Tag: Zaidan
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Cesare Dell’Acqua, AN OTTOMAN BEAUTY 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #39
Cesare Dell’Acqua, 1821-1905, ITALIAN AN OTTOMAN BEAUTY Oil on panel 92.5 by 71cm., 36½ by 28in. Private collector While the sitter’s dress and the gueridon table are quintessentially Turkish, in her left hand she appears to be holding a Jiajing or Wanli wucai decorated jarlet and cover, of the style produced in the sixteenth or…
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Installation view of The Space Between by Mahmoud Merjan (image courtesy Galerie Tanit and Kevork Mourad) BEIRUT — When artist Kevork Mourad thinks of his childhood in Aleppo, Syria he talks of the road he walked to reach the church attended by his family, in the city’s old quarter. The buildings lining the way, he…
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Willy Tiedjen, Hamburg Harbor, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #40a
Willy Tiedjen (1881 Hamburg – 1950 Munich) Hamburg Harbor with the Kaiserspeicher ( Kaiser Memorial) and St. Michael’s Church Oil on canvas 48.5 x 70.5 Private collection The Port of Hamburg is a sea port on the river Elbe in Hamburg, Germany, 110 kilometres from its mouth on the North Sea. The port is almost as old as…
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Otto von Thoren, Bathing by the sea 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #117
Otto von Thoren (Austrian, 1828-1889) Bathing by the sea, c. 1876 Oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 31-1/4 inches (65.4 x 79.4 cm) Private collection Otto von Thoren (21 July 1828 Vienna, 15 July 1889 in Paris) is an Austrian animal painter. He was the son of son of Francis Casimir Thoron and Constance Marie-Françoise Lochmann Otto von…
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Santa Caterina di Alessandria, The National Gallery in London bought for £ 3.6 million a self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileski
Artemisia Gentileschi, (1593–1653) Santa Caterina di Alessandria, c. 1615 or 1618-1619 Oil on canvas Height: 77 cm (30.3 in); Width: 62 cm (24.4 in) Was at Uffizi Gallery They tried to break Saint Catherine of Alexandria on a wheel, but she survived. This is how the great female 17th-century painter Artemisia Gentileschi portrays herself in…
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Robert McVittie, At the Dock 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #115
Robert McVittie, Canadian, (1935 – 2002) At the Dock Oil on canvas 20 x 36 in. (50.8 x 91.4 cm) Private collection Robert McVittie ( August 1, 1935 – 2002 ) Born in England, McVittie trained for a naval career at the Thames Nautical Training College, and worked in the Merchant Navy before moving to Canada…
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Maurice William Greiffenhagen, The Mermaid. 01 Paintings and tales of Mermaids, with Footnotes, 5
Maurice William Greiffenhagen The Mermaid Oil on canvas Height: 100 cm (39.37 in.), Width: 100 cm (39.37 in.) Paisley Museum and Art Galleries (United Kingdom – Paisley, Renfrewshire) This early work both illustrated and was inspired by a poem by Goethe, which tells the story of a mermaid who rises from the waters to complain…
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Lawrence Alma-Tadema, In the Tepidarium 01 Paintings, The amorous game, Part 16 – With Footnotes
Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (1836–1912) In the Tepidarium, c. 1881 Oil on canvas 24.2 × 33 cm (9.5 × 13 in) Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight Village, United Kingdom The tepidarium was the warm bathroom of the Rome, heated by an underfloor heating system.The specialty of a tepidarium is the pleasant feeling of constant radiant heat which directly…
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Ivan Aivazovsky, Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #116
Ivan Aivazovsky, (1817–1900) Black Sea Fleet in the Bay of Theodosia, just before the Crimean War, c. 1890 Oil on canvas 53 × 107 cm (20.9 × 42.1 in) Aivazovsky National Art Gallery, Feodosia, Crimea Feodosia (was a Russian; Ukrainian; Crimean Tatar; Turkish; and Venetian port), also called Theodosia, is a port and resort, a town of regional…
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Valentin Alexandrovich Serov, Portrait of Maria F. Jakuntjikova 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #38
Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (1865 – 1911) Portrait of Maria F. Jakuntjikova, c. (1885 – 1888) Oil on canvas Height: 136 mm (5.35 in); Width: 100 mm (3.93 in) Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Scania, in southern Sweden Maria Fyodorovna Andreyeva was the stage name of Maria Fyodorovna Yurkovskaya (July 4, 1868 – December 8, 1953), a Russian/Soviet actress and…
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Irving Penn, CROSSING THE RIVER STYX 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #5
Irving Penn, 1917-2009 ‘CROSSING THE RIVER STYX, c. 1996 Platinum-palladium print 15 1/2 by 25 5/8 in. (39.4 by 65.1 cm.) Private collection In Greek mythology, Styx is a deity and a river that forms the boundary between Earth and the Underworld. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron, Lethe, and Cocytus all converge at the center of the…
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Tintoretto, Tarquin and Lucretia, c. 1578/80, 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Lucretia, with Footnotes. # 20
Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Italian, 1518-1594 Tarquin and Lucretia, c. 1578/80 Oil on canvas 68 7/8 x 59 5/8 in. (175 x 151.5 cm) The Art Institute of Chicago Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, last king of Rome, being engaged in the siege of Ardea, sent his son, Sextus Tarquinius, on a military errand to Collatia. Sextus was…
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Romy Campe, Germany 01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #37
Romy Campe, Germany JAPANESE, from the series “Humans” Oil and Charcoal on Canvas 51.2 H x 39.4 W x 1.2 in Private collection The series Humans refers to the subject of refugees. It shows that we are all human beings. No matter what nationality we have. Romy Campe: The Berlin-based artist Romy Campe studied painting and…
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Montague Dawson, The moonlit way – The Invercargill 01 Classic Works of Art, Marine Paintings – With Footnotes, #114
Montague Dawson, (British, 1895-1973) The moonlit way – The Invercargill, c. 1938 Oil on canvas 28 x 42 inches (71.1 x 106.7 cm) Private collection THE INVERCARGILL. During the year 1874 Robert Duncan built six ships—the Invercargill, Auckland, Wellington, Canterbury, Nelson, and Dunedin—to the order of Patrick Henderson, for the New Zealand trade. They were all…
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Marten de Vos, The Holy Family 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the bible, With Footnotes – 102
Marten de Vos, (1532 – 1603) The Holy Family Oil / wood, parqueted 73 x 104 cm. Private collection Depicted is the family of St. Anne; as center Anna, the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus, John the Baptist, as a boy, with his symbol the Lamb, laterally probably Joachim, on the left Elisabeth with John…
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Cheryl Wilson, Medusa 01 Contemporary Interpretations, Olympian deities in classical Greek and Roman religion, with footnotes #6
Cheryl Wilson, United States Medusa Acrylic, Ink, Gesso, Airbrush and Paper on Canvas 16 H x 20 W x 0.8 in Private collection In Greek mythology Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as a winged human female with a hideous face and living venomous snakes in place of hair. Gazers on her face would turn…
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DANIEL HUNTINGTON, Figures at prayer 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretations of the Bible! , With Footnotes – 99
DANIEL HUNTINGTON, (American, 1816-1906) Figures at prayer oil on canvas 24-1/2 w. 19-3/4 in. Private collection Daniel Huntington (October 4, 1816 – April 19, 1906), was born in New York City, New York. He studied at Yale with Samuel F.B. Morse, and later with Henry Inman. From 1833 to 1835 he transferred to Hamilton College in…
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