Tag: Paintings
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Netherlandish School, The Lamentation 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 132
This work depicts several scenes taking place simultaneously: In the background we see Christ’s deposition from the cross on Mount Calvary whilst His body is anointed in the foreground. Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea hold Christ’s body whilst Mary Magdalene kneels ready with the ointment jar at his feet. The Virgin is shown in the centre of the work supported by Saint John. The grave…
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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, FANTASIA DANS LE SUD MAROCAIN 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 54
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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Artus Wolffort, Esther’s Toilet in the Harem of Ahasuerus, circa 1620 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 168
This subject was depicted by Wolffort several times, which attests to its popularity. The scene derives from the Book of Esther in the Old Testament, which tells the story of how an orphaned Jewish woman is selected by King Ahasuerus of Persia to become his queen. In this painting, Esther is the standing figure at…
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The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete 03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete’s Day, With Footnotes – 157
The Ten Holy Martyrs of Crete: Theodulus, Saturninus, Euporus, Gelasius, Eunician, Zoticus, Pompius, Agathopus, Basilides and Evaristus were a group of ten Christian men from Crete who suffered martyrdom during the persecutions of emperor Decius during the third century. They are commemorated on December 23. The Ten refused to worship at the shrine of the deity…
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Georgij Aleksandrovic Lapsin, Red Sails 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #180
The typical, rusty-red colour of the flax sails was due to the dressing used to treat the sails that were permanently aloft, traditionally made from red ochre, cod oil, urine and seawater. The red ochre was there to block the ultra-violet in the sunlight from degrading the sails (much as lamp-black was used in the…
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Simone Pignoni, The Rape of Proserpine 01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes # 34
Proserpina, or Proserpine is an ancient Roman goddess whose cult, myths and mysteries were based on those of Greek Persephone and her mother Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and agriculture. The Romans identified Proserpina with their native fertility goddess Libera, daughter of the grain and agriculture goddess Ceres and wife to Liber. Venus, in order…
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Edward Pritchett, Santa Marie Della Salute 01 Painting of the Canals of Venice by the artists of their time, with footnotes. #56
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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Jean-François Arrigoni Neri, A MOUSSEM IN THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS 01 Painting by the Orientalist Artists, with footnotes, 53
The Tan-Tan Moussem is an annual gathering of more than thirty tribes from southern Morocco and other parts of Northwest Africa in Tan-Tan, a town in south-western Morocco. In traditional Berber culture, a moussem is “a type of annual fair with economic, cultural and social functions.” This Moussem was first held in 1963 to “promote local traditions…
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Joe Duncan Gleason, Young America 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #177
The Young America was built by William H. Webb of New York. She was launched in 1853, at the height of the clipper construction boom. She sailed in the California trade, on transatlantic routes, and made voyages to Australia and the Far East. She set a record for the passage from Liverpool to San Francisco in…
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Borys Fiodorowicz, Madonna of Saint-Laurent 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 30
Yves Saint Laurent, in full Yves-Henri-Donat-Mathieu Saint Laurent, (born August 1, 1936, Oran, Algeria—died June 1, 2008, Paris, France), French fashion designer. In 1962 Saint Laurent opened his own fashion house and quickly emerged as one of the most influential designers in Paris. He popularized trousers for women. Metallic and transparent fabrics were prominent in his…
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School of the Lower Rhine, THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, with Footnotes – 152
The kiss of Judas, also known as the Betrayal of Christ, is how Judas identified Jesus to the multitude with swords and clubs who had come from the chief priests and elders of the people to arrest him, according to the Synoptic Gospels. The kiss is given by Judas in the Garden of Gethsemane after…
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Spyros Vassiliou, Masts and boats 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #175
Spyros Vassiliou (1903- 03.22.1985) was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece (in 1960), Spyros Vassiliou’s works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the…
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Hunjung Kim, Girls inside me No.1117 01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 21
Kim Hyun-Jung has made her mark on the Korean art scene by painting outside the lines of how women are traditionally perceived in a rapidly-transforming South Korean society. Kim’s work, which combines the use of paint and paper, is an ongoing series of portraits she refers to as Nae Sung Nyo which is a form of…
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Marco Cornini, Untitled 01 Painting, The amorous game, Part 51 – With Footnotes
The artist of desire, essentially, is Marco Cornini (Milan, 1966). Graduated in sculpture at Brera, his hands have almost exclusively modeled female figures for thirty years. In terracotta colored with acrylics, of medium size. Slim young women, long hair, all rather similar to each other, always very little dressed, sitting or half-lying, isolated in space, in a waiting position. Softly (very…
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Inji Efflatoun, In the Woman’s Prison 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 18
Inji Aflatoun (1924–1989) was an Egyptian painter and activist in the women’s movement. She was a “leading spokesman for the Marxist-progressive-nationalist-feminist spokeswoman in the late 1940s and 1950s”, as well as a “pioneer of modern Egyptian art” and “one of the important Egyptian visual artists” During school, Aflatoun liked to paint and her parents encouraged her.…
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Antoine Blanchard, Le Moulin Rouge à Montmartre 01 Painting, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 53 – With Footnotes
Moulin Rouge, (French for “Red Mill”) is a cabaret in Paris. The original house, which burned down in 1915, was co-founded in 1889 by Charles Zidler and Joseph Oller, who also owned the Paris Olympia. Close to Montmartre in the Paris district of Pigalle on Boulevard de Clichy in the 18th arrondissement, it is marked by the…
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Badri Narayan, Untitled 02 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 52 – With Footnotes
Badri Narayan (22 July 1929, Secunderabad, India – 23 September 2013, Bangalore) was an artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. Narayan began painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. He had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the…
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Nabil Anani, Vision 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 17
Nabil Anani (b.1943, Latroun, Palestine) is one of the most prominent Palestinian artists working today. He is considered by many as a key founder of the contemporary Palestinian art movement. On graduating in Fine Art from Alexandra University, Egypt [in 1969], Anani returned to his native Palestine and began a fruitful career as an artist and…
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Eugène Atget, Boulevard de Bonne Nouvelle 01 Photograph, Streets of Paris, by the artists of the time, Part 42 – With Footnotes
This boulevard saw its construction prescribed in 1676. It was built and named after the church Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle. The execution of the alignments approved by the royal decree of May 15, 1832 resulted in the removal of the impasse of the Message Boards. The Rue Basse Porte Saint-Denis. Part of rue Basse Porte Saint-Denis were absorbed…
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Patti Hansen, with footnotes # 20
Patricia “Patti” Hansen (born March 17, 1956) is an American model and actress. She was discovered by photographer Peter Gert at age 14. After Gert took Hansen to a party hosted by Wilhelmina Cooper, former model and owner of the Wilhelmina Models, Cooper signed the teen to her agency. Hansen soon moved to Manhattan, enrolled at…
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