Tag: Art
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, With Footnotes – #134
This elegant Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Catherine of Siena exemplifies the type of painting that Sodoma produced for private devotion. Half-length sacre conversazioni were popular in Siena from the mid-15th century and in the present panel Sodoma continued that tradition in an updated form. The central figures of the Madonna and Child…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Glenys Gibson Napaltjarri’s Women’s Ceremony, with Footnotes. #150
Glenys Gibson Napaltjarri was born in 1968 in the community of Papunya, roughly 240 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia. Glenys is daughter to the highly acclaimed Australian artist Ningura Napurrula. Glenys developed her artistic style through watching and learning her ancestral stories, from her mothers, aunties, and grandmothers, which has inspired…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Judy Cassab’s The Pink Dressing Gown, with Footnotes. #148
Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), was a portraitist of immense insight and imagination. As well as painting social luminaries, royals, fellow artists, family and friends, she was also a prolific draughtswoman and an acclaimed landscape artist.Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920, Cassab started painting at the age of 12.…
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Venetian School, Madonna and Child with Saints Leonard and Ursula 01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 173
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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20 Works, December 12th. is Karl Bryullov’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #248
Having become close in Italy with the Tittoni family, Bryullov created portraits of almost his entire family, and in 1852 he painted a portrait of Juliet Tittoni. Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (12 December 1799–11 June 1852), original name Charles Bruleau, also transliterated Briullov and Briuloff, was a Russian painter. He is regarded as a key figure…
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01 works PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Richard B. Godfrey’s The Hindu goddess Kali, with Footnotes. #145
Kali, also known as Kālikā or Shyāmā, is a Hindu goddess. Kali is one of the ten Mahavidyas, a list which combines Sakta and Buddhist goddesses. Kali’s earliest appearance is that of a destroyer of evil forces. She is the most powerful form of Shakti, and the goddess of one of the four subcategories of the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Eric Fischl’s Self-Reflection, with Footnotes. #148
Eric Fischl is an American Neo-Expressionist painter and sculptor best known for his figurative paintings and ambiguous, sexually charged imagery. Among his most famous works is Bad Boy (1981), depicting a youth gazing at an older, naked woman splayed on a bed, basking in striping window light. “A precision of composition and figuration is what I’m…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Hellenic legend, Robert Brackman’s Muse, with footnotes #27
Muse, in Greco-Roman religion and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses of obscure but ancient origin, in Boeotia, Greece. They were born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus. Very little is known of their cult, but they had a festival every four years at Thespiae. They probably were originally the patron…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Jan Harmensz. Muller’s Lot and His Daughters, With Footnotes – #133
Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30–38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children — as…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Simon de Vos’ The Visitation, with Footnotes – #119
The Visitation. Mary visits her relative Elizabeth; they are both pregnant. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came. Mary stayed three months, and most scholars hold she stayed for the birth of John. The apparition of the angel, mentioned in Matthew,…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Hussein Bikar’s THE LANDLORD with Footnotes, #57
Hussein Amin Bicar (2 January 1913 in Alexandria – 16 November 2003) was one of Egypt’s most prominent artists of the 20th century, after graduating from the Cairo higher school of fine arts in 1934, he spent more than 60 years of his life teaching art at schools and universities and then through the press, he…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Narcisse Berchère’s Horseman at the camp, with footnotes, #110
Narcisse Berchère (11 September 1819, Étampes – 20 September 1891, Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French painter and engraver; best known for his Orientalist works.His initial studies were at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Charles-Caïus Renoux [fr]. Later, he worked in the studios of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond. He spent much of his working life in Paris; making…
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01 Marine Painting – Newell Conver’s Wyeth’s Morgan’s men are out for you, with Footnotes, #342
Sir Henry Morgan, (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica), Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies. More on Sir Henry Morgan Blackbeard, (born c. 1680, Bristol?, England—died…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, FRANCESCA WOODMAN, with Footnotes. #147
This photograph was taken in 1976 in Providence, Rhode Island during which time Woodman was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This image belongs to a series of five photographs titled the Polka Dot series, which were all shot in the same interior space with Woodman wearing the same polka dot…