Tag: Fine Art
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01 Orientalist Painting, Guillaume Seignac’s Odalisque, with footnotes, #115
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Ellen von Unwerth’s Bye Bye Paris, Part #82
Ellen von Unwerth (born 17 January 1954) is a German photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years before becoming a photographer, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs. In a 2018 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she explained her feminist approach to photography: “The women in my…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s Then What, with Footnotes, #66
In Kayyali’s work eleven figures (seven women, two boys and one man) are crowded together as though walking in unison. With most of their gazes turned away from the viewer, they are lost in the suggested horror of their surroundings as several peer up at an invisible, looming force. In the center of the canvas…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Neapolitan master’s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FIGHTING THE DEVILS OF THE UNDERWORLD, with Footnotes – 124
Extremely complicated composition, with figures moving in opposite directions. In the color and the reproduction of the physical, the strong influence of Peter Paul Rubens (1577 – 1640) can be seen, with whom he had worked together at the festive decoration in Ghent. All these stylistic aspects suggest the attribution. So too, this painting is…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni di Paolo’s Paradise – with footnotes #191
Paradise is envisioned as a lush meadow tapestried with over-sized flowers and a line of what appears to be apple trees. Rabbits frolic about while the blessed greet each other or are welcomed by angels. The young males are dressed in the latest fashion, with red or bi-colored stockings, extravagant tunics and turbans, and the…
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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of France, with Footnotes. #159
Depicted: Hortense Mancini, Olympia Mancini, Marie Mancini Please follow link for full post
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christine Spengler’s Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, with Footnotes. #158
Marguerite Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything was lost in a single…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki’s THE GIRL OR THE VASE, with Footnotes. #157
A sketch for a larger painting, also known as “The Presentation of a Slave” (Below). In an elegant interior, two traders, one in red, the other in blue, offer a young woman. You are about to open the white robe of the woman and present the naked beauty to a seated older, white-clad gentleman who…
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01 Sculpture , RELIGIOUS ART, Giambologna’s Christ at the column – with footnotes #188
As Avery notes, the present model was attributed to Giambologna on the basis of the strong modeling of the body and the hands of the figure but is more likely to have been cast by a younger follower. There are at least two other identical versions, both of which were attributed to Antonio Susini, the…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Parmigianino’s Virgin with Child, St John the Baptist, Magdalene and Zachariah – with footnotes #190
Madonna with St Zachariah dates to the early 1530s, when the artist, who had fled after the Sack of Rome 1527, was staying in Bologna for a few years, focusing on an intense production of altarpieces and paintings for private devotion like this one. The stern gaze of the priest, father of John the Baptist,…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Frederick Arthur Bridgman’s Pharaoh and his Army – with footnotes #189
The painting depicts the Biblical narrative in the Book of Exodus (14:28) of the Israelites led by Moses fleeing the Egyptians. After promising them freedom, the Pharaoh reneges on his word and chases after the Israelites as they escape through a waterway which had been parted by command of Moses’ staff. As the Egyptian army…
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01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Safwan Dahoul’s UNTITLED, with Footnotes – #5B
Safwan Dahoul was born in 1961 in Hama, Syria, Dahoul was initially trained by leading modernists at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus before travelling to Belgium, where he earned a doctorate from the Higher Institute of Plastic Arts in Mons. Upon returning to Syria, he began teaching at the Faculty of Fine Arts…
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04 Wooden Sculptures, RELIGIOUS ART – The Holy Trinity, Virgin and Child, Christ as the Man of Sorrows and the Pieta, with footnotes #188
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases — the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit — as “one God in three Divine Persons”. The three Persons are distinct, yet are one “substance, essence or nature”. In this context, a “nature” is what one is,…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, CHARLES MALLE’s La loterie du manège à Montmartre, with footnotes, Part 88
Charles Gleize, known as Charles Malle, was born on August 9 1935 in Douai in Northern France and brought up in a family of craftsmen. His Post-Impressionist paintings are very popular and collectible in both France and the United States. He is associated with the School of Montmartre, a loosely knit group of painters that goes…
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02 Works – Louis-François Cassas’ visit to Lebanon, with footnotes
The Temple of Jupiter is a colossal Roman temple, the largest of the Roman world, situated at the Baalbek complex in Heliopolis Syriaca (modern Lebanon). The temple served as an oracle and was dedicated to Jupiter Heliopolitanus. It is not known who commissioned or designed the temple, nor exactly when it was constructed. Work probably…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henri Baptiste Lebasque’s PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN RED, with Footnotes. #155
Henri Lebasque (25 September 1865 – 7 August 1937) was a French post-impressionist painter. His work is represented in French museums, notably Angers, Geneva (Petit Palais), Lille (Musée des Beaux-Arts), Nantes, and Paris (Musée d’Orsay). He started his education at the École régionale des beaux-arts d’Angers, and moved to Paris in 1886. Around this time, Lebasque…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Boris Kustodiev’s Model, with footnotes # 156
Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev was born in Astrakhan on March 7, 1878 into the family of a professor of philosophy, history of literature, and logic at the local theological seminary. Between 1893 and 1896, Boris took private art lessons in Astrakhan. Subsequently, from 1896 to 1903, he attended Ilya Repin’s studio at the Academy of Arts in…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Louay Kayyali’s Maaloula, with Footnotes, #65
Maaloula is one of the main subjects in Kayyali’s oeuvre; the present work is painted only two years after the artist graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti and it is one of the finest portrayals of this mountainous Aramaic town. All elements are intricately balanced, orchestrated by his ability in articulating the subtleties of…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Mattéo Brondy’s Fantasia , with footnotes, #113
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and for Maghrebi wedding celebrations. It is present in Algeria, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger and Tunisia. It is attested in the ancient Numidian times during which it was practiced by the Numidian cavalry. Historian Carlos Henriques Pereira stated that the North…
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08 Works, January 17th is Pieter van Bloemen’s day, his story, illustrated #017
Pieter van Bloemen, also known as Standaart (bapt. 17 January 1657–6 March 1720), was a Flemish painter. He was a gifted landscape and animal painter and was very successful with his compositions depicting equestrian, animal and market scenes… Please follow link for full post
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