Tag: fineart
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47 Ancient Egyptian Artefacts – The Story of the Middle Kingdom, 2000 BC and 1700 BC – With footnotes – 4 –
The Middle Kingdom of Egypt (also known as The Period of Reunification) is the period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC, stretching from the establishment of the Eleventh Dynasty to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty, although some writers include the Thirteenth and Fourteenth dynasties. During this period,…
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02 Works, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities by Patrick Palmer, with footnotes #26
“I have left a lot of the painting unfinished — or even left out altogether in places — to maintain the focal point (the face) and to keep the simple key lines and design working together.” Patrick Palmer “Triptych inspired by the 3 muses. Whilst an element of realism is important, I try to move beyond artistic convention and…
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18 Works, February 28th. is artist Dixie Selden’s day, her story, illustrated with footnotes #059
Brittany is a peninsula, historical country, and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as…
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18 Works, Today, February 22nd. is artist Antoine Joseph Wiertz’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #053
Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806–18 June 1865) was a Belgian romantic painter and sculptor… Please follow link for full post
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15 Works, February 21st. is artist Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #052
In this small painting commissioned by the subject’s nephew, Prince Napoleon, the emperor is portrayed in a forbidding landscape just after his last, hard-won victory in the 1814 French campaign that was fought at Arcis-sur-Aube, near Troyes: 23,000 French troops withstood the onslaught of 90,000 Austrians, but were unable to capitalize on their victory. More…
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13 Works, February 15th. is artist Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #046
Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (15 February 1831–13 June 1 June 1894) was a Russian realist painter and an early Russian symbolist. He was famous for his works on historical and religious subjects. Nikolai Ge was born to a Russian noble family of French origin. His grandfather who was a French nobleman immigrated to the Russian Empire…
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10 Works, February 12th. is artist Adolphe Yvon’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #043
Adolphe Yvon (1817–1893) was a French painter known for his paintings of the Napoleonic Wars. Yvon studied under Paul Delaroche, rose to fame during the Second Empire, then finished his career as a teacher. Shortly after the end of the Crimean War in September 1855, Yvon was commissioned by the French government to paint a…
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16 Works, February 7th. is artist Henry Fuseli’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #038
The painting depicts the pivotal moment in Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth (act 1, scene 3) when the protagonist encounters a demonic trio of witches who foretell his fate. Fuseli revels in the play’s ominous mood, tripling the motif of hooded head, extended hand, and sealed lips of the mannish figures, whose appearance is taken directly from…
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18 Works, Today, February 4th. is artist Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #035
Alexander Antonovich Rizzoni, or Alessandro Rizzoni (4 February 1836, in Riga — 29 April 1902, in Rome) was a Russian painter of portraits and genre scenes; mostly on Catholic themes. He was born to an Italian family of artisans. He received his first lessons from his brother Pavel (1822–1913), who was also an artist. In 1852, he…
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08 Carvings, Olympian deities, Classical Sculpture of Greek and Roman religion, Sculpture, with footnotes, #2
Cephalus is a name, used both for the hero-figure in Greek mythology, and carried as a theophoric name by historical persons. The word kephalos is Greek for “head”, perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding “head” of a great family that includes Odysseus. It could be that Cephalus means the head of the Sun…
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26 Works, December 11th. is Johann Michael Rottmayr’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #247
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare’s first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral,…
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24 Works, December 9th. is Leopold Müller’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #246
Leopold Carl Müller (9 December 1834–4 August 1892) was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works. Born in Dresden to Austrian, he was a pupil of Karl von Blaas and of Christian Ruben at the Academy in Vienna. Obliged to support his family after his father’s death, he worked eight years as an…
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28 Works, December 5th. is Edward Henry Corbould’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #245
The curious painting was inspired by an apocryphal episode in the life of the gallant and unfortunate Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey — courtier, soldier and poet at the court of Henry VIII, who was captivated by the childish beauty of Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, known as ‘the fair Geraldine’, and to whose service he had devoted his…
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28 Works, November 26th. is Zinaida Serebriakova’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #243
Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (30 November] 1884–20 September 1967) was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Ukraine) into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire. Her earliest works, Country Girl (1906, Russian Museum) and Orchard in Bloom (1908, private collection), speak eloquently of her acute awareness of the…
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17 Works, November 26th. is Giuseppe Bezzuolis day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #242
The painting depicts a scene from Florentine history. On the 17th of November 1494, following his conquest of the Kingdom of Naples, King of France Charles VIII made his entrance into Florence as ruler. Because of his isolation and lack of allies, Piero de’ Medici, the son of Lorenzo the Magnificent who ruled the city…
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14 Works, November 26th. is Antonio Carneo’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #241
Depicting a young man who compresses his bowels in the presence of a group of bystanders who follow his spasms with apprehension or try to help him, it is described ab antiquo with the title with which it is still remembered today. However, since it is difficult to represent a generic poisoning scene (provoked or…
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12 Works, November 22st. is Charles Meynier’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #240
Charles Meynier (1763 or 1768, Paris — 1832, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects in the late 18th and early 19th century. He was a contemporary of Antoine-Jean Gros und Jacques-Louis David… Please follow link for full post
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11 Works, November 22st. is Consuelo Fould’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #239
Consuelo Fould, born November 22, 1862, in Cologne (Germany), arrived in France in 1864, with her parents, Valérie Simonin and Gustave Fould. She trained very young with her mother, a former actress who practiced sculpture with Mathieu-Meunier, also professor of Sarah Berhnardt… Please follow link for full post
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12 Works, November 21st. is Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #238
The picture is a concentrate of observations on travels 1869–70 and 1874–75 to Turkey, Greece and Egypt and must be described as one of Jerichau Baumann’s masterpieces. It is carried by a sensuality and coloristic boldness that is atypical of the Danish art of the period, but less marked by the pointed ethnocentrism that characterizes…
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19 Works, November 19th. is Louis de Boullogne’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #237
This painting illustrates an episode taken from Ovid’s Metamorphoses (I, 464–577). Falling in love with the nymph Daphne, determined to remain chaste, Apollo pursues her in the woods. Begging her father, the river god Peneus, to deliver her, Daphne is then transformed into a laurel. Louis de Boullogne produced a first illustration of the theme,…
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