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03 Works, Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes – 31
Saints Cyrus and John (d. ca. 304 AD, or 311) are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge. Cyrus and John were both Alexandrians; this, however, is contradicted by other documents in which it is said…
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Léon Belly, GAZELLE HUNT IN EGYPT 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 75
The proud stances of the camels and their riders, the fluttering robes, bright sun, and vivid colours combine to make this a work of true bravura, and bear testimony to Belly’s genius at capturing the stark light and desert winds of the Egyptian Sinai. Belly travelled to Egypt three times, in 1850, 1856, and 1857.…
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1 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, 1 Akram Shukri
Akram Shukri is considered one of the most important artists in the development of the Iraqi modern art movement, and although primarily an architect he was the founding member of the Society of Artists and Art Lovers in 1941. This group included important Iraqi artists such as Jawad Selim, Hafiz Droubi and Faik Hassan. Numerous members…
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03 Works, Today, January 30th, is Saint Martina of Rome’s Day, With Footnotes – 30
Martina of Rome was a Roman martyr under emperor Alexander Severus. A patron saint of Rome, she was martyred in 226. The daughter of an ex-consul and orphaned at an early age, she was described as a noble and beautiful virgin. She so openly testified to her Christian faith that she could not escape the persecutions under Alexander Severus. Arrested and commanded to return to…
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04 Works, Today, January 29th, is Saint Francis de Salese’s Day, With Footnotes – 29
Saint Francis de Sales CO OM OFM Cap. (21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622). Francis was ordained to the priesthood in 1593. From 1594 to 1598 he preached to the Protestants of Chablais and effected the return of some 70,000 souls to the Catholic faith. In 1602 he became bishop of Genf… Please…
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04 Works, Today, January 27th, is Saint Polycarp’s Day, With Footnotes – 27
Polycarp (AD 69 – 155) was a 2nd-century Christian bishop of Smyrna. It is recorded that he had been a disciple of John the Apostle. Saint Jerome wrote that Polycarp was a disciple of John and that John had ordained him bishop of Smyrna. He was reckoned the chief of all the Christians of Asia,…
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Ellie Hesse, AMAZON I 01 Painting, Olympian deities, with footnotes #40
‘There is something truly astounding about the way a horse can be transformed from a calm and seemingly domesticated creature, one moment, into an explosion of power and wired emotion, the next. I find this unpredictability and expressiveness, fascinating and a great inspiration in my work. Historical representations of the equine form are another major…
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Jean Beraud, French, Carrefour Drouot 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 67 – With Footnotes
The rue Drouot was created in the early eighteenth century, but it was extended in the second half of the nineteenth century, following the “Haussmannization” of Paris. The street housed many “magasins de nouveautés”, as well as the famous Hôtel Drouot, which, to this day, is the most renowned auction gallery in the French capital city. More…
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Gerard van Kuijl, A shepherd and shepherdess 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Gerard van Kuijl or Kuijll (1604, Gorinchem – 1673, Gorinchem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for religious and genre works in the style of Caravaggio. Gerard left for Italy in 1627 or 1628. He joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Stijgbeugel. In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean…
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Suleiman Mansour, And the Convoy Keeps Going 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 48
Sliman Mansour (born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important…
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02 carvings Of Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, Sculpture, #8
Leda, in Greek legend, usually believed to be the daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, and wife of Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. She was also believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the other twin, Pollux, and of Helen, both of…
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Paul Strand; Oaxaca 04 Works, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 32
This is a depiction of a sculptural work in a Catholic church in Tlacochoaya, Oaxaca, Mexico. In this tableau, the Christ figure is placed in a framed space that recedes behind him. His feet extend outside of the frame, drawing further attention to the three dimensional aspect of the sculpture. The frame is an ornate…
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Salvatore Fiume; Model lying 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 56
Salvatore Fiume (23 October 1915 – 3 June 1997) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, the Pushkin Museum of…
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Eugène Boudin, DEAUVILLE, LE BASSIN 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #239
Deauville was conceived for fashionable pleasures. It emerged from the dunes in the 1860s, thanks to the vision of one Dr Joseph Olliffe and his close friend, Emperor Napoleon III’s half-brother, the Duc de Morny. At the end of the 1850s, marshes lay between the sea here and a little slope-side village above. Dr Olliffe convinced…
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Jirí Kolár; Four portraits 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #74
Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art. Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914 in a working-class environment. He trained early in life as a cabinet maker. He later changed trades several times, working…
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05 Works,Today, January 25th, is Saint Paul’s conversion Day, With Footnotes – 25
The conversion of Paul the Apostle was an event in the life of Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus. St. Paul, named Saul at his circumcision, a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, was born at Tarsus, the capitol of Cilicia. He was a…
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05 Works, Today, January 24nd, Saint Timothy’s Day, With Footnotes – 24
Saint Timothy, (died AD 97, Ephesus, now in Turkey); disciple of St. Paul the Apostle, whom he accompanied on his missions; traditional martyr and first bishop of Ephesus. On his second visit to Lystra in 50, Paul discovered Timothy, taking him as a colleague but first circumcising him out of respect for his Jewish mother…
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Louis Marie de Schryver, The Flower Market on the Île de la Cité 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
The Île de la Cité is one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being the Île Saint-Louis).[a] It is the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded. More on The Île de la Cité Louis Marie de Schryver, born in Paris in 1862, Louis…
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