Tag: Fine Art
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25 Works, July 21st. is Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #198
Denis Diderot was an unofficial art adviser to Catherine the Great of Russia. It was no coincidence when the painting he praised was purchased directly from the artist by Catherine’s agents and shipped to Saint Petersburg, where it remains. This peculiar mid-18th century French painting-genre of the “edifying family tableau” was exactly suited to Diderot’s…
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22 Works, July 20th. is Narcisse Virgilio Díaz’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #197
Narcisse Virgilio Díaz de la Peña (20 August 1807–18 November 1876) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. Diaz was born in Bordeaux to Spanish parents. At the age of ten, Diaz became an orphan, and misfortune dogged his early years. His foot was bitten by a reptile in Meudon wood, near Sèvres, where…
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19 Works, July 19th. is Gerbrand van den Eeckhout’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #196
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of…
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15 Works, July 18th. is Franciszek Żmurko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #195
A woman with a red earring is one of Żmurka’s characteristic paintings, depicting “sensual” beauties, low-cut and showing off their charms Franciszek Żmurko (18 July 1859, Lviv — 9 October 1910, Warsaw) was a Polish realist painter. Żmurko began drawing lessons as a young boy in his hometown with the painter Franciszek Tepa. As an adolescent he…
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24 Works, July 17th. is Paul Delaroche’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #194
Shortly after the arrival of Louis-Philippe, the painters Delaroche, Cogniet, Schnetz and Drolling receive orders for four large paintings for the Throne Room of the Hotel de Ville, to celebrate the heroes of the revolutions of July 1789 and July 1830. It was up to Paul Delaroche to represent “the People returning victorious from the…
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12 Works, July 16th. is Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #193
John the Evangelist is the name traditionally given to the author of the Gospel of John. Christians have traditionally identified him with John the Apostle, John of Patmos, and John the Presbyter, though this has been disputed by modern scholars. John the Evangelist was one of the “pillars” of the Jerusalem church after Jesus’ death.…
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16 Works, July 15th. is Mead Schaeffer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #192
This painting appeared as in illustration for Harry Olive’s Korean War story, Night Attack, Saturday Evening Post, April 12, 1952. Mead Schaeffer (July 15, 1898 — November 6, 1980) was an American illustrator active from the early to middle twentieth century… Please follow link for full post
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14 Works, July 14th. is Juan Rodríguez Juárez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #191
Juan Rodríguez Juárez (b. Mexico City 1675 — d. 1728) was an artist in the Viceroyalty of New Spain. He was a member of a Spanish family long noted for their accomplishments in the world of painting. His brother was Nicolás Rodríguez Juárez (1667–1734), who was like himself, an established painter in New Spain… Please follow link…
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19 Works, July 13th. is Ferdinand Brütt’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #190
Ferdinand Martin Cordt Brütt (13 July 1849, Hamburg — 6 November 1936, Bergen) was a German painter. He was a distant relative of the sculptor Adolf Brütt… Please follow link for full post
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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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15 Works, July 11th. is Charles-Antoine Coypel’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #188
Andromaque is a tragedy in five acts by the French playwright Jean Racine written in alexandrine verse. The play takes place in the aftermath of the Trojan War, during which Andromache’s husband Hector, son of Priam, has been slain by Achilles and their young son Astyanax has narrowly escaped a similar fate at the hands…
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16 Works, July 9th. is Adolf Schreyer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #186
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main — July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting… Please follow link for full post
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13 Works, July 8th. is Christiaen van Couwenbergh’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #185
The fall of man, or the fall, is a term used in Christianity to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience. Although not named in the Bible, the doctrine of the fall comes from a biblical interpretation of Genesis…
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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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16 Works, July 6th. is George Percy Jacomb-Hood’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #183
George Percy Jacomb-Hood MVO (6 July 1857–11 December 1929) was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters… Please follow link for full post
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18 Works, July 5th. is Louis-Léopold Boilly’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #182
Smallpox was once a common epidemic disease that killed, blinded or disfigured its victims. In the eighteenth century its impact was reduced in Europe by a Chinese practice called variolation, the injection of smallpox fluid from an infected human being into a healthy human. In 1798 Edward Jenner proposed a modification of variolation called vaccination,…
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20 Works, July 4th. is Francis Montague Holl’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #181
Francis Montague Holl RA (London 4 July 1845–31 July 1888 London) was an English painter and royal portraitist Holl was born in London to family of noted engravers, being the son of Francis Holl ARA, as well as a nephew of William Holl the Younger and a grandson of William Holl the Elder, whose profession…
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12 Works, July 3rd. is John Singleton Copley’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #180
In 1749, 14–year–old Brook Watson had been attacked by a shark while swimming in Havana Harbor. Copley’s pictorial account of the traumatic ordeal shows nine seamen rushing to help the boy, while the bloody water proves he has just lost his right foot. To lend equal believability to the setting Copley, who had never visited…
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17 Works, July 2nd. is Theodoor Rombouts’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #179
Entered the Hermitage between 1763 and 1770; the collection of Catherine the Great Theodoor Rombouts (2 July 1597–14 September 1637) was a Flemish painter who is mainly known for his Caravaggesque genre scenes depicting lively dramatic gatherings as well as religiously-themed works. He is considered to be the primary and most original representative of Flemish…
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