Tag: Fine Art
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16 Works, Today, June 11th. is Joseph Heintz the Elder’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #159
Proserpina, or Proserpine is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were based on those of Greek Persephone and her mother Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and agriculture. The Romans identified Proserpina with their native fertility goddess Libera, daughter of the grain and agriculture goddess Ceres and wife to Liber. Venus, in…
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27 Works, Today, June 10th. is Gustave Courbet’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #158
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819–31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists… Please follow link for full post
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24 Works, Today, June 9th. is Michael Peter Ancher’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #158
Michael Ancher was very fascinated by the fishermen. They put their lives on the line when they fished or when they worked as rescuers. Here a group of fishermen are seen pushing a boat into a very turbulent sea. Their family and friends are standing on the beach and probably hoping that everything goes well…
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17 Works, Today, June 8th. is John Everett Millais’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #157
An armored knight, still in his riding boots and accompanied by his page in mud-splattered stockings, seems to have hastily gotten off his horse to meet for this ransom exchange. The knight’s daughters embrace him while he tries to hand over precious jewels, but their arms are still being held by the kidnapper, whose plainer…
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20 Works, Today, June 7th. is Anton Maulbertsch’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #156
After the death of Sarah, Isaac, her son, was lonely; and as he was now old enough to marry, Abraham went about finding a wife for Isaac, who was already 37 years old. He commanded his servant, Eliezer of Damascus, to journey to his birthplace of Aram Naharaim to select a bride from his own…
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16 Works, Today, June 6th. is Diego Velázquez’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #155
Traditionally, it was believed that the painting depicted women workers in the tapestry workshop of Santa Isabel. In 1948, however, Diego Angula observed that the iconography suggested Ovid’s Fable of Arachne, the story of the mortal Arachne who dared to challenge the goddess Athena to a weaving competition and, on winning the contest, was turned…
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06 Paintings, Streets of Rome, 18th & 19th Century, by the Artists of the time, with footnotes. 4
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18 Works, Today, June 5th. is Vincenzo Marinelli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #154
In this work there is an atmosphere of fascinating exoticism, given by the depiction of distant lands lived with full romantic sensitivity by the artist. Marinelli later travelled first to Greece, where he worked for King Otto of Bavaria. He then went to Egypt, where he carried out works for the Viceroy Said Pasha. He…
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19 Works, Today, June 4th. is Sergey Ivanov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #153
The East Slavs practiced “slash-and-burn” agricultural methods which took advantage of the extensive forests in which they settled. This method of agriculture involved clearing tracts of forest with fire, cultivating it and then moving on after a few years. Slash and burn agriculture requires frequent movement, because soil cultivated in this manner only yields good…
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23 Works, Today, June 3rd. is William Hilton’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #152
The Massacre of the Innocents is the incident in the nativity narrative of the Gospel of Matthew in which Herod the Great, king of Judea, orders the execution of all male children two years old and under in the vicinity of Bethlehem. The Catholic Church regards them as the first Christian martyrs. A majority of…
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24 Works, Today, June 2nd. is Charles Landelle’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #151
Catholic women and children in prayer with nuns in the background. Zacharie Charles Landelle (2 June 1821–13 October 1908) was a French painter who specialized in portraits. He is best known for his Orientalist works. He was born in Laval, where his father was employed by the préfecture. In 1827, his family moved to Paris…
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16 Works, Today, June1st. is Maerten van Heemskerck’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #150
Maerten van Heemskerck or Marten Jacobsz Heemskerk van Veen (1 June 1498–1 October 1574) was a Dutch portrait and religious painter, who spent most of his career in Haarlem. He was a pupil of Jan van Scorel, and adopted his teacher’s Italian-influenced style. He spent the years 1532–6 in Italy. He produced many designs for…
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26 Works, Today, May 31st. is Walter Richard Sickert’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #149
Walter Richard Sickert (Born Munich, 31 May 1860; died Bathampton, Somerset, 22 January 1942), was a British painter, printmaker, teacher, and critic, one of the most important figures of his time in British art. He was born in Germany of a Danish-German father and an Anglo-Irish mother and his outlook was appropriately cosmopolitan. The family…
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26 Works, Today, May 30th. is Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #148
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892 — April 24, 1972) was one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Amorsolo is best known for his illuminated…
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12 Works, Today, May 29th. is Theodor Leopold Weller’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #147
Theodor Leopold Weller (29 May 1802 in Mannheim — 10 December 1880 in Mannheim) was a German genre painter and a major representative of the Munich School… Please follow link for full post
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24 Works, Today, May 28th. is Hans Makart’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #146
Hans Makart (28 May 1840–3 October 1884) was a 19th-century Austrian academic history painter, designer, and decorator. He is best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt and other Austrian artists, but in his own era he was considered an important artist himself and a celebrity figure in the high culture of Vienna and attended…
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14 Works, Today, May 27th. is Giovanni Antonio Guardi’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #145
This painting illustrates a scene from Torquato Tasso’s canto XIX of Jerusalem Delivered. See more below Giovanni Antonio Guardi (1699–23 January 1760), also known as Gianantonio Guardi, was an Italian painter and nobleman. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756… Please follow link for full post
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19 Works, Today, May 26th. is Philippe de Champaigne’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #144
The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his Apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper provides the scriptural basis for the Eucharist, also known as “Holy Communion” or “The Lord’s Supper”. The four canonical Gospels all state that the Last Supper took place towards the…
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11 Works, Today, May 25th. is Carlo Dolci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #143
In this intimate copper, destined for private devotion, we find the Magdalene repenting in the wilderness, her alluring nakedness reminding us of her unchaste past. Her breasts are exposed and the blue folds of her robes reveal her leg up to the thigh in a scene that, for all its allusion to the vanity of…
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17 Works, Today, May 24th. is Pontormo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #142
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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