Tag: Paintings
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23 Works, December 18th. is Frank O. Salisbury’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #251
Painted in 1911 it is a figurative landscape of soldiers on the battlefield. The two central characters, the ‘Christian Soldiers’ from the early crusades have halos and ride through the chaos on white horses. Shafts on light with angels illuminate them and also a crucifix. A very powerful Edwardian religious oil painting and an excellent…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible by Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, With Footnotes – #134
This elegant Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Catherine of Siena exemplifies the type of painting that Sodoma produced for private devotion. Half-length sacre conversazioni were popular in Siena from the mid-15th century and in the present panel Sodoma continued that tradition in an updated form. The central figures of the Madonna and Child…
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Venetian School, Madonna and Child with Saints Leonard and Ursula 01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 173
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of the…
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20 Works, December 12th. is Karl Bryullov’s day, his art, illustrated with footnotes #248
Having become close in Italy with the Tittoni family, Bryullov created portraits of almost his entire family, and in 1852 he painted a portrait of Juliet Tittoni. Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (12 December 1799–11 June 1852), original name Charles Bruleau, also transliterated Briullov and Briuloff, was a Russian painter. He is regarded as a key figure…
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01 Work, Contemporary Interpretations of Hellenic legend, Robert Brackman’s Muse, with footnotes #27
Muse, in Greco-Roman religion and mythology, any of a group of sister goddesses of obscure but ancient origin, in Boeotia, Greece. They were born in Pieria, at the foot of Mount Olympus. Very little is known of their cult, but they had a festival every four years at Thespiae. They probably were originally the patron…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Jan Harmensz. Muller’s Lot and His Daughters, With Footnotes – #133
Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30–38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children — as…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, Simon de Vos’ The Visitation, with Footnotes – #119
The Visitation. Mary visits her relative Elizabeth; they are both pregnant. Mary is pregnant with Jesus and Elizabeth is pregnant with John the Baptist. Elizabeth was in the sixth month before Mary came. Mary stayed three months, and most scholars hold she stayed for the birth of John. The apparition of the angel, mentioned in Matthew,…
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Hussein Bikar’s THE LANDLORD with Footnotes, #57
Hussein Amin Bicar (2 January 1913 in Alexandria – 16 November 2003) was one of Egypt’s most prominent artists of the 20th century, after graduating from the Cairo higher school of fine arts in 1934, he spent more than 60 years of his life teaching art at schools and universities and then through the press, he…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Narcisse Berchère’s Horseman at the camp, with footnotes, #110
Narcisse Berchère (11 September 1819, Étampes – 20 September 1891, Asnières-sur-Seine) was a French painter and engraver; best known for his Orientalist works.His initial studies were at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, with Charles-Caïus Renoux [fr]. Later, he worked in the studios of Jean-Charles-Joseph Rémond. He spent much of his working life in Paris; making…
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01 Marine Painting – Newell Conver’s Wyeth’s Morgan’s men are out for you, with Footnotes, #342
Sir Henry Morgan, (born 1635, Llanrhymney, Glamorgan—died August 25, 1688, probably Lawrencefield, Jamaica), Welsh buccaneer, most famous of the adventurers who plundered Spain’s Caribbean colonies during the late 17th century. Operating with the unofficial support of the English government, he undermined Spanish authority in the West Indies. More on Sir Henry Morgan Blackbeard, (born c. 1680, Bristol?, England—died…
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01 Orientalist Painting, Henri Adrien Tanoux’s Tambourine odalisque, with footnotes, #109
An odalisque was a chambermaid or a female attendant in a Turkish seraglio, particularly the court ladies in the household of the Ottoman sultan. In western usage, the term came to mean the harem concubine, and refers to the eroticized artistic genre in which a woman is represented mostly or completely nude in a reclining position,…
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01 Painting, The Art Of The Nude, Leon Kroll’s Reclining Nude, with footnotes # 139
Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. Known as a figurative artist, Life Magazine described him as “the dean of U.S. nude painters,” yet he was an exceptional landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions. He studied at the Art Students League of…
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06 works, Today, November 30th, is Andrew the Apostle’s day, his story, illustrated #333
Andrew the Apostle was an apostle of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Saint Peter. He is referred to in the Orthodox tradition as the First-Called. According to Orthodox tradition, the apostolic successor to Saint Andrew is the Patriarch of Constantinople. Andrew the Apostle was born between AD 5 and…
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33 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists Goodall, Swoboda, Fromentin, Robertson, Haddon, Courdouan, Ungewitter, Schreyer, Maltese, Colman, Cirou, Keyser, Laporte, Dauzats, Hemsbach, Mancini, Fabbi, Joanovitch, Mann, Flint, Ambros, Makovski, Gustavino, and Eisenhut, with footnotes, #7
Frederick Goodall RA (London 17 September 1822–29 July 1904) was an English artist, born in 1822, the second son of steel line engraver Edward Goodall (1795–1870). He received his education at the Wellington Road Academy. Frederick’s first commission, for Isambard Brunel, was six watercolour paintings of the Rotherhithe Tunnel. Four of these were exhibited at…
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