Tag: Paintings
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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Raghed Ayab’s The Monastery, with Footnotes, #51
Ragheb Ayad was born in 1892 into a Coptic family in Cairo. Ayad was one of the first students to enrol in the School of Fine Arts in Cairo. After graduating in 1911, Ayad worked as a drawing teacher at the Coptic Secondary School in Cairo and made several trips to France and Italy during those…
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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Albert von Keller’s The resurrection of Jairus’ daughter, with Footnotes – #180
The Raising of Jairus’ daughter is a combination of miracles of Jesus in the Gospels.Jairus, a patron or ruler of a Galilee synagogue, asked Jesus to heal his 12-year-old daughter. Jesus continued to the house, where he “saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly.” He informed all those present that the girl was not…
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27 Works, Today, May 3rd. is artist Viktor Vasnetsov’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #122
Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird (usually an owl). According to the myth, they lived “in Indian lands” near Eden or around the Euphrates River. These half-women half-birds are loosely based on the Greek stories about sirens. They…
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01 PHOTOGRAPH – MARINE ART, EDWARD BURTYNSKY’S SHIPYARD #1, WITH FOOTNOTES, #317
Edward Burtynsky (born February 22, 1955) is a Canadian photographer and artist known for his large format photographs of industrial landscapes.Burtynsky was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. When he was 11, his father purchased a darkroom, including cameras and instruction manuals. With his father, Burtynsky learned how to make black and white prints and together with…
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15 Works, Today, May 2nd. is artist Charles Gleyre’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #121
The Bacchae; also known as The Bacchantes is an ancient Greek tragedy. The tragedy is based on the Greek myth of King Pentheus of Thebes and his mother Agave, and their punishment by the god Dionysus. The god Dionysus appears at the beginning of the play and proclaims that he has arrived in Thebes to…
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01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings, James Kay’s DEPARTURE FROM THE CLYDE – With Footnotes, #184
The River Clyde is a river that flows into the Firth of Clyde in Scotland. It is the eighth-longest river in the United Kingdom, and the second-longest in Scotland. Traveling through the major city of Glasgow, it was an important river for shipbuilding and trade in the British Empire. To the Romans, it was Clota, and…
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01 Photograph, Germaine Krull’s Art Of The Nude, with footnotes # 115
Germaine Luise Krull (20 November 1897 – 31 July 1985) made a name for herself in avant-garde photography in the period between the two World Wars. After attending photography school in Munich, she launched her career in Berlin, and later worked in Paris and Monte Carlo. During World War II, her leftist political beliefs led her…
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39 Works by Old Masters Artists Embedded with Helen of Troy, with Footnotes
Throughout his career, Gustave Moreau showed remarkable fidelity to the character of Hélène de Troie by devoting an exceptionally rich ensemble to her. Main rival of Salomé in the heart of the artist, the most beautiful woman of antiquity appeared in his work in 1852, then returned triumphantly in the company of Galatea on the…
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45 Works, Leda and the Swan, art from the Greek myth, with footnotes
Paul Beckert was taught in the Dresden and Munich academies. He married Anna Leontine von Frank in 1883, which gained him access to a broad network of patrons in the Prussian aristocracy. He portrayed Emperor William I and Field Marshall Moltke (now in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz) among many others. More on Paul Beckert Leda and…
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01 Painting, The amorous game, by Gaetano Bellei, Part 63 – With Footnotes
Gaetano Bellei was an Italian Academic Painter who was born in 1857. He later died in 1922 in the same city. He enhanced his artistic talent by learning art from Adeodato Malatesta and Comrade of John Muzzioli. When he was 24 year old, he won the Retired Potetti due which he was able to visit…
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1 Work, Gayle Porter Hoskins’ The Battle of Little Bighorn
The most significant battle of the Great Sioux War of 1876, The Battle of Little Bighorn involved the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes versus the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. Commonly known as Custer’s Last Stand, the conflict resulted in a devastating loss for the United States and the…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Francois Gall’s Montmartre, Part 76
With its cobbled streets, stunning Basilica, artists, bistros … Montmartre is full of charm! Perched on the top of a small hill in the 18th arrondissement, the most famous Parisian district has lost none of its village atmosphere that appealed so much to the artists of the 19th and 20th centuries. A real melting pot of art…
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02 Paintings, The Art Of The Nude, Edmond Aman-Jean’s Nude with rose, with footnotes # 167
Edmond Aman-Jean, pseudonym of Amand Edmond Jean, was born in Chevry-Cossigny November 13 , 18581 and died on January 25 , 1936 in Paris , was a painter , writer and art critic French. Edmond Aman-Jean was a student of Henri Lehmann of the School of Fine Arts in Paris and the classmate of Georges Seurat , with which he…
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01 Work, Streets of Paris, Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, with footnotes, #11
Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rainbelongs to a series of fifteen works that Camille Pissarro painted in Paris from the window of his hotel in the place du Théâtre Français during the winter of 1897 and 1898. Pissarro, who had spent practically all of his life in the country and was basically a landscape…
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12 Works, Today, April 19th is artist Emanuel Krescenc Liška’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #108
Fox, Emanuel Krescenc (19 April 1852, in Mikulovice — 18 January 1903, in Prague) was a Bohemian painter and illustrator. Most of his works were on religious themes, but he also created scenes from works of poetry… Please follow link for full post
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01 Painting by the Orientalist Artist Émile Bernard’s AU HAREM with footnotes, #14
Harem a sacred inviolable place; for female members of the family. Harem properly refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family and are inaccessible to adult males except for close relations. Similar institutions have been common in other Mediterranean and Middle Eastern civilizations, especially among royal and upper-class families…
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02 Pictures of The amorous game by Michel Comte and Antoine Verglas, Part 6 – With Footnotes
Helena Christensen (born 25 December 1968) is a Danish fashion model and photographer. She is a former Victoria’s Secret Angel and beauty queen. Christensen has also served as creative director for Nylon magazine, designed clothing, and supported funding for breast cancer organizations and other charities. Helena was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the eldest of…
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