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Robert Mapplethorpe, Lisa Lyon The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes #1
Robert Mapplethorpe, (1946 – 1989) Lisa Lyon Photograph 15 1/8 by 15 1/4 in. (38.4 by 38.7 cm.) Private collection Lisa Lyon (born 1953) is a female bodybuilder and photo model from the United States, and is regarded as one of female bodybuilding’s pioneers. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1953. Lisa Lyon studied art at…
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Félix Ziem, VENICE, SUNRISE OVER BACINO DI SAN MARCO 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #42
Félix Ziem, 1821-1911, FRENCH VENICE, SUNRISE OVER BACINO DI SAN MARCO Oil on canvas 21 3/8 by 27 3/4 in., 54.3 by 70.5 cm Private collection Félix Ziem was the painter of Venice par excellence. In Venice, Sunrise over Bacino di San Marco, Ziem has positioned the viewer on the Molo, evidenced by the piers…
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John Currie, The Witch 03 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Dolly Henry, with Footnotes. #49
John S. Currie, (British, circa 1884-1914) Dolly Henry on Hampstead Heath, c. 1913 Oil on canvas 61 x 46cm (24 x 18 1/8in) Private collection Currie met Dorothy Henry, a tall, attractive seventeen-year-old who modelled dresses at a Regent Street department store. Currie’s friend and patron, Michael Sadleir, remarked that she “was of flower-like loveliness,…
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Laurits Bernhard Holst, Shipping off Gibraltar 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #125
Laurits Bernhard Holst, Danish 1848-1934 Shipping off Gibraltar, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 42.8x70cm Private collection Gibraltar is a British Overseas Territory located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered to the north by Spain. In 1704, Anglo-Dutch forces captured Gibraltar from Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession on behalf of…
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Hamilton Hayes, Pilot House Vineyard Haven 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #124
Hamilton Hayes, Georgetown, MA, United States Pilot House Vineyard Haven Oil on Canvas 36 H x 36 W x 1 in Private collection A Pilot House or Deckhouse is for a ship’s helmsman; containing the steering wheel, compass, and navigating equipment Vineyard Haven is the main port of entry to Martha’s Vineyard. The Steamship Authority wharf is located in…
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Charles Murray Padday, The mermaid 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 6b
Charles Murray Padday, (British, 1868–1954) The mermaid Oil on Canvas 34.5 x 44.5 cm. (13.6 x 17.5 in.) Private collection A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared…
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Fanny Nushka, An Angel to Come 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 127
Fanny Nushka Study for an Angel to Come Oil on Canvas 11.8 H x 15.7 W x 1.6 in Private collection “This painting is inspired by one of my favorite painters. Abott Thayer. Focusing strictly on the colors I gave the painting a brand new structure and played with the viewers eye, as where the focus would…
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Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Pool No. 21 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #123
Jean-Pierre Kunkel, Germany Pool No. 21 Oil on Canvas 39.4 H x 39.4 W x 1.6 in Private collection Jean-Pierre Kunkel was born 1950 in France. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany). He worked for 40 years as a freelance advertising illustrator…
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Linda Weir, ST. IVES HARBOUR 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #118
Linda Weir SPRING LIGHT, ST. IVES HARBOUR Oil on canvas 23 1/5 × 38 in; 59 × 96.5 cm Private collection St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially…
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Tommaso de Simone, HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #121
Tommaso de Simone, Italian 1805-1888 The sail and steamship HMS Pallas coming into port, c. 1884 Oil on canvas 26×39.5 Private collection HMS Pallas was a purpose-built wooden-hulled ironclad of the Royal Navy, designed as a private venture by Sir Edward Reed, and accepted by the Board of Admiralty because, as an economy measure, they wished…
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John H. ‘Jock’ Wilson, Seascape with Boats and Figures 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #122
John H. ‘Jock’ Wilson, (1774–1855) (attributed to) Seascape with Boats and Figures Oil on canvas 46 x 61.2 cm Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne John H. “Jock” Wilson (1774 in Ayr – 1855 in Folkestone) was a Scottish landscape and marine painter, president of the Society of British Artists in 1827. Wilson was apprenticed at age…
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Julian TAYLOR, THE PONTOON 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #120
Julian TAYLOR, Born in Paris in 1954 LE PONTON (DOUARNENEZ), THE PONTOON (DOUARNENEZ) Oil on canvas 20 1/10 × 25 3/5 in; 51 × 65 cm Private collection Douarnenez is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France. The legendary city of Ys, of Breton folklore, is believed to lie beneath Douarnenez Bay. The port is…
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Frederic, Lord Leighton, The Fisherman and the Syren 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5b
Frederic, Lord Leighton, 1830–1896 The Fisherman and the Syren, c. 1856–1858 Oil on canvas 66.3 × 48.7 cm (26.1 × 19.2 in) Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Inspired by a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, THE FISHERMAN This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of…
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John William Waterhouse, Diogenes 01 Paintings, Athenian philosophers, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 32
John William Waterhouse, (1849–1917) Diogenes, c. 1882 Oil on canvas 208,3 × 134,6 cm Art Gallery of New South Wales Diogenes, also known as Diogenes the Cynic, was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. He was born in Sinope, an Ionian colony on the Black Sea, in 412 or 404 BC…
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Jakub Schikaneder, All Souls’ Day 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 126
Jakub Schikaneder, (1855–1924) All Souls’ Day, c. 1888 Oil on canvas Height: 139.5 cm (54.9 in); Width: 220 cm (86.6 in) National Gallery in Prague All Souls’ Day, Saturday of Souls, Thursday of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Halloween, All Saints’ Day, Samhain, Totensonntag, Blue Christmas. In Christianity, All Souls’ Day commemorates All Souls, the Holy…
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Jakub Schikaneder, Utonulá/Drowned, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #116
Jakub Schikaneder Utonulá/Drowned, c. 1893 Pastel height 455 mm, width 880 mm National Gallery in Prague Jakub Schikaneder (February 27, 1855 in Prague – November 15, 1924 in Prague) was a painter from Bohemia. Schikaneder came from the family of a German customs office clerk. Despite the family’s poor background, he was able to pursue his…
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Charles Ernest Cundall, REGATTA 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #119
Charles Ernest Cundall REGATTA Oil on canvas 24 2/5 × 40 1/5 in; 62 × 102 cm Private collection A regatta is a series of boat races. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft. A regatta often includes social and promotional activities which surround the racing event, and except in the…
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, VENUS RISING FROM THE SEA 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 30
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. VENUS RISING FROM THE SEA Oil on canvas 41 by 24cm., 28¼ by 10in. Private collection The style of the picture suggests that it was painted in the late 1860s as Burne-Jones transitioned from the Medievalism of his earlier watercolours to the more Aesthetic style of his oils.…
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