Tag: Paintings
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Suad Al-Attar, Tears of the soul 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2j
Suad al-Attar (born 1942) is a renowned Iraqi painter whose work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The British Museum and the Gulbenkian Collection. She has held over twenty solo exhibitions, including one in Baghdad that became the first solo exhibition in the country’s history for a woman artist. Her many awards include the…
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Adham Wanly, Nocturne Dabaka Dancers 01 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2i
The dabka, literally ‘stamping of the feet’ is a type of line dance popular at weddings and celebrations throughout the Middle East. In Wanly’s work the figures are gracefully depicted, appearing almost to float across the canvas. Adham Wanly (1908 in Alexandria, Egypt – 1959) was an Egyptian painter who learnt in the atelier of the…
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Netherlandish School 17th century, Large Fish Still Life 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #147
The Dutch School were painters in the Netherlands from the early Renaissance to the Baroque. It includes Early Netherlandish (1400–1500) and Dutch Renaissance (1500–1584) artists active in the northern Low Countries and, later, Dutch Golden Age painting in the United Provinces. Many painters, sculptors and architects of the seventeenth century are called “Dutch masters”, while earlier…
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Frederick Sandys, Valkyrie 01 Works – RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from Norse mythology, with footnotes – 2
One of the many ‘strong women’ paintings that emerged from the later years of the nineteenth century. In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (from Old Norse valkyrja “chooser of the slain”) is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who…
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Giorgione, Castelfranco Madonna 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 130
Commissioned by Tuzio Constanzo, a member of the Order of Malta, the Castelfranco Madonna was produced in memory of his son, Matteo. Tuzio was a condottiero, one of the warlords of Italian city-states during the late Middle Ages. His son died, probably whilst serving him, for the Republic of Venice in the early 1500s. He was…
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Edward Moran, Passing Squall 01 Classic Work of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #18b
Squall, as used by weather forecasters, a sudden wind-speed increase of 8 metres per second (18 miles per hour) or more, for one minute or longer. It includes several briefer wind-speed changes, or gusts. A squall is often named for the weather phenomenon that accompanies it, such as rain, hail, or thunder; a line squall…
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Giovanni Muzzioli, Abraham and Sarah in the Court of Pharaoh 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 177
According to the essay for the reconfirmation of the pensioner, the great biblical scene sent to Modena in 1875 provoked discordant opinions. The scene takes place in a seemingly external environment with the protagonists pushed in the foreground by an architectural backdrop, made with calibrated archaeological taste. The scene, Abraham and Sara close to each…
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Unknown Artist, 17th century, Aeneas’ Farewell to Dido 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, with footnotes #34
One of the Trojan heroes, Aeneas wandered for six years after the fall of Troy and reached Carthage for some rest. The queen Dido welcomed them whole-heartedly and heard their story. During his stay, Aeneas and Dido fell in love with each other and Dido declared him her lord and began to rule Carthage together.…
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Flemish School 17th century, The Stigmatization of Saint Francis 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 119
The Stigmatization of Saint Francis. Two years before his death, according to his custom, Saint Francis had repaired to Mt La Verna to spend the 40 days preceding the feast of St. Michael the Archangel in prayer and fasting. On the morning of the feast of the Exultation of the Holy Cross, as he was praying in…
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Seif Wanly, Spanish Ballet Dancers 01 Painting, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2h
Seif Waly (March 31, 1906 – February 15, 1979) was an Egyptian painter, born Mohammed Seif al-Din Waly into an aristocratic family, of Turkish origin, in Alexandria, Egypt. He was introduced to modern art after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham…
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Pascale Taurua, Ripped jeans 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 49 – With Footnotes
“As women, we know we want to be sexy. But is being sexy just about sex? Not really. It’s not even about how we walk or what we wear. It’s about our personality and how we say and do what we say and do.” Pascale Taurua Pascale Taurua , born in 1961 is a French painter elected…
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Jamil Hamoudi 01 Paintings, MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 15
“Calligraphy for the Arab artist was for centuries a major outlet of creativity: he employed it inventively and in endless modulations to express a powerful aesthetic impulse often associated with ‘spiritual’ feelings, largely because most of the phrases thus written were of a religious nature. The words were sufficient unto themselves as ‘content’, the beauty of their meaning being reflected…
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Tahia Halim (Egypt, 1919-2003) 02 Paintings, MODERN & CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EASTERN ART, With Footnotes – 2g
Both works by the artist were executed in the 1960s during the artist’s Nubian period. Halim visited Nubia twice in the early 1960s, once with her friend and colleague Cleopatra Shahata in 1961 and again with a group of fifty academics and artists in 1962 on a trip organised by Tharwat Okasha, the then Minister…
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Steven Doyle, Rushing to get to prayers 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART, With Footnotes – 118
Buddhists monks hurrying to their prayers at The Dzong Paro Bhutan. More on this photograph Rinpung Dzong is a large dzong – Buddhist monastery and fortress – of the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school in Paro District, Bhutan. It houses the district Monastic Body and government administrative offices of Paro Dzongkhag. It is listed as a…
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