Tag: Mermaid
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01 Photograph, Contemporary Interpretations of Olympian deities, Nancy Ellison’s mermaid, with footnotes #33
For sale at 7,335 USD in Nov 2023 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. Nancy Ellison was born…
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12 Works, November 21st. is Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #238
The picture is a concentrate of observations on travels 1869–70 and 1874–75 to Turkey, Greece and Egypt and must be described as one of Jerichau Baumann’s masterpieces. It is carried by a sensuality and coloristic boldness that is atypical of the Danish art of the period, but less marked by the pointed ethnocentrism that characterizes…
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12 Works, November 21st. is Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann’s day, her art, illustrated with footnotes #238
The picture is a concentrate of observations on travels 1869–70 and 1874–75 to Turkey, Greece and Egypt and must be described as one of Jerichau Baumann’s masterpieces. It is carried by a sensuality and coloristic boldness that is atypical of the Danish art of the period, but less marked by the pointed ethnocentrism that characterizes…
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04 works, The Art Of The Nude, Lucien Clergue’s Mermaids, with footnotes # 22
Lucien Clergue (August 14, 1934 – November 15, 2014) was a French photographer. He was Chairman of the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris for 2013. Clergue was born in Arles, France. At the age of 7 he began learning to play the violin, and after several years of study his teacher admitted that he had nothing more to teach him.…
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Maurice William Greiffenhagen, The Mermaid. 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5
Maurice William Greiffenhagen The Mermaid Oil on canvas Height: 100 cm (39.37 in.), Width: 100 cm (39.37 in.) Paisley Museum and Art Galleries (United Kingdom – Paisley, Renfrewshire) This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain…
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12 Paintings, tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes # 3
John William Whiteley, (1859 – 1936) A Sail, c. 1898 John William Whiteley, 1859 – 1936, was a British artist at the beginning of the last century. He is known for his paintings of nude figures and landscapes. He exhibited nine works at the Royal Academy between 1882 and 1900 including ‘Under the Cliffs’, ‘A…
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