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Ludolfs Liberts; Carnival, Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with footnotes, #70
The Carnival of Venice is an annual festival. The Carnival ends with the Christian celebration of Lent, forty days before Easter, the day before Ash Wednesday. The festival is world famous for its elaborate masks. Ludolfs Liberts, 1895-1959, Latvian, was born in Tirza, Latvia in 1895. He studied art in Moscow and the Kazan Art School. He was…
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Hendrick Goltzius, Unequal Lovers, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Hendrick Goltzius (January or February 1558 – 1 January 1617), was a German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman, and painter. He was the leading Dutch engraver of the early Baroque period, or Northern Mannerism, noted for his sophisticated technique and the “exuberance” of his compositions. According to A. Hyatt Mayor, Goltzius “was the last professional engraver who…
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Willy Aractingi, Blue Panther, 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 44
Willy Aractingi, (Lebanese, 1930-2003) was born in New York in 1930, Aractingi was raised in Cairo, studied in Grasse, before finally settling in Beirut in the late 1940s. Aractingi undertook painting at a very young age. His works are often differentiated by his use of unique colour gradations, bold pigments and recurring use of nature. Aractingi’s…
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Albert André, Untitled 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 66 – With Footnotes
Albert André ( 24 May 1869 – 11 July 1954) was a French Post-Impressionist figurative painter. He produced portraits of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, his closest friend, and Claude Monet. Born in Lyon, he initially trained there designing patterns for silk. In 1889 he moved to Paris to enroll at the Académie Julian. There he met Paul Ranson,…
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17C French Ivory Relief, Saint Sebastian 02 Ivory Carvings, from Bible stories! 17th Century. With Footnote, # 15
17th century carved ivory relief depicting St. Sebastian being released from the tree. According to tradition, he was rescued by Irene of Rome. In this unusual depiction, he is shown being untied by cherubs. His body shows several puncture marks from the arrows that were shot into him… Please follow link for full…
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Helmut Newton; Portrait of Olga Rodionova 02 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 52
Olga Rodionova (born 25 June 1974) is a Croatian-Russian model, an actress and a TV presenter. As a model, Rodionova has worked with some of the best fashion photographers in the world, including Helmut Newton, David LaChapelle, Peter Lindbergh, Terry Richardson, Sante D’Orazio, Bettina Rheims, Ellen von Unwerth, John Rankin, Jean-Daniel Lorieux, Marino Parisotto, Guido Argentini…
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Per Anders, Baywatch 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #231
This painting shows more or less my surroundings where I live at the southern edge of Denmark. The Baltic Ocean (or more correctly the fjord called Flensburg Fjord where Denmark is situated on the north side and Germany is situated on the other side, about 2 miles away) is right outside my windows and sailing…
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Nicholas Pocock, Destruction of the French squadron 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #229
The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off in the Caribbean. The French squadron, under Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissègues in the 120-gun Impérial, had sailed from Brest in December 1805, one of two squadrons intending…
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Khaled Hourani, Martyr 02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #71
A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party. This refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of the martyr by the oppressor. Originally applied only to those who…
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Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne” Is an Unnerving Depiction of Unwanted Desire
Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne” is a masterwork of sculpture that also reads as a powerful, disquieting depiction of unwanted pursuit and predation. Source: Bernini’s “Apollo and Daphne” Is an Unnerving Depiction of Unwanted Desire
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Rafaelle Berchtold, Physical state 02 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #359
“In nature there is a closed cycle. Everything flows. The sea is constantly changing dynamically. It permeates life and makes everything softer, smoother and more permeable. Water is formless, condenses, decomposes, sometimes it seems threatening, effervescent, then calm again, crystal clear, until mirror-smooth. Water refreshes and renews life. The element water symbolizes energy in the…
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Khaled Hourani, Farewell 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 43
Khaled Hourani, Born in Hebron, Palestine, in 1965. Khaled Hourani lives and works in Ramallah. He was Artistic Director (2007-2010) and Director (2010-2013) of the International Academy of Art Palestine, of which he is also one of the co-founders. He previously worked as the General Director of the Fine Arts Department of the Palestinian Ministry of…
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Pietro Dandini, YOUNG WOMAN AND THE PROCURES. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
An old woman in a dark robe with a white shawl and a white towel on her hair, above a yellow high hat, turns to a young woman. She also has a stick in her right hand and with her left hand she holds up a purse. The young woman in a bright red skirt,…
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Naima Rauam, Tug On The East River, 1992. 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #228
The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens on Long Island from the Bronx on the North…
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Artist Banksy unveils dark nativity in Bethlehem
Banksy has made his own contribution to Christmas. Source: Artist Banksy unveils dark nativity in Bethlehem
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Austrian School, The Adoration of the Magi 01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 184
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 gold,…
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