Tag: Cleopatra
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20 Works, November 17th. is Pierre Mignard’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #236
Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612 – 30 May 1695), called “Mignard le Romain” to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known for his religious and mythological scenes and portraits… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, Italian School, early 18th Century’s Anthony and Cleopatra , with Footnotes #106
Sold for 18,900 EUR in June 2021 Anthony and Cleopatra are arguably the most famous lovers in history. Marcus Antonius of Rome stood at the pinnacle of power, fighting to be the most powerful man in the known world; and Cleopatra VII Philopator was the queen of one ancient civilization, Egypt, and heir to the unmatched cultural…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR, Bernard Duvivier’s Cleopatra Captured by Roman Soldiers, with Footnotes #236
The subject of this painting is a rarely-depicted moment in the story of Antony and Cleopatra. In Plutarch’s Life of Mark Antony, Antony dies of a self-inflicted wound in Cleopatra’s “monument”, a fortified tomb in which the Egyptian queen had barricaded herself. Several of Caesar Augustus’s men, seeking to capture Cleopatra alive, enter the monument…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Reginald Arthur’s The Death of Cleopatra, with Footnotes. #186
Once Mark Anthony had been defeated at the battle of Actium (30 B.C.), and fallen on his sword, Cleopatra herself commited suicide to avoid capture by Octavian. An asp, or Egyptian cobra, was smuggled to her in a basket of figs and she died from its bite. According to Egyptian legend, death from snakebite ensured…
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23 Works, December 18th. is Frank O. Salisbury’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #251
Painted in 1911 it is a figurative landscape of soldiers on the battlefield. The two central characters, the ‘Christian Soldiers’ from the early crusades have halos and ride through the chaos on white horses. Shafts on light with angels illuminate them and also a crucifix. A very powerful Edwardian religious oil painting and an excellent…
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30 works – Art and the Egyptian Woman over the decades
In the winter of 1869–1870, Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann traveled to Constantinople, Athens, Smyrna, Alexandria and Cairo. It was on this trip that she, as one of the first painters ever, got access to a harem in Constantinople. Anna Maria Elisabeth Lisinska Jerichau-Baumann (21 November 1819–11 July 1881) was a Polish-Danish painter. She was married to…
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15 Works, Today, May 10th. is Jean-Léon Gérôme’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #128
Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. Characteristically, Gérôme has depicted not the incident itself, but its immediate aftermath. The illusion of reality that Gérôme imparted to his paintings with his smooth, polished technique led one critic to comment, “If photography had existed in Caesar’s day, one…
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29 Portraits – Art and the Egyptian Woman over the decades
It is said that Scota was in fact Meritaten, the eldest daughter of Pharoah Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti… Please follow link for full post
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23 Works, December 18th. is Frank O. Salisbury’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #251
Painted in 1911 it is a figurative landscape of soldiers on the battlefield. The two central characters, the ‘Christian Soldiers’ from the early crusades have halos and ride through the chaos on white horses. Shafts on light with angels illuminate them and also a crucifix. A very powerful Edwardian religious oil painting and an excellent…
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14 Works, November 26th. is Antonio Carneo’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #241
Depicting a young man who compresses his bowels in the presence of a group of bystanders who follow his spasms with apprehension or try to help him, it is described ab antiquo with the title with which it is still remembered today. However, since it is difficult to represent a generic poisoning scene (provoked or…
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20 Works, November 17th. is Pierre Mignard’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #236
The sea occupies the background of a winter landscape. Time or Saturn, accompanied by the Winged Genii, throws rain and ice from the top of the clouds. Pierre Mignard or Pierre Mignard I (17 November 1612–30 May 1695), called “Mignard le Romain” to distinguish him from his brother Nicolas Mignard, was a French painter known…
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26 Works, November 13th. is Byam Shaw’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #234
107 famous historical and literary figures are indicated and are represented in the painting, all belonging to the army of the Conqueror Love. John Byam Liston Shaw (13 November 1872–26 January 1919), commonly known as Byam Shaw, was a British painter, illustrator, designer and teacher… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, July 18th. is Franciszek Żmurko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #195
A woman with a red earring is one of Żmurka’s characteristic paintings, depicting “sensual” beauties, low-cut and showing off their charms Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv — 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he…
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18 Works, Today, June 5th. is Vincenzo Marinelli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #154
In this work there is an atmosphere of fascinating exoticism, given by the depiction of distant lands lived with full romantic sensitivity by the artist. Marinelli later travelled first to Greece, where he worked for King Otto of Bavaria. He then went to Egypt, where he carried out works for the Viceroy Said Pasha. He…
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24 Works, Today, May 28th. is Hans Makart’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #146
Hans Makart (28 May 1840–3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era he was considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended…
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15 Works, Today, May 10th. is Jean-Léon Gérôme’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #128
Julius Caesar was assassinated in Rome on the Ides of March (March 15), 44 BC. Characteristically, Gérôme has depicted not the incident itself, but its immediate aftermath. The illusion of reality that Gérôme imparted to his paintings with his smooth, polished technique led one critic to comment, “If photography had existed in Caesar’s day, one…
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9 Works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Cleopatra, over the ages, by the artists of their time, with footnotes, #37
Statue of queen Cleopatra VII Ptolemaic Dynasty Basalt h. 104,7 cm Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Cleopatra VII ruled ancient Egypt as co-regent for almost three decades. She became the last in a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Well-educated and…
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07 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The beautiful and damned women of history
Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856 MARY STUART SWEARING REVENGE Oil on canvas 25 1/2 by 21 1/4 in Private Collection While Chassériau’s precise inspiration for Mary Stuart Swearing Revenge is unknown, it is possible that the work was based on Friedrich Schiller’s play of 1800 or Donizetti’s opera, Maria Stuarda, written in 1845. It has been suggested…
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