Author: Zaidan Art Blog
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Antwerp School’s The Holy Trinity , With Footnotes – 148
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases — the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit — as “one God in three Divine Persons”. The three Persons are distinct, yet are one “substance, essence or nature”. In this context, a “nature” is what one is,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chris von Wangenheim’s SUSAN SARANDON, with Footnotes. #107
In the late 70s to early 80s, Chris von Wangenheim loved all the trappings of the punk scene-the tattoos, leather motorcycle jackets, and wildly colored hair-and incorporated them into his high-fashion work such as the image with Susan Sarandon for the Crawdaddy Magazine cover of May 1978 issue.The cover featured the tagline “Wild Dreams Wicked…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Gazbia Sirry’s The Boat, with Footnotes, #46
Gazbia Sirry (born 1925) is an Egyptian painter. Born in Cairo, Gazbia Sirry studied fine arts and became a professor in the painting department of the Faculty of Art Education, Helwan University. Gazbia is considered one of the leading Egyptian artists, with a varied and innovative career of more than 50 years. Serry’s art expressed the…
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01 MARINE ART, AMERICAN SCHOOL’S SHIP IN NEW YORK HARBOR. WITH FOOTNOTES, #313
American School, early 20th century. In the early 19th century the infrastructure to train artists began to be established in America, and from 1820 the Hudson River School began to produce Romantic landscape painting that was original and matched the huge scale of American landscapes. The American Revolution produced a demand for patriotic art, especially history…
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17 Works, Today, March 24th. is artist José María Casado del Alisal’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #82
The Battle of Clavijo is a mythical battle. However, it was believed for centuries to be historical, and it became a popular theme of Spanish traditions regarding the Christian expulsion of the Muslims. The stories about the battle are first found centuries after it allegedly occurred; according to them, it was fought near Clavijo between…
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07 Works, Today, March 24th, is St. Gabriel the Archangel’s Day, With Footnotes – #82
Pintoricchio or Pinturicchio, whose formal name was Bernardino di Betto, also known as Benetto di Biagio or Sordicchio, c.1454–1513, Umbrian painter whose real name was Bernardino di Betto. A prolific and facile painter, he was influenced by Perugino, with whom he collaborated on the frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. Pinturicchio worked chiefly in Perugia, Rome,…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Julius ANDRES’s NUDE WITH MESH NETTING, with footnotes # 103
Julius ANDRES (1905-1991) was born in 1905 and was primarily inspired by the 1920s growing up. The notable innovations established in the early years of the 20th century were developed further in the 1920s and 1930s. This period began the careers of many innovative and inspiring practitioners in the pictorial arts. However it was a time…
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01 Marine Art, Joel Patience’s The Eyru’n Makes For Open Water , With Footnotes, #313
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schooner also has a square topsail on the foremast, to which may be…
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11 Works, Today, March 22nd. is artist André Utter’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes 80
André Utter (20 March 1886–7 February 1948) was a French painter. He was in the 18th arrondissement of Paris to parents of Alsatian origin. He is best known for having been the second husband and manager of French painter Suzanne Valadon and the father-in-law of her son, Maurice Utrillo. The trio have also been called…
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01 Marine Art, Thomas Birch’s BRITANNIA to the Rescue. With Footnotes, #312
The wreck off Sable Island. The first side wheel steamship Britannia of the Cunard Line to the rescue Thomas Birch (1779 – January 3, 1851), was an English-born American portrait and marine painter. He was born in London, England. He came to the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Epaminondas Thomopoulos’ Venice, with footnotes. #86
Epameinondas Thomopoulos (1878 – January 4, 1976) went as a boarder to school at the Institute of Kapodistrias in Corfu from 1892 to 1895. In 1896 he went to Naples where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1899. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome from 1899 to…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, José Gallegos y Arnosa’s Personajes Arabes, with footnotes, #89
José Gallegos Arnosa was born in Jerez de la Frontera on 3 May 1857. He was from a modest family and first studied at the school run by the Santo Domingo Academy of Fine Arts The patronage of Guillermo Garvey, the winery owner for whom his father worked, enabled him to go and live in…
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01 Painting, Olympian and Roman deities, Francesco Trevisani’s LUCRETIA, with footnotes #192
Lucretia, legendary heroine of ancient Rome. According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. Her tragedy began when she was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the tyrannical Etruscan king of Rome. After exacting an oath of vengeance against the Tarquins from her father…
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01 Marine Art, Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée’s Waiting for the boats, with Footnotes, #311
Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (7 February 1837 The Hague – 14 December 1904 The Hague) was an artist who belonged to the Hague School. Sadée started painting at the age of 20. He studied in The Hague both at the Academy and in the studio of J E J van den Berg (1802–1861). In 1866 with his…
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16 Works, Today, March 19th. is artist Charles Marion Russell’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #077
Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 — October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and “Kid” Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures.…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Antonio Fabrés’s The Sultan’s Gift, with footnotes, 87
Antoni Maria Fabrés i Costa (Spanish: Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa; 1854–1938), also known as Antoni Fabrés, was a famous Catalan sculptor and painter during the turn of the 20th century. It is said that he inherited his artistic skills, as his father was a draughtsman and his uncle a silversmith. He started studying at…
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