Tag: Biography
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06 Works, Today, June 30th, is First Martyrs’ day, their story in Paintings #181
The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were Christians martyred in the city of Rome during Nero’s persecution in 64. They are celebrated in the Roman Catholic Church as an optional memorial on 30 June. There were early Christians in Rome within a dozen or so years after the death of Jesus, though they…
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Tom Ouellette, Seated Nude II 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 92
Tom Ouellette was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1954. With the aid of a National Merit Scholarship he attended Harvard University, and graduated in 1978. In 1982, after completing drawing courses, he decided to pursue a career in painting and entered The Art Institute of Boston, graduating with honors in 1985. Ouellette moved to New…
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04 Works, Today, June 29th, is Apostle Paul’s day, his story in Paintings #180
Paul the Apostle, commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Hebrew name Saul of Tarsus, taught the gospel of Christ to the first-century world. Paul is generally considered one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, and from the mid-30s to the mid-50s AD he founded several Christian communities in…
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08 Works, Today, June 28th, is John of Damascus’ day, his story in Paintings #179
John of Damascus was a Christian monk and priest. Born and raised in Damascus c. 675 or 676, he died at his monastery, Mar Saba, near Jerusalem on 4 December 749… Please follow link for full post
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07 Works, Today, June 26th, is Saints John and Paul’s day, their story in Paintings #177
John and Paul are saints who lived during the fourth century in the Roman Empire. They were martyred at Rome on 26 June, in their own home. After a successful career of soldiering, Constantine the Great, entrusted Saints John and Paul, who were eunuchs, with the protection of Constantia; his eldest daughter from his second…
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Farid Belkahia; JERUSALEM 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #30
Farid Belkahia (1934–2014) was born into a wealthy bourgeois family in Marrakech. He grew up with his father’s art collection, and his further artistic awakening would take place within his father’s circle of friends. From about 1950, Belkahia took classes in Teslar’s studio. During these years, and prior to his departure from Morocco, Belkahia distanced himself…
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09 Works, Today, June 25th, is Saint Febronia of Nisibis’s day, her story in Paintings #176
Febronia of Nisibis, also known as Febronia of Sebapte, was a nun at Nisibis. She was raised at a monastery in Assyria. The head of the women’s monastery was the abbess Bryaena, her aunt. Being concerned about her niece’s salvation, she assigned her a stricter form of life than the other nuns… Please follow link…
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Benjamin Chambers Brown, Venice 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with footnotes. #80
Benjamin Chambers Brown (July 14, 1865 – January 19, 1942) was a California Impressionist landscape artist. He was one of their five children. He grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas. Brown was trained as a photographer. He studied at the University of Tennessee, and later at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts under Paul Harney…
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Othman Khuzaim, Untitled 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #94
Othman Khuzaim (Saudi) is one of the prominent names of the first generations of Saudi artists who participated in the establishment of the visual art procession including Al-Saleem, Al-Ridawi, Nabila Al Bassam and Safia Bin Zaqer. He is a graduate of the Institute of art Education for Teachers in Riyadh and holds a Diploma of Fine Arts…
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06 Works, Today, June 24th, is Nativity of Saint John the Baptist’s day, his story in Paintings #175
The Nativity of John the Baptist is a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of John the Baptist. The Nativity of John the Baptist is a high-ranking liturgical feast, kept in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Lutheran churches. The sole biblical account of the birth of John the Baptist comes from the Gospel…
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Circle of August Theodor Schoefft; Crossing the Tigris 01 Orientalist Painting, with footnotes, #58
The Tigris is the eastern of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, the other being the Euphrates. The river flows south from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf. August Theodor Schoefft (Hungarian, 1809-1888) was the son of a local portrait painter August Theodor Schoefft, born to German parents who…
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Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #113
Dorothea Margaret Tanning, American painter and writer (born Aug. 25, 1910, Galesburg, Ill. — died Jan. 31, 2012, New York, N.Y.), was a prominent Surrealist, but her artistic career was overshadowed by that of her famous husband, German painter and sculptor Max Ernst, to whom she was married for 30 years (1946–76); her own dreamlike imagery, however,…
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07 Works, Today, June 22nd, is Saint Alban’s day, his story in Paintings #173
Saint Alban, Protomartyr of Britain, is venerated as the first-recorded British Christian martyr. Alban lived in Roman Britain, in the 3rd or 4th century, when Christians began to suffer “cruel persecution”… Please follow link for full post
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08 Works, Today, June 21st, is Saint Luarsab’s day, his story in Paintings #172
Luarsab II the Holy Martyr (1592–1622), of the Bagrationi dynasty, was a king of Kartli (eastern Georgia) from 1606 to 1615. He is known for his martyr’s death at the hands of the Persian shah Abbas I… Please follow link for full post
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Henry MALFROY, Paris, l’Arc de Triomphe 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 70 – With Footnotes
Honoring those who fought and died for France during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Arc de Triomphe de l’Étoile stands at the center of the present work by Jean Béraud, the master of Belle Époque Parisian painting. Béraud presents the prototypical view of the Champs-Élysées: fashionably dressed figures stroll under the trees and others ride…
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