Tag: Paintings
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03 Religious Icons, Workshop of Andrea di Nerio’s Nativity; Dormition of the Virgin and Assumption of the Virgin, with footnotes #51
Andrea di Nerio was the leading painter in Arezzo in the middle decades of the 14th Century. As an artistic personality, he only became clearly defined with the discovery of a signature on a painting of the Annunciation in the Museo Diocesano, Arezzo in the mid-20th Century; before that, he was known by documentary evidence…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, Wlastimil Hofman’s Female Nude on the Ladder, #243
Sold for for 52,550.86 US$ in March 2022 The naked woman shown on the ladder in a cheeky gesture places a small, defenseless kitten under the dog’s nose. Which one is Robber and which one is Maciuś? It’s hard to say today. The ladder itself in the art of symbolism carried many hidden meanings in its structure.…
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05 Paintings by Orientalist Artist; Edouard Verschaffelt’s Women in an interior in Algeria, with footnotes, #102
A student at the academies of Ghent and Antwerp, Verschaffelt left Flanders with his wife in 1919 to forget the darkness of the war years. His wife died shortly after they settled in… Please follow link for full post
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04 Works of the Canals of Venice, by Edmund Dulac after Alfred de Musset poem, with footnotes. #132
This watercolour is the first of a series of four drawings used to illustrate the poem Venise by Alfred de Musset (1810-1857). Dulac’s illustrations were deemed to be the ideal accompaniment to de Musset’s poem… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Northern Netherlands’ Entombment of Christ, with Footnotes – #130
Sold for € 10.200 in March 2023 The burial of Jesus refers to the burial of the body of Jesus after crucifixion, before the eve of the sabbath described in the New Testament. According to the canonical gospel accounts, he was placed in a tomb by a councillor of the sanhedrin named Joseph of Arimathea. In…
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni Bellini’s Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist and Elizabeth – with footnotes #203
The Mother of God and the Christ Child are in the company of John the Baptist and his mother, Elizabeth. This devotional painting radiates quietude of a virtually sublime character. The pictorial type known as ‘sacra conversazione’ (sacred conversation) was extremely popular. Successful artists like Bellini produced several versions of it, combining figures based on…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, William Wyld’s Fishing boats in an Italian coastal landscape, with Footnotes, #328
Estimated for £1,500 – £2,000 in July 2022 William Wyld (1806-1889) was an English landscape and topographical painter in oils and watercolour. Wyld was born into a rich merchant family in 1806 in London. On the death of his father when Wyld was aged 20, he was made secretary to the British Consulate in Calais, where he got…
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02 Paintings – Marine Art, Rikki Kasso’s Breaking Waves, with Footnotes, #326
Artist Rikki Kasso is currently based in Byron Bay, Australia. The self-taught art director, photographer and multi-disciplinary visual artist left his native New York City for Shibuya… Please follow link for full post
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02 Paintings, Middle East Artists,Abdelbassit Ben Dahman’s Le Faucon/ the Falcon, with Footnotes #70
Abdelbassit Ben Dahman is a Moroccan visual artist born in 1949 in Tangier and died in 2018. Figurative art and realism define his style of painting… Please follow link for full post
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01 painting, The amorous game, Le Pho’s Idylle (Idyll), with Footnotes #101
Sold for HKD 2,000,000 in Nov 2017 Idylle is the term used in music to refer generally to a work evocative of pastoral or rural life, and more specifically to a kind of French courtly entertainment of the baroque era where a pastoral poem was set to music, accompanied by ballet and singing. Examples of the…
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01 Painting – Marine Art, Frank Henry Mason’s Unloading barges in Bristol harbour, With Footnotes, #321
Sold for £750 in Nov, 2018 Bristol Harbour covers an area of 70 acres (28 hectares). It is the former natural tidal river Avon through the city but was made into its current form in 1809 when the tide was prevented from going out permanently. A tidal by-pass was dug for 2 miles through the fields of…
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09 Works, Today, July 20th, is Prophet Elias’s day, his story in art #201 With Footnotes
Elijah was a prophet and a miracle worker who lived in the northern kingdom of Israel during the reign of King Ahab… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting of The amorous game, William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience, Part 9 – With Footnotes
A gentleman has installed his mistress (known to be such because of her absence of a wedding ring) in a house for their meetings. As they play and singt, she has a sudden spiritual revelation. Rising from her lover’s lap, she gazes into the sunlit garden beyond, which is reflected in the mirror behind her.…
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01 work, The Art Of The Nude, by Mario Eduardo Testino Silva’s Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, with footnotes, #241
Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova (born 28 February 1982), nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador. In 2012, she came in third on the Forbes top-earning models list, estimated to have earned $8.6 million in one year. Vodianova is currently ranked by models.com as one of the New Supers in the fashion industry.…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Harry Kernoff’s July Morn, Place du Tertre, Paris, with footnotes, Part 88
Sold for 50,800 EUR in May 2023 We see Kernoff’s artistic focus reflected in name of the café on the left of the present work: Jeune Peinture. Discreetly sat underneath it – between two cloth capped locals – is Kernoff himself, wearing his customary trilby hat. In the lower right corner, an elderly figure stands with…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Khalil Saleeby’s Salome, with Footnotes #68
Sold for 21,250 USD in November 2017 Salome, also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by Flavius Josephus. In the New Testament, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to…
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13 Works, July 8th. is Christiaen van Couwenbergh’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #185
Christiaen van Couwenbergh, (8 July 1604–4 July 1667) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Christiaen learned to paint from Johan van Nes, and then entered the Guild of St. Luke in Delft in 1627. He then travelled back and forth to Italy. Christiaen learned to paint from Johan van Nes, and then entered the Guild…
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