Tag: Art
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Nicholas Pocock, Destruction of the French squadron 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #229
The Battle of San Domingo was a naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars fought on 6 February 1806 between squadrons of French and British ships of the line off in the Caribbean. The French squadron, under Vice-Admiral Corentin Urbain Leissègues in the 120-gun Impérial, had sailed from Brest in December 1805, one of two squadrons intending…
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Khaled Hourani, Martyr 02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #71
A martyr is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, refusing to renounce, or refusing to advocate a belief or cause as demanded by an external party. This refusal to comply with the presented demands results in the punishment or execution of the martyr by the oppressor. Originally applied only to those who…
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Rafaelle Berchtold, Physical state 02 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #359
“In nature there is a closed cycle. Everything flows. The sea is constantly changing dynamically. It permeates life and makes everything softer, smoother and more permeable. Water is formless, condenses, decomposes, sometimes it seems threatening, effervescent, then calm again, crystal clear, until mirror-smooth. Water refreshes and renews life. The element water symbolizes energy in the…
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Khaled Hourani, Farewell 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 43
Khaled Hourani, Born in Hebron, Palestine, in 1965. Khaled Hourani lives and works in Ramallah. He was Artistic Director (2007-2010) and Director (2010-2013) of the International Academy of Art Palestine, of which he is also one of the co-founders. He previously worked as the General Director of the Fine Arts Department of the Palestinian Ministry of…
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Pietro Dandini, YOUNG WOMAN AND THE PROCURES. 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
An old woman in a dark robe with a white shawl and a white towel on her hair, above a yellow high hat, turns to a young woman. She also has a stick in her right hand and with her left hand she holds up a purse. The young woman in a bright red skirt,…
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Naima Rauam, Tug On The East River, 1992. 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #228
The East River is a salt water tidal estuary in New York City. The waterway, which is actually not a river despite its name, connects Upper New York Bay on its south end to Long Island Sound on its north end. It separates the borough of Queens on Long Island from the Bronx on the North…
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Charles Brooking, TWO MEN-OF-WAR IN A GALE 02 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #227
Charles Brooking (c.1723–59) was an English painter of marine scenes. Despite his short life, Charles Brooking was one of the most influential British marine painters of the eighteenth century. His best work was achieved in the final decade of his life. Brooking excelled at painting shipping in calm conditions, using luminous glazes to give a sense…
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Anna Sidi-Yacoub, Jump 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #226
Anna Sidi-Yacoub, a Graphic Designer and Artist living in Co.Kerry, Ireland. She’s inspired by the natural sunlight, vivid colors found in nature and fluids. Her works are a visual celebration of human nature and life. Most of her abstract paintings are inspired by liquids, mainly water in oceans and rivers. Anna has been creating alluring artworks across a…
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Henry VIII’s six wives 07 Paintings, The amorous game, Henry VIII’s six wives. 50 – With Footnotes
The wives of Henry VIII were the six queens consort wedded to Henry VIII of England between 1509 and 1547. The six women to hold the title “queen consort” of King Henry VIII were, in chronological order: Catherine of Aragon, (divorced, died while detained under guard at Kimbolton Castle, mother of Mary I) Anne Boleyn, (divorced and later executed, mother of Elizabeth I) Jane…
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Italian master of the 17th century, THE DAUGHTER OF LOT WITH WINE CRACK 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 126
In the background you can see both the burning city and the frozen wife of Lot. In the center is one of the daughters with a naked breast and white and blue robe, her right arm placed over a golden wine carafe. On the floor a red cloth on which a plate lies. The young…
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Orazio Samacchini, MARY WITH CHRIST AND SAINT HIERONYMUS 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 125
Baby Jesus lying on a cushion, diagonally across the picture, with St. Mary behind him, holding a veil between her fingertips and thus already pointing to the child’s career. Covered by a nimbus, as well as St. Jerome, characterized by the lion’s head, which is visible under his forearm and his cardinal robe. Right behind…
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Neapolitan master; ARCHANGEL MICHAEL 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 124
Extremely complicated composition, with figures moving in opposite directions. In the color and the reproduction of the physical, the strong influence of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) can be seen, with whom he had worked together at the festive decoration in Ghent. All these stylistic aspects suggest the attribution. So too, this painting is…
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Helmut Newton, Kissing Rue Aubriot 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 64 – With Footnotes
Rue Aubriot is named after Hugues Aubriot, provost of Paris under Charles V. The latter is known to have taken measures of leniency with regard to the Jews of Paris. For this, he was accused of impiety, imprisoned in the Bastille, then released by mutineers. He is also the builder of the Bastille, on which he…
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Théodore Chassériau, Ali-Ben-Hamet 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 73
The Haraktas or Haractas are a group of Berber-speaking tribes living in the Wilaya of Oum El Bouaghi and Batna. During the Ottoman period , the tribe was the largest tribe in eastern Algeria. Constantine passed under Arab-Muslim administration around the year 700, and saw its population gradually convert to Islam. France embarked on the conquest of…
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Jean Jansem, Ballerina 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #68
A ballet dancer (ballerina) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on years of extensive training and proper technique to become a part of professional companies. Ballet dancers are at a high risk of…
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Théodore Chassériau, Arab Combat 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 72
Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria. Chassériau was born in El Limón, Samaná, in the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic). In December 1820 the family…
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Antoine Bouvard, Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #69
Antoine Bouvard, St. Jean-de-Bournay, 1870 – 1956 was a French landscape artist who notably often painted under the pseudonym Marc Aldine. Bouvard remains best known for his renderings of Venetian canal scenes, painted in warm tones and a hazy light that often accompanies the setting of the sun. A typical work is A Gondolier Before a…
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William Alexander Coulter, Three Brothers 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #225
The Three Brothers was originally built as the iron paddle-steamer Cornelius Vanderbilt and launched 1857 at Greenpoint, New York. In 1873 the vessel converted to a full-rigged clipper without machinery. She spent most of her time in the grain trade between San Francisco, Le Havre, Liverpool, and New York City where she acquired an enviable reputation…
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