Tag: Biography
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Henri Fantin-Latour’s Stabat Mater, wh Footnotes – 181
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ’s mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III. The title comes from its first line, “Stabat Mater dolorosa”, which means “the sorrowful mother was standing” More on…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Frank Horvat’s Kristin, with footnotes # 116
Frank Horvat (born April 28, 1928) is a photographer who presently lives and works in France. He is best known for his fashion photography, published between the mid 1950s and the late 1980s, but his photographic opus includes photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, nature, and sculpture. In 1988, he produced a book of interviews with fellow photographers…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice. Henry Martin Gasser’s The Supply Boat , with footnotes. #89
Henry Martin Gasser, American (1909 – 1981)was born in Newark, New Jersey. He lived, studied and worked in New Jersey for his entire life. A Master at watercolor and oil his work consisted of, in his own words, “everyday subjects that are available to most of us-street scenes, back yards, trees, old houses, etc I…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Albert von Keller’s The resurrection of Jairus’ daughter, with Footnotes – #180
The Raising of Jairus’ daughter is a combination of miracles of Jesus in the Gospels.Jairus, a patron or ruler of a Galilee synagogue, asked Jesus to heal his 12-year-old daughter. Jesus continued to the house, where he “saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.” He informed all those present that the girl was not…
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27 Works, Today, May 3rd. is artist Viktor Vasnetsov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #122
Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to the myth, they lived “in Indian lands” near Eden or around the Euphrates River. These half-women half-birds are loosely based on the Greek stories about sirens. They…
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01 PHOTOGRAPH – MARINE ART, EDWARD BURTYNSKY’S SHIPYARD #1, WITH FOOTNOTES, #317
Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes.Burtynsky was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. When he was 11, his father purchased a darkroom, including cameras and instruction manuals. With his father, Burtynsky learned how to make black and white prints and together with…
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15 Works, Today, May 2nd. is artist Charles Gleyre’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #121
The Bacchae; also known as The Bacchantes is an ancient Greek tragedy. The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus. The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings, James Kay’s DEPARTURE FROM THE CLYDE – With Footnotes, #184
The River Clyde is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is the eighth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the second-longest in Scotland. Traveling through the major city of Glasgow, it was an important river for shipbuilding and trade in the British Empire. To the Romans, it was Clota, and…
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01 Photograph, Germaine Krull’s Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 115
Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During World War II, her leftist political beliefs led her…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Antoine Malliarakis Mayo’s Femme et masque, with Footnotes. #115
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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39 Works by Old Masters Artists Embedded with Helen of Troy, with Footnotes
Throughout his career, Gustave Moreau showed remarkable fidelity to the character of Hélène de Troie by devoting an exceptionally rich ensemble to her. Main rival of Salomé in the heart of the artist, the most beautiful woman of antiquity appeared in his work in 1852, then returned triumphantly in the company of Galatea on the…
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45 Works, Leda and the Swan, art from the Greek myth, with footnotes
Paul Beckert was taught in the Dresden and Munich academies. He married Anna Leontine von Frank in 1883, which gained him access to a broad network of patrons in the Prussian aristocracy. He portrayed Emperor William I and Field Marshall Moltke (now in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz) among many others. More on Paul Beckert Leda and…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, by Gaetano Bellei, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Gaetano Bellei was an Italian Academic Painter who was born in 1857. He later died in 1922 in the same city. He enhanced his artistic talent by learning art from Adeodato Malatesta and Comrade of John Muzzioli. When he was 24 year old, he won the Retired Potetti due which he was able to visit…
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1 Work, Gayle Porter Hoskins’ The Battle of Little Bighorn
The most significant battle of the Great Sioux War of 1876, The Battle of Little Bighorn involved the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes versus the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Commonly known as Custer’s Last Stand, the conflict resulted in a devastating loss for the United States and the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Francois Gall’s Montmartre, Part 76
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Melville Kelly’s Mokihana, with Footnotes. #112
John Melville Kelly (1879–1962) was an American painter and printmaker. He was born in Oakland, California in 1879. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute), the Partington Art School (San Francisco) and with Eric Spencer Macky (1880–1958). Kelly worked for fourteen years as an illustrator for the…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Edmond Aman-Jean’s Nude with rose, with footnotes # 167
Edmond Aman-Jean, pseudonym of Amand Edmond Jean, was born in Chevry-Cossigny November 13 , 18581 and died on January 25 , 1936 in Paris , was a painter , writer and art critic French. Edmond Aman-Jean was a student of Henri Lehmann of the School of Fine Arts in Paris and the classmate of Georges Seurat , with which he…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, with footnotes, #11
Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rainbelongs to a series of fifteen works that Camille Pissarro painted in Paris from the window of his hotel in the place du Théâtre Français during the winter of 1897 and 1898. Pissarro, who had spent practically all of his life in the country and was basically a landscape…
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