Tag: footnotes
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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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Martín Rico y Ortega, VENETIAN CANAL, SAN VIDAL IN THE DISTANCE 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, with foot notes. #75
San Vidal is a former church, and now an event and concert hall located at one end of the Campo Santo Stefano in the Sestiere of San Marco, where it leads into the campiello San Vidal, and from there to the Ponte dell’Accademia that spans the Grand Canal and connects to the Sestiere of Dorsoduro, Venice,…
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Edouard Verschaffelt, Fantasia 01 Orientalist Painting , with footnotes, 50
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the…
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Paula Bronstein; wo women taking a selfie 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #82
wo women were photographed taking a selfie on the Talo Kapo beach in Pattani, Thailand, on June 5th, during Eid al-Fitr festivities. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting, prayer, and reflection for Muslims. Artsy Magazine Paula Bronstein is a photojournalist who entered the profession in 1982 in Providence, Rhode Island. She is…
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Willy Aractingi, UNTITLED, 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #13
Willy Aractingi, (Lebanese, 1930-2003) was born in New York in 1930, Aractingi was raised in Cairo, studied in Grasse, before finally settling in Beirut in the late 1940s. Aractingi undertook painting at a very young age. His works are often differentiated by his use of unique colour gradations, bold pigments and recurring use of nature. Aractingi’s…
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William Lentz Weiss; Boston Harbor Scene 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #257
Boston Harbor is a natural harbor and estuary of Massachusetts Bay, and is located adjacent to the city of Boston, Massachusetts. It is home to the Port of Boston, a major shipping facility in the northeastern United States. Since its discovery to Europeans by John Smith in 1614,[2] Boston Harbor has been an important port…
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Philip Pearlstein, Seated nude 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 67
Philip Pearlstein, born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA, is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art…
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06 Works, Today, March 13th, is Saint Christina of Tyre’s Day, With Footnotes – #71
Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century… Please follow link for full post
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Ali Banisadr , STARDUST 01 Painting, Middle East Artists, with Footnotes, #11
Ali Banisadr is an Iranian-born artist from New York City working primarily with oil painting. Banisadr was ranked #1 in Flash Art’s Top 100 Artists of 2011 Originally, from Tehran Banisadr moved with his family when he was twelve to San Diego, in the United States. He moved to New York in 2000 to study a…
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