Tag: Art
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01 Marine Painting, Abel Bertram’s Return of the fishermen, with footnotes, #358
Abel Bertram, born in Saint-Omer ( Pas-de-Calais ) on September 9 , 1871, and died in Paris on August 3 , 1954, is a French painter . Bertram learned the basics of his art in his hometown before settling in Lille where he became a student for three years at the school of fine arts. …
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Francesco Furini’s Hylas and the nymphs, with footnotes # 39
Hylas was the son of King Theiodamas of the Dryopians. After Hercules killed Hylas’s father, Hylas became a companion of Hercules. They both became Argonauts, accompanying Jason in his quest on his ship Argo in seeking the Golden Fleece. During the journey, Hylas was sent to find fresh water. He found a pond occupied by Naiads,…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Edwin Lord Weeks’ Three Moorish princesses, with footnotes, #119
One of the best known legends of the Alhambra was that of the three captive princesses, in which a tyrannical Moorish king fathered beautiful triplet daughters, Zayda, Zorayda, and Zorahayda, by his young Spanish wife, whose Christianity he had forced her to renounce. To protect them from suitors when they became of “a marriagable age,” as…
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20 Works, Today, February 25th. is artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #056
This sunlit scene on the river Seine is typical of the imagery that has come to characterise Impressionism, and Renoir includes several familiar Impressionist motifs such as fashionably dressed women, a rowing boat, a sail boat, and a steam train crossing a bridge. The exact location has not been identified, but we are probably looking…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Fiona Maclean’s Madonna, With Footnotes – #47
A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna, meaning ‘my lady’. The term Madonna in the sense of “picture or statue of the Virgin Mary” enters English usage in the 17th…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Georg Macco’s Bab Zuwayla, Cairo, with footnotes, #118
In the present painting the stand of the orange seller is placed just outside the Bab Zuwayla, the Southern Gate of Cairo’s Fatimid enclosure. Looking in through the archway, on the right one can see the Sabil-Kuttab of Nafisa Bayda (1796). On the left, there is an indistinct rendering of the facade of the Mosque-Mausoleum…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Anwen Keeling’s Swathe and The Radiance, with footnotes # 161
Anwen Keeling (born in 1976) is an Australian portrait painter. Working primarily with oil paints, her artworks have often focused on introspective women in private settings. She has „always been influenced by Caravaggio.“ Her artworks prominently contain areas of deep shadows. Keeling was born in Sydney and received a Bachelor of Arts (Visual) with Honours (First…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Norbert Goeneutte’s At the theatre, with footnotes, Part #82
Norbert Goeneutte (23 July 1854, Paris – 9 October 1894, Auvers-sur-Oise) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator; notably for the novel La Terre by Émile Zola. He entered the École des Beaux-arts and began studies with Isidore Pils and Henri Lehmann. He frequented the Père Lathuille, a famous cabaret, where he met Manet and was…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Philip Hermogenes Calderon’s St Elizabeth of Hungary’s Great Act of Renunciation – with footnotes #200
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) was the wife of Lewis, Landgrave of Thuringia. After his death in 1227 during one of the Crusades, she entered a convent and devoted herself to good works. Before becoming a nun, she passed through a spiritual crisis, torn by the need to renounce the world, and therefore her children, in order…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Philip Hermogenes Calderon’s Roman beauty, with Footnotes. #168
Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London. Calderon planned to study engineering, but he became so interested…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Unknown Artist’s A LONG-HAIRED NUDE, with footnotes # 159
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01 photograph, The amorous game, Sergii Mykhalkiv’s Boudery Fun # 11, With Footnotes, #82
Sergiy Mykhalkiv was born in 1975 in Lviv. He was teaching the art of photography in several photo schools. In 2017 he opened his own photo studio “RedLight”. Mykhalkiv was a two-time winner of the annual contest of the “Playboy” magazine, and winner of National Union of Photo Artists of Ukraine Contest “Photo Portrait” in…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Gustav Bauernfeind’ Recruiting of Turkish Soldiers in Palestine, with footnotes, #117
These actual events inspired Baurnfeind’s painting the present picture, a panoramic scene that extends from the closely observed crumbling seawall at left to the ocean vista on the right, anchored in the middle by a trading ship whose sail is emblazoned with the Islamic crescent. On the seawall, Ottoman officers in modern uniform meet with…
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04 Photographs, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Edwin Bower Hesser’s JEAN HARLOW ALMOST NUDE, with Footnotes. #165
Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 — June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of “bad girl” characters, she was the leading sex symbol of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the pre-Code era of American cinema. Often nicknamed the “Blonde Bombshell” and the “Platinum Blonde”,…
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19 Works, TFebruary 20th. is artist Mihály Munkácsy’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #051
Mihály Munkácsy (20 February 1844–1 May 1900) was a Hungarian painter. He earned international reputation with his genre pictures and large-scale biblical paintings. Munkácsy was a bureaucrat of Bavarian origin. After being apprenticed to itinerant painter Elek Szamossy, Munkácsy went to Pest (Budapest), where he sought the patronage of established artists. With the help of…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Jacob Cornelisz’s The Adoration of the Magi, With Footnotes – #136
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold,…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Cui Xiaodong’s Nude girl, with footnotes # 158
Cui Xiaodong was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province though his ancestral home was Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Cui Xiaodong graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting, CAFA in 1988 with a Master’s degree. Currently he is a professor of CAFA, Director of Yanhuang Art Museum. With a profound traditional foundation in painting, Cui Xiaodong’s landscape painting…
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