Tag: footnotes
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Edgar Yaeger, Trans Atlantic 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #256
Edgar Louis Yaeger (1904–1997) was an American modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan. Yaeger studied at the Detroit School of Fine and Applied Arts, by which he was awarded the Founder’s Society Purchase Prize. Subsequently, with the backing of the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Traveling Scholarship, Yaeger embarked on a study tour of eight European countries, from France…
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05 Works, Today, March 10th, is Saint Quadratu’s Day, With Footnotes – #68
During a persecution against Christians,in the third century, a woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon afterward. The infant remained alive and was nourished in miraculous manner: a cloud appeared over him, dropping a sweet dew into…
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Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian boar hunt 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the artists of their time, with footnotes #42
The Calydonian or Aetolian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honour her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in…
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Emile BERNARD, Two Venetians on the Salute Bridge 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with foot notes. #74
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal,…
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Roy Cross, The clipper ‘Reindeer’ arriving at Boston Harbor 01 Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #255
USS Reindeer (1863) was a steamer purchased by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat assigned to patrol Confederate waterways. Reindeer joined the Mississippi Squadron just as Union Army and Navy efforts to open the entire Mississippi River system to Federal shipping finally reached fruition with…
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Alex Katz, Vivien 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #81
Alex Katz, (born July 24, 1927, New York, U.S.), American figurative painter known for his large-scale simplified images of family and friends. Katz created iconic paintings documenting the American scene and later the American landscape through understated but monumental glimpses of the vernacular world. After returning from a period in the navy in 1946, he…
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Fausto Pirandello, Bathers on the rocks 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #255
Fausto Calogero Pirandello (17 June 1899 – 30 November 1975) was an Italian painter. Because he spent his holidays between Rome and Sicily, the landscapes there would have a prominent presence in his paintings. He studied Classics until he was called to arms in 1917 by the Ragazzi del ’99. He was not sent to the…
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07 Works, Today, March 4th, is Saint Gerasimus’s Day, With Footnotes – #62
Gerasimus of the Jordan was a Christian saint, monk and abbot of the 5th century AD. He was born into a wealthy family in the the southern part of Asia Minor, but he left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He attended the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD. His feast day is celebrated on March 4… Please follow link for full post
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Pierre Bonnard, Rue Tholozé 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Tholozé Street is one of the trendy streets of the Abbesses district. It owes it’s celebrity to it’s proximity to Montmartre, and the Moulin de la Galette. This street, 185 meters long and 8 meters wide, owes its name to a general who was famous during the conquest of Algeria, Henri Alexis Tholozé (1781-1853). Pierre Bonnard (3…
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Herman-Maurice Cossmann, LA BELLE MAROCAINE/ THE PRETTY GIRL FROM MOROCCO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #78
Born in Germany, Herman-Maurice Cossmann studied painting and etching at the studio of Eugene Lepoitevin. He began exhibiting his art at the Salon de Paris in 1845. Herman-Maurice Cossmann moved permanently to that city and became a French citizen several years later. Most of Cossmann’s art is in the medium of etching, where he excelled in…
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05 Works, Today, March 2nd, is Holy Martyr Euthalia’s Day, With Footnotes – #60
Andrea Mantegna ( c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence…
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Nico Jungman, Stefi Geyer 01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #80
Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation. Born in 1888 in Budapest, the daughter of a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 5 years old she started playing the violin, with…
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