Tag: mythology
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19 Works, December 28th. is Alessandro Rosi’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #256
Sebastian stood by a staircase where the emperor was to pass and harangued Diocletian for his cruelties against Christians. This freedom of speech greatly astonished the emperor; who gave orders for his being seized and beaten to death with cudgels, and his body thrown into the common sewer. A pious lady, called Irene, admonished by…
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01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, Hassan Hajjaj’s WINK, with Footnotes – #5A
Hassan Hajjaj (born Larache, Morocco in 1961) is a contemporary artist who lives and works between London, UK and Marrakech, Morocco. Hajjaj’s work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the British Museum, London; the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC; the Newark Museum, New Jersey; Los Angeles County Museum of…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Adolf Schreyer’s The advance, with footnotes, #112
Adolf Schreyer (July 9, 1828 Frankfurt-am-Main – July 29, 1899 Kronberg im Taunus) was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He studied art, first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He first…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, With Footnotes – #134
This elegant Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Catherine of Siena exemplifies the type of painting that Sodoma produced for private devotion. Half-length sacre conversazioni were popular in Siena from the mid-15th century and in the present panel Sodoma continued that tradition in an updated form. The central figures of the Madonna and Child…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Hellenic legend, Robert Brackman’s Muse, with footnotes #27
Muse, in Greco-Roman religion and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses of obscure but ancient origin, in Boeotia, Greece. They were born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus. Very little is known of their cult, but they had a festival every four years at Thespiae. They probably were originally the patron…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Jan Harmensz. Muller’s Lot and His Daughters, With Footnotes – #133
Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30–38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children — as…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Simon de Vos’ The Visitation, with Footnotes – #119
The Visitation. Mary visits her relative Elizabeth; they are both pregnant. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came. Mary stayed three months, and most scholars hold she stayed for the birth of John. The apparition of the angel, mentioned in Matthew,…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Narcisse Berchère’s Horseman at the camp, with footnotes, #110
Narcisse Berchère (11 September 1819, Étampes – 20 September 1891, Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French painter and engraver; best known for his Orientalist works.His initial studies were at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Charles-Caïus Renoux [fr]. Later, he worked in the studios of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond. He spent much of his working life in Paris; making…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri Adrien Tanoux’s Tambourine odalisque, with footnotes, #109
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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06 works, Today, November 30th, is Andrew the Apostle’s day, his story, illustrated #333
Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Saint Peter. He is referred to in the Orthodox tradition as the First-Called. According to Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Saint Andrew is the Patriarch of Constantinople. Andrew the Apostle was born between AD 5 and…
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33 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists Goodall, Swoboda, Fromentin, Robertson, Haddon, Courdouan, Ungewitter, Schreyer, Maltese, Colman, Cirou, Keyser, Laporte, Dauzats, Hemsbach, Mancini, Fabbi, Joanovitch, Mann, Flint, Ambros, Makovski, Gustavino, and Eisenhut, with footnotes, #7
Frederick Goodall RA (London 17 September 1822–29 July 1904) was an English artist, born in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795–1870). He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy. Frederick’s first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri-Léopold Lévy’s Phoenix, with footnotes, #108
In Ancient Greek folklore, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again. Associated with the sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. Some legends say it dies in a show of flames and combustion, others that it simply dies and decomposes before being born…
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04 Aalabaster Sculptures, RELIGIOUS ART, God the Father, The Annunciation, The Miraculous Draught of the Fishes and the Virgin and Child – with footnotes #187
God the Father is depicted here crowned and holding an orb, representing the realm of the Earth over which he rules… Please follow link for full post
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