Tag: footnotes
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Ian Hansen, Tall Ship at Sea 01 Marine Painting – Ian Hansen, With Footnotes, #273
Ian Hansen, born in South Australia in 1948, spent his childhood years on the shores of Hervey Bay. It was here that his deep love of the sea and ships began. By the age of eight, he was actively painting with watercolours, moving to oils when he was eleven. His first oil work still hangs…
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Glen Robert Preece, ngel and the Devil’s Chorus 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 127
Glen Preece (b.1957), started painting when he was 10 when he sold his first 3 paintings in an exhibition in Sydney. During his later studies in Sydney he was initially condemned by his tutors as too traditional but his talent was quickly recognized by the late John Brackenreg. A hugely influential figure in the Australian Fine…
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Cologne School, The Lamentation of Christ 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 127
The Lamentation of Christ is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body. This event has been depicted by many different artists. Lamentation works are very often included in cycles…
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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, he Basque Port of Guetaria 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #272
Getaria is a coastal town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain. This coastal village is located on the Urola Coast, with Zarautz to the east and Zumaia to the west. Getaria is known for being Juan Sebastián Elcano’s hometown, a seaman well-known for being…
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05 Works, Today, April 29th, is Saint Endelienta’s day, With Footnotes – #119
Saint Endelienta was a Cornish saint of the 5th and 6th century. She is believed to be a daughter of the Welsh King Brychan, and a native of South Wales who travelled to North Cornwall to join her siblings in converting the locals to Christianity… Please follow link for full post
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ANTOINE MALLIARAKIS MAYO, HARMONY 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #22
Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, was born in 1905 in Egypt, the son of a Greek engineer and a French mother. Although he kept a Greek passport throughout his life, he was culturally French and lived in France for half of his life after leaving Egypt. He came to France to study architecture but started frequenting artistic circles in…
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Emile Henri Bernard, Le Repos à Tonnerre 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 82
Tonnerre is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France, seen in through the window in the background. Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul…
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Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Boats at Sea 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #271
Hendrik Willem Mesdag (23 February 1831 – 10 July 1915) was a Dutch marine painter born in Groningen. Mesdag was encouraged by his father, an amateur painter, to study art. He married Sina van Houten in 1856, and when they inherited a fortune from her father, Mesdag retired at the age of 35 to pursue a career…
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Eugen de Blaas, The courtship, 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Eugene de Blaas, (24 July 1843 – 10 February 1932), was an Italian painter in the school known as Academic Classicism. He was born at Albano, near Rome, to Austrian parents. His father Karl, also a painter, was his teacher. The family moved to Venice when Karl became Professor at the Academy of Venice. He…
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Edward Dwurnik, Leda 01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, with footnotes #27
Leda, in Greek legend, usually believed to be the daughter of Thestius, king of Aetolia, and wife of Tyndareus, king of Lacedaemon. She was also believed to have been the mother (by Zeus, who had approached and seduced her in the form of a swan) of the other twin, Pollux, and of Helen, both of…
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05 Works, Today, April 26th, is Saint Alda Gambara’s day, With Footnotes – #116
Saint Alda, (c. 1249 – c. 1309), was born in Siena, the daughter of the noble Pedro Francisco Ponzi and Inês Bulgarini, whom God had shown in a dream that he had chosen the child for Himself. After being carefully educated and instructed, she was given as a wife to a man “virtutibus ornatissimus” – decorated…
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12 Works, Today, April 25th, is St. Mark’s day, With Footnotes – #115
St. Mark was an African native who belonged to the Levites’ tribe. His family moved to Jerusalem with their child John Mark. Apparently, he was given a good education and became conversant in both Greek and Latin in addition to Hebrew. His family was highly religious and in close relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.…