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Maggie Meiners Is Reimagining Norman Rockwell for the 21st Century – Artsy
Maggie Meiners, Skin Deep. © Maggie Meiners. Courtesy of the artist. Source: Maggie Meiners Is Reimagining Norman Rockwell for the 21st Century – Artsy
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Frank H. Mason, Clipper Ship 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #123
Frank H. Mason, New York/Ohio (1921-2009) Clipper Ship Watercolor and gouache on paper 28 inches x 18 inches Private collection A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the middle third of the 19th century, generally either a schooner or a brigantine. They had multiple types of sail plans but the most common was three…
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Jean Dufy, French, Le Port 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #122
Jean Dufy, French, 1888-1964 Le Port Watercolor and gouache on paper laid down on board 17 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches (45 x 60 cm) Private collection Jean Dufy (b Le Havre, France, 1888; d La Boissière, 1964) French Painter. Following his service in the military, from 1910-1912, Jean Dufy relocated to Paris. Inspired by the work of Braque and…
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Imogen Cunningham, Eve Repentant, 1910 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY & 20th C. Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 29
Imogen Cunningham, (American, 1883-1976) Eve Repentant, 1910 Gelatin silver, printed later 11-1/4 x 8-1/8 inches (28.6 x 20.6 cm) Private collection Eve is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. According to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, she was the first woman. In Islamic tradition, Eve is known as Adam’s…
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Wladislaw Czachorski, LADY WITH A FAN 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #41
Wladislaw Czachorski, 1850-1911, POLISH LADY WITH A FAN Oil on panel 39 by 17.5cm., 15½ by 7in. Private collection Władysław Czachórski (22 September 1850 in Lublin – 13 January 1911 in Munich) was a Polish painter in the Academic style. In 1866 Czachorski attended the School of Fine Arts in Warsaw and had Rafał Hadziewicz as a teacher.…
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Antonietta Brandeis, The Bridge of Sighs 01 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #38
Antonietta Brandeis, 1849 – 1920, CZECH The Bridge of Sighs Oil on panel 21.5 by 12cm., 8½ by 4¾in. (2) Private collection The Bridge of Sighs is an enclosed bridge made of white limestone. It has windows with stone bars, passes over the Rio di Palazzo, and connects the New Prison to the interrogation rooms in the Doge’s…
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German School, Ecce Homo 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 106
German School late 16th century Ecce Homo Oil on copper 18 x 29.5 cm Private collection Ecce homo are the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of John 19:5, when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion. The Douay-Rheims Bible…
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Jose Garcia Ocejo, The Minotaur and the Maiden – 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #8
Jose Garcia Ocejo (b.1928) The Minotaur and the Maiden, c. 2015 Oil on wood 64 x 52 cm / 25.1 x 20.4 inches Private collection In Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a mythical creature portrayed in Classical times with the head of a bull and the body of a man, or, as described by Roman poet Ovid,…
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Montague Dawson, Night Suspect Pursuit 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #121
Montague Dawson, British, 1895-1973 Night Suspect (A British Coast Guard Cutter in Pursuit) Oil on canvas 25 x 36 inches (61 x 91.5 cm) Private collection The painting depicts the dramatic chase on a moonlit night by the British Coast Guard, firing a canon at suspected smugglers in the English Channel. More on this painting Montague…
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Alfred Sacheverel Coke, The daughter of Herodias (Salome) 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 105
Alfred Sacheverel Coke (British, active 1860-1900) The daughter of Herodias (Salome) Oil on canvas 80 x 31in (203 x 79cm) Private collection Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome…
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Laurence Winram, Mihaela as Cerynitis II 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #7
Laurence Winram, United Kingdom Nude – Mihaela as Cerynitis II Photography: Color on Paper. Size: 23.4 H x 16.5 W x 0 in Private collection In Greek mythology, the Ceryneian Hind (Greek: Ελαφος Κερυνῖτις Elaphos Kerynitis), also called Cerynitis or the Golden Hind, was an enormous hind, who lived in Keryneia, Greece. It was sacred to Artemis,…
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Hendrick Goltzius, Lot and his daughters 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 104
Hendrick Goltzius Lot and his daughters, c. 1616 Oil on canvas h 140 cm × b 204 cm Rijksmuseum Lot and his daughters. Seated under trees by rocks, the daughters of Lot tempt their father. All three figures are presented naked and sitting or lying on the ground. The daughter on the left holds a…
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Théodore Gudin, Loss of East Indiaman Kent 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #120
Théodore Gudin, (1802–1880) Loss of East Indiaman Kent, c. 1828 Oil on canvas Height: 259 cm (101.9 in); Width: 417.5 cm (13.6 ft) Musée national de la Marine, Paris The Kent was an East Indiaman, a vessel sailing for the British East India Company, and launched in 1820. She completed two voyages to Bombay and China for…
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Tate blockbuster to prove Pierre Bonnard was a great Modern painter | The Art Newspaper
Pierre Bonnard Dining Room in the Country (1913) Minneapolis Institute of Art Tate blockbuster to prove Pierre Bonnard was a great Modern painter | The Art Newspaper: Next January, Tate Modern will hold the first major exhibition of the work of Pierre Bonnard in Britain for 20 years. Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory is…
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Why Art History Is Full of People Taking Baths – Artsy Please click on link for the full post!
Paul Cézanne The Large Bathers, 1900–06 Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Why Art History Is Full of People Taking Baths – Artsy: It’s one of the most common human activities—yet artists from the ancient Greeks to the Surrealists and beyond have been fascinated by bathing. The figure of the bather is one of…
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Henri Rousseau, A DESERT ENCAMPMENT 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 22
Henri Rousseau, 1844 – 1910, FRENCH A DESERT ENCAMPMENT, c. 1908 Oil on canvas 87 by 127.5cm., 34½ by 50¼in. Private collection Henri Rousseau Henry, Emilien Rousseau (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence in 1933) is an Orientalist painter. A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux Arts in Paris, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1900 and…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40
Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…
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Giovanni Boldini, LES PARISIENNES 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 32 – With Footnotes
Giovanni Boldini, 1842 – 1931, ITALIAN LES PARISIENNES Oil on panel 31.5 by by 24¾cm., 12¼ by 9¼in. Private collection Les Parisiennes epitomises Boldini’s compositions of the salons of Empire-period homes, providing a glimpse into the leisured lives of their elegantly costumed occupants. Here two beautiful, fashionable young ladies are shown passing a quiet afternoon in a…
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