Tag: Fine Art
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07 works, Today, August 9th, is Saint Matthias’s day, his story illustrated #221
Matthias was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chosen by the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter’s betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death. His calling as an apostle is unique, in that his appointment was not made personally by Jesus… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Michel Comte’s Untitled, 1991, with footnotes #198
Sold for USD 200,000 in March 2020 Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Bernardino di Mariotto dello Stagno’s Virgin and Child, with Footnotes #194
Sold for 214,200 GBP in July 2022 Here, a curtain opens to reveal the Virgin and Child; the edges are left open to give a sense of expanse into a distant landscape beyond. The path to the left of the composition leads past the penitent Saint Jerome towards a rare depiction of an early Christian tomb,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Master of Alcira’s Saint Michael the Archangel, with Footnotes #193
Michael is mentioned three times in the Book of Daniel, once as a “great prince who stands up for the children of your people”. The idea that Michael was the advocate of the Jews became so prevalent that, in spite of the rabbinical prohibition against appealing to angels as intermediaries between God and his people,…
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07 Paintings by Csok, Istvan (1865-1961) of his “Studio Interior”, with footnotes
The success of the picture at the time is clearly shown by the fact that Csók made several copies of the composition in many versions, some of its details can be seen again in his later pictures. A 1910 version is attached… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Victor Gabriel Gilbert’s Marché aux fleurs, with footnotes, Part 87
Sold for 44,100 USD in January 2023 Victor Gilbert was celebrated as the foremost painter of Parisian marchés during the final decades of the 19th century, when daily markets proliferated throughout the French capital to satisfy the growing upper and middle classes. Located on Place Louis Lépine between the Notre-Dame Cathedral and Sainte-Chapelle chapel, the flower…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Sylvia Ji’s Stella (Blue Stoya), with Footnotes #217
Stoya was born as Jessica Stoyadinovich. She was born on 15 June 1986. Stoya was born to a Scottish father and Serbian mother. Stoya was her nickname before becoming a pornstar. It was the shortened version of her Grandmother’s name. She is from Wilmington, North Carolina. She wanted to become a dancer. Stoya was homeschooled.…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Francisco Miralles y Galup’s At the Market, with Footnotes #215
All it takes is a handful of birdseed to transform any tourist visiting Venice’s historic St. Mark’s Square into a human perch for a fluttering mass of pushy pigeons. Venice has long been concerned with the potential hazards the birds pose to human health, not to mention the damage caused by their guano and taste…
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15 Paintings of the Canals of Venice in the 18 & 19th Centuries, by the artists of the time, with foot notes #6
By Apollonio Facchinetti, Apollonio Domenichin, Guglielmo Ciardi, Canaletto, Bernardo Canal, Thomas Bush Hardy, Edward William Cooke, Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE, MARC ALDINE and Ludolfs Liberts, … Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Feliks Michal Wygrzywalski’s The Maharadja’s entourage, with footnotes #115
Sold for EUR 8,963 in Apr 2004 Mahārāja is a Sanskrit title for a “great ruler”, “great king” or “high king”. A few ruled states informally called empires. The ‘Title inflation’ soon led to most being rather mediocre or even petty in real power, which led to compound titles being used in an attempt to distinguish some among…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria, with Footnotes #192
Saint Catherine of Alexandria is, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the pagan emperor Maxentius. According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age of fourteen, and converted hundreds of people…
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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, David Drebin’s Monte Carlo Flasher, and 5 other works with Footnotes #214
Love stories and landscapes are at the foundation of David Drebin’s panoramas, portraits, and neon sculptures. His monograph Love and Other Stories (2007) features solitary women in urban tableaux — high-rise apartments buildings and terraces, freeway overpasses and hotel rooms… Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hocine Ziani’s The Queen Tin Hinan, with Footnotes #212
Tin Hinan was a 4th-century Tuareg queen. Her monumental tomb is located in the Sahara, at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. Tin Hinan is sometimes referred to as “Queen of the Hoggar”. The name literally means “woman of the tents”, but may be metaphorically translated as “mother of us all”. According to the stories…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendra Gunawan’s The Market Woman, with Footnotes #212
Sold for HK$1,011,000 in May 2022 The Market Woman depicts a busy market scene where a group of women are engaged in a flurry of activities. Four women are seen sitting on a pavement, hawking their wares, which in this case appear to be poultry. Another lady in white soon joins in and offers her greeting.…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Gustave Boulanger’s Tribute, with footnotes #114
Sold for 107,100 GBP in March 2022A young emir and his entourage, resting in the shade of the forest – perhaps resting on a journey – receive a passing traveller. The latter, in a crimson outer robe, his horse left untethered behind the great baobab tree, appears to offer the young nobleman a talisman of some kind,…
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13 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, TOM WESSELMANN’s Reclining Stockinged Nudes, with footnotes #197
Unique works from the Stockinged Nude series: 26 hand-painted works, each with different colour combinations of hair, skin and stockings… Please follow link for full post
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10 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Julio Romero De Torres’ muse María Teresa Lopez González, with Footnotes #211
María Teresa Lopez González, born in Argentina, she moved with her family to Julio Romero de Torres’s native Córdoba after World War I. There she first sat for the painter aged just 14 years old, and became the artist’s favourite model… Please follow link for full post
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11 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by The Old Masters, With Footnotes # 46
In the sixteenth century when Spain became a world power with vast possessions and sources of wealth in the New World, as well as possessions dotted about Europe, it might have been expected that a vigorous national school of painting would emerge, transforming the somewhat tentative or imitative character that painting in Spain had shown…
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