Tag: Fine Art
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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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06 Ancient Arabian Engravings – With footnotes –
Arabian Bronze Statuette, ca. 1st Millenium BCE Southwestern Arabia, modern day Yemen, 1st millennium BCE. This is a bronze statuette of a human figure with thin arms and legs and a somewhat animalistic face, complete with two pointed ears. During the first millennium BCE, this part of the world saw several kingdoms – Qataban, Saba…
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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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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 12, is Saint Benedict Biscop’s Day, With Footnotes – 12
St. Benet (Benedict) Biscop carrying St. Peter’s Basilica to Britain, c. 8th C Saint Benedict Biscop, also called Benet Biscop, orBiscop Baducing, (born c. 628, Northumbria, Eng.—died Jan. 12, 689/690, Wearmouth, Northumbria; founder and first abbot of the twin monasteries of SS. Peter (at Wearmouth) and Paul (at Jarrow on Tyne); he is considered to be…
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Continental School, A rider approaching an oasis encampment 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 50
The Continental School, 19th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Orientalism is a term that is used for the depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern cultures. It refers to the works of the Western artists on Oriental subjects, produced…
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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Self-portrait in a Straw Hat 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #41
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842), also known as Madame Lebrun, was a prominent French painter. Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo, while she often adopts a neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun cannot be considered a pure Neoclassicist, however, in that…
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Hedwig Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr), Ekstase 02 Works & Movie, The Art Of The Nude, Hedy Lamarr in kstase, with footnotes # 23
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, November 9, 1914 – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American film actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her husband, a wealthy Austrian ammunition manufacturer, and secretly moved to Paris. Traveling to London, she met Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer…
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Lovis Corinth, Susanna and the Elders 01 Painting, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 35
A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the…
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Ralph Hedley, Jack ashore, old Whitby 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
Whitby is a town in North Yorkshire, historic county of Yorkshire, northeastern England. It is situated at the mouth of the River Esk on the North Sea. Ralph Hedley (31 December 1848 – 14 June 1913) was a realist painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings portraying scenes of everyday life in the North East…
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Victor Guerrier, YOUNG WOMAN AT THE FLOWER MARKET 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 54 – With Footnotes
The young elegant lady in three-quarter portrait on the waterfront of the Seine in Paris in front of the flower market. She wears a fashionable, black and gray dress, a wide-brimmed black hat with a white, over-the-shoulder cloth and her hands are hidden in a fur muff, on the edge of a small fresh bouquet…
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Hamed Owais, The Harvest 02 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 19
Mohammed Hamed Owais was born in 1919 into a peasant family in the small village of Kafr Mansour in the governorate of Beni Soueif, Egypt. There, he received his primary and secondary education before working as a metalworker. He moved to Cairo, where he joined the School of Fine Arts. After he graduated in 1944, he…
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Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Saint Jerome 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #44
Jerome (c. 347 – 30 September 420) was a priest, confessor, theologian and historian. He was the son of Eusebius, born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia, then part of northeastern Italy. He is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin (the translation that…
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, The Flower Girl 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #44
Sir James Jebusa Shannon, RA, RBA, RHA (British, 1862-1923) The Flower Girl, c. 1900 Oil paint on canvas 838 x 660 mm Tate The Flower Girl; painted while the artist and his family were on holiday at Eastbourne in 1900. The woman was a flower girl whom they met regularly every morning on their way down…
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Sir James Jebusa Shannon, Contemplation 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY., with Footnotes. #43
Sir James Jebusa Shannon RA (1862–1923), Anglo-American artist, was born in Auburn, New York, and at the age of eight was taken by his parents to Canada. When he was sixteen, he went to England, where he studied at South Kensington, and after three years won the gold medal for figure painting. His portrait of…
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Alfred Eisenstaedt, Dying Monk 01 Painting, 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 36
Alfred Eisenstaedt (American, 1898-1995). Born in 1898, Eisenstaedt and his family moved to Berlin when he was just a little boy. He began taking photographs as a young teenager. After serving with the German army during World War I, he returned to freelance photography, eventually working for the Associated Press in the late 1920s and early…
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Netherlandish School, The Lamentation 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 132
This work depicts several scenes taking place simultaneously: In the background we see Christ’s deposition from the cross on Mount Calvary whilst His body is anointed in the foreground. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea hold Christ’s body whilst Mary Magdalene kneels ready with the ointment jar at his feet. The Virgin is shown in the centre of the work supported by Saint John. The grave…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, FANTASIA DANS LE SUD MAROCAIN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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Artus Wolffort, Esther’s Toilet in the Harem of Ahasuerus, circa 1620 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 168
This subject was depicted by Wolffort several times, which attests to its popularity. The scene derives from the Book of Esther in the Old Testament, which tells the story of how an orphaned Jewish woman is selected by King Ahasuerus of Persia to become his queen. In this painting, Esther is the standing figure at…
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The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete 03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete’s Day, With Footnotes – 157
The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompius, Agathopus, Basilides and Evaristus were a group of ten Christian men from Crete who suffered martyrdom during the persecutions of emperor Decius during the third century. They are commemorated on December 23. The Ten refused to worship at the shrine of the deity…
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