Tag: Art
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Rudolf Ritter von Alt’s Canal in Venice, with footnotes. #90
Rudolf Ritter von Alt (28 August 1812 – 12 March 1905) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and held the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889. Born in Vienna, he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. Hiking-trips…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Miles Aldridge’s Home Works, with Footnotes. #119
Miles Aldridge (born 1964, London) is a fashion photographer and artist.Born in North London to graphic designer Alan Aldridge, Miles grew up accustomed to celebrity. He studied illustration at the Central St Martins to follow his father’s steps and afterwards briefly directed pop videos. He moved into photography by chance when he sent some photos of…
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20 Works, Today, May 22nd. is Mary Stevenson Cassatt’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #140
The carefully defined representation of the figures’ faces in Madame and Her Maid contrasts with the expressive application of pigment Cassatt uses in the background of the composition. This latter technique imbues the work with an air of immediacy and spontaneity that suggests it was conceived from direct observation. More on this painting Mary Stevenson…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Francesco Musso’s Muse, with footnotes # 117
Francesco Musso was born March 19, 1942 in Caltagirone, Sicily; a graduate and Professor of Fine Arts from the University of Palermo, renowned Italian painter and sculptor, has received over his long and brilliant career, the admiration of figures such as the first Italian Minister Giulio Andreotti for his works in terra cotta for the…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Henri Decaisne’s Fallen woman, Part 66 – With Footnotes
“Fallen woman” is an archaic term which was used to describe a woman who has “lost her innocence”, and fallen from the grace of God. In 19th-century Britain especially, the meaning came to be closely associated with the loss or surrender of a woman’s chastity and with female promiscuity. Its use was an expression of the…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, Alexandra Manukyan’s Forest Awakening, with footnotes # 38
A Nymph of the Woods in Greek mythology and in Latin mythology is a minor female nature deity typically associated with a particular location or landform. Different from other goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing; their…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Greg Gorman’s Jodie Foster, with Footnotes. #118
Jodie Foster, original name Alicia Christian Foster, (born November 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California, U.S.), popularly known as Jodie Foster, is an American actress, director and producer. She has won many BAFTAs, Academy Awards and Golden Globes in a career that spanned from her childhood to maturity. She started her Hollywood career at the tender…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, OMAR EL-NAGDI’s Le Grand Marché, with Footnotes, #56
Painter, musician and director Omar El Nagdi was born in Cairo in 1931 and studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts, after which he continued his art education in Russia and Italy, graduating from the Academy of Venice in 1965. In the 1960s, he initiated a series of works for which he is still renowned today –…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Adriaen van der Werff’s The repudiation of Hagar, With Footnotes – #177
Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to Isaac, and the tension between the women…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Georg Tappert’s Café, Part 77
Painted in 1917, Café is a fine example of Tappert’s fascination with the subject of café society, which he explored throughout his career, and particularly in the years during the First World War. In taking up themes of the cabaret and the world of entertainment, Tappert reflects the influence of works by Pechstein and Van…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Francesco Francia’s VIRGIN AND CHILD WITH SAN PETRONIO AND SAINT FRANCIS, With Footnotes – #184
Saint Petronius (died ca. 450 AD) was bishop of Bologna during the fifth century. He is a patron saint of the city. Born of a noble Roman family, he became a convert to Christianity and subsequently a priest. As bishop of Bologna, he built the Church of Santo Stefano. More on Saint Petronius The Virgin…
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05 Paintings of Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religions; Andromeda Chained to the Rock by the Nereids, with footnotes
In Greek mythology, Andromeda was the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, king and queen of the North African kingdom of Aethiopia (the Upper Nile region)… Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (6 January 1832–23 January 1883) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and sculptor. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving.Doré was born in Strasbourg on 6…
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01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, NORMAN LINDSAY’s Leda and the Swan, with footnotes # 37
Leda, in Greek legend, usually believed to be the daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, and wife of Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. She was also believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the other twin, Pollux, and of Helen, both of whom…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ahmed Shibrain’s Letters from Khartoum, with Footnotes, #54
Ahmed Shibrain is an integral and leading figure of Modernism in Sudan. Shibrain was born in 1931 in Berber, Sudan. In the early 1950s, Shibrain studied at the Khartoum Technical Institute, and in 1957 he went onto studying at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Alongside his influential contemporaries Shibrain was one of…
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14 Works, The Art of Rembrandt, Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606 – 1669)
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606–4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger’s Spanish Farmers. Part 64 – With Footnotes
Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger (6 August 1814, Frankfurt am Main – 21 February 1893, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French portrait and genre painter of German birth. He was especially known for his lively and sensitive depictions of young women. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and was originally active in that…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Latin American Painting of Mary with Jesus, with Footnotes – #183
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…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Ivan Pili’s Peoples of the world: Berber with Footnotes. #117
Berber people are indigenous to North Africa occupying regions stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. They speak the Berber language belonging to the Afroasiatic family. There are about 25-30 million Berber speakers in North Africa today with the majority found in Libya, Algeria, and Morocco. The majority of the population in North Africa…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Noël-Nicolas Coypel’s HOLY FAMILY AND HOLY YEAR, With Footnotes – #182
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity. Matthew and Luke narrate the episodes from this period of Christ’s life, namely his…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Giulio Rosati’s Conversation, with footnotes, #91
Giulio Rosati, 1858 – Rome – 1917, specialised in eighteenth century costume pieces, comical scenes of from the life of the clergy and Orientalist subjects. His preferred medium was watercolour, though he also worked in oils. Rosati studied at the Academy of Rome. He was the pupil of several eminent artists, in particular the poet and architect…
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