Tag: Fine Art
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Wendy Sharpe, with footnotes. #95
Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice. The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Tito Lessi’s THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE. Part 62 – With Footnotes
Tito Lessi (1858 – 1917) was born in Florence, then became a resident of Paris. He studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri. Lessi painted a watercolor titled: L’ anticamera del Papa. Charles Sedelmeyer invited him to Paris, where he painted small canvases: The Testament; Le lever du Dauphine;…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Louis Anquetin’s FEMMES À LEUR TOILETTE, #244
Louis Anquetin (26 January 1861 – 19 August 1932) was a French painter; born in Étrépagny, France and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat’s studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ghazi Saudi, with Footnotes, #44
“The city of Ghazi al Saudi , today’s Baghdad, is the actual place implanted in a time that goes back some eight hundred years. Al Wasiti’s illustrations of Maqamat al Hariri have been a constant inspiration for him, not only in his smaller canvases and ceramics, but also in his large frescoes, where he employs…
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25 Works, July 12th. is Edwin Long’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #189
Long’s oil on canvas captures an essence of Ancient Egypt that is representative of the way that Egypt was imagined in late 19th century Europe; an exotic and beautiful image that has found perpetuity, especially in film and popular culture. So much so that ancient Egypt monopolises a considerably large corner of today’s fiction and…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Albert Joseph Penot’s Portrait of a young lady, with Footnotes. #131
Albert Joseph Pénot (1862–1930) was a French painter known for female nudes. Today, he is more popularly and specifically recognized for a subset of paintings centering on women of darker, more macabre themes. Pénot was concerned first and foremost with anatomically accurate portrayals of women. Singular female forms were the implicit focus of his work, whereas…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Boutros al-Maari’s Antar and Abla, with Footnotes, #59
Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (525–608), also known as Antar, was a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. Stories of his heroic exploits have been circulating for centuries and were eventually written down in the eighth century. Set in pagan Arabia known as the jahiliya, “before the time of the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Irvin Rodriguez’s Woman In Black, with Footnotes. #128
Irvin Rodriguez was born in the Bronx, New York in 1988. He graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in Illustration in 2010. He studied drawing at the Grand Central Atelier from 2008-2010 and later, painting and printmaking at the Art Students League of NY from 2013-2016 In 2017, Irvin had his debut…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Mike Bernard’s VENETIAN CANAL with footnotes. #93
Mike Bernard (born 1957) is an English painter. His highly textured semi-abstract paintings are often executed in mixed media incorporating collage and acrylics; he also brings an experimental approach to watercolour and oils. Regular subjects include coastal and street scenes in the English West Country and Italy. “What attracts me most is the pattern of buildings, boats…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Marie Felix Hippolyte-Lucas’ Salome, with Footnotes – 189
Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus’s Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip’s death in 34 AD she married Aristobulus of Chalcis…
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03 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, by Pegah Samaie, with footnotes # 126
Pegah Samaie is an American-Iranian artist who was born and grew up in Tehran, Iran. Pegah’s art moves through the shadow of her past life. She uses art as a tool to face the experiences she and other women have encountered in a culture dominated by patriarchal governments and households. Her early experiences in Iran…
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24 Works, July 7th. is Félicien Rops’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #184
Félicien Victor Joseph Rops (7 July 1833–23 August 1898) was a Belgian artist associated with Symbolism and the Parisian Fin-de Siecle. He was a painter, illustrator, caricaturist and a prolific and innovative print maker, particularly in intaglio (etching and aquatint)… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Arbit Blatas’s Pont St. Michel, with footnotes #75
Pont Saint-Michel is a bridge linking the Place Saint-Michel on the left bank of the river Seine to the Île de la Cité. It was named after the nearby chapel of Saint-Michel. It is near Sainte Chapelle and the Palais de Justice. The present 62-metre-long bridge was first constructed in 1378, it has been rebuilt several…
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02 Paintings by Orientalist Artists, Gustav Bauernfeind’s Jaffa, with footnotes, #97
Jaffa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Palestine. Jaffa is known for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus, and later for its oranges… Please follow link for full post
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06 versions, Interpretation of the bible, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Bathsheba at her bath, with Footnotes – #188
According to the Hebrew Bible, “Bat Sheva,” , “daughter of the oath”; was the wife of Uriah the Hittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. She is most known for the Bible story in which she was summoned by King David who had seen her bathing and lusted after…
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01 Photograph, Middle East Artists, Tarek Al-Ghoussein’s Al-Wihdat Refugee Camp, with Footnotes, #35
Tarek Al-Ghoussein was born in Kuwait, his grandparents were Palestinian exiles who were unable to visit their native home. His father, Talat Al-Ghoussein, was a journalist, editor and a diplomat who served as the Kuwait ambassador to the United States in the 1960s. His family moved a lot during his childhood between Kuwait, United States, Morocco…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Cui Xiaodong’s Tea garden in spring, with Footnotes. #125
A Chinese garden employs illusion and discovery to transform available space into a microcosm of the world, not merely as it is but as it should be. More on a Chinese Garden Cui Xiaodong was born in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province though his ancestral home was Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province. Cui Xiaodong graduated from the Department of Traditional Chinese Painting,…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jan Lievens’ Pilate Washing his Hands, with Footnotes – #186
The Roman governor Pilate thinks that Jesus hasn’t done much harm and wants to let him go. But the Jewish priests and the crowd make him punish Jesus anyway. By washing his hands, Pilate shows he feels no responsibility for the events. In the background to the right Jesus is taken away. Jan Lievens was…
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