Category: 365 Days
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04 Works, October 2h. is Sigrid Hjertén’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #259
Born to a middle-class family in Sundsvall, Sigrid Hjertén lost her mother at a very young age. She studied to be a drawing teacher at the Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, and in 1908 became a tapestry card designer for Giöbels, a decorative arts company… Please follow link for full…
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07 Works, October 17th. is Childe Hassam’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #258
Childe Hassam (1859–1935), was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Equally adept at capturing the excitement of modern cities and the charms of country retreats, Hassam became the foremost chronicler of New York City at the turn of the century… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, September 27th. is Jean-Baptiste Nattier’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #212
From 1704 to 1709, he studied at the Académie de France à Rome and, in 1712, was received as a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture upon presentation of his painting, Joseph sollicité par la femme de Putiphar… Please follow link for full post
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13 Works, September 24th. is Artist Edouard Hamman’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #209
Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman (24 September 1819 in Ostend — 30 March 1888 in Paris) was a Belgian painter and engraver who specialized in portraying scenes from the lives of famous artists, scholars and the nobility… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, September 21st. is Kurt Jackson day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #207
Kurt Jackson (born 21 September 1961) is a British painter whose large canvases reflect a concern with natural history, ecology and environmental issues… Please follow link for full post
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19 Works, September 11th. is Artist Gerard de Lairesse’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #201
Gerard or Gérard (de) Lairesse (11 September 1641 — June 1711) was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist. His broad range of skills included music, poetry, and theatre. His importance grew in the period following the death of Rembrandt… Please follow link for full post
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25 Works, August 21st. is Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #198
Denis Diderot was an unofficial art adviser to Catherine the Great of Russia. It was no coincidence when the painting he praised was purchased directly from the artist by Catherine’s agents and shipped to Saint Petersburg, where it remains. This peculiar mid-18th century French painting-genre of the “edifying family tableau” was exactly suited to Diderot’s…
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12 Works, July 16th. is Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #193
Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (July 16, 1806 – July 15 1858) was a Russian painter who adhered to the waning tradition of Neoclassicism but found little sympathy with his contemporaries… Please follow link for full post
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09 Works, June 12th. is Pierre Henri Révoil’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #160
Pierre Henri Révoil (12 June 1776, in Lyon — 19 March 1842, in Paris) was a French painter in the troubadour style. His father was a furrier. Although he was needed at home, his family allowed him to receive a proper education. He first studied art at the École centrale in Lyon, under the direction of Donat…
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41 Works, June 30th. is Stanley Spencer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #177
Painting such as Villagers and Saints articulate Spencer’s unique understanding of Christianity. In the work, Spencer combines the religious and the ordinary — the villagers are connecting to the saintly and spiritual world, while the saints exist in the physical world… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, June 24th. is Jan Matejko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #171
Jan Alojzy Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history… Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, June 18th. is Peter Nicolai Arbo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #166
Peter Nicolai Arbo (18 June 1831–14 October 1892) was a Norwegian historical painter, who specialized in portraits and allegorical scenes from Norwegian history and the Norse mythology. He is most noted for The Wild Hunt of Odin (See below), a dramatic motif based on the Wild Hunt legend and Valkyrie, which depicts a female figure…
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21 Works, Today, May 17th. is Martinus Rørbye’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #135
Martinus Christian Wesseltoft Rørbye (17 May 1803–29 August 1848) was a Danish painter, known both for genre works and landscapes. He was a central figure of the Golden Age of Danish painting during the first half of the 19th century. Martinus Rørbye was born in Drammen in Norway on 17 May 1803. . He was not…
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15 Works, Today, May 5th. is artist Teofilo Patini’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #124
The parable of the Good Samaritan is a didactic story told by Jesus in Luke 10:25–37. It is about a traveler who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. First a priest and then a Levite comes by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan comes by. Samaritans and…
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15 Works, May 2nd. is artist Charles Gleyre’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #121
The Bacchae; also known as The Bacchantes is an ancient Greek tragedy. The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus. The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to…
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15 Works, Today, April 14th 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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18 Works, March 23rd. is artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #81
Myths of creation occur in Mesopotamian and Canaanite literature and it is from these bodies of literature that the Old Testament book of Genesis derived some of its motifs surrounding the acts of creation. Genesis contains an account of eight works of creation that were actually spread over six days, the first four of which…
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17 Works, Today, March 3rd. is artist Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #062
Decamps was born in Paris. In his youth he travelled in the East, and reproduced Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled conventional critics. His powers, however, soon came to be recognized, and he was ranked along with Delacroix and Ingres as one of the leaders of the French school.…
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20 Works, Today, February 25th. is artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #056
This sunlit scene on the river Seine is typical of the imagery that has come to characterise Impressionism, and Renoir includes several familiar Impressionist motifs such as fashionably dressed women, a rowing boat, a sail boat, and a steam train crossing a bridge. The exact location has not been identified, but we are probably looking…
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19 Works, TFebruary 20th. is artist Mihály Munkácsy’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #051
Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844–1 May 1900) was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings. Munkácsy was a bureaucrat of Bavarian origin. After being apprenticed to itinerant painter Elek Szamossy, Munkácsy went to Pest (Budapest), where he sought the patronage of established artists. With the help of…
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