Tag: Paintings
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Hosni Radwan; Church of Nativity, Bethlehem 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 33
The Church of the Nativity, also Basilica of the Nativity is a basilica located in Bethlehem in the Palestinian West Bank. The grotto it contains holds a prominent religious significance to Christians of various denominations as the birthplace of Jesus. The grotto is the oldest site continuously used as a place of worship in Christianity,…
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Walter G. Ratterman, A Romany Night 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 55 – With Footnotes
Walter G. Ratterman (1887-1944) was a twentieth-century American genre painter and illustrator. In the 1920s, he had lived and painted in New York, where the majority of his artworks and illustrations were published. He subsequently moved and lived in Woodstock, New York from the 1930s. Ratterman’s artwork was published in various American books and periodicals between…
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Jean Louis Forain, UNE NUIT CHEZ MAXIM’S 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of their time, Part 61 – With Footnotes
Maxim’s is a restaurant in Paris, France, located at No. 3 rue Royale in the 8th arrondissement. It is known for its Art Nouveau interior decor. Maxim’s was regarded as the most famous restaurant in the world. Maxim’s was founded as a bistro in 1893 by Maxime Gaillard, formerly a waiter. It became one of the…
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Alicia Savage, Waiting Sails 01 Marine Painting – With Footnotes, #182
Alicia Savage is a Boston fine art photographer and illustrator. Her self-portrait series, “Destinations”, is an organic exploration and evolving documentation of her present and past. Inspired by her curiosity and fueled by her imagination she investigates significant aspects of family history and the subsequent places she finds herself with in her multi-faceted life. Utilizing herself…
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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Pieta 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, 5f
The Pietà, 1876, provides a very unique depiction of this most famous of imagery. The weeping Mary cloaked in a robe of black is mourning the death of her son whom she holds to her chest. The dead body of Jesus limply hangs in her arms while eight weeping angels surround them. The angels are clad…
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Domenico Puligo; Saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment vessel 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 127
Mary Magdalene was a Jewish woman who, according to texts included in the New Testament, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Based on texts of the early Christian era in the third century, it seems that her status as an “apostle” rivals even Peter’s.…
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Attributed to Kasper van Eyck, A naval battle 02 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #172
Gaspar or Casper van Eyck (bapt. 6 February 1613 in Antwerp – bef. December 1674 in Brussels), was a Flemish painter of marine subjects and sea-fights.Van Eyck was received into the Guild of St. Luke in 1632. He traveled to Genova, where he collaborated with Cornelis de Wael. From 1656 until his death he worked…
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Mahdi Almasi; Allah 01 Painting, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 32
Mahdi Almasi, poet and painter, was born in west of Iran and grew up in the ancient city of Hamedan. Almasi has always been artistically inclined, even from an early age that he gravitated toward art and beauty and involved in almost every aspect of creative art – Persian calligraphy, design, photography, sculpture – before…
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Léon Zeytline, Champagne with a bitter taste 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 54 – With Footnotes
Leon Zeytline, (1885 -1962), was a Russian painter who moved from Moscow to the capital of France at the beginning of the 20th century. He started depicting daily life of Paris during the 1920’s, illustrating the numerous and famous squares and boulevards, such as the “Boulevard de l’Opéra” and “Les Champs Elysées”. His work is…
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Léon Zeytline; The boulevard de Bonne-Nouvelle 01 Painting, Streets of Paris – With Footnotes
The Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell, is a theatre in Paris. Inaugurated on 23 December 1820 by Delestre-Poirson, the théâtre du Gymnase came to serve as a training-theatre for students of the conservatoire. In 1824 the theatre was granted the title of théâtre de Madame. Closed for renovation in 1830, the theatre…
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Leo Putz, WALDESRUHE (FOREST CALM) 01 Works, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 36
Painted in Gauting circa 1925 after the artist’s return from exile in the Netherlands during the First World War, this painting exemplifies Putz’s freely painted compositions of nudes and bathers by the water’s edge. The setting for this and so many of Putz’s paintings was the lake country around Schloss Hartmannsberg, where the artist and…
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Frederick Arthur Bridgman, YOUNG WOMAN IN A WHITE TURBAN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 65
Frederick Arthur Bridgman (November 10, 1847 – 1928) was an American artist, born in Tuskegee, Alabama. The son of a physician, Bridgman would become one of the United States’ most well-known and well-regarded painters and become known as one of the world’s most talented “Orientalist” painters. He began as a draughtsman in New York City, for…
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Felix Labisse, Nu Assis dans les Dunes 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 35
Félix Labisse (March 9, 1905 – January 27, 1982) was a French Surrealist painter, illustrator, and designer. He divided his time between Paris and the Belgian coast from 1927. In Ostend he met James Ensor, who influenced his work. Beginning in 1931 he designed for the theater. His paintings depict fantastical hybrid creatures, and are often…
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Said Elatab; Arab Woman 01 Painting MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 31
Said Elatab, Arab American painter & photographer who considers himself the epileptic painter, always risking his life to work the best shots. Said has painted while experiencing vision loss and head-banging pain from his epilepsy. Elatab, in art history aspires to be like the great Princes in the world of Painting. One would be Vincent Van…
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David Manzur Londoño; LA SERENATA 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 53 – With Footnotes
David Manzur Londoño (born December 14, 1929) is a Colombian painter. His subjects include still lifes, mounted knights, and saints. Manzur was born in Neira, Caldas, Colombia. His father, Salomón Manzur, was a Lebanese businessman; his mother, Cecilia Londoño Botero, was Colombian. He spent his childhood and adolescence in Bata, Equatorial Guinea, in the Canary Islands,…
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Hassan El Glaoui; Fantasia 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 64
Fantasia is a traditional exhibition of horsemanship in the Maghreb performed during cultural festivals and to close Maghrebi wedding celebrations. “Fantasia” is an imported name, the actual traditional term used is lab el baroud. The performance consists of a group of horse riders, all wearing traditional clothes, who charge along a straight path at the same…
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ITALIAN SCHOOL; THE THREE GRACES 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #37
In Greek mythology, a Charis or Grace is one of three or more minor goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, together known as the Charites or Graces. The usual list, from youngest to oldest is Aglaea (“Splendor”), Euphrosyne (“Mirth”), and Thalia (“Good Cheer”). In Roman mythology they were known as the Gratiae, the “Graces”.…
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Henri Emilien Rousseau; THE SULTAN FROM MOROCCO 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 63
Henri Rousseau Henry, Emilien Rousseau (Cairo 1875 – Aix-en-Provence in 1933) is an Orientalist painter. A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the Beaux Arts in Paris, he won the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1900 and a travel grant at the Salon of French Artists. He traveled to Belgium, the Netherlands, North Africa, Spain and…
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Allan Douglas Davidson, Model posing 01 Work, The Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 34
Allan Douglas Davidson, R.B.A., R.O.I., R.M.S. (1873–1932) was an English painter who predominantly worked in oils and specialized in female nudes. He was born in London on 14 May 1873. His father was the historical painter Thomas Davidson (1842–1919). Allan studied art at the Royal Academy Schools in London, where he won a medal and the Armitage…
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Edward Aubrey Hunt; Shipping in a heavy swell 01 Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #146
Edward Aubrey Hunt, 1855 – 1922, was born at Weymouth, Massachusetts, USA. Educated at Weymouth, Boston, Mass. and entered the architectural firm of Emerson & Fehmer but decided to take art as a career and admitted to L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and studied in there for five years. He returned to London in 1878…
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