Category: 365 Days
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14 Works, Today, April 22nd. is artist José de Madrazo y Agudo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #111
Helios, in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. More on Helios José de Madrazo y Agudo (22 April 1781–8 May…
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13 Works, Today, April 21st is artist Annibale Carracci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #110
Armida is a fictional character created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso. She is a Saracen sorceress. In his epic Gerusalemme liberata, Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and is about to murder the…
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20 Works, Today, April 20th is artist Carl Haag’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #109
Carl Haag (20 April 1820–24 January 1915) was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalized British subject and was court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Haag was born in Erlangen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and was trained in the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and at Munich. He initially practised as…
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12 Works, Today, April 19th is artist Emanuel Krescenc Liška’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #108
Fox, Emanuel Krescenc (19 April 1852, in Mikulovice — 18 January 1903, in Prague) was a Bohemian painter and illustrator. Most of his works were on religious themes, but he also created scenes from works of poetry… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, Today, April 16th is artist Ford Madox Brown’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #105
The Roman fort of Mamucium was established by 78 AD at a site overlooking the confluence of the rivers Irwell and Medlock. This was a timber fort with earthen ramparts for an auxiliary cohort of infantry of around 500 men. The fort went through several phase of rebuilding and around 160 AD was extended on…
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20 Works, Today, April 14th is artist Leonardo da Vinci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #104
Depicted people: Virgin Mary and Gabriel The painting is set in front of a Renaissance palace, in a luxuriant enclosed garden that evokes the purity of Mary, the Archangel Gabriel kneels before the Virgin, greeting her and offering her a lily. The Virgin responds, sitting with great dignity in front of a lectern on which…
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15 Works, Today, April 13th is artist Henri Lehmann’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #103
Henri Lehmann (14 April 1814–30 March 1882) was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist. Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, in the Duchy of Holstein, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann and from other painters in Hamburg. In 1831, at the age of 17, he travelled to Paris to…
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12 Works, Today, April 13th is artist Attilio Simonetti’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #102
Attilio Simonetti (1843–1925) was an Italian painter and Antiquarian. He was born and resided imainly in Rome. Son of Francesco, a Roman jeweler and mosaicist, part of a family of mosaicists. A 16-year-old Attilio was apprenticed with the Spanish painter Mariano Fortuny at the urging of the painter Nicola Ortis of Perugia. Please follow link…
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19 Works, Today, April 12th is artist Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #101
Ferdinand Victor Léon Roybet (12 April 1840–11 April 1920) was a French painter and engraver, best known for his historical and costume genre scenes. He was born in Uzès. His father was the owner of a café and a liqueur manufacturer who moved his family to Lyon in 1846. He began by studying engraving at…
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11 Works, Today, April 11th is artist Heinrich Altherr’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #100
His colossal painting The Last Judgment, created in the summer of 1939 from his “Swiss exile” testified to the power of his existential statements: Christ standing in the middle is flanked on the left by the believers and on the right by the unbelievers. He holds his left hand up in a greeting of peace,…
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11 Works, Today, April 10th is artist Jules Girardet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #99
After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was briefly kept prisoner on a warship in Plymouth Sound. The harbour became packed as crowds flocked to see their defeated enemy. Now the city is commemorating this most unlikely, and involuntary, of south coast holidays. More on Napoleon in Plymouth Sound Jules Girardet (10…
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10 Works, Today, April 9th is artist Francisco Rizi’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #98
A sinner, perhaps a courtesan, Mary Magdalen was a witness of Christ who renounced the pleasures of the flesh for a life of penance and contemplation. Penitent Magdalene or Penitent Magdalen refers to a post-biblical period in the life of Mary Magdalene, according to medieval legend. According to the tenets of the 17th–century Catholic church,…
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20 Works, Today, April 8th is artist Jan Styka’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #97
Władysław Szujski (born September 25, 1865 in Krakow , died November 29, 1914 in the trenches at Sillery ) was a lawyer, entrepreneur, senior ranks. Foreign Legion , the first ensign of the Bayonians, the infantry unit of the Foreign Legion composed of Polish volunteers. After the outbreak of World War I, at the request of the…
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14 Works, Today, April 7th is artist Ferdinand Leeke’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #96
Ferdinand Leeke (1859–1923) was a German painter best known for his illustrations of Richard Wagner’s operas and other mythological scenes. Born on April 7, 1859 in Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, Today, April 6th is artist John William Waterhouse’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #95
John William Waterhouse RA (6 April 1849–10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s style and subject matter. His artworks were known for their depictions of women from both ancient Greek mythology and Arthurian legend… Please follow link for full post
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27 Works, Today, April 5th is artist Albert Chevallier Tayler’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #94
The Giudecca Canal is a body of water that flows into the San Marco basin in Venice, Italy. It is one of the major canals in the city, it bisects the sestieri of Dorsoduro, separating Giudecca island and district from Dorsoduro district. Albert Chevallier Tayler (1862–1925) was an English artist who specialised in portrait and…
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17 Works, Today, April 4th is artist William Russell Flint’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #93
Sir William Russell Flint RA ROI (4 April 1880–30 December 1969) was a Scottish artist and illustrator who was known especially for his watercolours of women. He also worked in oils, tempera, and printmaking… Please follow link for full post
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20 Works, Today, April 3rd is artist Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #92
The Battle of Mazagran was a combat between Arab and Berber forces against French troops during the French conquest of Algeria. The small French contingent, holed up in a fortification at Mazagran, near the port city of Mostaganem, withstood several days of assault by `Abd al-Qādir’s troops. Unaware that the French defenders were running short…
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