Tag: Biography
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Johnny Popkess, Holiday Romance 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
Johnny Popkess was born in London, “I spent much of my early life in various fairly remote parts of Africa, developing a fondness for beauty in its most natural state – as things really are, rather than as they are often made to appear. I moved to the heart of Paris, within a stone’s throw of…
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Gen Paul, PLACE DU TERTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Gen Paul, 1895 – 1975 PLACE DU TERTRE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 31 3/4 in., 64.8 by 80.7 cm Private collection The Place du Tertre is a square in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. Only a few streets away from Montmartre’s Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile, it is near the…
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Apollonio Domenichini, Fondamenta Nuove 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #59
The Fondamente Nove or Nuove (New Foundations) form a long series of quays forming the northern limit of the city of Venice and located on the horses of the sestieri of Cannaregio and Castello. Approximately one kilometer long, the Nove Fondamente were made in the XVI th. century after the burial of the lagoon band between the Canale…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, LES CHAMELIERS/ THE CAMEL RIDERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 55
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and died the November 23 , 2014 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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John Charles Allcot, The Pamir in Sydney Harbour 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #127
Pamir, a four-masted barque, was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. By 1957, she had been outmoded by modern bulk carriers and could not operate at a profit. Her shipping consortium’s inability to…
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William Lentz Weiss, Boston Harbor Scene 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #189
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614, Boston Harbor has been an important port in…
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Jean Dufy, Port of Le Havre 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #187
The Port of Le Havre is the Port and port authority of the French city of Le Havre. It is the second-largest commercial port in France in terms of overall tonnage, and the largest container port, with three sets of terminals. It can accommodate all sizes of world cruise liners, and a major new marina is…
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Juarez Machado, Tango 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 50 – With Footnotes
Juarez Machado was born in 1941 in the city of Joinville, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He studied at the School of Art in the state of Paranâ, in the city of Curitiba, and participated actively in its artistic movement. In 1966 he took up residence in Rio de Janeiro, intensifying his activities. In…
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LOUIS VAN DER POL, Paris Bar Scene 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Louis Van Der Pol (Dutch, 1896-1982) was active in the 20th Century and lived in Holland. He was known for his large format elaborate romantic portrait paintings and city street scenes. He traveled to France often to pick up inspiration from the air of the artist scene. This piece is a fine example of his cityscape…
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Egon Schiele, Two nude women 01 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 24
Egon Schiele (German: 12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is noted for its intensity and its raw sexuality, and the many self-portraits the artist produced, including naked self-portraits. The twisted body shapes and…
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John Opie, Mary Wollstonecraft 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #45
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792),…
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Giovanni Battista Paggi, he Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 133
The mystical marriage of Saint Catherine covers two different subjects in Christian art arising from visions received by either Catherine of Alexandria or Catherine of Siena (1347–1380), in which these virgin saints went through a mystical marriage wedding ceremony with Christ, in the presence of the Virgin Mary, consecrating themselves and their virginity to him. More…
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Circle of Raffaello Sanzio, Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 128
The composition of the present painting derives from the celebrated Raphael prototype, the so-called Madonna of the Rose, painted in 1517, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, which is set indoors and with the figure of Saint Joseph on the left. This subject was returned to several times by Raphael’s workshop and by artists…
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Studio of Peter Paul Rubens, The Battle of the Amazons 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #41
In Greek mythology, the Amazons were a race of woman warriors. The legendary Amazons were thought to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern-day Turkey near the southern shore of the Black Sea. There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta or Hippolyte. This area is known…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #42
Stylistically, Vigée Le Brun avoided both the lightness of Late Rococo and the artifice of Neo-Classicism, countering both with a modulated naturalism. She became an artist against great odds, as did any woman in late-18th-century Paris, and aided by the patronage of Marie Antoinette, went on to thrive in a nine-lives, astutely managed sort of…
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Apollonio Facchinetti, VENICE, A VIEW OF THE GRAND CANAL 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #58
The Grand Canal in Venice, Italy forms one of the major water-traffic corridors in the city. Public transport is provided by water buses and private water taxis, and many tourists explore the canal by gondola. One end of the canal leads into the lagoon near the Santa Lucia railway station and the other end leads into…
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LES JOUEURS DE DAMES/ CHECKERS PLAYERS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artist Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, with footnotes, 56
Jean-François Arrigoni Neri , born in Paris on March 28 , 1937 and dead the November 23 , 20141 is a French painter , illustrator , engraver and lithographer. In 1951, at the age of 14, he entered the Estienne 2 School from where he graduated in 1955 with the Prix Cortot d’Engraving. After working for ten years…
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Sunday, February 25, 2018 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #21
Abel Dominique Boye, 1864-1934, FRENCH LA ROUSSE/ The redhead Oil on canvas 39 3/8 by 29 in., 100 by 73.5 cm Private collection Abel-Dominique Boyé (6 May 1864–1934) was a French painter. He was decorated with the Legion of Honor. His principal works include: Nymph of Diana (bronze medal, 1888); Pit Sawyer (Agen, 1889); Twilight (1891); Sunday in Seville (1893); and…
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04 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., Diane de Poitiers, with Footnotes. #40
Salvador Dalí ‘Diane de Poitiers’, 114/250 Hand-colored drypoint etching 40 x 50 cm Private collection Diane de Poitiers (3 September 1499 – 25 April 1566) was a French noblewoman and a prominent courtier at the courts of king Francis I and his son, King Henry II of France. She became notorious as King Henry’s chief mistress and in this…
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