Tag: Art
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03 Works, The amorous game, Bruce Weber’s Courtships, with Footnotes, #97
In these paintings we can see a young woman being courted by a young man. The woman is wearing traditional Zeeland clothing that is often seen in Portielje’s paintings…. Please follow link for full post
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03 Works , Pal Fried’s Spanish Dancers, with footnotes
Fandango is a lively partner dance originating in Portugal and Spain, usually in triple meter, traditionally accompanied by guitars, castanets, or hand-clapping. Fandango can both be sung and danced… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The amorous game, Berthold Woltze’s The annoying cavalier, with Footnotes, #96
The painting is set in a railway carriage, where there are two men and a young woman. She is dressed completely in black, and stares towards the viewer with tears in her eyes. The young woman is dressed in a black cloak over a black button-up shirt and a black skirt. She has a black…
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01 Work, The amorous game, Henry Raleigh’s Tea Time, with Footnotes, #92
Sold for $2,312.50 in Apr 25, 2023 Henry Raleigh was an American illustrator, active between 1910-1940. He created illustrations for many well-known authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and H.G. Wells. Raleigh started as a newspaper artist but became widely respected and sought after for his unique and distinct style of illustration. In addition to producing work…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Florentine School’s the Virgin’s Annunciate, with Footnotes – #197
Sold for £9,562.50 in 2022 The composition of the present panel is based on the figure of the Virgin from the famous Annunciation of the mid 13th century in the church of Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Painted by a follower of Giotto, it is said that it was completed by a monk called Bartolomeo with the…
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01 Work , The Canals of Venice, Louis Magre’s La Salute, with footnotes, #122
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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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Jean-Gabriel Domergue’s Brigitte at the Ambassadors, Deauville, with Footnotes, #130
Sold for EUR 28,750 in May 2013 Jean-Gabriel Domergue (4 March 1889 – 16 November 1962) was a French painter specializing in portraits of Parisian women. Domergue was born in Bordeaux and studied at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1911, he was a winner of the Prix de Rome. From the 1920s onward he concentrated…
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01 Work The Artist’s Studio, Eduardo Sívori’s In the workshop, with Footnotes #90
Eduardo Sívori (October 13, 1847 – June 5, 1918) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country’s first realist painter. Sívori ha arbored artistic leanings during childhood that, for family reasons, went unfulfilled. Asked by his father to join him on a business trip to Paris in 1874, Sívori took the opportunity to frequent Parisian…
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03 Marine Works, Aiden Lassell Ripley’s Scrubbing the Hull, With Footnotes, #321
An outdoorsman as well as a painter, Aiden Lassell Ripley was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1897. He trained briefly at the Fenway School of Illustration before joining the Army in 1917… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists. Cesare Felix Georges dell’ Acqua’s Greek mother, with footnotes, #97
Sold for £938,400 in December 2007 This painting is an archetypal image of the Greek War of Independence and a classic document in the history of 19th century Philhellenism. As noted by F.M. Tsigakou in her seminal book The Rediscovery of Greece. Cesare dell Acqua’s Greek Mother is a scene full of drama and emotion. Frightened…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Interpretation of the bible, Adriaen van der Werff’s Entombment, With Footnotes – #138
After Christ’s crucifixion, Matthew writes: ‘As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it…
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05 Works, Marine Art, Walter Langley’s perils of fishing life in a Cornish Village, with Footnotes, #87
Walter Langley devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events at sea impacting on people at home… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Rembrandt’s The Great Deposition from the Cross — with footnotes #197
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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1 Painting, Camille Hilaire’s The clown Auguste on the track, with footnotes
For sale for 1850 € in Nov 2024 The Auguste clown character-type is often an anarchist, a joker, or a fool. He is clever and has much lower status than the whiteface. Classically the whiteface character instructs the Auguste character to perform his bidding. The Auguste has a hard time performing a given task, which…
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08 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of The Bible, William Oxer’s The Grieving Magdalene, with footnotes #46
Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection… Please follow link for full post Art,Paintings,warrior,Fine Art,biography,History,Mary Magdalene,mythology,religion,RELIGIOUSART,Zaidan,William Oxer,Ancient,footnotes, #Icon #Bible #biography #History #Jesus #mythology #Paintings #religionart #Saints #Zaidan #footnote #fineart #Calvary #Christ #warrior
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – After Gérard Seghers’ Christ at the column, With Footnotes – #137
Sold for 7,560 EUR in November 2022 The painting shows the flagellation of Christ following his arrest and trial and before his crucifixion. The scene was traditionally depicted in front of a column, possibly alluding to the judgement hall of Pilate. This painting may be compared with Preparations for the Flagellation of Christ by Gerard Seghers.…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Ermanno Stroiffi’s Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, With Footnotes – #136
Estimated for €8,000 – €12,000 in November 2022 The Bible states that Elijah is a Tishbite from Gilead, who visited King Ahab to give him a message from God that there would be no rain in the land until he declared it. In order to avoid the wrath of the king, God told Elijah to hide by the Brook…
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07 works, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Jan Saudek’s Silent witness, with Footnotes #104
As the angel passed through the destroyed city she bore witness to the inhumanity of man towards his brother and felt a great heaviness in her heart. The once vibrant streets, now shrouded in ash and sorrow… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Gaza, with Footnotes #103
Sold for USD 43,750 on Mar 2019 Suleiman Mansour, together with Ismail Shammout are one of the two most important Palestinian artists who created a national identity for Palestinians over the years. Since the early 1970s, Mansour has been a champion and pioneer of the Palestinian artistic movement that has continuously pushed against the challenges…
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian’s Venus and Adonis, With Footnotes – #136
Sold for 11,164,000 GBP in December 2022 Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking…
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