Tag: Fine Art
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03 Works, Today, March 26th, is Saint Castulus’ Day, With Footnotes – #84
Saint Castulus (died 286) is venerated as a martyr. According to tradition, he was the chamberlain (or officer, valet) of Emperor Diocletian and the husband of Saint Irene of Rome. Castulus was an officer who oversaw the household and palace for Emperor Diocletian, who was actively persecuting Christians. He is described as a quiet but zealous…
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Tom Wesselmann, Great American Nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 69
Tom Wesselmann (1931–2004) was one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s. Departing from Abstract Expressionism, he explored classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape, while incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera. Wesselmann was drafted into the US Army in 1952, two years into the Korean War. During his military service, he…
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Tamineh Monzavi; Brides of Mokhber al-Dowleh, 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #84
“The brides of Mokhber al-Dowleh”, is named after an old Teheran district Tahmineh Monzavi is an Iranian photographer. Her works have been exhibited in museums in several countries, and published by international art magazines and books. She received the Sheed Award in 2011. Monzavi received a bachelor’s degree in photography from Azad Art & Architecture University…
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07 Works, Today, March 24th, is St. Gabriel the Archangel’s Day, With Footnotes – #82
Gabriel, in the Abrahamic religions, is an archangel. He was first described in the Hebrew Bible and was subsequently adopted by other traditions. In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions. The archangel appears in such other ancient Jewish writings as the Book of Enoch. Alongside archangel Michael, Gabriel…
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Eugène Galien-Laloue, Communiantes a Paris 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
Communicants are people who partake or are entitled to partake of the Eucharist; a member of a church. Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist of French-Italian parents and was born in Paris on December 11, 1854. He was a populariser of street scenes, usually painted in autumn or winter. His paintings of the early 1900s accurately represent…
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GARRY SHEAD, THE MEASURING ARTIST 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Garry Shead is an Australian artist and filmmaker. Shead trained at the National Art School, Sydney between 1961 and 1962. He originally worked in media, as an editor of publications related to Oz Magazine and as a scenic artist and film editor for the ABC during the 1960’s. Shead has exhibited in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and…
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Rokni Haerizadeh, UNTITLED, RECLINING NUDE 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #14
Rokni Haerizadeh (born 1978) is an Iranian artist living and working in Dubai. He participated in the Carnegie International in 2013. With wit and irony, Rokni Haerizadeh’s exuberant paintings, works on paper, and stop-motion animations incorporate a prodigious range of visual tropes and influences to address contemporary politics in his native Iran and beyond. In But…
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04 Works, Today, March 21st, is Saint Lea’s Day, With Footnotes – #80
Saint Lea (died c. 383) is a fourth-century saint in the Roman Catholic Church based on the authority of Jerome. Lea of Rome is known only through the testimony of her beloved friend, the learned Saint Jerome. Jerome, a scholarly monk best known for his Latin translation of the Bible, is the Church’s only source of…
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Jules Frédéric Ballavoine, Portrait of Gypsy 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY with Footnotes. #84
The Gypsy, or Romani, colloquially known as Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally itinerant, living mostly in Europe and the Americas. The Romani originate from the northern Indian subcontinent,from the Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab regions of modern-day India. More on the Gypsy Julles Frederick Ballavoine, American, 1855 – 1901, was born in Paris in 1855 and died in 1901.…
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Georges Clairin, PILGRIMAGE BY THE MOSQUE 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in their time, with footnotes, 79
Georges Jules Victor Clairin (11 September 1843, Paris – Pouldu, Clohars-Carnoët 2 September 1919) was a French Oriental painter and illustrator. He was influenced by oriental painting and Moorish architecture, and visited North Africa many times, in particular Morocco and Egypt. In Paris he led the life of a socialite, and befriended the glamorous actress Sarah…
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05 Works, Today, March 20th, is Saint Cuthbert’s Day, With Footnotes – #78
Saint Cuthbert, (born 634/635, died March 20, 687, islet of Inner Farne), bishop of the great Benedictine abbey of Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) one of the most venerated English saints, who evangelized Northumbria and was posthumously hailed as a wonder-worker. After a divine vision, Cuthbert, a shepherd, entered the Northumbrian monastery of Melrose under Abbot St.…
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Peter-Wilhelm Klasen, Nude/Circuit Breaker on Blue 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 68
Peter-Wilhelm Klasen is a German painter, photographer and sculptor, born in Lübeck in 1935. Klasen grew up in a family sensitive to the arts. He started drawing and paining at a very young age. He learnt the techniques of lithography and the airbrushing. Industrial themes mark his work. one can discover in his paintings elements…
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Flemish painter; Saint Gertrude of Nivelles 04 Works, Today, March 17th, is St. Gertrude of Nivelles’ Day, With Footnotes – #75
Gertrude of Nivelles, Virgin, and Abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles; born in 626; died 17 March, 659. She was born into a well-connected noble family. But she didn’t stick to the script that most noble women were made to follow in her era. One day, when she was about ten years of old,…
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03 Works, Today, March 16th, is St. Aristobulus’s Day, With Footnotes – #74
Aristobulus of Britannia is a Christian saint named by Hippolytus of Rome (170-235) and Dorotheus of Gaza (505-565) as one of the Seventy Disciples mentioned in Luke 10:1–24 and as the first bishop in Roman Britain. Aristobulus preached and died in Roman Britain. While some orthodox traditions say he “died in peace”, others say he was…
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Renato Guttuso, Marta Marzotto 02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, meet Marta Marzotto, with Footnotes. #83
Marta Marzotto , born Marta Vacondio ( Albinea , 24 February 1931 – Milan , 29 July 2016 ), was a model , stylist and Italian socialite, and also an actress. Her mother was a signalwoman on a toll road and worked in the textile industry. Her father was a railway worker. As a girl…
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