Tag: Biography
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART, Interpretation of the bible, Adriaen van der Werff’s Entombment, With Footnotes – #138
After Christ’s crucifixion, Matthew writes: ‘As evening approached, there came a rich man from Arimathea, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus. Going to Pilate, he asked for Jesus’ body. Pilate ordered that it be given to him. Joseph took the body, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and placed it…
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05 Works, Marine Art, Walter Langley’s perils of fishing life in a Cornish Village, with Footnotes, #87
Walter Langley devoted his life as a painter to scenes in the lives of fishing people in Cornwall. This work, from 1889, is slightly more dramatic than some in its depiction of off-stage events at sea impacting on people at home… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Rembrandt’s The Great Deposition from the Cross — with footnotes #197
The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels’ accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion. In Byzantine art the topic became popular in the 9th century, and in the West from the 10th century. The…
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1 Painting, Camille Hilaire’s The clown Auguste on the track, with footnotes
For sale for 1850 € in Nov 2024 The Auguste clown character-type is often an anarchist, a joker, or a fool. He is clever and has much lower status than the whiteface. Classically the whiteface character instructs the Auguste character to perform his bidding. The Auguste has a hard time performing a given task, which…
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08 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of The Bible, William Oxer’s The Grieving Magdalene, with footnotes #46
Mary Magdalene was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection… Please follow link for full post Art,Paintings,warrior,Fine Art,biography,History,Mary Magdalene,mythology,religion,RELIGIOUSART,Zaidan,William Oxer,Ancient,footnotes, #Icon #Bible #biography #History #Jesus #mythology #Paintings #religionart #Saints #Zaidan #footnote #fineart #Calvary #Christ #warrior
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Ermanno Stroiffi’s Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, With Footnotes – #136
Estimated for €8,000 – €12,000 in November 2022 The Bible states that Elijah is a Tishbite from Gilead, who visited King Ahab to give him a message from God that there would be no rain in the land until he declared it. In order to avoid the wrath of the king, God told Elijah to hide by the Brook…
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07 works, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Jan Saudek’s Silent witness, with Footnotes #104
As the angel passed through the destroyed city she bore witness to the inhumanity of man towards his brother and felt a great heaviness in her heart. The once vibrant streets, now shrouded in ash and sorrow… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, Middle East Artists, The Art of War, Suleiman Mansour’s Gaza, with Footnotes #103
Sold for USD 43,750 on Mar 2019 Suleiman Mansour, together with Ismail Shammout are one of the two most important Palestinian artists who created a national identity for Palestinians over the years. Since the early 1970s, Mansour has been a champion and pioneer of the Palestinian artistic movement that has continuously pushed against the challenges…
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01 Work, Olympian deities, Tiziano Vecellio, called Titian’s Venus and Adonis, With Footnotes – #136
Sold for 11,164,000 GBP in December 2022 Venus, as if filled with foreboding about Adonis’s fate, desperately clings to her lover, while he pulls himself free of her embrace, impatient for the hunt and with his hounds straining at the leash. The goddess’s gesture is echoed by that of Cupid, who anxiously watches the lovers’ leave-taking…
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01 Painting, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, Esther Sarto’s Leda & the Swan, with footnotes #32
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, seduces and has sex with Leda. According to later Greek mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces, children of Zeus, while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra, children of her…
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02 works, The Art Of The Nude, William Claxton’s Peggy Moffitt in Rudolf “Rudi” Gernreich’s” TOPLESS SWIMSUIT, with footnotes #219
Gernreich collaborated with Moffitt and her husband, photographer William Claxton. The three became “a dynamic and inseparable trio… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Italian School’s Abraham Casting Out Hagar and Ishmael, with Footnotes – #220
Sold for $1,000 USD in May 2022 Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to…
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01 Marine Work, Henry Scott’s Night watch – Foochow, With Footnotes #323
Sold for US$14,025 in May 2022 Fuzhou, alternately Romanised as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute the Mindong (lit. Eastern Fujian) linguistic and cultural area. Henry Scott F.R.S.A, 1911-2005, British, was a painter…
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01 Marine Work, Werner Drewes’ Maine Harbor, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $7,500.00 in May 2019 Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Jacques-Émile Blanche’s Lady in Black (Élisabeth Greffulhe), with Footnotes. #233
Estimated for GBP 80,000 – GBP 120,000 in Dec 2023 Countess Marie Anatole Louise Élisabeth Greffulhe (11 July 1860 – 21 August 1952) was a French socialite, known as a renowned beauty and queen of the salons of the Faubourg Saint-Germain in Paris. She was born in Paris, the daughter of Joseph de Riquet de Caraman.…
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01 Work , Orientalist Artist, Adiodun Olaku’s The Crest Chargec, with footnotes #134
Estimate for 5,000 – 7,000 GBP in Sep 2024 Abiodun Olawale Olaku was born in 1958 in Ibadan. He completed his Higher National Diploma at the Yaba College of Technology between 1976 and 1981 before joining the Federal civil service, where he served while creating art for the next seven years, resigning in February 1989…
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01 Work, MIDDLE EAST ARTISTS, The art of War, Maher Attar’s Samar Baltaji, with Footnotes
Samar Baltaji is the one-legged mother in the photo, holding the hand of her maimed daughter, Nisrine, as they walked through a landscape of Beirut at war. In June 1985, during the war in the Palestinian camps — which pitted the Amal party against the Palestinians — he captured a photo that made the front…
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01 Marine Work, George Savary Wasson’s Seascape with Ships, With Footnotes, #319
Sold for $800.00 in May 2019George Savary Wasson 1855-1932; was from a shipbuilding and seafaring family in Brooksville, Maine, George Wasson’s father was a prominent Transcendentalist minister whose church was that of Thoreau and Emerson. His grandfather and uncle built and owned ships. From 1873- 1875, when his father went to Germany to study religion,…
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