Tag: Knut Ekvall
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68 Works and tales of Mermaids in Europe, Asia and Africa, with Footnotes #6
Artists: Charles Edouard Boutibonne, Edward Okun, Laura JamesDoris Prouty, Harald Oskar Sohlberg, Ralph Cahoon, Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann, Arthur Wardle, Giovanni Segantini, Isobel Lilian Gloag, Edward Poynter, Edward Matthew Hale, Edvard Munch, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Aino, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Anton Teofil Kwiatkowski, Carl Bertling , Robert Anning Bell, William Arthur Breakspeare, Gerard de Lairesse, Howard Pyle, Julyan Davis, Albert Hanson,…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5c
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. Knut Ekvall, (1843–1912) The Fisherman and The Siren Oil on canvas…
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