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09 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #49
Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) THE LOFTY CLIPPER, CLAN MACFARLANE oil on canvas 36 by 24 3/8 in. 91.4 by 61.9 cm Private collection The Clan MacFarlane was built by Russel & Co., for Thomas Dunlop & Sons and launched in 1881 from Greenock, Scotland. The three-masted full-rigged iron ship was sunk with her crew by…
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05 PAINTINGS OF THE CANALS OF VENICE BY THE ARTISTS OF THEIR TIME, WITH FOOT NOTES. #12
Antoine Bouvard, (French, 1870-1956) Venetian gondolier and canal bridge Oil on canvas 50.5 x 66cm (19 7/8 x 26in) Private collection Antoine Bouvard, St. Jean-de-Bournay, 1870 – 1956 was a French landscape painter. He studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Constant-Dufeus and became director of a. government agency of architecture. In his paintings he…
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05 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 68
Bronzino, Agnolo, Florentine, 1503 – 1572 The Holy Family, c. 1527/1528 Oil on panel 101.3 x 78.7 cm (39 7/8 x 31 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. This early painting by Bronzino shows a young Holy Family being visited by Mary’s cousin Elizabeth and her child, John the Baptist. While Elizabeth gazes longingly…
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05 PAINTINGS OF THE CANALS OF VENICE BY THE ARTISTS OF THEIR TIME, WITH FOOT NOTES. #11
Umberto Ongania, (Italian, born 1875 – 1942) A Regatta on the Grand Canal, Venice Oil on canvas 28 x 36cm (11 x 14 3/16in Private collection On the first Sunday of September takes place the Historical Regatta (“Regata Storica”), a competition between Venetian boats watched by thousands of people from the banks or from floating stands.…
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04 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 67
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, (1824–1898) The Beheading of St John the Baptist, circa 1869 Oil on canvas Height: 240 cm (94.5 in). Width: 316 cm (124.4 in). National Gallery John the Baptist (sometimes called John in the Wilderness; also referred to as the Angel of the Desert). The story of John the Baptist is told in…
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05 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 66
Jacopo Negretti, called Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1548-1628) The Marriage of the Virgin Oil on canvas 115 x 105cm (45 1/4 x 41 5/16in). Private collection The Marriage of the Virgin is the subject in Christian art depicting the marriage of the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. Unlike many other scenes in Life of the…
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05 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #3
Odilon Redon, (French, Bordeaux 1840–1916 Paris) The Chariot of Apollo, c. 1905–16 Oil on canvas 26 x 32 in. (66 x 81.3 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art About 1900 Redon abandoned his trademark black charcoal drawings and began avidly experimenting with color. He also explored new subjects, including the mythological horses of the sun,…
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05 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #24
Franz Xaver Winterhalter, (1805-1873), German Elisabeth Kaiserin von Österreich, c. 1865 Oil painting on canvas 117 × 158 cm (46.1 × 62.2 in) Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Elisabeth of Bavaria (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and many others (see Grand title of the Empress of Austria) by…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 14
Andy Warhol, 1928 – 1987 Saint Apollonia, c. 1984 serigraph on wove paper 30in. by 22in. Private collection Saint Apollonia was one of a group of virgin martyrs who suffered in Alexandria during a local uprising against the Christians prior to the persecution of Decius. According to legend, her torture included having all of her teeth…
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06 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #50
JOHN WHORF, American (1903-1959) Fisherman’s Moons Watercolor and gouache on paper 14 1/2 x 21 inches (sight) Private collection The best times to fish are when the fish are naturally most active. The Sun, Moon, tides, and weather all influence fish activity. For example, fish tend to feed more at sunrise and sunset, and also…
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09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Raphael’s muse Margarita Luti, Part 1, with Footnotes. #22
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (March 28 or April 6, 1483 – April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci,…
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09 PAINTINGS OF THE CANALS OF VENICE BY THE ARTISTS OF THEIR TIME, WITH FOOT NOTES. #10
Edward William Cooke, 1811 – 1880 A Venetian veduta with Santa Maria della Salute, c. 1851 Oil on canvas 44 x 76 cm Private collection Santa Maria della Salute, commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city…
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03 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – SIGNORELLI’s Interpretations of the Resurrection of the Flesh. # 65
SIGNORELLI, Luca, (b. ca. 1450, Cortona, d. 1523, Cortona) Resurrection of the Flesh, 1499-1502 Fresco, width 700 cm Chapel of San Brizio, Duomo, Orvieto “Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed – in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the…
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05 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 64
Peter Paul Rubens Jesus at the banquet of Simon the Pharisee Oil on canvas 158 x 227 cm Private collection Simon was a Pharisee mentioned in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 7:36-50) as the host of a meal, who invited Jesus to eat in his house but failed to show him the usual marks of hospitality…
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03 CLASSIC MARINE PAINTINGS BY WINSLOW HOMER – WITH FOOTNOTES, #54
Winslow Homer, (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine) The Gulf Stream, c.1899 Oil on canvas 28 1/8 x 49 1/8 in. (71.4 x 124.8 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Homer painted this dramatic scene of imminent disaster. A man faces his demise on a dismasted, rudderless fishing boat, sustained by only a few…
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03 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #20
Konstantin Korovin, (1861–1939) Portrait of Vera Fokina Oil on canvas 82 × 66 cm (32.3 × 26 in) Private collection Fokina, Vera (1886–1958), a Russian ballerina. Born Vera Petrovna in 1886; died in New York on July 29, 1958; graduated from the St. Petersburg Ballet School in 1904; married Michel Fokine, in 1905 (died 1942); children:…
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On the Anniversary of Jurji Zaydan’s Birth, that Bad Bitch Shajar al-Dur and 5 More
ARABLIT & ARABLIT QUARTERLY Earlier this month, historian Kurt Werthmuller took the opportunity of the “badder than Taylor Swift” meme to direct our attention to Shajar al-Dur, or “Tree of Pearls”: Shajar al-Dur was the wife of a 13th century Ayyubid sultan based in Cairo. When he died unexpectedly, she pretended he was still alive,…
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04 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #57
Charles Edward Dixon, 1872 – 1934 Greenwich , 1905 Watercolour heightened with bodycolour 20.5 x 27 cm Private collection Greenwich is located within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, to which it lends its name. Notable for its maritime history and for giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time. The town became a…
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