Tag: George Frederic Watts
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01 Work, The Art of War, George Frederick Watts’ The doctor’s punishment, Villa Medicea di Careggi, with footnotes
The Fresco captures a detail of George Frederic Watts’ fresco, “Punishment of the Doctor, ” located in the historic Villa Medicea di Careggi in Florence, Italy. The painting depicts a gripping scene that portrays the retribution faced by a doctor who failed to save the life of Lorenzo de Medici… Please follow link for full…
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3 Paintings, Richard Redgrave’s The Outcasts, with footnotes The Outcast
In an age when sexual innocence was highly valued and sex for a respectable woman was deemed appropriate only within marriage, the loss of chastity for an unwed woman had multiple repercussions… Please follow link for full post
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11 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 9
The theme of Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus — literally, ‘without Ceres or Bacchus, Venus would freeze’ — is derived from a line in Act IV of The Eunuch, a Roman farce by a Roman dramatist Terence and explained by the 16th-century humanist Erasmus, this image illustrates the idea that food and drink, the gifts of Ceres and…
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17 Works, Today, February 23rd. is artist George Frederic Watts’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #054
George Frederic Watts OM RA (23 February 1817, in London — 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope (See below) and Love and Life (See below). These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic…
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15 works, Today, August 1st, is Sts. Sophia, Faith, Hope and Love’s day, their story thru art #213
Saints Faith, Hope and Charity are a group of Christian martyred saints, venerated together with their mother, Sophia Sophia, whose name means wisdom, lived in Rome. She was a Christian, and in accordance with her name, she lived wisely. While living in honorable wedlock, bore three daughters, whom she named after the three great virtues.…
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11 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 9
Jan Miel, BEVEREN-WAES NEAR ANTWERP 1599 – 1664 TURIN CERES, BACCHUS AND VENUS, c. 1645 Oil on canvas 142.5 x 162.7 cm.; 56 1/8 x 64 1/8 in. Private Collection The theme of Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus – literally, ‘without Ceres or Bacchus, Venus would freeze’ – is derived from a line in Act IV…
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