Tag: footnotes
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01 Marine Painting – Montague Dawson’s Q-Ship Mary B. Mitchell, with Footnotes, #338
Q-ships, also known as Q-boats, decoy vessels, special service ships, or mystery ships, were heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry, designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks. This gave Q-ships the chance to open fire and sink them. The use of Q-ships contributed to the abandonment of cruiser rules restricting attacks on unarmed…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Lidia Wylangowska’s Eva, with footnotes #141
Lidia Wylangowska: “My art tells my story. It’s a story of my world, of my thoughts and emotions entwined in an internal dialogue. And some of it can be expressed only through painting. It is incredible, how fairy-tales I heard once-upon-a-time, in my childhood actually influenced my life and defined who I am. The technique…
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26 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #8
The girl in the present work wears an ornate Ottoman gold coin headdress with a fringe of star-shaped amulets, and a matching necklace. With her white diaphanous veil and dress, and hair braided into a bun, she is dressed for a special occasion or celebration, possibly her own wedding. The cropped composition and punctilious draughtsmanship…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Edwin Longsden Long’s THE IONIAN POTTERY SELLER, with footnotes, #107
Ionia is the name given during ancient times to the central region of Anatolia ’s Aegean shore in Asia Minor, present-day Turkey, one of the most important centres of the Greek world. On the islands and cities of Ionia the style of pottery was not as rigorously geometric as it was in the Dorian ceramic from the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Pal Fried’s Two ballet dancers backstage, with Footnotes. #142
Pál Fried (16 June 1893 in Hungary – 6 March 1976 in New York City) was a Hungarian artist. His oil paintings were usually of dancers, nudes, and portraits, and his subjects were almost always women, although he also painted Paris, seascapes, and cowboys and landscapes of the American West. He signed his paintings, as is usual…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Abdelaziz Gorgi’s CHKOBA PLAYERS; EVE OF RAMADAN, with Footnotes, #52
The chkobba is a card game drawn from the scopa and brought to Tunisia by Italian migrants. It is played with traditional cards . The game is between two players or two teams of two players most often but it is possible, although infrequent, to play three or four independent players. Depending on the regions, provinces…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Lucien Genin’s La Place de L’Opera, with footnotes, Part 84
The Place de l’Opéra is a square in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, at the junction of boulevard des Italiens, boulevard des Capucines, avenue de l’Opéra, rue Auber, rue Halévy, rue de la Paix and rue du Quatre-Septembre. It was built at the same time as the Opéra Garnier (designed by Charles Garnier), which is sited…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Quiringh van Brekelenkam’s A soldier drinking with a young woman, Part 77 – With Footnotes
Quiringh van Brekelenkam was probably trained in Leiden, probably under Gerard Dou (1613–75). He was one of the founders of the Guild of St Luke there in 1648. He continued to be active as a painter, paying his guild fees until 1667. His last known painting, a portrait, is dated 1669. Brekelenkam’s genre scenes share their…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Adham Wanly’s Le monastère copte, désert de Mariut/ The Coptic Monastery, Mariut Desert, with Footnotes, #56
The late Pope Kyrillos VI established this Coptic Orthodox monastery in 1959 in commemoration of Saint Mina (Menas), his patron saint, in an isolated desert area very close to the archaeological site and historical city of Abu Mena in Mariut, near Alexandria, Egypt. Abu Mena is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and was once an…
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01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! Sax Berlin’s The Lost Frescoes of St Magdalene, with Footnotes – #47
Magdalene is shown from above lying on her bed, her hair wrapped around her body. Her identity disfigured by iconoclasts. More on this painting Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is…
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09 paintings on Halloween night with John William Waterhouse, Mariska Karto, Johfra Bosschart, Francisco de Goya, Jan or Frans Verbeeck, Norman Lindsay, Gustave Moreau, and Franz von Stuck, with Footnotes
This is one of Waterhouse’s earlier works, and reflects his fascination with the exotic. The woman in this picture appears to be a witch or priestess, endowed with magic powers. Her dress and general appearance is highly eclectic, and is derived from several sources: she has the swarthy complexion of a woman of middle-eastern origin;…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ibrahim El Dessouki’s The Seventh Day, with Footnotes, #51
El Dessouki’s triptych of seven majestic, goddess-like women are incarnations of the Egyptian goddess of motherhood, Hathor, in her human, as opposed to bovine form. The painting derives its name from Egyptian tradition, inherited from ancient times, ‘El Sebou’ or ‘The Seventh Day’. The ritual is a seven-day celebration upon the birth of a child;…
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09 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Amédée Rosier, Francesco Guardi, John Singer Sargent, Konstantin Ivanovich, Martín Rico y Ortega, OLIVER DENNETT GROVER, THOMAS MORAN, with foot notes. #7
Thomas Moran (February 12, 1837 – August 25, 1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter and printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. Moran and his family, wife Mary Nimmo Moran and daughter Ruth, took residence in New York where he obtained work as an artist.…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings, János Miklós Vaszary’s BEACH IN ITALY – With Footnotes, #220
János Miklós Vaszary (30 November 1867 – 19 April 1939) was a Hungarian painter and graphic artist.His art studies began at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. In 1887, he went to Munich. After seeing an exhibition of paintings by Jules Bastien-Lepage, he moved to Paris in 1899 and enrolled at the Académie Julian. Although he…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine’s Paris, Bords de Seine vers Pont Marie, with footnotes, Part 83
The Pont Marie is a bridge which crosses the Seine in Paris, France. The bridge links the Île Saint-Louis to the quai de l’Hôtel de Ville and is one of three bridges designed to allow traffic flow between the Île Saint-Louis and the Left and Right banks of Paris. The Pont Marie links the Right Bank…
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01 Painting by Giovanni Battista Torriglia’s The artist’s studio, with footnotes
Giovanni Battista Torriglia was an Italian painter of genre subjects. He was born in Genoa but his artistic training took place in Florence. He devoted himself to painting scenes of life in the countryside. Themes of charming peasants were in great demand in Italy and throughout Europe towards the end of the 19th Century. Torriglia was…
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01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings, Edmond Marie Petitjean’s Ships at the Port of Antwerp – With Footnotes, #219
Antwerp’s potential as a seaport was recognized by Napoleon Bonaparte and he ordered the construction of Antwerp’s first lock and dock in 1811. Called the Bonaparte Dock, it was joined by a second dock – called the Willem Dock after the Dutch King – in 1813. When the Belgian Revolution broke out in 1830, there…
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