Tag: footnotes
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10 Works, Today, April 17th, is Pope Alexander I of Alexandria’s day, With Footnotes – #103
Alexander I of Alexandria, 19th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. During his patriarchate, he dealt with a number of issues facing the Church in that day. These included the dating of Easter, the actions of Meletius of Lycopolis, and the issue of greatest substance, Arianism… Please follow link…
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Leslie A. Wilcox; The American Clipper ”Mischief” 01 Marine Painting – Edward William Cooke, With Footnotes, #268
Mischief was an extreme clipper ship built in 1853 by James M. Hood, at Somerset, MA. Dimensions 144’/146’×29’×16’6″ and tonnage 548 tons/560,69 tons; reported to have had the sharpest ends of any clipper at the time. Mischief was employed in the California/China trade. In command of Captain Martin Townsend. Mischief was damaged off Cape Horn and…
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John Baldessari; Untitled 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 78
John Anthony Baldessari, (born June 17, 1931, National City, California, U.S.), American artist whose work in altered and adjusted photographic imagery and video were central to the development of conceptual art in the United States. Baldessari received a B.A. at San Diego State College (SDSC; now San Diego State University) in 1953 and attended the University…
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04 Works, Today, April 16th, is Mary Brant’s day, With Footnotes – #102
Mary Brant, (born 1736?—died April 16, 1796, Kingston, Ontario [Canada]), Native American leader, an influential and effective Iroquois ally to Great Britain in the American Revolution and later a founder of Kingston, Ontario. Brant was of the Mohawk tribe, the daughter of a sachem (chief). Sometime in the late 1750s she came to the attention…
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Linda Weir; St Ives harbour 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #288
St Ives is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England, UK. The town lies on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular holiday resort, notably achieving…
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Lalla Essaydi; Harem Revisited 01 Painting by Orientalist Artist Lalla Essaydi, with footnotes, #53
Moroccan born photographer Lalla Essaydi explores Arab female identity by hand-painting Arabic calligraphy in henna on different surfaces such as female bodies, fabric and walls. Through her compositions, Essaydi references nineteenth century Orientalist style and rejects traditional objectified representations of Arab women. The artist critiques French painters such as Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Eugène Delacroix who often painted…
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Carlos Nadal, (La plage/The Beach 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #267
Carlos Nadal (24 April 1917 – 6 June 1998) was a Spanish painter of the Fauvist school Nadal was born in Paris on 24 April 1917, but moved to Barcelona in 1921. His father, Santiago Nadal had a commercial design studio, where Carlos learnt to paint, and met modern artists including Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and…
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Alvin Booth; Untitled (Female Nude), New York City, 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 77
Alvin Booth is a New York based artist, originally from Hull, England.His work revels both in the intrinsic beauty of the human form, and in the mutations of that beauty. Using the body’s malleability and gravity as a palate, Booth creates a landscape that is at times attractively familiar and at times seductively surreal.Booth’s photographs use…
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Antoine Malliarakis Mayo, L’INDISCRET/ INDISCREET 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #19
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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Jean Dufy, PARIS, MONTMARTRE 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Part 68 – With Footnotes
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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Edward William Cooke, A riverside town 01 Marine Painting, With Footnotes, #266
Edward William Cooke, R.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. (27 March 1811 – 4 January 1880) was an English landscape and marine painter, and gardener. Cooke was born in Pentonville, London. He was raised in the company of artists. He was a precocious draughtsman and a skilled engraver from an early age, displayed an equal preference for…
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Edwin Longsden Long, Egyptian Beauty 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Egyptian Beauty, with Footnotes. #88
Long visited Cairo in 1875 during an extensive trip to Egypt and Syria which began in 1874. This was a turning point in his career when he began to paint scenes of Babylonian and Egyptian history rather than his earlier Spanish subject. Edwin Longsden Long RA (12 July 1829 – 15 May 1891) was an English…
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Charles Camoin, Portrait of Jeanne Loviton, known as Jean Voilier 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #87
Jean Voilier, whose real name is Jeanne Loviton , Was a French publisher and novelist. Jeanne Loviton was born on April 1st, 1903 in Paris, of unknown father. Her mother was an artist known as Denise Fleury. In 1913 she married the publisher Ferdinand Loviton who adopts Jean the same year. Jeanne wass a high…
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Federico del Campo, A View of The Scuola Grande di San Marco, 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #77
The Scuola Grande di San Marco is a building in Venice. It was originally the home to one of the Scuole Grandi of Venice, or six major confraternities, but is now the city’s hospital. It faces the Campo San Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest squares in the city. The edifice was built by the…