Tag: Art
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03 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Franz Xaver Winterhalter and William Edward Frost’s Florinda la Cava, with Footnotes. #132
Florinda la Cava (at center left), or simply La Cava, is a character who, according to legend, played a central role in the downfall of the Visigothic kingdom in Spain in 711… Please follow link for full post
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02 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Sir Peter Paul Rubens and Pieter Bruegel the elder’s Christ and the woman taken in adultery, with footnotes #189
Watched by his disciples, Christ writes on the ground that he who is free of sin should cast the first stone at an adulterous woman. This biblical story challenged hypocrisy as well as demonstrating the virtue of mercy… Please follow link for full post
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06 Photographs, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, Steven Irwin’s Venus, Ceres, Persephone and Tellus, the Earth Goddesses, with footnotes #34
Venus is a Roman goddess, whose functions encompass love, beauty, desire, sex, fertility, prosperity, and victory. In Roman mythology, she was the ancestor of the Roman people through her son, Aeneas, who survived the fall of Troy and fled to Italy… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Florentine School’s Mary Magdalene , with footnotes #192
Sold for $3,200 USD in Feb 2023 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named more…
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Valentin de Boulogne’s Christ crowned with thorns, with footnotes #191
Valentin focuses the scene on the interplay of the three figures, all done dal naturale, or from life. The compact drama transpires along a sweeping diagonal, accentuating the image’s theatrical tension. At left, an elaborately dressed young soldier kneels before Christ. Mere inches separate their faces, which are almost a study in opposites. The youth’s…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, C. F. Sørensen’s Navy with a convoy of Danish warships, With Footnotes, #320
Danish warships may have been part of convoys during wartime or in other conflicts. Convoys are groups of ships that travel together, often protected by larger or more heavily armed ships…Carl Frederik Sørensen (8 February 1818, Besser, Samsø – 24 January 1879, Copenhagen) was a Danish artist who specialized in marine painting. His paintings not only attracted…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Harry Morley’s A Wayside Madonna, with Footnotes – #53
A small group of women stand behind the foreground sitter, their silent attitudes seeming to turn in judgement against her. The gate to her village beyond is shut, symbolising the refusal of passage to the mother (Madonna) to her home; Palestine! Harry Morley was born in Leicester, England on 5 April 1881 and studied architecture at…
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01 Work, The Art of War, Margaret Gillies’ Sorrow and Consolation, with Footnotes
Sold for GBP 2,750 in Nov 2010 In the 1820s Margaret Gillies (1803-1887), was a pupil of Frederick Cruikshank, a Scottish miniature painter. During the first two decades of her career Gillies made large miniature portraits, and some subject compositions, that were exhibited widely, including at the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. She produced…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Henricus Gerardus de Korte’s Garden Party , with footnotes, Part 93
Estimate Price in May 2023, $600 – $800 A garden party is a gathering of people at an outdoor venue, particularly of social elites… Hennie De Korte was born January 5, 1941, he spent his early years in Australia after his family moved there from Utrecht, Holland. He first began to study painting in 1957…
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01 Painting, The Streets of Paris, Pablo Picasso’s Morphine Addicts (Morphinomanes), with footnotes #95
Sold for 1,270,000 USD in May 2023 The nightlife of Paris proved to be a revelation to Picasso. His large oil Le Moulin de la Galette, now in the collection of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, conveyed the dynamism and energy he found in the cafés and concert halls of Montmartre as well as the dark…
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02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Juliana Séraphim’s Untitled , with Footnotes , #59
Seraphim was born in Jaffa in 1934, and was among the first waves of displaced Palestinian refugees to move to Beirut, Lebanon in 1952. She was 14 when her family fled first to Sidon by boat in 1949. After their move to Beirut, she worked in refugee relief while attending art classes….. Please follow link…
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12 Works, January 4th is Augustus Edwin John’s day, #004
Augustus Edwin John OM RA (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain…. Please follow link for full post
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12 Works, Today January 3rd is August Robert Ludwig Macke’s day #003
August Robert Ludwig Macke (3 January 1887–26 September 1914) was a German Expressionist painter. He was one of the leading members of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, RELIGIOUS ART – Giampietrino’s Madonna nursing the Christ Child with Saint Anne, with footnotes #188
Sold for 252,000 USD in January 2023 Sitting on a stone parapet, the Virgin, in the pose of a Madonna lactans, nurses the infant Jesus as her own mother stands behind. The two women offer contrasting emotional responses to Christ’s ultimate fate: Saint Anne, shown with wizened features, stares stoically into the distance, while the Madonna diverts…
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02 Paintings, Olympian deities, Litvinov Oleg Arkad’yevich’s Diana’s hunts, Part 1 and 2, with footnotes # 49
Diana is a goddess in Roman and Hellenistic religion, primarily considered a patroness of the countryside, hunters, crossroads, and the Moon… Please follow link for full post
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01 Limestone Sculpture, RELIGIOUS ART, French, Normandy, Virgin and Child – with footnotes #187
Sold for 113,400 USD in January 2022This seated Virgin holds a lily-scepter in her proper left hand and supports the Christ Child with her right. She wears a belted gown under an open mantle, the edges of which are decorated with cavities that would have held jewels made from colored glass. The Christ Child stands on…
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07 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julius Leblanc Stewart’s Reclining nudes, with footnotes #227
Julius LeBlanc Stewart (September 6, 1855, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania — January 5, 1919, Paris, France), was an American artist who spent his career in Paris. A contemporary of fellow expatriate painter John Singer Sargent, Stewart was nicknamed “the Parisian from Philadelphia”… Please follow link for full post
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02 Works of the Canals of Venice, Alfred Stieglitz’s Venetian Well, with footnotes, #124
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 — July 13, 1946) was the eldest child of highly cultured and prosperous parents… Please follow link for full post
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