Tag: footnotes
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Gerard van Kuijl, A shepherd and shepherdess 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 56 – With Footnotes
Gerard van Kuijl or Kuijll (1604, Gorinchem – 1673, Gorinchem), was a Dutch Golden Age painter. He is known for religious and genre works in the style of Caravaggio. Gerard left for Italy in 1627 or 1628. He joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname Stijgbeugel. In Italy he was a pupil of fellow Bentvueghel Jean…
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Suleiman Mansour, And the Convoy Keeps Going 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 48
Sliman Mansour (born 1947), is a Palestinian painter, considered an important figure among contemporary Palestinian artists. Mansour is considered an artist of the intifada whose work gave visual expression to the cultural concept of sumud. Palestinian artist and scholar Samia Halaby has identified Mansour as part of the Liberation Art Movement and cites his important…
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Paul Strand; Oaxaca 04 Works, CONTEMPORARY & 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 32
This is a depiction of a sculptural work in a Catholic church in Tlacochoaya, Oaxaca, Mexico. In this tableau, the Christ figure is placed in a framed space that recedes behind him. His feet extend outside of the frame, drawing further attention to the three dimensional aspect of the sculpture. The frame is an ornate…
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Salvatore Fiume; Model lying 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 56
Salvatore Fiume (23 October 1915 – 3 June 1997) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, writer and stage designer. His works are kept in some of the most important museums in the world, among which the Vatican Museums, the Hermitage of Saint Petersburg, the Museum of Modern Art of New York City, the Pushkin Museum of…
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Eugène Boudin, DEAUVILLE, LE BASSIN 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #239
Deauville was conceived for fashionable pleasures. It emerged from the dunes in the 1860s, thanks to the vision of one Dr Joseph Olliffe and his close friend, Emperor Napoleon III’s half-brother, the Duc de Morny. At the end of the 1850s, marshes lay between the sea here and a little slope-side village above. Dr Olliffe convinced…
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Jirí Kolár; Four portraits 01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, with Footnotes. #74
Jiří Kolář (24 September 1914, Protivín – 11 August 2002, Prague) was a Czech poet, writer, painter and translator. His work included both literary and visual art. Kolář was born in Protivín on September 29, 1914 in a working-class environment. He trained early in life as a cabinet maker. He later changed trades several times, working…
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05 Works,Today, January 25th, is Saint Paul’s conversion Day, With Footnotes – 25
The conversion of Paul the Apostle was an event in the life of Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early Christians and to become a follower of Jesus. St. Paul, named Saul at his circumcision, a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, was born at Tarsus, the capitol of Cilicia. He was a…
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05 Works, Today, January 24nd, Saint Timothy’s Day, With Footnotes – 24
Saint Timothy, (died AD 97, Ephesus, now in Turkey); disciple of St. Paul the Apostle, whom he accompanied on his missions; traditional martyr and first bishop of Ephesus. On his second visit to Lystra in 50, Paul discovered Timothy, taking him as a colleague but first circumcising him out of respect for his Jewish mother…
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Louis Marie de Schryver, The Flower Market on the Île de la Cité 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 66 – With Footnotes
The Île de la Cité is one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being the Île Saint-Louis).[a] It is the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded. More on The Île de la Cité Louis Marie de Schryver, born in Paris in 1862, Louis…
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Mamdouh Kashlan, Hammam Al Nissaa/ Women’s public bath 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 47
Damascus Public Baths (Hammams) were commonly used in Damascus as a civilized phenomena that denotes the interest of the Damascenes in their health, and cleanness of bodies. Going to the bath was a religious and social habit of life in the Orient in general and in Damascus in particular. With very limited means of entertainment in…
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Tamara de Lempicka, NU ASSIS DE PROFIL 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 55
Lempicka’s sleek representations of the female nude are renowned as emblems of the Jazz Age. Painted around 1923 in Paris, the female figure in the present work resembles an Amazonian goddess. Her powerful limbs extend beyond the boundary of the picture and the mechanized appearance and sturdy curvature of her body call to mind the…
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Bernard Buffet, LE YACHT 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #238
Bernard Buffet (10 July 1928 – 4 October 1999) was a French painter of Expressionism and a member of the anti-abstract art group L’homme Témoin (the Witness-Man). Buffet was born in Paris, France, and studied art there at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and worked in the studio of the painter Eugène Narbonne. Buffet…
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04 Works, Today, January 22nd, Saint Anastasius’ Day, With Footnotes – 22
Saint Anastasius of Persia was originally a Zoroastrian cavalryman in the army of Khosrau II (r. 590–628), and participated in capture of the True Cross in Jerusalem, which was carried to the Sasanian capital Ctesiphon. The occasion prompted him to ask for information about the Christian religion. He then experienced a conversion of faith, left the army,…
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01 Works, Today, January 21st, Saint Agnes’ Day, With Footnotes – 21
The Museo del Prado owns two of his paintings representing the Visitation and the Martyrdom of St. Agnes, executed for the chapel of St. Thomas of Villanova in the convent of San Julián de Valencia. Somewhat overshadowed by the fame of his son who had more of an emotional style, but certainly better equipped, experts…
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09 Works, Today, January 20th, Saint Sebastian’s Day, With Footnotes – 20
Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp…
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Eugène Boudin, BIG WEATHER ON THE SCHELDT 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #237
The Scheldt (French: Escaut) is a 350-kilometre (220 mi) long river in northern France, western Belgium, and the southwestern part of the Netherlands. Its name is derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sceald (“shallow”), Modern English shoal. More on The Scheldt The Port of Antwerp, in Flanders, Belgium, is a port in the heart of Europe…
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Ismail Shammout, Al- Tariq (The Way) 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 46
Ismail Shammout (1930 – 2006) was a Palestinian artist and art historian. Shammout was born in 1930 in Lydda. On July 12, 1948, he and his family were amongst 25,000 residents of Lydda expelled from their homes by Israeli occupation. The Shammout family moved to the Gaza refugee camp of Khan-Younes. In 1950 Shammout went to…
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07 Works, Today, January 19th, is Saint Canute’s Day, With Footnotes – 19
Canute IV, byname Canute the Holy, or Saint Canute, (born c. 1043—died July 10, 1086, Odense, Den.; canonized 1101; feast days January 19, July 10), martyr, patron saint, and king of Denmark from 1080 to 1086. Canute succeeded his brother Harold Hen as king of Denmark. He opposed the aristocracy and kept a close association…
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