Category: 365 Days
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13 Works, September 24th. is 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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21 Works, September 23rd. is Suzanne Valadon ‘s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #208
Presented at the Salon des Indépendants in 1914, the monumental academic panel irritated avant-garde critics. Arthur Cravan, who in issue five of his episodic review Now, writes an angry criticism of the Salon, violently attacks Suzanne Valadon (“[she] knows the little recipes well, but simplifying is not making simple, old bitch!”). Sentenced for defamation, he…
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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, King David appears to her, dances with her and promises her that she will be allowed to dance in heaven forever, if she only renounce…
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19 Works, September 19th. is William Dyce”s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #206
Elisha’s Final Prophecy: …16Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So the king put his hand on the bow, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands. 17“Open the east window,” said Elisha. So he opened it and Elisha said, “Shoot!” So he shot. And Elisha declared: “This…
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19 Works, September 18th. is Fausto Zonaro”s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #205
The Dervish ceremony was painted in Turkey, shortly before the artist returned back to Italy in 1910. Istanbul was for Zonaro the place where his artistic style evolved and matured, and the canvases that he painted during these years are probably the most interesting works of his artistic career. Zonaro grew well accustomed to the…
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14 Works, September 17th. is Fyodor Bronnikov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #204
Fyodor Andreyevich Bronnikov (1827–1902) was a Russian-born history and genre painter who spent most of his life in Italy… Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, September 16th. is Solomon Joseph Solomon’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #203
A life class is an art class in which students draw or paint a live model, typically one who is nude. Solomon Joseph Solomon RA RBA (16 September 1860–27 July 1927) was a British painter, a founding member of the New English Art Club and member of the Royal Academy… Please follow link for full…
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15 Works, September 14th. is Franz Vinck’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #202
Franz Vinck or Frans Vinck (14 September 1827–17 October 1903) was a Belgian painter known for his history paintings, genre and Orientalist scenes and portraits. He led a peripatetic life style and travelled and worked in many countries… Please follow link for full post
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19 Works, September 11th. is Gerard de Lairesse’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #201
The theme comes from the famous apologue of Prodicas, transmitted by Xenophon, often represented by painters (Raphael, Carrache, Rubens, etc., cf. Panofsky). Vice is embodied by the provocative Voluptuousness, accompanied by an old woman in the role of matchmaker. The attribute of chaste Virtue is a horse bit, a symbol of restraint and moderation. Behind…
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22 Works, September 10th. is Rudolf Jettmar’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #200
Rudolf Jettmar (10 September 1869, Tarnów — 21 April 1939, Vienna); Austrian painter and printmaker was born in 1869 in Zawodzie near Tarnów, Galicia. Jettmar studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and worked as a professor at this institution from 1910 until his retirement in 1936. In 1929 he succeeded Ferdinand Schmutzer as master…
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14 Works, July 22nd. is Orazio de Ferrari’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #199
The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally dated to 750 BC, in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word rape is a conventional translation of the Latin raptio, which in this context means “abduction”…
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25 Works, July 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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22 Works, July 20th. is Narcisse Virgilio Díaz’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #197
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (20 August 1807–18 November 1876) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where…
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19 Works, July 19th. is Gerbrand van den Eeckhout’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #196
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of…
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15 Works, July 18th. is Franciszek Żmurko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #195
A woman with a red earring is one of Żmurka’s characteristic paintings, depicting “sensual” beauties, low-cut and showing off their charms Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv — 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he…
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24 Works, July 17th. is Paul Delaroche’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #194
Shortly after the arrival of Louis-Philippe, the painters Delaroche, Cogniet, Schnetz and Drolling receive orders for four large paintings for the Throne Room of the Hotel de Ville, to celebrate the heroes of the revolutions of July 1789 and July 1830. It was up to Paul Delaroche to represent “the People returning victorious from the…
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12 Works, July 16th. is Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #193
John the Evangelist is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, though this has been disputed by modern scholars. John the Evangelist was one of the “pillars” of the Jerusalem church after Jesus’ death.…
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16 Works, July 15th. is Mead Schaeffer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #192
This painting appeared as in illustration for Harry Olive’s Korean War story, Night Attack, Saturday Evening Post, April 12, 1952. Mead Schaeffer (July 15, 1898 — November 6, 1980) was an American illustrator active from the early to middle twentieth century… Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, July 14th. is Juan Rodríguez Juárez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #191
Juan Rodríguez Juárez (b. Mexico City 1675 — d. 1728) was an artist in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. He was a member of a Spanish family long noted for their accomplishments in the world of painting. His brother was Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez (1667–1734), who was like himself, an established painter in New Spain… Please follow link…
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19 Works, July 13th. is Ferdinand Brütt’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #190
Ferdinand Martin Cordt Brütt (13 July 1849, Hamburg — 6 November 1936, Bergen) was a German painter. He was a distant relative of the sculptor Adolf Brütt… Please follow link for full post
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