Tag: Art
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18 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Execution of Charlotte Corday, with Footnotes. #187
Charlotte Corday, born Marie-Anne-Charlotte Corday d’Armont was born in Normandy on July 27, 1768 and was executed on July 17, 1793 in Paris. She is largely remembered as the assassin of French Revolutionary leader, Jean-Paul Marat while he rested in his bath at home. She was born into a poor but noble family in the…
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Guido Cagnacci’s Martha blames Mary for her Vanity, With Footnotes # 48H
This is no ordinary representation of Mary Magdalene, who became a follower of Christ and later, a saint. Traditionally shown holding a skull and contemplating her morality, here she lies almost naked on the ground, begged by her virtuous sister Martha to abandon her sinful life of vice and luxury. Virtue, a blond-haired angel, chases…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Felix Bonfils’ TURKISH LADY, with Footnotes. #104
Félix Adrien Bonfils (8 March 1831 – 1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. He was one of the first commercial photographers to produce images of the Middle East on a large scale and amongst the first to employ a new method of colour photography, developed in 1880. He…
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30 Works, February 24th. is artist Winslow Homer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #055
On the Maine coast, a “nor’easter” is a storm of exceptional violence and duration. When Homer first showed this canvas in 1895, it included two men in foul-weather gear crouching on the rocks below a smaller column of spray. Even though the painting was well received and purchased by a leading collector of American art — George…
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05 Marine Paintings – Edward William Cooke, Joseph Edward Southall, Henry Bernahl, J. M. W. Turner and Edward William Cooke. With Footnotes, #51
Hastings and the sea. In the 13th century Hastings had suffered over the years from the lack of a natural harbour. Attempts were made to build a stone harbour during the reign of Elizabeth I, but the foundations were destroyed by the sea in terrible storms. The fishing boats were stored on and launched from…
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01 Painting, of The amorous game, Filippo Indoni’s The distracted shepherd – With Footnotes #3A
Filippo Indoni, Italian (1800 – 1884). In a reaction against the frivolous and unrealistic images of early 19th century Romanticism, artists turned to less glamorous aspects of life and society in search of a direct experience. By 1850, they had formed a relatively cohesive movement that battled for popularity with Romanticism, a far more widespread…
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18 Works, Today, February 22nd. is artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #053
Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806–18 June 1865) was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Marine Art, Anton Otto Fischer’s Merchant Vessel, With Footnotes, #309
Anton Otto Fischer (February 23, 1882 – March 26, 1962) was born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years on a variety of sailing ships. In New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship.” He later served as a…
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05 Works, February 21st is Saint Zachariah’s Day, With Footnotes – 51
Saint Zachariah, was the Patriarch of Jerusalem of the Church of Jerusalem from 609 to 632. Patr. Zacharias spent most of his patriarchate as a prisoner of the Persian King Chozroes. He is commemorated by the Church on February 21. The early life of Patr. Zacharias is unknown. He was elected patriarch in 609. During…
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15 Works, February 21st. is artist Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #052
In this small painting commissioned by the subject’s nephew, Prince Napoleon, the emperor is portrayed in a forbidding landscape just after his last, hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes: 23,000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90,000 Austrians, but were unable to capitalize on their victory. More…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francesca Stern Woodma’s POLKA DOTS, with Footnotes. #103
Woodman’s polka-dot dress is a regular staple of her RISD (Rhode Island School of Design) period. She is wearing it in several self-portraits taken against the same wall, crouching as if to fit herself within the square frame or turning her back to the camera in a blurry jump. The dress appears in images made while studying…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Dia Azzawi’s Portrait of the Non Existent Bird, with Footnotes, #43
Born in Baghdad in 1939, Dia Azzawi started his artistic career in 1964, after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and completing a degree in archaeology from Baghdad University in 1962. In 1969, Azzawi (with Rafa Nasiri, Mohammad Muhriddin, Ismail Fattah, Hachem al-Samarchi and Saleh al Jumaie) formed the New Vision group…
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03 works , PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Lewis Morley’s Christine Keeler, with Footnotes. #102
At the height of the Profumo affair in 1963, Keeler sat for a photographic portrait (Above) taken by Lewis Morley. The photo shoot, at a studio on the first floor of Peter Cook’s Establishment Club, with Morley was to promote a proposed film, The Keeler Affair, that was never released in the United Kingdom. Keeler…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #84
Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (March 28, 1854 – September 7, 1930) was an English-American watercolor and oil painter, born in Coventry, England. She studied art in England and Italy, and her work was viewed and praised at the time by the queens of both countries. A body of work was created in South Africa by Nicholls…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! By Mertim Gokalp. With Footnotes – #44
The Sacrifice of the Model is a contemporary re-take of Caravaggio’s Entombment of the Christ, has been selected into the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2015 and has been exhibited in the Juniper Hall in Paddington The model used in The Sacrifice of the Model, being held/worshiped by a bunch of renowned, Archibald Award finalist…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, by Andreas Gleich, with footnotes # 102
Close-up/nude shot of a woman wearing only a hat on her head. This hat is best suited for breaking light and creating shadows.Andreas Gleich; “At the age of 12, my parents gave me a simple Agfa camera with built-in lens for Christmas. I have been photographing since that time. In the 1980s I worked as…
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02 Works, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Kaye Miller-Dewing’s Defence of Jerusalem. With Footnotes – #43
“My fascination with history, especially The Crusades, inspires my art: this is my way of travelling back in time. I try to imbue my work with an intensity and passion, hoping to touch the viewer at a deep level. I love to create art with a narrative, and an intrigue, and am thrilled when viewers…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s Adoration of the Magi. With Footnotes – 146
Numerous repetitions of the present work exist with the primary version being the central panel of a triptych listed by Georges Marlier as by the ‘Master of the Musée de L’Assistance Publique’, named after the institution in Brussels where it is housed The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title:…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem’s Monk and Nun, Part 66 – With Footnotes
According to legend a nun was accused of having become pregnant. To verify this a monk had to squeeze her breast and if it produced milk she was guilty. But instead of milk she produced wine — the reason for the wine glass on the table. Instead of proving the nun’s guilt the miracle was…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part #81
The Boulevard Marguerite-de-Rochechouart is a street in Paris, France, situated at the foot of Montmartre and to its south. Like the neighbouring street, it is named after Marguerite de Rochechouart de Montpipeau (1665–1727), abbess of Montmartre. It is a result of the 1864 merging of the boulevards and chemins de ronde which followed the interior and…
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