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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Meynier’s Allegory of war, with footnotes
Sold for €20,625 EUR in June 2022 This door top comes from Madame Mère’s Palazzo Rinuccini in Rome. Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter… Read more
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Andrea Vaccaro’s Sant ‘Agata, With Footnotes – 123
Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD – 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251.… Read more
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at… Read more
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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In… Read more
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11 Works, November 22st. is Consuelo Fould’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #239
Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862, in Cologne (Germany), arrived in France in 1864, with her parents, Valérie Simonin and Gustave Fould. She trained very young with her mother, a… Read more
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16 Works, October 15th. is Juan Bautista Maíno’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #223
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and… Read more
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12 Works, September 20th. is Julius Exter’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #207
Musa is such a passionate dancer that when she is not praying she is dancing, she is even dancing prayers. When she is dancing a prayer to the Holy Virgin,… Read more
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11 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #28
Pierre Bonnard , French, 1867 – 1947 The Port Of Cannes, Le Port de Cannes, c. 1926 – 1927 Oil, canvas Private Collection Cannes is a city located on the… Read more
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12 Paintings of the Canals of Venice in the 18 & 19th Century, by the artists of the time, with foot notes. #5
Richard Price, (British, born 1962) April Day in Venice Oil on canvas 51 x 61cm (20 1/16 x 24in). Private Collection The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known… Read more
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12 Paintings, scenes from the Bible, by The Old Masters, with footnotes # 30
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01 Work, The art of War, Karl Bryullov’s The Last Day of Pompeii, with Footnotes
The destruction of Pompeii, Italy, is one of the most well-preserved catastrophes in human history. But scientists still disagree on how exactly thousands of Roman people died during those two… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Léon Cogniet’s Scène du Massacre des Innocents/ Massacre of the Innocents, with footnotes
The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical narrative of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Herod ordered the execution… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Bogdan Willewalde’s the battle of Fère-Champenoise, with footnotes
The Battle of Fère-Champenoise (25 March 1814) was fought between two Imperial French corps led by Marshals Auguste de Marmont and Édouard Mortier, duc de Trévise and a larger Coalition force… Read more
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Manuel Panselinos’ St. Mercury and St. Artemy, soldier saints, with Footnotes #214
Also called soldier saints, these are a group of saints who were generally soldiers in life, martyrs to Christ in death, and then latterly revealed as our heavenly protectors… Holy… Read more
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05 works, the art of war, pharaoh Thutmose III in Ghaza, with footnotes
Armies of chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers under the pharaoh Thutmose III thundered through Gaza and defeated a coalition of Canaanite chiefdoms at Megiddo… Please follow link for full post Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Frank Brangwyn’s Mater Dolorosa Belgica (Our Lady of Sorrows), with footnotes
Painted in 1915, Mater Dolorosa Belgica (Our Lady of Sorrows) conveys Brangwyn’s deep concern for Belgium in the midst of war. The cathedral is on fire, smoke rising from its… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson’s Ypres after the First Bombardment, with footnotes
Nevinson depicts a desolate scene of the smoking, burning carcass of the Belgian city of Ypres after it was first bombed in 1914. Nevinson would have witnessed the scarred remains… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Eugenio Álvarez Dumont’s Malasaña and his daughter fight against the French, with footnotes
The painting illustrates the moment when the guerrilla Juan Manuel Malasaña Pérez (1759–1808) kills the French dragoon who has just murdered his daughter, the embroiderer Manuela Malasaña Oñoro (1793– 1808),… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Iythar Ghurab’s Fighter, with footnotes
For sale at C$1,320 in Jan 2024 “This painting is inspired by the unbelievable injustice, genocide, massacres and 75 year long crimes committed against the Palestinian people, by the Israeli… Read more
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01 Work, The Art of War, Diego Rivera’s The Uprising, 1931, with footnotes
You see the men wearing workers’ overalls and the women wearing modern day short dresses and short hair cuts and even earrings. It’s an urban industrial scene, and it’s a… Read more
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