Tag: Art
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Julius ANDRES’s NUDE WITH MESH NETTING, with footnotes # 103
Julius ANDRES (1905-1991) was born in 1905 and was primarily inspired by the 1920s growing up. The notable innovations established in the early years of the 20th century were developed further in the 1920s and 1930s. This period began the careers of many innovative and inspiring practitioners in the pictorial arts. However it was a time…
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01 Marine Art, Joel Patience’s The Eyru’n Makes For Open Water , With Footnotes, #313
A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast. A common variant, the topsail schooner also has a square topsail on the foremast, to which may be…
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11 Works, Today, March 22nd. is artist André Utter’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes 80
André Utter (20 March 1886–7 February 1948) was a French painter. He was in the 18th arrondissement of Paris to parents of Alsatian origin. He is best known for having been the second husband and manager of French painter Suzanne Valadon and the father-in-law of her son, Maurice Utrillo. The trio have also been called…
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01 Marine Art, Thomas Birch’s BRITANNIA to the Rescue. With Footnotes, #312
The wreck off Sable Island. The first side wheel steamship Britannia of the Cunard Line to the rescue Thomas Birch (1779 – January 3, 1851), was an English-born American portrait and marine painter. He was born in London, England. He came to the U. S. in 1794, and assisted his artist father, William Birch, in…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Epaminondas Thomopoulos’ Venice, with footnotes. #86
Epameinondas Thomopoulos (1878 – January 4, 1976) went as a boarder to school at the Institute of Kapodistrias in Corfu from 1892 to 1895. In 1896 he went to Naples where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts until 1899. He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome from 1899 to…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, José Gallegos y Arnosa’s Personajes Arabes, with footnotes, #89
José Gallegos Arnosa was born in Jerez de la Frontera on 3 May 1857. He was from a modest family and first studied at the school run by the Santo Domingo Academy of Fine Arts The patronage of Guillermo Garvey, the winery owner for whom his father worked, enabled him to go and live in…
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01 Painting, Olympian and Roman deities, Francesco Trevisani’s LUCRETIA, with footnotes #192
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 the Tarquins from her father…
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01 Marine Art, Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée’s Waiting for the boats, with Footnotes, #311
Philip Lodewijk Jacob Frederik Sadée (7 February 1837 The Hague – 14 December 1904 The Hague) was an artist who belonged to the Hague School. Sadée started painting at the age of 20. He studied in The Hague both at the Academy and in the studio of J E J van den Berg (1802–1861). In 1866 with his…
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16 Works, Today, March 19th. is artist Charles Marion Russell’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #077
Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 — October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and “Kid” Russell, was an American artist of the American Old West. He created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Native Americans, and landscapes set in the western United States and in Alberta, Canada, in addition to bronze sculptures.…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Antonio Fabrés’s The Sultan’s Gift, with footnotes, 87
Antoni Maria Fabrés i Costa (Spanish: Antonio Maria Fabrés y Costa; 1854–1938), also known as Antoni Fabrés, was a famous Catalan sculptor and painter during the turn of the 20th century. It is said that he inherited his artistic skills, as his father was a draughtsman and his uncle a silversmith. He started studying at…
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13 Works, Today, March 18th. is artist Josephine Hopper’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #076
Josephine Verstille Hopper (née Nivison; March 18, 1883 — March 6, 1968) was an American painter who studied under Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and won the Huntington Hartford Foundation fellowship. She was the wife of Edward Hopper, whom she married in 1924… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Giulio Rosati’s Bedouins preparing a raiding party, with footnotes, #86
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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01 Painting, The amorous game,Gunilla Mann’s Dancing couple – With Footnotes
Gunilla Mann, born in 1947 in Gothenburg , is a Swedish painter, artist, graphic artist and sculptor. Mann grew up in Majorna and Masthugget in Gothenburg. She studied at Handicraft Society School from 1962 to 1967 and at Hovedskou painting school from 1968 to 1972. Mann now divides her time between Österlen and Södermalm in Stockholm…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Virginia Castillo’s Island women; with Footnotes. #106
Virginia Castillo was born in La Ceiba, but brought up in Roatan. Her paintings are inspired by the surroundings she grew up in, the colorful Caribbean setting as well as a strict church dominated society. A self taught artist, Virgie began painting as a young girl, but it wasn’t till the early 80s when she seriously…
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14 works by Louis Icart, with footnotes
Louis Icart Laurent Justin , born in 1888 in Toulouse and died in 1950 in Paris , is a painter, engraver and illustrator. Impressed by its designer, his aunt made the move to Paris: she showed his work to the House Valmont, milliner to the Belle Époque . Louis Icart was then introduced in the illustration media for…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of ancient Egyptians deities With Footnotes – 97
Neferneferuaten Nefertiti (c. 1370 – c. 1330 BC) was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc. With her husband, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period…
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10 Works, Today, March 13th. is artist Pierre-Narcisse Guérin’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #071
Cato the Younger (95–46 BCE) was a pivotal figure in Rome during the first century BCE. A defender of the Roman Republic, he forcefully opposed Julius Caesar and was known as the highly moral, incorruptible, inflexible supporter of the Optimates. When it became clear at the Battle at Thapsus that Julius Caesar would be the…
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