Tag: footnotes
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48 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by Jean-Jacques Henner, with footnotes, #11
The story of Rebecca at the well comes from the Book of Genesis. The aged Abraham, wanting a wife for his son Isaac, sent his servant Eliezer to his homeland of Mesopotamia to find a suitable woman. Tired after his long journey, Eliezer stopped at a well and prayed for guidance. When Rebecca offered water…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Lydie Arickx’s Crucifixion, With Footnotes – #53
The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely between AD 30 and 33. Jesus’ crucifixion is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles. Jesus was arrested and tried by the Sanhedrin, and then sentenced by Pontius Pilate to be scourged, and finally crucified by the Romans. Jesus…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Jan Lievens’ Job, #187
Job is the central figure of the Book of Job in the Bible. In rabbinical literature, Job is called one of the prophets of the Gentiles. In Islam, Job is also considered a prophet. Job is presented as a good and prosperous family man who is beset by Satan with God’s permission with horrendous disasters that…
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15 Classic Works of Marine and Seascape Paintings, with footnotes
Arthur J. Meadows (1843–1907) was born within a family of painters. His father James Meadows, Sr. instilled in him a technical appreciation for accurate coastal views of Europe, and young Arthur set out to see and paint as many as he could find. Traveling extensively throughout England, Holland and France, Meadows also took to the…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Easam Darawshi’s Expressive Portrait #2, with Footnotes, #63
Essam Darawshi was born in Nazareth in 1984. He studied Physiotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine at Genoa University, Italy. In 2010, Easam enrolled in the Academy of Arts at the University of Genoa where he began his journey as an artist, driven by his passion, focusing on the Arabic Calligraphy as a form of contemporary…
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01 Painting of the Canals of Venice, Karl Kaufmann’sA Venetian Scene, with footnotes. #105
Karl Kaufmann (born 1843 in Neuplachowitz, Austrian Silesia; † 27. April 1905 in Vienna) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Kaufmann was a student at the Vienna Academy. His studies in the European North (Norway), to Holland, Germany (Franconia, Danzig, Königsberg) and often to Italy (Naples, Rome, Venice) gave him the motives for his numerous landscapes,…
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01 Marine Painting – Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott’s Shipping, Sydney Harbour with City Skyline, with Footnotes, #345
Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott, 1864-1949, was a prolific watercolour painter and lithographer, active in Sydney from the 1890s to the 1920s, specialising in marine subjects. Frederick James ‘Fred’ Elliott was born in Paignton near Brixham, Devon, UK, son of Alfred Elliott. Fred Elliott immigrated to Queensland in 1876 when his father was appointed teacher at…
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists, Rafat Asad’s Haifa, with Footnotes, #62
Haifa is the third-largest city in Israel — after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv — with a population of 285,316 in 2019. The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area in Israel. Over the millennia, the Haifa area has changed hands: being conquered and ruled by the Assyrians, Babylonians, Canaanites, Israelites, Phoenicians,…
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12 Works, January 4th is Augustus Edwin John’s day, #004
This is one of four murals commissioned in 1909 to decorate the hall of the house in Chelsea. John designed the composition using his own family and friends as models, including at the right his wife Ida, who had recently died. It was painted from a full size drawing. John then painted out a figure…
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1 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Charles Jervas’ Lady Elizabeth Egerton, Countess of Bridgewater, with Footnotes. #151
Elizabeth Churchill was the third daughter and co-heiress of the great English general John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. She married Scroope Egerton 4th Earl of Bridgewater in February 1703. “Scroop held various high offices at Court in successive reigns; and ‘in consideration of his great merits’ was created in 1720 Duke of Bridgewater. He and…
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29 Magical Doorways That Connect Two Locations, Dimensions, or Points in Time, with footnotes
Lehnin Abbey (German: Kloster Lehnin) is a former Cistercian monastery in Lehnin in Brandenburg, Germany. Founded in 1180 and secularized during the Protestant Reformation in 1542, it has accommodated the Luise-Henrietten-Stift, a Protestant deaconesses’ house since 1911. The foundation of the monastery in the newly established Margraviate of Brandenburg was an important step in the…
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12 Paintings of the streets of Paris in the 19th C, by Jean Béraud, Eugène Galien-Laloue, Edouard Henri Leon Cortès, Antoine Blanchard, Gustave Loiseau, with footnotes
Here Gustave Loiseau chose to paint an area of Paris he had been familiar with for a long time. In 1887, when he had decided to devote himself to painting, Gustave Loiseau had settled in Montmartre, in rue de Ravignan. Rue Clignancourt is only a few steps away, at the foot of the hill it…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Ilia Balavadze’s Lets Talk About War, With Footnotes, #79
Ilia Balavadze is a Georgian artist born in 1968 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1987 to 1993, he studied the painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. Afterwards and for many years, he worked on painting the walls of many orthodox churches all around Georgia. The artist is very well distinguished…
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Playboy’s Raquel Welch in her blue bikini, with footnotes # 113
Chris von Wangenheim was born in Breig, in what was then a war-torn East Prussia, in 1942. His father was an officer in the German Army who died in Soviet captivity in 1953. This tragedy would go on to inform his son’s dark nature. By this time von Wangenheim was living in the Bavarian mountains…
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17 Engravings – Marine Art, Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s Sailing Vessels, with foot notes
Armed Three-Master on the Open Sea, accompanied by a Galley; large ship with guns at full sail in centre, seen from left; a large imperial pennant flaps from its mast; smaller galley to the left. More on this work Bruegel was born at a time of extensive change in Western Europe. Italy was at the…
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01 Painting, African deities, Harmonia Rosales’ Yemaya and Erinle, with footnotes #1
Yemaya is a major water deity from the Yoruba religion, Southwestern Nigeria and the adjoining parts of Benin and Togo. She is an orisha, a spirit. She is often syncretized with either Our Lady of Regla in the afrocuban diaspora or various other Virgin Mary figures. Yemoja is motherly and strongly protective, and cares deeply for all…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Valerio Castellos’ The Flight into Egypt, With Footnotes – #135
The flight into Egypt is a biblical event described in the Gospel of Matthew in which Joseph fled to Egypt with Mary and infant son Jesus after a visit by Magi because they learned that King Herod intended to kill the infants of that area. The episode is frequently shown in art, as the final…
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