Tag: Art
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01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 15
Edmund Berninger, (1843 Arnstadt – 1910 Munich) Bedouin rest in the desert Watercolor 24 x 32 cm Private collection Partly unfinished desert view with a group of Bedouins resting near the mountains under blue sky in the sunshine. Edmund Berninger (1843 Arnstadt – 1910 Munich) was a landscape painter and watercolourist. Berninger was born in Thüringia and abandoned…
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Art Collector: 10 Ancient Egyptian Engravings & Carvings- With footnotes – 7
Source: Art Collector: 10 Ancient Egyptian Engravings & Carvings- With footnotes – 7
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9 Works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Cleopatra, over the ages, by the artists of their time, with footnotes, #37
Statue of queen Cleopatra VII Ptolemaic Dynasty Basalt h. 104,7 cm Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Cleopatra VII ruled ancient Egypt as co-regent for almost three decades. She became the last in a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Well-educated and…
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03 Carvings, Biblical Carvings & Sculpture from Byzantium With Footnotes 6
Byzantine Empire, ca. 7th century CE. This is a 14k+ gold pendant inlaid with an inscribed shell intaglio featuring a religious figure and writing. Size: 0.9″ W x 1.2″ H (2.3 cm x 3 cm), weighing 4 grams. Byzantine Empire, ca. 1000 CE. An incredibly detailed and lifelike hand with fine details of joints and fingernails.…
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01 PAINTINGS OF THE CANALS OF VENICE BY THE ARTISTS OF THEIR TIME, WITH FOOT NOTES. #22
Peter Kuhfeld (British, born 1952) Venetian canal scene Oil on board 24.5 x 62cm (9 5/8 x 24 7/16in). Private collection Peter Kuhfeld (born 4 March 1952) is an English figurative painter. He was born in Cheltenham and is married to the English figurative painter Cathryn Kuhfeld, née Showan. They have two daughters who have often…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #77
Andres Vivo, Uruguay Ketch and Yawls Oil on Paper 8.5 H x 11.8 W x 0 in Private collection A yawl is a two-masted sailing craft whose mainmast is taller than the mizzen mast (or aft-mast). Compared to a similar sized ketch, a yawl’s mizzen mast is set further aft and its mizzen sail is smaller.…
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The beautiful and damned women of history
Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856 MARY STUART SWEARING REVENGE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 21 1/4 in Private Collection While Chassériau’s precise inspiration for Mary Stuart Swearing Revenge is unknown, it is possible that the work was based on Friedrich Schiller’s play of 1800 or Donizetti’s opera, Maria Stuarda, written in 1845. It has been suggested…
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01 Paintings, Hellenic Mytheology, with footnotes 2B
Wilhelm Trübner, 1851 – 1917 The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, 1877 Oil on cardboard Height: 94 cm (37.01 in.), Width: 79 cm (31.1 in.) The theme of the painting is taken from Ovid. The Lapiths, a peace-loving people of Thessaly, were celebrating the wedding of their king Pirithous to Hippodamia. The Centaurs were…
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13 Ancient Egyptian Artefacts – With footnotes – 5 – With footnotes
Romano-Egyptian, ca. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. Heavy gold foil formed into the likeness of a Nile crocodile. Incredibly detailed with open mouth exposing rows of deadly teeth, almond-shaped eyes and rows and rows of scaley scutes with pronounced central dorsal ridge. Size: 6.875″ L (17.5 cm), 37.1 grams of 97% pure gold.…
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16 Etching by REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN,
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN 1606 – 1669 SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CLOAK WITH A FALLING COLLAR: BUST (BARTSCH, HOLLSTEIN 15; NEW HOLLSTEIN 98W; HIND 63) Etching with engraving and drypoint, circa 1631, a good impression of this scarce print, the rare second state (of five), a previously unrecorded state between New Hollstein’s fourth and fifth state (of ten),…
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10 Works, The Gunpowder Plot: the conspirators’ last stand at Holbeach House, Guy Fawkes
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. Ernest Crofts, R.A. (1847-1911) On the track of a fugitive, c. 1910 oil on canvas 48 x 36 in. (121.9 x…
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01 PAINTINGS OF THE CANALS OF VENICE BY THE ARTISTS OF THEIR TIME, WITH FOOT NOTES. #21
Bernard Dunstan R.A. (British, 1920-2017) ‘The Mirror, Venice’, c. 1986 Oil on canvas 69 x 73cm (27 3/16 x 28 3/4in). Private collection Bernard Dunstan RA (19 January 1920 – 20 August 2017) was a British artist, teacher, and author, best known for his studies of figures in interiors and landscapes. At the time of his…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #95
A 8-1/2 inch “Mariner” clock for the yacht Sumar Chelsea Clock Co., Boston, MA., for Tiffany and Co., circa 1926 25 x 20 x 8-1/2 in. (63.5 x 50.8 x 21.5 cm.), height x width x depth Signed below the “12” on the dial “Tiffany & Co.”, a Chelsea “Mariner” ship strike, with silvered face,…
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Saturday, March 17, 2018 17 Works of Chinese Antique Ivory
Pair of Chinese Antique Ivory Figures of a Royal Couple, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the emperor and empress each on an octagonal raised base, and wearing a large crown inlaid with lapis, turquoise and coral, the underside of each base bearing a four-character mark in a square cartouche, with carved wooden stands, ivory, h. 28″, overall,…
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A Pictorial History of Jerusalem
A city called Rušalim in the Execration texts of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt (19th century BCE) is identified as Jerusalem. Jerusalem was then called Urušalim in the Amarna letters of Abdi-Heba (1330s BCE). The name “Jerusalem” is variously etymologized to mean “foundation of the god Shalem“, the original tutelary deity of the city. The ambitious Ophel excavation in Jerusalem has produced many finds, but precious little before the tenth century BC Ceramic evidence…
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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 20 – With Footnotes
Caspar Netscher, 1639 – 1684 The Hague THE SEDUCTION, c. 1664 Oil on panel 15 by 12 1/2 in.; 38.1 by 31.8 cm Private Collection Scenes of love and gallantry dominate Caspar Netscher’s genre paintings of the mid-1660s. While most are politely circumspect or mildly flirtatious, The Seduction offers a more pointed representation of venal love.…
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07 Photographs, Streets of Cairo & Ghizeh from the 17th &18 Century, Egypt, with footnotes
Francis Bedford, (1815-94) (photographer) The Sphinx, the Great Pyramid and two lesser Pyramids, Ghizeh, Egypt, 4 March 1862 Albumen print 23.1 x 29.5 cm Acquired by King Edward VII when Prince of Wales, 1862 Royal Collection Trust, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2014 The Great Pyramid of Giza is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the…
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01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #73
Franz Hünten Hamburg, 1822 – Hamburg 1887 The W. Schernikau off Heligoland, c. 1860 Oil/canvas 50,5 x 71,5 cm Private collection Heligoland is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. The islands were at one time Danish and later British possessions. The islands are located in the Heligoland Bight are in the southeastern corner of…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible!, With Footnotes – 95
Giovanni Biliverti, (1585–1644) The Archangel Raphael Refusing Tobias’s Gift, c. 1612 Oil on canvas Height: 175 cm (68.9 in). Width: 146 cm (57.5 in). Pitti Palace The subject comes from the Book of Tobit , one of the Apocryphal books in the Old Testament, and shows the final scene in the story of how Tobit, a…
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