Tag: Italy
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04 Works of the Canals of Venice, by Edmund Dulac after Alfred de Musset poem, with footnotes. #132
This watercolour is the first of a series of four drawings used to illustrate the poem Venise by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857). Dulac’s illustrations were deemed to be the ideal accompaniment to de Musset’s poem… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth – with footnotes #203
The Mother of God and the Christ Child are in the company of John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth. This devotional painting radiates quietude of a virtually sublime character. The pictorial type known as ‘sacra conversazione’ (sacred conversation) was extremely popular. Successful artists like Bellini produced several versions of it, combining figures based on…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, il Perugino’s Madonna and Child with two cherubs, With Footnotes – #174
This painting illustrates the painter’s masterful drawing technique and his unique ability, anticipating Raphael, to execute holy iconography even in a small format painting. The cherub’s heads, which had been obscured by dark paint, came back to light after a restoration carried out in 1927. Following a sale later that same year, the painting entered…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Daniele da Volterra’s The Madonna of the Zodiac – with footnotes #202
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 USD in Jan 2023 On the present sheet the light falls strongly from the left, enhancing the voluminous and heavy draped cloth which, covering the Madonna’s plaited hair, falls down behind her back to create two large folds to the side of her right hip. These, like waves, return to…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, Federico del Campo’s Santa Maria Zobenigo, with footnotes #131
Sold for £10,062.50 in June 2020 The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily, referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation, is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the Jubanico family who founded it in the 9th century. The edifice is situated on…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, Terrick Williams’ Moonlight, Venice, with footnotes #130
Estimated for 18 000 – 20 600 USD in May 2020 John Terrick Williams RA (20 July 1860 – 20 July 1936). Williams was born in Liverpool, England, the son of a businessman. He was educated at Kings College School, London. Determination to become an artist he move to Europe and studied under Charles Verlat in Antwerp…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, Federico del Campo’s Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice, with footnotes #129
Sold for £10,062.50 in Jun 2020 The church, whose name translates into St. Mary of the Lily referring to the flower classically depicted as being presented by the Angel Gabriel during the Annunciation, is more commonly known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the Jubanico family who founded it in the 9th century. The edifice is situated on…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Italian School, 16th Century’s Angel – with footnotes #202
An angel is a spiritual, heavenly, or supernatural being, usually humanoid with bird-like wings, often depicted as a messenger or intermediary between God and humanity in various traditions like the Abrahamic religions. Other roles include protectors and guides for humans, such as guardian angels and servants of God. In Western belief-systems the term is often used…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Italian School, 16th Century, THE VIRGIN AND CHRIST AT THE TOMB WITH TWO ANGELS – with footnotes #199
Sold for 245,000 USD in January 2015 The painting was clearly produced by a painter conversant in both Northern and Venetian trends of painting. The composition ultimately derives from a Pietà designed by Michelangelo Buonarotti. It is not known whether Michelangelo executed the eventual painting but his drawing, dated to circa 1546, survives today in the…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Francesco Bergamini’s Life of the Party, with Footnotes #97
Sold for 3,528 USD in October 2021 Francesco Bergamini (1851 – 1900) was an Italian painter who specialised in producing genre scenes for an international audience. Born in Rome, he trained at the National academy where he was taught by Giuseppe Diotti, a traditional artist who still often received fresco commissions. Francesco received a wide-ranging pictorial education religious…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, John Aldridge’s Grand Canal, Early Morning, with footnotes. #127
Sold for £3,812.50 in May 2020 John Aldridge was educated at Uppingham School and at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. From 1928 to 1933 he lived in London, making frequent visits to Holland, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. In 1933 he moved to Essex, settling in Great Barfield. At the time he was one of a…
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, John Randall Bratby’s Venice Canal, with footnotes, #126
Sold for £2,040 in May 2020 John Randall Bratby (1928-1992), studied at the Royal College of Art (1951-54), and it was for his generation of RCA students that David Sylvester coined the phrase ‘Kitchen Sink’, to describe the realism of their art. In 1956 he was included in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and in…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Italian School, early 18th Century’s Anthony and Cleopatra , with Footnotes #106
Sold for 18,900 EUR in June 2021 Anthony and Cleopatra are arguably the most famous lovers in history. Marcus Antonius of Rome stood at the pinnacle of power, fighting to be the most powerful man in the known world; and Cleopatra VII Philopator was the queen of one ancient civilization, Egypt, and heir to the unmatched cultural…
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01 Painting, Religious Art, Francesco Guarino’s Saint Anthony Abbot and the Centaur, with footnotes # 51
Sold for 40.625 USD in Jan 2011 The life of St Anthony Abbot was popularised during the thirteenth century by Jacopo da Voragine’s Golden Legend. Towards the end of his life, while on his way to visit St Paul the Hermit, who lived in the wilderness, St Anthony met a centaur who showed him the path…
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02 Works of the Canals of Venice, Alfred Stieglitz’s Venetian Well, with footnotes, #124
Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 — July 13, 1946) was the eldest child of highly cultured and prosperous parents… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work of the Canals of Venice, Martín Rico y Ortega’s Gondolier in a Venetian Canal, with footnotes. #125
Estimated for 20,000 – 30,000 USD in Apr 2020 Martín Rico y Ortega (12 November 1833, El Escorial – 13 April 1908, Venice, Italy) was a Spanish painter of landscapes and cityscapes. Rico was one of the most important artists of the second half of the nineteenth century in his native country, and enjoyed wide international…
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01 Marine Painting, Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen’s La Champagne, With Footnotes, #322
Sold for $100,000 USD in Nov 2022 Though Moran spent a great deal of time painting the American frontier, it is his dreamy, jewel-toned depictions of Venice that perhaps best epitomize his intent to imaginatively capture the romantic, picturesque beauty and the unique sensory experience of a locale, rather than depicting reality in topographically accurate…
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01 Work , The Canals of Venice, Louis Magre’s La Salute, with footnotes, #122
Santa Maria della Salute (English: Saint Mary of Health), commonly known simply as the Salute, is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy. It stands on the narrow finger of Punta della Dogana, between the Grand Canal and the Giudecca Canal,…
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