Tag: footnotes
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Henri Adrien Tanoux, with footnotes, 80
Henri Adrien Tanoux ( Marseille , 18 October as as 1865 – Paris , 1923 ) was a French painter. He dedicated himself to landscapes , nudes and oriental scenes .He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris where he was a pupil of Léon Bonnat . He exhibited his works regularly at the Paris Salon…
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01 Marine Art, Marius de JONGERE, With Footnotes, #305
Ponape was a four-masted steel–hulled barque which was built in 1903 in Italy as Regina Elena for an Italian owner. In 1911 she was sold to Germany and renamed Ponape. In 1914 she was arrested by HMS Majestic and confiscated as a war prize by the Admiralty. She was renamed Bellhouse In 1915 she was sold…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Bibi Zogbé, with Footnotes, #40
Bibi Zogbé was born in the Lebanese seaside village of Sahel Alma, Labibé Zogbé. She migrated to Argentina at the age of sixteen. Her professional artistic career began in the 1930’s with a number of exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, in Chile and Uruguay, in Paris and elsewhere. At the end of…
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01 Marine Art, by Kimber Lee Clark, With Footnotes, #303
Kimber Lee Clark is a self-taught artist and teacher. She owned the Saturday Cove Gallery in Saturday Cove, Maine for 25 years. She is well known for her artful abundance which plays through her paintings with color, wit, and whimsey. Whether it’s a rendition of island living, a lop sided lighthouse or bringing in the…
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17 Works, January 2nd. is Piero di Cosimo’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #259
In the upper part is Moses kneeling on Mount Sinai, with a sleeping Joshua nearby: he receives the Tables of the Law from Yahweh, who appears in a luminescent cloud, surrounded by angels. In the foreground, on the left, Moses brings the Tables to the Israelites. In the background is camp of tents, with the…
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12 Works, January 1st. is Charles Édouard Armand-Dumaresq’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #258
After the defeat of Napoleon III and his French Imperial Army by the Prussian Army in the summer of 1870, colonial officers such as Faidherbe were recalled to France and promoted to higher ranks to command new units and replace generals killed or captured in the war. Faidherbe was promoted to divisional general in November…
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19 Works, December 30th. is Osman Hamdi Bey’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #257
A total of 17 figures, 16 people and a dog, are skillfully depicted in front of the Yeşil Mosque in Bursa. The painting, which reveals the fine workmanship of the Ottoman architecture and the detail in the decorations, is a document about the Ottoman daily life. It is stated in the painting that Osman Hamdi…
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19 Works, December 28th. is Alessandro Rosi’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #256
Sebastian stood by a staircase where the emperor was to pass and harangued Diocletian for his cruelties against Christians. This freedom of speech greatly astonished the emperor; who gave orders for his being seized and beaten to death with cudgels, and his body thrown into the common sewer. A pious lady, called Irene, admonished by…
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20 Works, December 26th. is Bertha Wegmann’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #255
Bertha Wegmann (1847–1926) was a Danish portrait painter of German ancestry. She was the first woman to hold a chair at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts… Please follow link for full post
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20 Works, December 24th. is Fernand Cormon’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #254
Fernand Cormon (24 December 1845–20 March 1924) was a French painter born in Paris. He became a pupil of Alexandre Cabanel, Eugène Fromentin, and Jean-François Portaels, and one of the leading historical painters of modern France. His father was the playwright Eugène Cormon. His mother was Charlotte Furais, the actress… Please follow link for full…
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20 Works, December 22th. is Charles Deas’ day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #253
Long Jakes documents America’s first frontier hero, the fur trapper. The fur trade in the American West flourished in the 1830s and was one of the most financially successful industries in America during the first half of the 1800s. The image of the trapper was that of a fiercely independent traveler who led a solitary…
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14 Works, December 20th. is Józef Unierzyski’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #252
The Descent from the Cross is considered his best, most stylish and effective work, which — as it was written — “among the gray and quite sterile painting production in those years […] must have become an event in Krakow’s painting relations. Criticism fell into admiration, master Matejko was pleased to testify that a work so widely received with…
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23 Works, December 18th. is Frank O. Salisbury’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #251
Painted in 1911 it is a figurative landscape of soldiers on the battlefield. The two central characters, the ‘Christian Soldiers’ from the early crusades have halos and ride through the chaos on white horses. Shafts on light with angels illuminate them and also a crucifix. A very powerful Edwardian religious oil painting and an excellent…
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29 Works, December 14th. is Károly Lotz’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #250
Lotz Károly Antal Pál, or Karl Anton Paul Lotz (16 December 1833–13 October 1904) was a German-Hungarian painter. Lotz was born in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany, the 7th and youngest surviving child of Wilhelm Christian Lotz and Antonia Höfflick. His father was a valet of Prince Gustav zu Hessen-Homburg at the time when…
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10 Works, December 114th. is Viktor Madarász’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #249
Isabella Jagiellon was the oldest child of Polish King Sigismund I the Old, the Grand Duke of Lithuania and his Italian wife Bona Sforza. In 1539, she married John Zápolya, Voivode of Transylvania and King of Hungary, becoming Queen consort of Hungary. At the time Hungary was contested between Archduke Ferdinand of Austria who wanted…
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20 Works, December 12th. is Karl Bryullov’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #248
Having become close in Italy with the Tittoni family, Bryullov created portraits of almost his entire family, and in 1852 he painted a portrait of Juliet Tittoni. Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (12 December 1799–11 June 1852), original name Charles Bruleau, also transliterated Briullov and Briuloff, was a Russian painter. He is regarded as a key figure…
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26 Works, December 11th. is Johann Michael Rottmayr’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #247
Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare published in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare’s first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted seduction of Adonis, an extremely handsome young man, who would rather go hunting. The poem is pastoral,…
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24 Works, December 9th. is Leopold Müller’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #246
Leopold Carl Müller (9 December 1834–4 August 1892) was an Austrian genre painter noted for his Orientalist works. Born in Dresden to Austrian, he was a pupil of Karl von Blaas and of Christian Ruben at the Academy in Vienna. Obliged to support his family after his father’s death, he worked eight years as an…
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28 Works, December 5th. is Edward Henry Corbould’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #245
The curious painting was inspired by an apocryphal episode in the life of the gallant and unfortunate Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey — courtier, soldier and poet at the court of Henry VIII, who was captivated by the childish beauty of Lady Elizabeth FitzGerald, known as ‘the fair Geraldine’, and to whose service he had devoted his…
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26 Works, December 3rd. is Frederic Leighton’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #244
This is one of the most dramatic and powerful works, painted in the dark and solemn style of Leighton’s late career. Leighton’s tondo shows the resurrection of the dead, as described in the Book of Revelation: ‘And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead…
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