Tag: Art
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06 Works, Today, March 13th, is Saint Christina of Tyre’s Day, With Footnotes – #71
Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century… Please follow link for full post
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Ali Banisadr , STARDUST 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #11
Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born artist from New York City working primarily with oil painting. Banisadr was ranked #1 in Flash Art’s Top 100 Artists of 2011 Originally, from Tehran Banisadr moved with his family when he was twelve to San Diego, in the United States. He moved to New York in 2000 to study a…
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Edgar Yaeger, Trans Atlantic 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #256
Edgar Louis Yaeger (1904–1997) was an American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan. Yaeger studied at the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Arts, by which he was awarded the Founder’s Society Purchase Prize. Subsequently, with the backing of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Traveling Scholarship, Yaeger embarked on a study tour of eight European countries, from France…
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05 Works, Today, March 10th, is Saint Quadratu’s Day, With Footnotes – #68
During a persecution against Christians,in the third century, a woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon afterward. The infant remained alive and was nourished in miraculous manner: a cloud appeared over him, dropping a sweet dew into…
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Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian boar hunt 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the artists of their time, with footnotes #42
The Calydonian or Aetolian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honour her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in…
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Emile BERNARD, Two Venetians on the Salute Bridge 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #74
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), 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 of Venice, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal,…
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Roy Cross, The clipper ‘Reindeer’ arriving at Boston Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #255
USS Reindeer (1863) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways. Reindeer joined the Mississippi Squadron just as Union Army and Navy efforts to open the entire Mississippi River system to Federal shipping finally reached fruition with…
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Alex Katz, Vivien 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #81
Alex Katz, (born July 24, 1927, New York, U.S.), American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and later the American landscape through understated but monumental glimpses of the vernacular world. After returning from a period in the navy in 1946, he…
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Fausto Pirandello, Bathers on the rocks 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #255
Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter. Because he spent his holidays between Rome and Sicily, the landscapes there would have a prominent presence in his paintings. He studied Classics until he was called to arms in 1917 by the Ragazzi del ’99. He was not sent to the…
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07 Works, Today, March 4th, is Saint Gerasimus’s Day, With Footnotes – #62
Gerasimus of the Jordan was a Christian saint, monk and abbot of the 5th century AD. He was born into a wealthy family in the the southern part of Asia Minor, but he left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He attended the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD. His feast day is celebrated on March 4… Please follow link for full post
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