Tag: Fine Art
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, All Saints’ Day 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5b
All Souls’ Day, Saturday of Souls, Thursday of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Halloween, All Saints’ Day, Samhain, Totensonntag, Blue Christmas. In Christianity, All Souls’ Day commemorates All Souls, the Holy Souls, or the Faithful Departed; that is, the souls of Christians who have died. Observing Christians typically remember deceased relatives on the day. In…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, First Mourning 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5a
First Mourning; “The dead body of Abel lies across Adam’s lap in the same manner as Christ is often depicted lying across Mary’s (such as in Michaelangelo’s Pieta). Adam clutches his heart out of grief fearing it will break and Eve kneels by his side crying uncontrollably, her face buried in her hands. The image…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 11th, is Our Lady of Lourdes’s Day, With Footnotes – 42
Our Lady of Lourdes is a Roman Catholic title of the Virgin Mary venerated in honour of the Marian apparitions that reportedly occurred in 1858 in the vicinity of Lourdes in France. The first of these is the apparition of 11 February 1858, when 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a “lady” spoke to…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 10th, is Saint Valentina of Palestine’s, With Footnotes – 41
Virginmartyr Valentina of Palestine was from Caesarea in Palestine. She was small and known for wearing old, worn out clothing. One day, when she was with her friend Thea, they joined a group of Christians gathered to hear the Holy Scriptures. Local officials broke up the meeting, grabbed Thea and tortured her. Please follow link for…
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Thomas Saliot, Close up lipstick 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #53
The artist paints the lady’s portrait one time; while the lady paints her own portrait every day! Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of…
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Dusan Djukaric, Venice Gondola 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #48
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal,…
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04 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 9th, is Saint Maron’s Day, With Footnotes – 40
Maron, also called Maroun or Maro, was a 4th-century Syriac Christian hermit monk in the Taurus Mountains whose followers, after his death, founded a religious Christian movement that became known as the Syriac Maronite Church, in full communion with the Holy See and the Catholic Church. The religious community which grew from this movement are…
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02 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 8th, is Saint John of Matha’s Day, With Footnotes – 39
It should be noted that the actual vision of St. John de Matha was of Christ and two captives not an angel as has been reflected at times erroneously in some works of art. See the Mosaic St. John de Matha had installed in Rome at St. Thomas in Formis for an account of the…
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Maher Morcos, The Belly dancer 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 36
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 from their travels in Western Asia, during the 19th century. Depictions of Islamic “Moors” and “Turks” can be found in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art. A creative…
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Giovanni Boldini, Alaide Banti 02 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #53
The young Alaide, daughter of Cristiano Banti, appears here in a spontaneous and confidential pose, which brings to mind the familiarity and the sentimental bond that joined her to the painter in these years. In 1885 Boldini stayed as guest of the Banti family (an Italian figurative painter of academic training, a leading figure in…
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01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 44 – With Footnotes
Thomas Saliot: “I live in Morocco, France and Spain where i paint simple iconic images from the net or my life, like big oil sketches. I have been painting professionally for over thirty years. Sort of a child of Hopper, figurative and Pop art, i love colors, provocation and big canvas. Thomas Saliot was born in…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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Theodoros Rallis; The Captive 02 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 32
Rallis painted this less than ten years after a Bulgarian uprising against the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The Turks’ bashi-bazouk irregular soldiers were accused of many massacres and other atrocities, including seizing Bulgarian girls to be sold into harems. In this painting a young woman stands with her hands bound next to a pile of stolen…
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Gerard ter Borch the Younger; A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 42 – With Footnotes
Ter Borch was an astute observer of social behavior as well as the physical environment. In this intimate courtship scene, fine fabrics, silver objects, wood, paper, light, and shadows all reveal their distinctive qualities. The woman strums a theorbo and the man appears to sing, a duet that resonates with the heartstrings. More on this painting…
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05 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 1st, is Ignatius of Antioch’s Day, With Footnotes – 32
“Instigate the animals so that in them I find my sepulcher and nothing remains of my body in order not to be of any burden to anyone, supplicate God for me, that by this means make me become a host for God” Cesare Fracanzano (1605-1651), a Neapolitan painter who flourished in the 17th century, was a pupil of…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 31st, is Saints Cyrus and John’s Day, With Footnotes – 31
Saints Cyrus and John (d. ca. 304 AD, or 311) are venerated as martyrs. They are especially venerated by the Coptic Church and surnamed Wonderworking Unmercenaries because they are supposed to have healed the sick free of charge. Cyrus and John were both Alexandrians; this, however, is contradicted by other documents in which it is said…
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Filippo Indoni, Two ladies and two gentleman 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 41 – With Footnotes
Filippo Indoni, Italian (1800 – 1884). In a reaction against the frivolous and unrealistic images of early 19th century Romanticism, artists turned to less glamorous aspects of life and society in search of a direct experience. By 1850, they had formed a relatively cohesive movement that battled for popularity with Romanticism, a far more widespread…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 30th, is Saint Martina of Rome’s Day, With Footnotes – 30
Martina of Rome was a Roman martyr under emperor Alexander Severus. A patron saint of Rome, she was martyred in 226. The daughter of an ex-consul and orphaned at an early age, she was described as a noble and beautiful virgin. She so openly testified to her Christian faith that she could not escape the persecutions under Alexander Severus. Arrested and commanded to return to…
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