Tag: History
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01 Marine Painting – John Allcot’s S.S. Dorrigo, with Footnotes, #370
SS Dorrigo was a cargo and passenger steam ship. It was built under the name of Saint Francois by the Smiths Dock Company at the South Bank in Middlesbrough on the River Tees in Northeast England for the Compagnie Navale de l’Océanie for the Pacific Island postal and general trade service, for which it sailed the…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Archie Forrest’s Fishing Boat, Corse, With Footnotes, #320
Corsica (French: Corse) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France. It is located southeast of the French mainland and west of the Italian Peninsula, with the nearest land mass being the Italian island of Sardinia to the immediate south. A single chain of mountains makes up two-thirds of…
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24 Works, Today, May 1st. is artist Jules Breton’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #120
Since ancient times, peasants have celebrated the longest days of summer with festivities. This dance around a fire marks the feast of Saint John the Baptist on June 24, an important occasion in France. Jules Adolphe Aimé Louis Breton (1 May 1827–5 July 1906) was a 19th-century French Naturalist painter. His paintings are heavily influenced…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Malcolm T. Liepke’s Three Moods, with Footnotes. #121
Malcolm T. Liepke. Largely self-taught, Malcolm T. Liepke paints in a style that synthesizes the work of other artists—John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, and James McNeill Whistler, among others—to create portraits that are both visually familiar and wholly unique. Liepke favors portraits of ordinary women in glamorous contexts, producing voyeuristic nudes…
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02 Paintings by Orientalist Artists, Jean-Léon Gérôme’s Egyptian Recruits Crossing the Desert, with footnotes, #95
The present works represents a scene common in Egypt during the nineteenth century, when young men from the villages were conscripted into the army of the Khalif, a process which dated back to the first attempt by Mohammed Ali Pasha, to build up a regular army in 1824. As seen in the paintings, the recruits…
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26 Works, Today, May 30th. is Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #148
Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto (May 30, 1892 — April 24, 1972) was one of the most important artists in the history of painting in the Philippines. Amorsolo was a portraitist and painter of rural Philippine landscapes. He is popularly known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Amorsolo is best known for his illuminated…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Ventura di Moro’s MADONNA AND CHILD WITH SAINT ANTHONY, with Footnotes – 180
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, Middle East Artists, Akram Shukri, with Footnotes, #53
Akram Shukri is considered one of the most important artists in the development of the Iraqi modern art movement, and although primarily an architect he was the founding member of the Society of Artists and Art Lovers in 1941. This group included important Iraqi artists such as Jawad Selim, Hafiz Droubi and Faik Hassan. Numerous members…
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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Youssef Nabil’s Ehsan Crying, with Footnotes. #120
Youssef Nabil (born 6 November 1972) is an Egyptian artist and photographer. Nabil started his photography career in 1992. In 1997, Nabil worked in Paris with the Peruvian fashion photographer Mario Testino till late 1998. In 1999, Youssef Nabil had his first solo exhibition in Cairo. Nabil left Egypt in 2003 for an artist residency at the…
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02 Photograph, Tales of Mermaids, Lucien Clergue’s Les Geàntes, with Footnotes, #14
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. Lucien Clergue (August 14, 1934 — November 15, 2014) was a French photographer.…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, André LHOTE’s The judgment of Paris, with footnotes #28
THE JUDGEMENT OF PARIS was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos–Aphrodite, Hera and Athena–for the prize of a golden apple addressed “To the Fairest.” The story began with the wedding of Peleus and Thetis which all the gods had been invited to attend except for Eris, goddess of discord. When Eris appeared…
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01 Photograph, The Art Of The Nude, Helmut Newton’s The Naked Truth, with footnotes # 120
Helmut Newton was born on October 31, 1920, in Berlin, Germany. He attended the American School in Berlin. From an early age, Newton developed a keen obsession with photography, purchasing his very first camera aged 12. Four years later, Newton was to turn his back on mainstream education, taking an apprenticeship with renowned German photographer,…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, Hans Buchner’s The Ace of Hearts, Part 65 – With Footnotes
Hans Buchner, 1856 – 1941, was born in Germany in 1856. Buchner enjoyed painting from an early age and it is probable that he studied in Paris, although he spent most of his life in Munich. Buchner, along with esteemed contemporaries such as Reggianini, Ricci and Soulacroix, focused on portraying images of the sheer luxury…
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34 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Artist’s interpretation of the Martyrdom of St. Agatha, With Footnote 36
Lorenzo di Niccolò or Lorenzo di Niccolò di Martino was an Italian painter active in Florence from 1391 to 1412. Often erroneously cited as the son of Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, with whom he realized some works, this artist transformed his style from one more reminiscent of Giotto to one more elegant and linear, similar…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Bashir Hammouda’s Still Life, with Footnotes, #55
Bashir Hammouda was born in 1948 in Tripoli, Libya. Hammouda graduated from the Accadenua di Belle Arti in Rome in 1974, having mastered painting, engraving and printing during his time in Italy. He became an assistant teacher at Tripoli’s Al-Fateh University. Hammouda subsequently went to study in Budapest, Hungary where he attained a PhD. Hamouda returned…
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01 Painting by Orientalist Artists, Ulpiano Fernández-Checa y Saiz’s Between two oaseswith footnotes, #92
Ulpiano Fernández-Checa y Saiz (April 3, 1860 – January 5, 1916), known as Ulpiano Checa, was a Spanish painter, sculptor, poster designer and illustrator. He used both impressionistic and academic techniques, and mainly painted historical subjects. He was born in Colmenar de Oreja, Spain, and exhibited a talent for art when he was a young…
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11 Works, Today, May 25th. is Carlo Dolci’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #143
In this intimate copper, destined for private devotion, we find the Magdalene repenting in the wilderness, her alluring nakedness reminding us of her unchaste past. Her breasts are exposed and the blue folds of her robes reveal her leg up to the thigh in a scene that, for all its allusion to the vanity of…
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17 Works, Today, May 24th. is Pontormo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #142
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of…
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