Tag: Fine Art
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Maurice Bouviolle’s MARKET DAY IN GHARDAÏA, with footnotes, #81
Ghardaïa is the capital city of Ghardaïa Province, Algeria. It is a major centre of date production and the manufacture of rugs and cloths. Divided into three walled sectors, it is a fortified town. The name of Ghardaïa has its origins in a female saint named Daïa who lived in a cave (ghār) in the area before it…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by Victor Guerrier, Part 78
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, France.The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the red windmill…
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05 Works, Today, January 24nd, Saint Timothy’s Day, With Footnotes – 24
Saint Timothy, (died AD 97, Ephesus, now in Turkey); disciple of St. Paul the Apostle, whom he accompanied on his missions; traditional martyr and first bishop of Ephesus… Please follow link for full post
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13 Works, January 24th. is artist Vasily Ivanovich Surikov’s day, his story, illustrated #024
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (24 January 1848–19 March 1916) was a Russian Realist history painter. Many of his works have become familiar to the general public through their use as illustrations. He was born to an old Cossack family, descending from Don Cossacks that had settled in Siberia. His father was a Collegiate Registrar, a civil…
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38 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artists’ interpretation of Lot and His Daughters over the decades, with Footnotes – #136
Jan Wellens de Cock (c. 1480–1527) was a Flemish painter and draftsman of the Northern Renaissance. He was probably born in Leiden in Holland but settled in Antwerp. In 1506 Jan is recorded in the archives of the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp as having accepted an apprentice called ‘Loduwyck’. It is unclear in…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 144
JESUS was hurried to Calvary amid the shouts and jeers of the crowd. As He passed the gate of Pilate’s court, the heavy cross which had been prepared for Barabbas was laid upon His bruised and bleeding shoulders. Crosses were placed also upon two thieves, who were to suffer death at the same time with…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Bibi Zogbé, with Footnotes, #41
Bibi Zogbé was born in the Lebanese seaside village of Sahel Alma, Labibé Zogbé. She migrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen. Her professional artistic career began in the 1930’s with a number of exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, in Chile and Uruguay, in Paris and elsewhere. At the end of the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Part 77
Saint Agatha of Sicily (231 AD — 251 AD) is a Christian saint and virgin martyr. Agatha was born at Catania or Palermo, Sicily, and she was martyred in approximately 251. She is one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, are commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. She is the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Victor Gabriel Gilbert, Part 77
On a paved road, playing on the two dogs, a coachman with light straw hat and blue jacket tries to carry out his horse to horse-drawn carriage. He will be watched by numerous passers-by who are facing retail shops. In the background, the view is released to other buildings in the city and other figures.…
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01 Work – Norse mythology,. Edward Robert Hughes’ Dream Idyll, with footnotes – 5
In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja “chooser of the slain”) is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die in battle, the valkyries bring their chosen to the afterlife hall of the slain,…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope’s Patience and Grief, with Footnotes. #177
The theme of this picture is that of love as a continuum. Stanhope has taken as his title lines from Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, Act Two, Scene 4, in which Viola, disguised as a page, confesses her love for Orsino, Duke of Illyria. They discuss the nature of love, and whether men and women can love…
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10 works, Japan’s Tiny Netsuke Carvings, with footnotes
Kaigyokusai Masatsugu was born in 1813, the fitst son of Shimizu Kichibei of Sugishitadori, Osaka. In 1829, he was adopted by Yasunaga Kichirobei. After the death of his adoptive father, he succeeded to the name of Yasunaga. Yasunaga had no teachers in the study of carving techniques. His sketches were made from life. Carved wood…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #81
Moran was especially fond of using Venice as a theme, particularly because its large areas of expressive sky and reflective water were well suited to his interest in creating luminous effects. He wove references to activities along the city’s waterways into his compositions, along with buildings, pilings, boats and their reflections. It seems significant to…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 9, is Saint Julian’s Day, With Footnotes – 9
In the upper half of this oil study, Christ is depicted in glory surrounded by adoring angels. Looking up at him are four martyr saints: Saints Celsus, Marcionilla, Julian, and Basilissa. Pompeo Batoni made this sketch when he was only twenty-eight, in preparation for his first important commission in Rome. He was commissioned to create…
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03 Works, The Art Of The Nude, Georgia O’Keeffe, with footnotes # 100
The romance between Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe took on mythical dimensions. Stieglitz took revealing, nude portraits of O’Keeffe and put them on display at his gallery. The two became lovers, then, in 1924, man and wife. More on Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat . He exhibited his works regularly at the Paris Salon…
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