Tag: footnotes
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3 Works, Art and the Egyptian Women – 138-161 AD
The woman’s oval face, large eyes, and slightly open lips give the portrait considerable presence. Venus rings on her neck call attention to her youthful plump beauty. The hairstyle is typical for the period of the Emperor Hadrian, except for the corkscrew locks around the forehead, which may be a regional style. More on this…
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11 Works by Canadian Artists – GARTHE, LISMER, GIBBONS, PRATT, MASSON, NORRIS, WIELAND, BROWNELL, HEPPARD, RROBERTS, CLAPP, with footnotes
“A Modernist, William Henry Clapp is one of the monarchs of Canadian Impressionism. Indifferent as an artist to the emotional elements implicit in everyday experience, he extolled landscapes and the human figure — specifically the nude. In painting these works, he observed the phenomena of light on the generative forces of the organic world. The body is…
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14 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists of the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, #10
Jean Marie Constantin Joseph “Jan” van Beers (27 March 1852–17 November 1927) was a Belgian painter and illustrator, the son of the poet Jan van Beers. They are sometimes referred to as Jan van Beers the elder and Jan van Beers the younger. In 1884, Jan Van Beers produced the pen-and-ink sketches for the edition…
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01 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, Ashlyn Orion’s The black mermaid, with Footnotes, #17
A mermaid is a marine creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish. Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. The first stories appeared in ancient Assyria. Mermaids can be benevolent or beneficent. Roberto Manetta is a traveling freelance photographer, Film and digital photography, since…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, FOLLOWER OF BERNARDINO LUINI’s MADONNA AND CHILD, With Footnotes – 190
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Louis Anquetin’s La Femme à la berthe rouge, Part 63 – With Footnotes
The spontaneous gesture gives this painting its energy and power. Through his mastery of oil painting, Anquetin emphasizes his volumes and endows his figures with a rare materiality. The canvas mattness, obtained with a blotter to absorb the shine of the medium, reinforces the dimensionality of the composition. More on this painting Louis Anquetin (26 January…
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01 Paintings by Orientalist Artists, Abiodun Olaku’s THE CHARGE, with footnotes, #98
Abiodun Olaku’s talent can be traced to his early days at Baptist Academy, Lagos, between 1970 and 1975. He enthusiastically participated in his school’s syllabus, which encouraged arts and crafts, through a retinue of qualified, committed and motivating teachers in the arts department. This, undoubtedly, left an indelible impression on his psyche, and it was…
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02 Paintings of the Canals of Venice by Wendy Sharpe, with footnotes. #95
Piazza San Marco or St. Mark’s Square is the main public square in Venice. The Piazza is located in front of the great Byzantine church known as Basilica di San Marco. This Piazza is surrounded by shops, caffè’s and palazzi on three sides. According to local legend Napoleon called the Piazza San Marco “the drawing…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Tito Lessi’s THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE. Part 62 – With Footnotes
Tito Lessi (1858 – 1917) was born in Florence, then became a resident of Paris. He studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri. Lessi painted a watercolor titled: L’ anticamera del Papa. Charles Sedelmeyer invited him to Paris, where he painted small canvases: The Testament; Le lever du Dauphine;…
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01 Marine Fotograph – Miss Aniela’s SHE SHOAL, with Footnotes, #329
Shot 40ft deep underwater in the Caribbean Sea of the Cayman Islands. Miss Aniela delivers a vision of part reality and part fantasy. In an unprecedented diving feat for model Coral Tomascik, who later transposed into a dress of 20,000 computer-created silverside fish becomes a surreal and otherworldly spectacle. More on this photograph The noun shoal…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Louis Anquetin’s FEMMES À LEUR TOILETTE, #244
Louis Anquetin (26 January 1861 – 19 August 1932) was a French painter; born in Étrépagny, France and educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat’s studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Ghazi Saudi, with Footnotes, #44
“The city of Ghazi al Saudi , today’s Baghdad, is the actual place implanted in a time that goes back some eight hundred years. Al Wasiti’s illustrations of Maqamat al Hariri have been a constant inspiration for him, not only in his smaller canvases and ceramics, but also in his large frescoes, where he employs…
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25 Works, July 12th. is Edwin Long’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #189
Long’s oil on canvas captures an essence of Ancient Egypt that is representative of the way that Egypt was imagined in late 19th century Europe; an exotic and beautiful image that has found perpetuity, especially in film and popular culture. So much so that ancient Egypt monopolises a considerably large corner of today’s fiction and…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Albert Joseph Penot’s Portrait of a young lady, with Footnotes. #131
Albert Joseph Pénot (1862–1930) was a French painter known for female nudes. Today, he is more popularly and specifically recognized for a subset of paintings centering on women of darker, more macabre themes. Pénot was concerned first and foremost with anatomically accurate portrayals of women. Singular female forms were the implicit focus of his work, whereas…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Boutros al-Maari’s Antar and Abla, with Footnotes, #59
Antarah ibn Shaddad al-Absi (525–608), also known as Antar, was a pre-Islamic Arab knight and poet, famous for both his poetry and his adventurous life. Stories of his heroic exploits have been circulating for centuries and were eventually written down in the eighth century. Set in pagan Arabia known as the jahiliya, “before the time of the…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Irvin Rodriguez’s Woman In Black, with Footnotes. #128
Irvin Rodriguez was born in the Bronx, New York in 1988. He graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology with a BFA in Illustration in 2010. He studied drawing at the Grand Central Atelier from 2008-2010 and later, painting and printmaking at the Art Students League of NY from 2013-2016 In 2017, Irvin had his debut…
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