Tag: Fine Art
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15 Works, Today, May 2nd. is artist Charles Gleyre’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #121
The Bacchae; also known as The Bacchantes is an ancient Greek tragedy. The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus. The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to…
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24 Works, Today, May 1st. is artist Jules Breton’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #120
Since ancient times, peasants have celebrated the longest days of summer with festivities. This dance around a fire marks the feast of Saint John the Baptist on June 24, an important occasion in France. Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827–5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French Naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced…
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30 Works, Today, April 30th. is artist Olaf Wieghorst’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #119
Olaf Wieghorst (April 30, 1899 — April 27, 1988) was a Danish-American painter who specialized in depictions of the American frontier. His art was in the vein of Frederic Remington and Charles Russell. In 1992, he was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum… Please follow link for full…
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09 Works, Today, April 29th. is artist Pedro Américo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #118
The Battle of Acosta Ñu or Campo Grande was a battle during the Paraguayan War, fought on August 16, 1869, between the Triple Alliance and Paraguay. The 3,500 poorly armed Paraguayans, mostly boys between nine and 15 years old, many wearing false beards, old men and wounded combatants, confronted 20,000 Brazilian veteran soldiers. The Allied…
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30 Works, Today, April 28th. is artist Hugues Merle’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #117
The woman’s face is a mask of suffering while she cradles, not a sleeping baby, but a wooden log! The figure’s anguish is a hallmark of Romanticism, a style that emphasized images of suffering, madness, and death. These images were often thinly veiled allusions to broader social suffering or political upheavals. Merle painted The Lunatic…
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32 Works, Today, April 26th. is artist Eugène Delacroix’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #115
Stigmata, in Christianity, are the appearance of bodily wounds, scars and pain in locations corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ, such as the hands, wrists and feet. An individual bearing the wounds of stigmata is a stigmatist or a stigmatic. More on Stigmatization Albert von Keller (27 April 1844–14 July 1920) was a…
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28 Works, Today, April 26th. is artist Eugène Delacroix’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #115
Liberty Leading the People commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman of the people with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept of Liberty leads a varied group of people forward over a barricade and the bodies of the fallen, holding the flag of the French Revolution — the tricolour,…
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16 Works, Today, April 25th. is artist Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #114
Hagar is a biblical person in the Book of Genesis Chapter 16. She was an Egyptian handmaid of Sarah, who gave her to Abraham “to wife” to bear a child. The product of the union was Abraham’s firstborn, Ishmael, the progenitor of the Ishmaelites. After Sarah gave birth to Isaac, and the tension between the…
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14 Works, Today, April 24th. is artist Viktor Oliva’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #113
Viktor Oliva (24 April 1861–5 April 1928) was a Czech painter and illustrator. Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Today, April 26th, is Saint Alda Gambara’s day, With Footnotes – #116
Altobello Melone (c. 1490–1491 — before 3 May 1543) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance. His work merges Lombard and Mannerist styles. He was commissioned in December 1516 to fresco the Cathedral of Cremona, work which continued till 1518. His contract required that his frescoes be more beautiful than his predecessor, Boccaccio Boccaccino. He worked alongside…
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15 Works, Today, April 23rd. is artist Alfred Dehodencq’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #112
Dehodencq’s large and lavish rendition of the annual Hajj (pilgrimage) en route to Mecca is an especially magnificent and wonderfully detailed painting of the subject by a Western artist. The landscape is not specific, but the shoreline might suggest a location on the Red Sea, south of Aqaba. At the centre of the enfilade of…
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12 Works, Today, April 25th, is St. Mark’s day, With Footnotes – #115
Andrea Mantegna ( c. 1431 — September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence…
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14 Works, Today, April 22nd. is artist José de Madrazo y Agudo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #111
Helios, in ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god and personification of the Sun, often depicted in art with a radiant crown and driving a horse-drawn chariot through the sky. He was a guardian of oaths and also the god of sight. More on Helios José de Madrazo y Agudo (22 April 1781–8 May…
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13 Works, Today, April 21st is artist Annibale Carracci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #110
Armida is a fictional character created by the Italian late Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso. She is a Saracen sorceress. In his epic Gerusalemme liberata, Rinaldo is a fierce and determined warrior who is also honorable and handsome. Armida has been sent to stop the Christians from completing their mission and is about to murder the…
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20 Works, Today, April 20th is artist Carl Haag’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #109
Carl Haag (20 April 1820–24 January 1915) was a Bavarian-born painter who became a naturalized British subject and was court painter to the duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. Haag was born in Erlangen, in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and was trained in the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg and at Munich. He initially practised as…
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12 Works, Today, April 19th is artist Emanuel Krescenc Liška’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #108
Fox, Emanuel Krescenc (19 April 1852, in Mikulovice — 18 January 1903, in Prague) was a Bohemian painter and illustrator. Most of his works were on religious themes, but he also created scenes from works of poetry… Please follow link for full post
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17 Works, Today, April 16th is artist Ford Madox Brown’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #105
The Roman fort of Mamucium was established by 78 AD at a site overlooking the confluence of the rivers Irwell and Medlock. This was a timber fort with earthen ramparts for an auxiliary cohort of infantry of around 500 men. The fort went through several phase of rebuilding and around 160 AD was extended on…
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20 Works, Today, April 14th is artist Leonardo da Vinci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #104
Depicted people: Virgin Mary and Gabriel The painting is set in front of a Renaissance palace, in a luxuriant enclosed garden that evokes the purity of Mary, the Archangel Gabriel kneels before the Virgin, greeting her and offering her a lily. The Virgin responds, sitting with great dignity in front of a lectern on which…
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