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12 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by its Artists , – Part 10 – With Footnotes
Paris, France’s capital, is a major European city and a global center for art, fashion, gastronomy and culture. Its 19th-century cityscape is crisscrossed by wide boulevards and the River Seine. Beyond such landmarks as the Eiffel Tower and the 12th-century, Gothic Notre-Dame cathedral, the city is known for its cafe culture and designer boutiques along…
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Art Collector: 12 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by its Artists , – Part 10 – With Footnotes
Source: Art Collector: 12 Paintings, Streets of Paris, by its Artists , – Part 10 – With Footnotes
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08 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #37
Thomas Somerscales, 1842-1927 A SHIP OF THE LINE 100 YEARS AGO, c. 1900 Oil on canvas 70 by 106cm., 27½ by 42in. Private collection The author Alex Hurst commented, the ship’s hull paint suggests she is a little earlier than 1800, however she has double dolphin strikers which were not introduced into the British Navy until…
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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, including Madame Mottewith Footnotes. # 12
Willem Wissing, AMSTERDAM 1656 – 1687 BURGHLEY, LINCOLNSHIRE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, TRADITIONALLY IDENTIFIED AS MARY ‘MOLL’ DAVISLAP Oil on canvas 126.9 x 103 cm.; 50 x 40 1/2 in. Private Collection Mary “Moll” Davis (1648 – 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer, and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King…
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10 Carvings & Sculpture from the Bible! 15 – 19th Century. With Footnote, # 14
Netherlandish, Malines, circa 1600 THE DESCENT INTO HELL Partially gilt alabaster relief 20 x 15 cm, 7 3/4 by 6 in Private collection Mechelen (French: Malines) is one of Flanders’ prominent cities of historical art, with Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, and Leuven. It was notably a centre for artistic production during the Northern Renaissance, when painters,…
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10 Orientalist Paintings by Artists from the 19th Century, with footnotes, #15
Henri ROUSSEAU, 1875 – 1933 Les cavaliers – 1919 Huile sur panneau h: 46 w: 55 cm 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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12 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #11
Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, (1884-1967), Self portrait, c. 1921 Private collection Zinaida Evgenievna Serebriakova, (1884-1967), was a Modernist Russian painter, and was one of the best known and most highly regarded of her time. She was the daughter of the sculptor Evgenii Lanceray and was said to have been raised in an environment that helped to foster a…
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11 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 9
Joyce Tenneson Angel and Lit Wings – 2016 Private collection Joyce Tenneson (born in Weston, Massachusetts on May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson earned her master’s degree in photography from George Washington University after starting as a model…
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11 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Contemporary & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 9
Joyce Tenneson Angel and Lit Wings – 2016 Private collection Joyce Tenneson (born in Weston, Massachusetts on May 29, 1945) is an American fine art photographer known for her distinctive style of photography, which often involves nude or semi-nude women. Tenneson earned her master’s degree in photography from George Washington University after starting as a model…
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10 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #36
Brian Coole, b. 1939 USS Franklin Enters New York Harbor Oil on Board 15″ x 22 1/2″, frame 23″ x 29″ Private collection USS Franklin of the United States Navy was a 74-gun ship of the line. Built in 1815, she was the first vessel to be laid down at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Franklin sailed…
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08 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 56
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, (1828–1882) Lady Lilith, c. 1866-68 (altered 1872-73) Oil on canvas 97.8 × 85.1 cm (38.5 × 33.5 in) Delaware Art Museum Lilith, the subject of this painting, is described in Judaic literature as the first wife of Adam. She is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. The depiction…
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes – # 46
Florentine school circa 1700, circle of P. Dandini Saint Cecilia Oil on canvas 25 1/4 X 20 7/8 IN. 64 X 53 CM Private Collection St. Cecilia is one of the most famous of the Roman martyrs, even if the familiar stories about her are apparently not founded. The existence of the martyrs, however, is a…
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10 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #10
Pablo Picasso, 1881 – 1973 Madame Canals, Benedetta Bianco. Paris, 1905 Oil and charcoal on canvas. 90 x 70 cm Museu Picasso, Barcelona Once he had settled down definitively in Paris in 1904, Picasso got back in touch with several of his old friends from Barcelona. Without doubt, it was the ties to Ricard Canals…
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10 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 51
Matthias Stomer, 1600 – 1652 Capture of Christ, c. 1640 Oil on canvas 208 x 272 cm Private collection. Courtesy Benappi Fine Art The arrest of Jesus is a pivotal event recorded in the canonical gospels. The event ultimately leads, in the Gospel accounts, to Jesus’ crucifixion. Jesus was arrested by the Temple guards of the…
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10 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #34
Montague Dawson, 1890 – 1973 Ships That Pass oil on canvas 28.25 x 42 in Private collection Montague Dawson RMSA, FRSA (1890–1973) was a British painter who was renowned as a maritime artist. His most famous paintings depict sailing ships, usually clippers or warships of the 18th and 19th centuries. Montague was the son of a…
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11 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #33
Montague Dawson, (1890–1973) The British Clipper Ship Thermopylae Watercolor and gouache on paper 16 1/4 x 26 in. Private Collection Thermopylae was an extreme composite clipper ship built in 1868 by Walter Hood & Co of Aberdeen, to the design of Bernard Waymouth of London. In 1872, Thermopylae raced the clipper Cutty Sark from Shanghai back to London.…
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11 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 9
Jan Miel, BEVEREN-WAES NEAR ANTWERP 1599 – 1664 TURIN CERES, BACCHUS AND VENUS, c. 1645 Oil on canvas 142.5 x 162.7 cm.; 56 1/8 x 64 1/8 in. Private Collection The theme of Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus – literally, ‘without Ceres or Bacchus, Venus would freeze’ – is derived from a line in Act IV…
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