Tag: Sandro Botticelli
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29 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Paintings and Stories from the Bible, with footnotes #7
Religious art is a visual representation of religious ideologies and their relationship with humans. Sacred art directly relates to religious art in the sense that its purpose is for worship and religious practices. According to one set of definitions, artworks that are inspired by religion but are not considered traditionally sacred remain under the umbrella…
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11 Paintings, Olympian Myths as recounted by the Old Masters, with footnotes #8
The stories of the ancient Greeks about their gods, heroes, and explanations of the nature and history of the universe are known as Greek mythology. These stories, or myths, have survived for more than 2,000 years. Greek mythology has had an extensive influence on the arts and literature of Western civilization, which inherited much of…
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06 Paintings, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible by Sandro Botticelli , With Footnotes #48
Botticelli’s women are renowned as the embodiments of grace, elegance, and beauty. The unique style of the Italian painter — with his idealized, elongated, buoyant figures in flowing tresses and drapery — has become emblematic of the Italian Renaissance, and his works are among the most recognizable in the world. Less well known is the fact that Botticelli, while…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 5, is Saint Telesphorus’ Day, With Footnotes – 164
Sandro Botticelli, (1445 –1510) The Pope SS. Telesforo, c. 1481 Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome Saint Telesphorus, (died c. 136); feast day January 5), pope from about 125 to about 136. Telesphorus is said to have been a Greek, possibly from Calabria. Successor to St. Sixtus I, he was the eighth pope and a witness to…
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09 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #14
Youssef Nabil, B. 1972, EGYPTIAN PORTRAIT OF JANNANE AL ANI Hand-coloured gelatin silver print 38 by 25cm.; 15 by 9 7/8 in. Private collection Jananne Al-Ani was born in Kirkuk, Iraq in 1966. She studied Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art and graduated with an MA in Photography from the Royal College…
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