Tag: Fine Art
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19 Works, July 1st. is Willard Metcalf’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #178
Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 — March 9, 1925) was an American artist born in Lowell, Massachusetts. Metcalf’s parents, themselves artistically inclined, early recognized their son’s talents and encouraged his proper training. He served first as an apprentice to a wood engraver and later as a student of George Loring Brown (1814–1889), a portrait and landscape…
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41 Works, June 30th. is Stanley Spencer’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #177
Painting such as Villagers and Saints articulate Spencer’s unique understanding of Christianity. In the work, Spencer combines the religious and the ordinary — the villagers are connecting to the saintly and spiritual world, while the saints exist in the physical world. By blurring the lines between the heavenly and the earthly, Spencer elevates the ordinary activities that…
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22 Works, June 29th. is François-Auguste Biard’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #176
François-Auguste Biard, born François Thérèse Biard (29 June 1799–20 June 1882) was a French painter, known for his adventurous travels and the works depicting his experiences. He was born in Lyon. Although his parents intended for him to join the clergy, he spent most of his time learning to paint, beginning at a wallpaper factory…
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21 Works, June 28th. is Otto Pilny’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #175
Otto Pilny (28 June 1866–22 July 1936) was a Swiss painter who specialized in Orientalist genre scenes. Some of the first nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings were intended as propaganda in support of French imperialism, depicting the East as a place of backwardness, lawlessness, or barbarism enlightened and tamed by French rule… Please follow link for full…
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15 Works, June 27th. is Reyer van Blommendael’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #174
The parable of the Good Samaritan is a didactic story told by Jesus in Luke 10:25–37. It is about a traveler who is stripped of clothing, beaten, and left half dead alongside the road. First a priest and then a Levite comes by, but both avoid the man. Finally, a Samaritan comes by. Samaritans and…
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20 Works, June 26th. is Pierre-Jules Jollivet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #173
According to the second chapter of Genesis, Eve was created by God (Yahweh) by taking her from the rib of Adam, to be Adam’s companion. Pierre-Jules Jollivet (26 June 1794, Paris — 7 September 1871, Paris) was a French painter and lithographer who worked mostly in the Romantic style and is largely known for genre scenes. Please…
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15 Works, June 25th. is Robert Scott Lauder’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #172
Robert Scott Lauder RSA (25 June 1803–21 April 1869) was a Scottish artist who described himself as a “historical painter”. He was one of the original members of the Royal Scottish Academy… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, June 24th. is Jan Matejko’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #171
Wernyhora is a legendary 18th century Cossack bard who prophetized the fall of Poland and its subsequent rebirth and flourishing, “from Black to White sea”. He has been a subject of several folklore tales and poems, particularly in the 19th century romanticism in Poland. More on Wernyhora Jan Alojzy Matejko (also known as Jan Mateyko;…
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17 Works, June 23rd. is John Reinhard Weguelin’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #170
John Reinhard Weguelin RWS ROI (23 June 1849–28 April 1927) was an English painter and illustrator, active from 1877 to after 1910. He specialized in figurative paintings with lush backgrounds, typically landscapes or garden scenes. Weguelin emulated the neo-classical style of Edward Poynter and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painting subjects inspired by classical antiquity and mythology. He…
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15 Works, June 22nd. is Ditlev Blunck’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #169
Sex, euphoria and even life and death are all cast alongside one another in this nightmarish painting from 1846. A messy room is illuminated by the first morning rays of light. The clock hands show that it is past six in the morning and a four-poster bed’s dressing has become a stage curtain framing the…
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36 Works, June 21th. is Henry Ossawa Tanner’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #168
In this rendering of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child, Mary appears melancholy and lost in thought. The infant is almost completely covered by a shroud-like cloth, suggesting a foreshadowing of Jesus’ death. Tanner paid careful attention to details studied first-hand in Jerusalem, where he first traveled in 1898. Tanner was painstaking when it…
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22 Works, June 20th. is Konstantin Makovsky’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #167
At the time of Ivan the Terrible, women used to be kept indoors, sheltered from interactions with strangers. The only exceptions allowed were with friends and highly regarded guests during a kissing ceremony. This rite usually meant that the host’s spouse would sip wine from a goblet, bow, and then pass it to the guest.…
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16 works, June 19th. is Peter Nicolai Arbo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #167
Mór Than (19 June 1828–11 March 1899) was a Hungarian painter. During his law studies in Pest, he took up painting at Miklós Barabás. He was Artúr Görgei de Görgő et Toporc war drawer, a Hungarian military leader renowned for being one of the greatest generals of the Hungarian Revolutionary Army… Please follow link for…
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14 Works, June 18th. is Peter Nicolai Arbo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #166
The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, in England, on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada and the English king’s brother Tostig Godwinson. After a bloody battle, both Hardrada and Tostig, along with most…
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12 Works, June 17th. is Francisco Oller’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #165
Oller’s earliest surviving European painting, below, evinces the duality informing much of his work: It depicts a woman bullfighter in Madrid — an anomaly in a male-dominated field, incongruously placed in a Caribbean setting. You could take the painter out of Puerto Rico, but you often couldn’t take Puerto Rico out of the paintings (palm trees, upper…
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21 Works, June 16th. is Pavle “Paja” Jovanović’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #164
The original oil painting shows a wounded youth surrounded by ten peasants in a humble, single-room dwelling. The peasants wear hand-sewn shirts, rough leggings and leather shoes. They stand over a dirt floor, and in the background, a collection of eating utensils hang precariously from a makeshift shelf. The youth is cradled in the arms…
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37 Works, June 15th. is Jacek Malczewski’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #163
Sunday in the Mine from 1882 is one of many paintings by Jacek Malczewski — realistic, symbolist, expressionist — devoted to the martyrdom of Polish exiles, including participants of subsequent national uprisings, in Siberia. The Siberian series painted by Malczewski in the years 1877–1895 includes scenes from stages, prisons, mines and places of exile. Sunday in the Mine — additionally emphasizes…
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22 Works, Today, June 14th. is John Frederick Lewis’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #162
Leaving Rome early in 1840, Lewis travelled to Constantinople, seeing Albania, Corfu, Athens and Smyrna en route. He spent the best part of a year in the Levant, but in November 1841, at the age of thirty-six, he sailed for Egypt. John Frederick Lewis RA (London 14 July 1804–15 August 1876) was a British Orientalist…
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10 Works, Today, June 13th. is Jan Victors’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #161
After curing Tobit’s blindness, returning the family’s wealth, and making it possible for Tobit’s son Tobias to marry his beloved Sarah, the Archangel Raphael has dropped his disguise and revealed himself as an angel, saying, “I was not acting on my own will, but by the will of God.” Such a scene of miraculous intervention…
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09 Works, Today, June 12th. is Pierre Henri Révoil’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #160
Pierre Révoil aimed to create a detailed reconstruction of a mediaeval tournament. He chose to depict a jousting tournament which took place in Rennes in 1337, which was famous for the participation of the young Bertrand Duguesclin in anonymous armour, despite his father prohibiting it. The painter chose the moment at which the last man…
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