Tag: Paintings
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Otto von Thoren, Bathing by the sea 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #117
Otto von Thoren (Austrian, 1828-1889) Bathing by the sea, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 31-1/4 inches (65.4 x 79.4 cm) Private collection Otto von Thoren (21 July 1828 Vienna, 15 July 1889 in Paris) is an Austrian animal painter. He was the son of son of Francis Casimir Thoron and Constance Marie-Françoise Lochmann Otto von…
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Santa Caterina di Alessandria, The National Gallery in London bought for £ 3.6 million a self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileski
Artemisia Gentileschi, (1593–1653) Santa Caterina di Alessandria, c. 1615 or 1618-1619 Oil on canvas Height: 77 cm (30.3 in); Width: 62 cm (24.4 in) Was at Uffizi Gallery They tried to break Saint Catherine of Alexandria on a wheel, but she survived. This is how the great female 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi portrays herself in…
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Robert McVittie, At the Dock 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #115
Robert McVittie, Canadian, (1935 – 2002) At the Dock Oil on canvas 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm) Private collection Robert McVittie ( August 1, 1935 – 2002 ) Born in England, McVittie trained for a naval career at the Thames Nautical Training College, and worked in the Merchant Navy before moving to Canada…
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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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Lawrence Alma-Tadema, In the Tepidarium 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 16 – With Footnotes
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (1836–1912) In the Tepidarium, c. 1881 Oil on canvas 24.2 × 33 cm (9.5 × 13 in) Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, United Kingdom The tepidarium was the warm bathroom of the Rome, heated by an underfloor heating system.The specialty of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat which directly…
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Ivan Aivazovsky, Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #116
Ivan Aivazovsky, (1817–1900) Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, just before the Crimean War, c. 1890 Oil on canvas 53 × 107 cm (20.9 × 42.1 in) Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia, Crimea Feodosia (was a Russian; Ukrainian; Crimean Tatar; Turkish; and Venetian port), also called Theodosia, is a port and resort, a town of regional…
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Irving Penn, CROSSING THE RIVER STYX 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #5
Irving Penn, 1917-2009 ‘CROSSING THE RIVER STYX, c. 1996 Platinum-palladium print 15 1/2 by 25 5/8 in. (39.4 by 65.1 cm.) Private collection In Greek mythology, Styx is a deity and a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron, Lethe, and Cocytus all converge at the center of the…
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Tintoretto, Tarquin and Lucretia, c. 1578/80, 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Lucretia, with Footnotes. # 20
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Italian, 1518-1594 Tarquin and Lucretia, c. 1578/80 Oil on canvas 68 7/8 x 59 5/8 in. (175 x 151.5 cm) The Art Institute of Chicago Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, last king of Rome, being engaged in the siege of Ardea, sent his son, Sextus Tarquinius, on a military errand to Collatia. Sextus was…
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Montague Dawson, The moonlit way – The Invercargill 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #114
Montague Dawson, (British, 1895-1973) The moonlit way – The Invercargill, c. 1938 Oil on canvas 28 x 42 inches (71.1 x 106.7 cm) Private collection THE INVERCARGILL. During the year 1874 Robert Duncan built six ships—the Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Nelson, and Dunedin—to the order of Patrick Henderson, for the New Zealand trade. They were all…
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Marten de Vos, The Holy Family 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 102
Marten de Vos, (1532 – 1603) The Holy Family Oil / wood, parqueted 73 x 104 cm. Private collection Depicted is the family of St. Anne; as center Anna, the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus, John the Baptist, as a boy, with his symbol the Lamb, laterally probably Joachim, on the left Elisabeth with John…
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DANIEL HUNTINGTON, Figures at prayer 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! , With Footnotes – 99
DANIEL HUNTINGTON, (American, 1816-1906) Figures at prayer oil on canvas 24-1/2 w. 19-3/4 in. Private collection Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), was born in New York City, New York. He studied at Yale with Samuel F.B. Morse, and later with Henry Inman. From 1833 to 1835 he transferred to Hamilton College in…
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Arthur James Wetherall Burgess, Glendale, The brotherhood of seamen 01 CLASSIC WORKS OF ART, MARINE PAINTINGS – WITH FOOTNOTES, #113
Arthur James Wetherall Burgess Glendale The brotherhood of seamen National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Although the rescue incident shown in this painting is fictitious, the ship, ‘Glendale‘, was real and was a cargo liner built for the Glen Line in 1939. ‘Glengyle’ was the fifth to bear the name and was built by the Caledon…
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Edward Burne-Jones’s Art, in The Legend of the Briar Rose, inspired by the story of Sleeping Beauty, with artist’s studies and footnotes
The Legend of Briar Rose is the title of a series of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which were completed between 1885 and 1890. The four original paintings – The Briar Wood, The Council Chamber, The Garden Court and The Rose Bower – and an additional ten adjoining panels, are located at Buscot…
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MANNER OF SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK, THE HOLY FAMILY 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings from the Bible by the Old Masters, with footnotes, 100
MANNER OF SIR ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641) THE HOLY FAMILY Oil on canvas 61 x 47.7cm Private collection The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who…
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Gioacchino Pagliei, The Naiads 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 6a
Gioacchino Pagliei The Naiads, c. 1881 Oil on Canvas In Greek mythology, the Naiads were a type of female water nymph who presided over fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of fresh water. Naiads were associated with fresh water, as the Oceanids, the sea nymphs who were the three thousand daughters of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys,…
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