Tag: Artists
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25 Works, November 12th. is William Turner’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #233
This is Turner’s only work by ‘royal command’ and the largest and most publicly controversial painting of his career. George IV gave him the commission late in 1822 on the advice of Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy. It was to form a naval pair with Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg’s 1795 view of The…
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30 Works, November 9th. is Pere Creixams’ day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #232
The only son of a poor family, Pere Creixams was born on 9 November 1893 in Barcelona: «I come out of the pavement, the Mediterranean pavement…». In 1906, following the death of his father, he lived with his mother. He took on a series of odd jobs and later became a printer. In the evenings,…
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17 Works, November 7th. is Paul Baudry’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #231
In Greek and Roman mythology, the god Saturn was warned that one of his offspring would overthrow him, so he ate his children at birth. To protect their son, his wife Ops took the infant Jupiter to the island of Crete to be raised by the Corybantes, who used the rhythm of their dancing and…
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32 Works, November 4th. is Guido Reni’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #230
Andrew the Apostle (from the early 1st century — mid to late 1st century AD), also known as Saint Andrew was a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter. Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras (Patræ) in Achaea. Early texts describe Andrew as bound, not nailed, and crucified…
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23 Works, November 1st. is Cornelis Cornelisz’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #229
The Last Supper is based on a late 15th-century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world’s most famous paintings. The painting represents the scene of The Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, as it is told in…
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31 Works, October 30th. is s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #228
Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann RA (30 October 1741–5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffmann was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter. She was, along with Mary Moser, one of two…
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20 Works, October 26th. is Alexandre Fragonard’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #227
After Saladin’s victory at Attin (July 4, 1187), it was Jerusalem’s turn to fall under the blows of the Ayyubid forces. The siege will last from September 20 to October 2, 1187, and will see the Sultan of Egypt and Syria enter the holy city victorious. Alexandre-Évariste Coccinelle Fragonard (26 October 1780–10 November 1850) was…
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21 Works, October 24rd. is Eugène Fromentin’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #226
Exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Salon of 1864, Windstorm on the Esparto Plains of the Sahara remains one of the most enduring and striking compositions in all Orientalist art. The five riders and their mounts are depicted near Laghouat on the fringe of the Sahara in Algeria, although the precise setting could hardly…
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21 Works, October 23rd. is Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #225
In the present work, two elegant ladies dressed in the latest fashions are seen taking a stroll on a sun-bleached stretch of beach. To this scene of leisured sophistication, Kaemmerer incongruously adds the remains of a rusty canon, pointed in the same direction, on an otherwise empty stretch of beach, suggesting the pair may be…
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22 Works, October 21st. is Domenico Zampieri’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #224
Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras (Patræ) in Achaea. Early texts describe Andrew as bound, not nailed, and crucified on a cross of the form called crux decussata, now commonly known as a “Saint Andrew’s Cross” Scene of the martyrdom of Saint Andrew with stuggling figures and…
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16 Works, October 15th. is Juan Bautista Maíno’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #223
When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them.…
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13 Works, October 14th. is Albert Maignan’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #222
The origin of this tableau is rooted in a trip Maignan took to inspect the bell of the Saint-Prix church, described with passionate detail in his journal. The genesis would take time, taking the artist from stages of euphoria to discouragement from 1882 to 1888, the year of its presentation at the Salon. Exhibited the…
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21 Works, October 9th. is Évariste Vital Luminais’ day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #221
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Évariste Vital Luminais (13 October 1821–10 or 15 May 1896) was…
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29 Works, October 9th. is Benjamin West’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #220
The title of this painting is taken from the final book of the Bible, the Revelation of Saint John the Divine, which has often been interpreted as a symbolic description of warfare: “And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And…
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18 Works, October 9th. is Jean-Baptiste Regnault’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #219
Signature of the marriage contract of Prince Jérôme Bonaparte and Frédérique-Catherine of Wurtemberg. In the presence of the imperial family at the Tuileries, August 22, 1807 Depicted people: Caroline Bonaparte, Elisa Bonaparte, Hortense de Beauharnais, Jerome Bonaparte, Joseph Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, Julie Clary, Letizia Bonaparte, Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Louis Bonaparte, Napoleon, Pauline Bonaparte Jean-Baptiste Regnault…
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10 Works, October 6th. is William D. Washington’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #218
In June 1862, twenty-nine-year-old Captain William Latané of the 9th Virginia Cavalry was the only Confederate killed during J. E. B. Stuart’s famous ride around Union general McClellan’s army during the Peninsula Campaign. After Latané’s death at Old Church in Hanover County, his brother John Latané removed the body to the Westwood plantation two miles…
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21 Works, October 5th. is Édouard Detaille’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #217
Antoine-Charles-Louis, Comte de Lasalle (10 May 1775, Metz — 6 July 1809, Wagram) was a French cavalry general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, often called “The Hussar General”. He first gained fame for his role in the Capitulation of Stettin. Over the course of his short career, he became known as a daring adventurer and was…
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19 Works, October 4th. is Maximilian Lenz’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #216
Maximilian Lenz (4 October 1860, Vienna — 19 May 1948, Vienna) was an Austrian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. Lenz was a founding member of the Vienna Secession; during his career’s most important period, he was a Symbolist, but later his work became increasingly naturalistic. He worked in a variety of media, including oils, watercolours, lithography and…
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15 Works, October 3rd. is Luke Fildes’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #215
Sir Samuel Luke Fildes KCVO RA (3 October 1843[2] — 28 February 1927) was a British painter and illustrator born in Liverpool and trained at the South Kensington and Royal Academy Schools. He was the grandson of the political activist Mary Fildes… Please follow link for full post
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11 Works, October 2nd. is Willy Jaeckel’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #214
Willy Jaeckel (10 February 1888, Breslau — 30 January 1944, Berlin) was a German Expressionist painter and lithographer. Jaeckel’s father was a public lands manager and he originally intended to become a forest ranger, but poor health forced him to change his plans. From 1906 to 1908, he studied at the art school in Breslau, then enrolled…
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