Tag: Paintings
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06 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Sante D´Orazio’s Pamela Anderson, with footnotes #206
Sante D’Orazio captures Pamela Anderson’s status as the ultimate American Icon: modern-day goddess, cult figure, activist, author, and crush of an entire generation… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Paul Gustav Fischer’s An Evening Stroll on the Boulevard, with footnotes, Part 90
Sold for 65.500 USD in Jan 2011 Paul Gustav Fischer (22 July 1860 – 1 May 1934) was a Danish painter. Paul Fischer was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father had started as a painter, but later succeeded in the business of manufacturing paints and lacquers. His formal art education lasted only a short time in his…
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Bartholomeus Douven’s Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #208
Sold for 16,250 EUR in March 2015 Mary Magdalene, literally translated as Mary the Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, is a figure in Christianity who, according to the Bible, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers. She is said to have witnessed Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection. Within the four Gospels she is named more than…
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34 Paintings of the Canals of Venice in the 18 & 19th Century, by the artists of the time, with foot notes #1
Venice, the capital of northern Italy’s Veneto region, is built on more than 100 small islands in a lagoon in the Adriatic Sea. It has no roads, just canals — including the Grand Canal thoroughfare — lined with Renaissance and Gothic palaces. The central square, Piazza San Marco, contains St. Mark’s Basilica, which is tiled with Byzantine mosaics… Please…
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01 painting, The amorous game, Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Fountain of Love, With Footnotes #83
The scene depicts love as a natural force and uncontrollable passion, stronger than the people affected by it. This perception of love was still recent around 1785 when Fragonard painted the two versions. While the image of a fountain of love was known, e. g. from Aristotle, the image is Fragonard’s pictorial invention without a…
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06 works, Today, September 29th, is Saint Theodota’s day, her story illustrated #271
Towards the end of the reign of Licinius, on a Friday, in September, in the year 318, a persecution was raised at Philippi, anciently Eumolpias, in Thrace. Agrippa the prefect, on a festival of Apollo, had commanded that the whole city should offer a great sacrifice with him… Please follow link for full post
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01 Marine Art, Feliks Wygrzywalski’s Girl Waiting for a Fisherman , With Footnotes, #312
Sold for PLN 48,000 in October 2021 Feliks Michał Wygrzywalski (20 November 1875, Przemyśl – 5 September 1944, Rzeszów) was a Polish painter; remembered primarily for his Orientalist scenes and portraits. He also created a significant number of nudes. Thanks to a scholarship from the Malinowski Foundation, he was able to study at the Academy of Fine Arts…
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10 Works, September 27th. is Jean-Baptiste Nattier’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #212
From 1704 to 1709, he studied at the Académie de France à Rome and, in 1712, was received as a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture upon presentation of his painting, Joseph sollicité par la femme de Putiphar… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretation of the Bible, Jan Saudek’s Black Cup, with Footnotes – 14 B
Sold for 2,800 PLN in November 2017 Black Cup. For the church, the cup has come to represent the central events of Christianity, the death and resurrection of Christ. In the Garden of Gethsemane, Christ returns to the fundamental meaning of the cup as a representative of fate. In his prayer, the cup symbolizes the pain, degradation, and…
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03 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Thomas Beach’s Portraits of Mrs. Siddons, with Footnotes #229
Sold for £31,250 in April 2015 “Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.But you are life and you are the veilBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirrorBut you are eternity and you are the mirror”Kahlil Gibrain Gibran Khalil Gibran (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist,…
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03 Works, Tyler Shields’ Gators, with Footnotes #89
On a flight from Paris to London? British actress Jane Birkin, sitting next to Jean-Louis Dumas, Executive Chairman of Hermès (1978–2006), was complaining that she couldn’t find a bag suitable for her needs as a young mother… Please follow link for full post
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13 Works, September 24th. is Artist Edouard Hamman’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #209
Edouard Jean Conrad Hamman (24 September 1819 in Ostend — 30 March 1888 in Paris) was a Belgian painter and engraver who specialized in portraying scenes from the lives of famous artists, scholars and the nobility… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, Abraham Janssens I’s Penitent Magdalene, with Footnotes #206
One of a series of half-length, figural compositions undertaken by Abraham Janssens in the 1620s, this painting of the Penitent Magdalen was intended for a private patron. Its owner would have savored the visual opulence of the pensive saint surrounded by jewels, silks, fruit, and a golden ointment jar, while also understanding the somber skull…
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04 Photographs, The Art Of The Nude, Frank Horvat’s Kristin, Aurelia, Alice and Alexandra, with footnotes # 116
The idea of referring to famous master-pieces probably came to me from a thought that had often crossed my mind — on the subway, for instance — when glancing at some woman who struck me as particularly beautiful, but who didn’t seem conscious of her beauty… Please follow link for full post
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01 Photograph The amorous game, Robert Doisneau’s Le Baiser de l’Hôtel de Ville/ The Kiss at City Hall with Footnotes #86
Estimated for €20,000 EUR – €25,000 EUR in June 2011 Doisneau’s photo was not without controversy. Many years later, a couple, Jean and Denise Lavergne, stepped forward to pronounce themselves the lip-locked subjects. Doisneau took the couple to lunch, and not wanting to “shatter their dream,” he let them go on thinking they were indeed…
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10 Works, September 21st. is Kurt Jackson day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #207
Kurt Jackson (born 21 September 1961) is a British painter whose large canvases reflect a concern with natural history, ecology and environmental issues… Please follow link for full post
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01 Work, Giovanni Battista Torriglia’s The artist’s studio , with Footnotes #87
Sold for $4,000 USD in February 2023 The studio of any artist, especially from the 15th to the 19th centuries, characterized all the assistants, thus the designation of paintings as “from the workshop of…” or “studio of…” An art studio is sometimes called an atelier, especially in earlier eras. More on The studio Giovanni Battista Torriglia was an…
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