Tag: footnotes
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Chen Yifei’s Banquet, with Footnotes #203
Sold for 54,520,000 HKD in April 2022 Banquet is a masterwork from Chen Yifei’s creative peak. It represents Chinese art’s rebirth. This image of musical accompaniment to a banquet embodies the essence of late 20th-century nostalgia and is enveloped in a traditional, elegant Eastern air. Chen Yifei (April 12, 1946 – April 10, 2005) was a renowned…
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03 Works, Interpretations of Olympian deities, Ellie Burelli’s Amazons, with footnotes #39
The legendary Amazons were thought to have lived in Pontus, which is part of modern-day Turkey near the southern shore of the Black Sea. There they formed an independent kingdom under the government of a queen named Hippolyta… Please follow link for full post
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01 Orientalist Painting, Alberto Pasini’s Watering the Horses, with footnotes #112
Sold for 47,880 GBP in October 2022 Alberto Pasini (Busseto, 3 September 1826 – Cavoretto, 15 December 1899) was an Italian painter. He was enrolled at the age of 17 years, in the Academy of Fine Art of Parma, studying landscape painting and drawing. In Parma, he was helped early on by Antonio Pasini, who painted for…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Jamil Molaeb’s Jerusalem, with Footnotes #66
Sold for 9,450 GBP in October 2022 The city of Jerusalem was a subject that Jamil Molaeb returned to over and over. In a succession of almost identical canvases, the artist repeated, with very slight variations of themes and colours, small architectural and figural elements inherent to the city whilst hinting at universal symbols. This work…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Rubens Santoro’s Venetian Canal, with Saint Mark’s Basilica in the Distance, with footnotes #116
Sold for $100,000 in Feb, 2020 The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark, commonly known as St Mark’s Basilica, is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy. It is the most famous of the city’s churches and one of the best known examples of Italo-Byzantine architecture. It lies at the eastern…
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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Hendra Gunawan’s Jackfruit Seller and ,Fish Vendor, Bali, with Footnotes #202
Garbed in traditional attire and sarongs embellished with floral and batik patterns, the subjects represent their nation… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Federico Ferrario’s Mary and St. Peter Consoling Each Other, with Footnotes #188
The episode of the painting refers to the triple denial in which St. Peter, according to the canonical Gospels, three times rejected the accusations of being a follower of Jesus. After this denial, the synoptic gospels report the repentance of Peter, often depicted while crying, but in our canvas, he is in the presence of…
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08 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude by Karl Hofer, with footnotes #194
Karl Christian Ludwig Hofer or Carl Hofer (11 October 1878, Karlsruhe — 3 April 1955, Berlin) was a German expressionist painter. He was director of the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts… Please follow link for full post
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09 Works, June 12th. is Pierre Henri Révoil’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #160
Pierre Henri Révoil (12 June 1776, in Lyon — 19 March 1842, in Paris) was a French painter in the troubadour style. His father was a furrier. Although he was needed at home, his family allowed him to receive a proper education. He first studied art at the École centrale in Lyon, under the direction of Donat…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Rome , Circle of Jacob de Backer’s Porcia, wife of Brutos, with footnotes #38
Sold for 12,500 GBP in December 2011 Porcia Catonis’ (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), famous second marriage was to her first cousin, Marcus Junius Brutus, the close friend of the Roman emperor Julius Caesar who plotted his murder. Information about Porcia comes from ancient sources such as Plutarch, and most of it has a decidedly literary quality.…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Allegory of Christian patience, with Footnotes #187
A Naked, young woman in a half-sitting position, leaning against a rock to which she is chained. Head and eyes raised to the heavens, in her left hand she is holding a crucifix. A putto with a laurel wreath in her left hand and a palm branch in her right hand flies over her head.…
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38 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artists’ interpretation of Lot and His Daughters over the decades, with Footnotes – #136
Lot and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jacob de Backer’s Lot and his daughters, with Footnotes #186
Sold for 16,250 USD in June 2014 Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Carlo Bononi’s The Martyrdom of Saint Cristina, with Footnotes – #185
Estimated for €9,000 EUR – €11,000 EUR in June 11, 2022Saint 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…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Jacob Toorenvliet’s seated couple drinking wine, With Footnotes #82
Sold for 8,750 GBP in September 2019 Here, two figures are seated before a stone wall around a wooden table. Behind the male figure at left, who with his left hand reaches for the chin of the female beside him and raises a glass in his right, is an evening vista. Great detail has been used…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Gustave Vanaise’s Magdalene in Christ’s tomb, with Footnotes #184
Sold for 10,080 EUR in June 2022 Mary Magdalene went to the tomb. An earthquake occurred and an angel dressed in white descended from Heaven and rolled aside the stone as the women were watching.Vanaise moved to Paris in August 1878. He spent two years there and painted his first large history paintings, which he began…
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01 Work, Interpretations of Olympian deities, William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s Bacchant, with footnotes #37
In Greek mythology, maenads were the female followers of Dionysus and the most significant members of the Thiasus, the god’s retinue. Their name literally translates as “raving ones.” Maenads were known as Bassarids, Bacchae or Bacchantes in Roman mythology, after the penchant of the equivalent Roman god, Bacchus, to wear a bassaris or fox-skin. Often…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Paul Signac’s VENISE, LA SALUTE, with footnotes. #115
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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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri Rousseau’s The Hunt, with footnotes #111
Sold for 9,450 GBP in March 2022 The hunting of wild animals for food, sport or for the defence of people and herds,was common in the ancient Near East, especially in early times. The hunter’s pursuit of the quarry mirrors Fate’s pursuit of both humans and nonhumans and highlights the ambiguity of the encounter. With breathtaking…
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