Tag: Art
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01 Work, The art of War, Pieter Paul Rubens’ The Battle of the Amazons, with Footnotes
For sale for 36 000 € in Jan 2024 The tangle of naked bodies, some mutilated, gives the idea of the extreme violence used in battle and the terrified expressions of the horses are of rare intensity. Their anguished gazes are the most exciting moment of the spectacular composition. The author of this great work…
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01 Work, The art of War, Afshin Pirhashemi’s Untitled, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 100,000 in May 2013 Instantly recognisable for their photo-realistic execution and monochromatic palette, Afshin Pirhashemi’s paintings examine the role of women in Iranian society and their relationship to the world around them. Tapping into the psychosocial dimensions of contemporary Iran, the artist explores manifestations of power as they appear or are negotiated through…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Léon Cogniet’s Scène du Massacre des Innocents/ Massacre of the Innocents, with footnotes
The Massacre of the Innocents is the biblical narrative of infanticide by Herod the Great, the Roman-appointed King of the Jews. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Herod ordered the execution of all young male children in the vicinity of Bethlehem, so as to avoid the loss of his throne to a newborn King of the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Manuel Panselinos’ St. Mercury and St. Artemy, soldier saints, with Footnotes #214
Also called soldier saints, these are a group of saints who were generally soldiers in life, martyrs to Christ in death, and then latterly revealed as our heavenly protectors… Holy Great Martyr Artemius of Antioch was a prominent military leader during the reigns of the emperor Constantine the Great (May 21), and his son and successor…
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05 works, the art of war, pharaoh Thutmose III in Ghaza, with footnotes
Armies of chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers under the pharaoh Thutmose III thundered through Gaza and defeated a coalition of Canaanite chiefdoms at Megiddo… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, The Art of War, Iythar Ghurab’s Fighter, with footnotes
For sale at C$1,320 in Jan 2024 “This painting is inspired by the unbelievable injustice, genocide, massacres and 75 year long crimes committed against the Palestinian people, by the Israeli occupiers, bombing civilians, women and children, bombing hospitals, shelters and schools and all exit routes, flattening their homes, ruining their fields and stealing their land,…
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01 Work, The art of War, Suhair Sibai’s Damascus Queen #3, with Footnotes
Originally listed for C$9,108 Suhair Sibai was born in Syria in 1956. Through her work, Suhair explores the concepts of identity and the Self, using the female form as her preferred medium. According to Suhair, who was educated as an artist in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles, the level of multiculturalism and diversity to which…
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01 Work, The art of War, Afshin Pirhashemi’s Seduction, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 518,500 in Oct 2010 Afshin Pirhashemi’s paintings explore the complexities of life in today’s Iran through his unique combination of carefully controlled photo-realistic depictions of Iranian figures and gothic fantasy. The almost exclusive use of black and white seen in his earlier paintings, has since been tempered with restrained use of colour. His…
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01 Work, The art of War, Ayman Baalbaki’s Fedayeen, with Footnotes
Sold for USD 233,000 in May 2015 The present work from the Mulatham series is an iconic image of heroism for Ayman Baalbaki. These freedom fighters or ‘fedayeen’, as they are commonly known, occupy an important part of his artistic oeuvre. His war-stricken childhood during the Lebanese Civil War translates into the portrayal of these…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Sliman Mansour’s ON THE EDGE, with footnotes
Estimate for 30,000 – 40,000 GBP in March 2020 Sliman Mansour ( born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of intifada whose work captures to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Georges Rochegrosse’s Andromaque, with footnotes
This is a distinctly surprising work, where the atrocities of war are depicted with raw violence – severed heads, pools of blood, lifeless bodies stretched out on the ground or hanging from the wall – at the same time as candid eroticism, such as Andromache’s swelling bosom: an appealing show of female nudity placed well…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Max Ginsburg’s War Pieta, with footnotes
I thought of a mother losing her son and the Pieta paintings of the Old Masters and of Michelangelo’s sculpture, Pieta, showing the Madonna mourning the death of her son. In my painting I sought to symbolically connect, and contrast, the image of a real mother screaming in anguish over the death of her soldier…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid’s At the Gate, with Footnotes #58
Sold for £5,062.50 in June 2020 Abd El-Ghaffar Shedid was born in 1938 in Cairo where he still lives and works. He has a PhD in Ancient Egyptian Art History from Helwan University, Cairo. He is a Lecturer at the Department of Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University, founder and head of the…
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01 Work, The art of War, Neapolitan master’s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FIGHTING THE DEVILS OF THE UNDERWORLD, with Footnotes
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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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Anneke Jamieson’s The promotion, with Footnotes #236
A portrait portraying the conflict between being a mother and an Army service member has won a prestigious art prize, run by the Australian War Memorial. Retired major Anneke Jamieson won the 2022 Napier Waller Art Prize for her portrait titled The Promotion. In her artist’s statement, Mrs Jamieson said The Promotion was an expression of…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps’ Ottoman horsemen crossing the ford, with footnotes
Estimated for 250000 – 350000 EUR in Dec 2023 Among the standards and crescent and ponytail banners, a squad of horsemen crosses a river ford. The Seraskier (leader of the troop) is helped by two arnauts (Albanian unit), in the water at waist height, while the Arab and Circassian horsemen (helmet topped with a spearhead)…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Bernardo Strozzi’s Allegorical Figure, Minerva, with footnotes
During the 1630s, Strozzi painted a number of female figures representing various intellectual and artistic pursuits, reflecting the appeal of such allegories among learned patrons in northern Italy. Recent scholarship has convincingly identified the subject of this painting as Minerva. The Roman goddess of war has put aside her armor for more contemplative pursuits; her…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Maximilian Pirner’s The End of All Things, with footnotes
Maximilian Pirner’s “The End of All Things” is a haunting and thought-provoking work of art that expertly combines technical skill with emotional depth. It is a testament to the power of art to explore the human condition and to challenge our perceptions of the world around us. More on this painting Maximilian Pirner (13 February 1853…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Charles Meynier’s Allegory of war, with footnotes
Sold for €20,625 EUR in June 2022 This door top comes from Madame Mère’s Palazzo Rinuccini in Rome. Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris – 1832, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros und Jacques-Louis David. Already at a young…
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02 Works, The Art of War, Hercules and Minerva Fighting Mars by Peter Paul Rubens and Victor Wolfvoet the Younger, with footnotes
Minerva, protector of peace, assisted by Hercules, does not hesitate to throw herself against Mars, the god of war ready to massacre a woman with her child… Please follow link for full post
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