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Henry Zaidan
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12 hours ago

01 Orientalist Painting, Guillaume Seignac’s Odalisque, with footnotes, #115

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…

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01 Orientalist Painting, Guillaume Seignac’s Odalisque, with footnotes, #115
01 Orientalist Painting, Guillaume Seignac’s Odalisque, with footnotes, #115

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16 hours ago

01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Ellen von Unwerth’s Bye Bye Paris, Part #82

Ellen von Unwerth (born 17 January 1954) is a German photographer and director, specializing in erotic femininity. She worked as a fashion model for ten years before becoming a photographer, and now makes fashion, editorial, and advertising photographs. In a 2018 interview with Harper’s Bazaar, she explained her feminist approach…

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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Ellen von Unwerth’s Bye Bye Paris, Part #82
01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Ellen von Unwerth’s Bye Bye Paris, Part #82

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1 day ago

01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s Then What, with Footnotes, #66

In Kayyali’s work eleven figures (seven women, two boys and one man) are crowded together as though walking in unison. With most of their gazes turned away from the viewer, they are lost in the suggested horror of their surroundings as several peer up at an invisible, looming force. …

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01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s Then What, with Footnotes, #66
01 Painting, Middle East Artists, Louai Kayyali’s Then What, with Footnotes, #66

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1 day ago

10 Works, January 31 the anniversary of The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Jesuit Treason

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Jesuit Treason, was a failed assassination attempt against King James I of England and VI of Scotland by a group of provincial English Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of…

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10 Works, January 31 the anniversary of The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Jesuit Treason
10 Works, January 31 the anniversary of The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Jesuit Treason

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2 days ago

01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART — Interpretation the bible, Neapolitan master’s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FIGHTING THE DEVILS OF THE UNDERWORLD, with Footnotes — 124

Extremely complicated composition, with figures moving in opposite directions. In the color and the reproduction of the physical, the strong influence of Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) can be seen, with whom he had worked together at the festive decoration in Ghent. All these stylistic aspects suggest the attribution. So too…

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01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART — Interpretation the bible, Neapolitan master’s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FIGHTING…
01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART — Interpretation the bible, Neapolitan master’s ARCHANGEL MICHAEL FIGHTING…

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2 days ago

01 Marine Painting — Otto Kuster’s Sydney Summer, with Footnotes, #349

Sydney is home to some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. A quick Google search tells us that Sydney has over a hundred beaches scattered across the city, and that’s just the recorded number. There are heaps of hidden beaches that manage to stay under the radar. Unsurprisingly…

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01 Marine Painting — Otto Kuster’s Sydney Summer, with Footnotes, #349
01 Marine Painting — Otto Kuster’s Sydney Summer, with Footnotes, #349

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3 days ago

01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Giovanni di Paolo’s Paradise — with footnotes #191

Paradise is envisioned as a lush meadow tapestried with over-sized flowers and a line of what appears to be apple trees. Rabbits frolic about while the blessed greet each other or are welcomed by angels. The young males are dressed in the latest fashion, with red or bi-colored stockings, extravagant…

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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, ‘s Giovanni di Paolo’s Paradise — with footnotes #191
01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, ‘s Giovanni di Paolo’s Paradise — with footnotes #191

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3 days ago

06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of France, with Footnotes. #159

Depicted: Hortense Mancini, Olympia Mancini, Marie Mancini Please follow link for full post

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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of…
06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of…

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06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin at the court of King Louis XIV of France, with Footnotes. #159

Unknown artist
The Nieces of Cardinal Mazarin

Oil and copper
height: 35 cm (13.7 in); width: 41.5 cm…

Depicted: Hortense Mancini, Olympia Mancini, Marie Mancini

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4 days ago

01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christine Spengler’s Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, with Footnotes. #158

Marguerite Donnadieu (4 April 1914–3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Duras was born in southern Vietnam and lost her father at age 4. The family savings of 20 years bought the family a small plot in Cambodia, but everything…

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01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christine Spengler’s Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, with…
01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Christine Spengler’s Marguerite Duras, La violence du Mékong, with…

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5 days ago

02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki’s THE GIRL OR THE VASE, with Footnotes. #157

A sketch for a larger painting, also known as “The Presentation of a Slave” (Below). In an elegant interior, two traders, one in red, the other in blue, offer a young woman. You are about to open the white robe of the woman and present the naked beauty to a…

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02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki’s THE GIRL OR THE VASE, with…
02 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Henryk Ippolitovich Siemiradzki’s THE GIRL OR THE VASE, with…

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