Category: Art
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08 Works, Bathers at Summer break by Works by Fernando Amorsolo, William Etty, Arthur Brusenbauch, Louis-Joseph Courtat, Eser Afacan, Gaetano de Martini and Émilie Möri with footnotes
Émilie Möri is a Franco-Swiss photographer, born in 1978. She grew up in a family of printers. His experience in the field of screen printing reveals his passion for colors, image composition, artistic expression. A graduate of Les Gobelins Paris, Émilie is an artistic director . Alongside her creations for advertising agencies, publishing houses, major brands…
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22 Paintings, Following The True And Tragic Persian Love Story of Shirin and King Khusrau Parvîz
King Khusraw Anushirvan Enthroned, Page from a Manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi Khosrow and Shirin is a work of fiction and a tale of love between the Sasanian king Khosrow II and Shirin, the Armenian Princess who went on and became the queen of Persia. The love story starts off with…
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03 Works, Eanger Irving Couse’s Mourning the Chief of the Tribe, with 2 Studies, with footnotes
Eanger Irving Couse was an American painter best known for his realistic depictions of Native Americans and landscapes of the Southwestern United States. Born on September 3, 1866 in Saginaw, MI, Couse went on to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and later under William-Adolphe Bougereau at the Académie Julian in Paris… Please follow…
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1 Work , Pal Fried’s The Picador, with footnotes
A picador is one of the pair of horse-mounted bullfighters in a Spanish-style bullfight that jab the bull with a lance. They perform in the tercio de varas, which is the first of the three stages in a stylized bullfight. If the public feels that a picador is better than the bull the public will whistle,…
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01 Classic Work by the Old Masters, Edward Coley Burne-Jones’ The Answering String – With Footnotes, #22
A heavily draped female figure, her head covered, stands in an enclosed space beside a building of stone construction and with a single barred window. A woman stands in the foreground holding a dulcimer the strings of which she appears to pluck. The drawing’s title – The Answering String – seems to imply that she…
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11 works, MARC CHAGALL. A RETROSPECTIVE (1908 – 1985) – Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
The art piece follows a similar piece by the same artist called the White Crucifixion, where he showed the suffering of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust by using the image of Jesus Christ, a Jew. In this masterpiece, the artist continues to discuss the plight of the Jews. In this art piece, he shows Jesus…
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05 Works, Sebastiaen Vrancx’s Medieval soldiers scenes, with footnotes
An army always made sure to put in place what was called a “ supply train” , this is even known from the times of Alexander´s campaigns. The supply train was the logistic mechanism that allowed resupplying the army with everything it needed. The bigger the army and the deeper it was into enemy territory, the…
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1 Work , John Lewis Brown’s Battle of Reichshoffen, with footnotes
The Battle of Reichshoffen (also known as the Battle of Wörth) took place near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. It is referred to as the second battle of Wörth (the first occurred during the French Revolutionary wars in 1793). In the second battle depicted…
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1 Painting, Julian A. Scott’s A Friendly Game
The present painting likely depicts a friendly card game between a Confederate and Union soldier. Fraternizing with the enemy during downtime was not uncommon during the Civil War. More on this painting Julian A. Scott (February 14, 1846 – July 4, 1901), was born in Johnson, Vermont, and served as a Union Army drummer during the…
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15 Paintings, British Artists at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Edwardian period, with footnotes
The Edwardian era or Edwardian period of British history covers the brief reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910, and is sometimes extended in both directions to capture long term trends from the 1890s to the First World War. The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victorian era.…
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16 Works – February 5, 146 BC Punic Wars ended; as did the power of the great Hannibal Barca
The Battle of Zama in the summer of 202 BC marked the end of the power of the great Hannibal Barca. With its greatest son, also Carthage should be at a virtual end. True, it should limp on for some time, but with its defeat at the end of the Second Punic War it no…
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Jack Vettriano, SURRENDER 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Jack Vettriano, OBE (né Jack Hoggan, born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty, and lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s…
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Filippo Indoni, Two ladies and two gentleman 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 41 – With Footnotes
Filippo Indoni, Italian (1800 – 1884). In a reaction against the frivolous and unrealistic images of early 19th century Romanticism, artists turned to less glamorous aspects of life and society in search of a direct experience. By 1850, they had formed a relatively cohesive movement that battled for popularity with Romanticism, a far more widespread…
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Eugen von Blaas, THE MANDOLINIST 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 48 – With Footnotes
Eugen von Blaas was famed for depicting beautiful Italian women at work or in the company of admiring suitors. Anticipation shows a dark haired young woman leaning her elbow on a balustrade overlooking the Venetian lagoon. She dreamily gazes towards the water, where a gondola is just coming into view. The precise technique and bright palette…
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Jack Vettriano, How Do You Stop? 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 46 – With Footnotes
Jack Vettriano, OBE (né Jack Hoggan, born 17 November 1951), is a Scottish painter. His 1992 painting, The Singing Butler, became a best-selling image in Britain. Jack Vettriano grew up in the industrial seaside town of Methil, Fife. He was raised in poverty, and lived with his mother, father and older brother in a spartan miner’s…
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Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 45 – With Footnotes
The woman in black, the leering coupler, “in a nun’s costume”, could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, “wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves”, has been identified as a self portrait of the artist. The man, a soldier, in the red jacket is fondling the young woman’s…
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Pascale Taurua, Ripped jeans 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
“As women, we know we want to be sexy. But is being sexy just about sex? Not really. It’s not even about how we walk or what we wear. It’s about our personality and how we say and do what we say and do.” Pascale Taurua Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected…
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Evgeniy Monahov, Young wolves 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 47 – With Footnotes
Evgeniy Monahov was born in Moscow, Russia in 1974, and developed a love for painting at a very young age. In 1996 he completed the first stage of his formal studies by graduating from the Moscow College of Art. Demonstrating a unique talent and advanced artistic skills, Evgeniy was invited to enroll in the prestigious Surikov…
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