Tag: Art
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s Patience and Grief, with Footnotes. #177
The theme of this picture is that of love as a continuum. Stanhope has taken as his title lines from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act Two, Scene 4, in which Viola, disguised as a page, confesses her love for Orsino, Duke of Illyria. They discuss the nature of love, and whether men and women can love…
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10 works, Japan’s Tiny Netsuke Carvings, with footnotes
Kaigyokusai Masatsugu was born in 1813, the fitst son of Shimizu Kichibei of Sugishitadori, Osaka. In 1829, he was adopted by Yasunaga Kichirobei. After the death of his adoptive father, he succeeded to the name of Yasunaga. Yasunaga had no teachers in the study of carving techniques. His sketches were made from life. Carved wood…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #81
Moran was especially fond of using Venice as a theme, particularly because its large areas of expressive sky and reflective water were well suited to his interest in creating luminous effects. He wove references to activities along the city’s waterways into his compositions, along with buildings, pilings, boats and their reflections. It seems significant to…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 9, is Saint Julian’s Day, With Footnotes – 9
In the upper half of this oil study, Christ is depicted in glory surrounded by adoring angels. Looking up at him are four martyr saints: Saints Celsus, Marcionilla, Julian, and Basilissa. Pompeo Batoni made this sketch when he was only twenty-eight, in preparation for his first important commission in Rome. He was commissioned to create…
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03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Georgia O’Keeffe, with footnotes # 100
The romance between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe took on mythical dimensions. Stieglitz took revealing, nude portraits of O’Keeffe and put them on display at his gallery. The two became lovers, then, in 1924, man and wife. More on Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat . He exhibited his works regularly at the Paris Salon…
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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In 1914 she was arrested by HMS Majestic and confiscated as a war prize by the Admiralty. She was renamed Bellhouse In 1915 she was sold…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Bibi Zogbé, with Footnotes, #40
Bibi Zogbé was born in the Lebanese seaside village of Sahel Alma, Labibé Zogbé. She migrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen. Her professional artistic career began in the 1930’s with a number of exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, in Chile and Uruguay, in Paris and elsewhere. At the end of…
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01 Marine Art, by Kimber Lee Clark, With Footnotes, #303
Kimber Lee Clark is a self-taught artist and teacher. She owned the Saturday Cove Gallery in Saturday Cove, Maine for 25 years. She is well known for her artful abundance which plays through her paintings with color, wit, and whimsey. Whether it’s a rendition of island living, a lop sided lighthouse or bringing in the…
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17 Works, January 2nd. is Piero di Cosimo’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #259
In the upper part is Moses kneeling on Mount Sinai, with a sleeping Joshua nearby: he receives the Tables of the Law from Yahweh, who appears in a luminescent cloud, surrounded by angels. In the foreground, on the left, Moses brings the Tables to the Israelites. In the background is camp of tents, with the…
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12 Works, January 1st. is Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #258
After the defeat of Napoleon III and his French Imperial Army by the Prussian Army in the summer of 1870, colonial officers such as Faidherbe were recalled to France and promoted to higher ranks to command new units and replace generals killed or captured in the war. Faidherbe was promoted to divisional general in November…
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19 Works, December 30th. is Osman Hamdi Bey’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #257
A total of 17 figures, 16 people and a dog, are skillfully depicted in front of the Yeşil Mosque in Bursa. The painting, which reveals the fine workmanship of the Ottoman architecture and the detail in the decorations, is a document about the Ottoman daily life. It is stated in the painting that Osman Hamdi…
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19 Works, December 28th. is Alessandro Rosi’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #256
Sebastian stood by a staircase where the emperor was to pass and harangued Diocletian for his cruelties against Christians. This freedom of speech greatly astonished the emperor; who gave orders for his being seized and beaten to death with cudgels, and his body thrown into the common sewer. A pious lady, called Irene, admonished by…
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20 Works, December 26th. is Bertha Wegmann’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #255
Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts… Please follow link for full post
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20 Works, December 24th. is Fernand Cormon’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #254
Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845–20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. His father was the playwright Eugène Cormon. His mother was Charlotte Furais, the actress… Please follow link for full…
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20 Works, December 22th. is Charles Deas’ day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #253
Long Jakes documents America’s first frontier hero, the fur trapper. The fur trade in the American West flourished in the 1830s and was one of the most financially successful industries in America during the first half of the 1800s. The image of the trapper was that of a fiercely independent traveler who led a solitary…
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14 Works, December 20th. is Józef Unierzyski’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #252
The Descent from the Cross is considered his best, most stylish and effective work, which — as it was written — “among the gray and quite sterile painting production in those years […] must have become an event in Krakow’s painting relations. Criticism fell into admiration, master Matejko was pleased to testify that a work so widely received with…
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23 Works, December 18th. is Frank O. Salisbury’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #251
Painted in 1911 it is a figurative landscape of soldiers on the battlefield. The two central characters, the ‘Christian Soldiers’ from the early crusades have halos and ride through the chaos on white horses. Shafts on light with angels illuminate them and also a crucifix. A very powerful Edwardian religious oil painting and an excellent…
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