Tag: Art
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01 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Attributed to Charles Chaplin’s Daydreaming, with footnotes #199
Sold for £3,187.50 in May 2020 Charles Joshua Chaplin (8 June 1825 – 30 January 1891) was a French painter and printmaker who painted both landscapes and portraits. He was an accomplished artist mastering different techniques such as pastels, lithography, watercolor, chalk, oil painting and etching. He was best known for his elegant portraits of young women.Charles…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Rogier van der Weyden’s Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, with Footnotes #197
According to tradition, Saint Luke created the first portraits of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus from life, making him the patron saint of painters. Here, in one of the most important Renaissance paintings in North America, Rogier van der Weyden introduces an unprecedented sense of naturalism, grounding a sacred episode in everyday experience. More…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Antoni Casanova Estorach’s The Center of Attention, with Footnotes #84
Sold for 11,340 USD in January 2023Antonio Casanova y Estorach was a Spanish painter known for his romanticized depictions of everyday scenes or Costumbrismo. He studied under masters such as Federico de Madrazo and Claudio Lorenzale, and he showed great promise at a young age, exhibiting his work at major exhibitions in Madrid and Barcelona beginning at…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Follower of Hieronymus Bosch ‘s The Garden of Earthly Delights – Hell, with Footnotes #196
Sold for GBP 112,500 in Jul 2022 Hieronymus Bosch’s extraordinary pictorial vocabulary had a widely-felt impact on the visual arts that endured for decades after his death in 1516. His vividly imagined, tormented hellscapes were extensively reproduced and reworked by painters working in the Netherlands throughout the sixteenth century, and the ubiquity of his imagery was…
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01 Work, Middle East Artists, Lalla Essaydi’s Les Femmes du Maroc/ The Women of Morocco Revisited #1, with Footnotes #67
Sold for 10,080 GBP in October 2022 “Arab women today are facing difficulties and Orientalist attitudes from Arab and Western societies alike…they remain defined by their sexuality, threatening to men but appealing to Western fantasies. My photographs seek to portray Arab women as powerful presences in their own right.” (THE ARTIST – QUOTED IN THE STRAITS TIMES –…
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03 Works, Malcolm Liepke’s Artist’s Studio, with Footnotes #85
Liepke favors portraits of ordinary women in glamorous contexts, producing voyeuristic nudes that are sexualized through a realistic lens rather than a pornographic one… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretations of Roman tradition, The Master of the Holy Blood’s Death of Lucretia, with footnotes #40
Sold for 5,000 GBP in April 2016 Lucretia, legendary heroine of ancient Rome. According to tradition, she was the beautiful and virtuous wife of the nobleman Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus. Her tragedy began when she was raped by Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the tyrannical Etruscan king of Rome. After exacting an oath of vengeance against…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Maxwell Ashby Armfield’s Salome with the head of St John the Baptist, with Footnotes #196
Estimate for GBP 15,000 – GBP 25,000 in Jul 2022 Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, William Mortensen’s Venus and Vulcan, with footnotes #30
A uniquely funny and strange take on a standard from classical antiquity. Vucan is the god of fire and the forge. Here he is old and bent over, nearly crushed by the weight of his enormous box camera. He holds the hand of his cupid progeny. Cupid has a Leica strapped to his shoulder rather…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Luis Morales’ Our Lady of Sorrows, with Footnotes #195
Sold for €5,000 in Jul 2022 Our Lady of Sorrows, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows, and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life. As Mater Dolorosa,…
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11 Paintings, Olympian Myths as recounted by the Old Masters, with footnotes #8
The stories of the ancient Greeks about their gods, heroes, and explanations of the nature and history of the universe are known as Greek mythology. These stories, or myths, have survived for more than 2,000 years. Greek mythology has had an extensive influence on the arts and literature of Western civilization, which inherited much of…
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27 Paintings of Parisian Street Scenes by the Artists of the time, 19 Century, with footnotes #2
A view of the famous Paris attractions and the city’s most picturesque streets. Today I’ll share some of the most famous streets, avenues, and boulevards in the French capital to help you learn about the streets that made Paris what it is! The French capital is one of the most striking examples of rational urban…
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05 works, Today, August 10th, is Blessed Laurence’s day, his story illustrated #222
Blessed Laurence lived at the beginning of the sixteenth century at the distance of 533 meters from old Kaluga, near a forest church in honor of the Nativity of Christ, set upon a high hill. During the period of Tartar raids Kaluga was the western end of the Oka bank defense line… Please follow link…
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68 Works and tales of Mermaids in Europe, Asia and Africa, with Footnotes #6
Artists: Charles Edouard Boutibonne, Edward Okun, Laura JamesDoris Prouty, Harald Oskar Sohlberg, Ralph Cahoon, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Arthur Wardle, Giovanni Segantini, Isobel Lilian Gloag, Edward Poynter, Edward Matthew Hale, Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Aino, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Anton Teofil Kwiatkowski, Carl Bertling , Robert Anning Bell, William Arthur Breakspeare, Gerard de Lairesse, Howard Pyle, Julyan Davis, Albert Hanson,…
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07 works, Today, August 9th, is Saint Matthias’s day, his story illustrated #221
Matthias was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chosen by the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter’s betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death. His calling as an apostle is unique, in that his appointment was not made personally by Jesus… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Michel Comte’s Untitled, 1991, with footnotes #198
Sold for USD 200,000 in March 2020 Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Bernardino di Mariotto dello Stagno’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #194
Sold for 214,200 GBP in July 2022 Here, a curtain opens to reveal the Virgin and Child; the edges are left open to give a sense of expanse into a distant landscape beyond. The path to the left of the composition leads past the penitent Saint Jerome towards a rare depiction of an early Christian tomb,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Master of Alcira’s Saint Michael the Archangel, with Footnotes #193
Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel, once as a “great prince who stands up for the children of your people”. The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that, in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people,…
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07 Paintings by Csok, Istvan (1865-1961) of his “Studio Interior”, with footnotes
The success of the picture at the time is clearly shown by the fact that Csók made several copies of the composition in many versions, some of its details can be seen again in his later pictures. A 1910 version is attached… Please follow link for full post
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