BEVEREN-WAES NEAR ANTWERP 1599 – 1664 TURIN CERES, BACCHUS AND VENUS, c. 1645 Oil on canvas 142.5 x 162.7 cm.; 56 1/8 x 64 1/8 in. Private Collection The theme of Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus – literally, ‘without Ceres or Bacchus, Venus would freeze’ – is derived from a line in Act IV…
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11 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #32
Frederick Judd Waugh, American, 1861–1940 Mid Ocean Oil on canvas 40 × 50 1/4 in. (101.6 × 127.6 cm) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Frederick Judd Waugh (September 13, 1861 in Bordentown, New Jersey – September 10, 1940) was an American artist, primarily known as a marine artist. During World War I, he designed ship…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. # 24
Pedro Sáenz y Sáenz Chrysanthemums/ Madame Butterfly, ca. 1900 Oil on canvas 81 x 55 cm Propiedad de la Excma. Diputación Provincial de Málaga Madame Butterfly: In 1904, a U.S. naval officer named Pinkerton rents a house on a hill in Nagasaki, Japan, for himself and his soon-to-be wife, “Butterfly”. Her real name is Ciocio-san. She is…
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12 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, 17
Arthur Melville, (1858–1904) A Moorish Procession, Tangier, c. 1893 Watercolour on paper 59.30 x 79.80 cm National Galleries of Scotland Melville conveys the atmospheric clamour of a local parade led by drummers and pipers. He evokes its exotic character, underlined by the colourful clothes and hooded cloaks of the participants, with his ‘blottesque’ technique. The resulting…
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12 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 3
Published in Bonestéve, printed by Henri Baconnier, Algiers Lithograph Dimensions: 32 x 41 cm Private Collection Lithograph depicting the family tree of Prophet Muhammad. With two windows on either side of the tree depicting holy scenes of Ka’aba and the tomb and mosque of the Prophet. Lalla Essaydi, (Moroccan, b. 1956) Converging Territories #38, c.…
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08 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 42
Hieronymus Bosch (circa 1450–1516) Triptych of the crucified Martyr, circa 1497-1505 Oil on panel Height: 104 cm (40.9 in). Width: 119 cm (46.9 in). Doge’s Palace, Venice The central panel depicts the crucifixion of a saint usually identified with Saint Julia of Corsica (sometimes with Saint Wilgefortis). In a depiction related to Christ’s crucifixion, the centrally…
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08 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, 18
Edouard Frederic Wilhelm Richter,1844 – 1913 Scheherazade Oil on canvas Height: 151 cm (59.45 in.), Width: 211.5 cm (83.27 in.) Private collection Scheherazade is a character and the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights. This book includes the tales of Aladdin, Ali Baba and many more. The story goes that Shahryar found out one day…
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