tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6343663739256344592024-03-13T11:08:55.727-07:00Painting HistoryHistory painting. The construction of National Identities of the European and American nations by art.Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.comBlogger344125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-85987656729150217592015-02-21T11:14:00.000-08:002015-02-21T11:14:00.484-08:00Illustrating Books<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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With Cortes the
conqueror (1917), by Virginia Watson. The book was illustrated by the
great American artist Frank Earle Schoonover (1877-1972). Schoonover
studied under Howard Pyle.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-64168190755531570362015-02-16T10:22:00.000-08:002015-02-16T10:22:00.040-08:00Sweet Kitsch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xDT_VIBxLDU/VNMvJvHVLwI/AAAAAAAABAo/ls-BXMxFf08/s1600/Schmalz-Carmichael%2C-Herbert-Gustave---Too-Late-1884.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xDT_VIBxLDU/VNMvJvHVLwI/AAAAAAAABAo/ls-BXMxFf08/s1600/Schmalz-Carmichael%2C-Herbert-Gustave---Too-Late-1884.jpg" height="247" width="400" /></a></div>
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Too Late (1884) by the
British painter Herbert Gustave Carmichael Schmalz (1856-1935). A
Greek hero comes back from war but his great love, the princess or
the queen has died. Sweet cheesy drama!
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-85243642267000690282015-02-10T00:50:00.000-08:002015-02-10T00:50:00.138-08:00Good old Times<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The City Gate by the
English painter Ralph Hedley (1848-1913). Headley was a realist
painter, woodcarver and illustrator, best known for his paintings
portraying scenes of everyday life.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-446697181563372652015-02-05T00:47:00.000-08:002015-02-05T00:47:04.322-08:00Advertising with History<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Making Palmolive 3,000
Years Ago (1920) by the Hungarian-born artist Willy Pogany
(1882-1955). Pogany was a prolific illustrator of children's,
magazines, further he did advertising and murals.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-90554153395797191452015-01-25T11:22:00.000-08:002015-01-25T11:22:00.250-08:00Decadent Rome<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bacchanal (1890) by the
Croation painter Mato Celestin Medović (1857-1893). A well done
painting about roman decadence. This subject was very popular in the
late 19<sup>th</sup> century.</div>
Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-27139737995372313802015-01-19T01:40:00.002-08:002015-01-19T01:40:57.570-08:00Vae Victis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An illustration by the
French artist Paul Lehugeur (1854-1932?) for “Histoire de France en
cent tableaux”, Paris, 1886. There is the Gaul chieftain Brennus
weighing the Roman ransom money in 387 BC. According to Livy, during
a dispute over the weights used to measure the gold, Brennus threw
his sword onto the scales and uttered the famous words "Vae
victis!", which translates to "woe to the conquered!"</div>
Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-91022658753813233612015-01-12T09:04:00.000-08:002015-01-12T09:04:02.991-08:00Kind of Fairy Tale<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Le droit du
Seigneur (1874) by the Russian painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov
(1844-1927). It's highly probale that this medieval right ever
existed. Nevertheless the artist made up a real spectacle where an
old man brings his young daughters to their feudal lord.
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-78102615411751682572014-12-16T00:15:00.000-08:002014-12-16T00:15:00.133-08:00Founding of a Nation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Discovery of Chile
by Diego de Almagro (1913) by the Chilean painter Pedro Subercaseaux
Errázuriz (1880-1956). This event is sometimes considered as the
foundation of Chile. To celebrate it this mural decorates the walls
of the former National Congress of Chile in Santiago.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-26361834593017476962014-12-10T11:23:00.000-08:002014-12-10T11:23:00.207-08:00A Wounded Hero<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Marshal Jean Lannes
wounded at the battle of Essling by the French painter Paul-Emile
Boutigny (1853-1929).Lannes was one of
Napoleon's most daring and talented generals an a personal friend of
the emperor. In the bloody battle of Aspern-Essling he was mortally
wounded.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-51698032681554420392014-12-04T09:52:00.000-08:002014-12-04T09:52:00.098-08:00Historical Moment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The capitulation of
Granada, Boabdil confronts Ferdinand and Isabella (1882) by the
Spanish artist Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz (1848-1921). The painting
of this important event decorates know the Palace of the The Senate
of Spain in Madrid.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-26433495781595570072014-11-28T10:32:00.000-08:002014-11-28T10:32:00.150-08:00Idyllic Court Scene<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMN3BZHOEzs/U7PV55fQZhI/AAAAAAAAA-o/e7SBDFULBM8/s1600/Yeames-William-Frederick---Queen-Elizabeth-and-the-Earl-of-Leicester-1865.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JMN3BZHOEzs/U7PV55fQZhI/AAAAAAAAA-o/e7SBDFULBM8/s1600/Yeames-William-Frederick---Queen-Elizabeth-and-the-Earl-of-Leicester-1865.jpg" height="306" width="400" /></a></div>
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Elizabeth and the Earl of Leicester (1865) by the British painter
</span></span>William Frederick Yeames (1835-1918). Yeames preferred
these idyllic scenes from the good old times.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-85147572091918322762014-11-22T10:19:00.000-08:002014-11-22T10:19:00.218-08:00Harem Guard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N9udEQhmqoM/U7PVm6RYxxI/AAAAAAAAA-g/3Bdpabciroc/s1600/weisse---The-Harem-Guard.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N9udEQhmqoM/U7PVm6RYxxI/AAAAAAAAA-g/3Bdpabciroc/s1600/weisse---The-Harem-Guard.jpg" height="400" width="282" /></a></div>
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The Harem Guard by the
Czech painter Rudolf Weisse (1869-1930). Despite it's not a decidedly
history painting the whole oriental exotic setting suggests a far
away place even in history.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-20474152364859179712014-11-16T00:47:00.000-08:002014-11-16T00:47:00.676-08:00Viking Queen<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Astrid </span></span>by the American illustrator N.C. Wyeth
(1882–1945). Wyeth did this Wagnerian illustration for the book The
World Of Music - Song Programs for Youth (1938).</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-38018877452442602922014-11-10T00:35:00.000-08:002014-11-10T00:35:00.595-08:00Tragic Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Semiramis dying on
Ninu’s grave by the Italian painter Augusto Valli (1867-1945).
Valli depicts here the legendary Babylonian queen dying on her dead
husbands tomb. But it seems also more an excuse to present a nude
female body in an exotic setting.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-54630368672025851562014-11-04T10:53:00.000-08:002014-11-04T10:53:00.389-08:00Famous English Nude<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wo9mNOneEms/U7Jh5-WSzLI/AAAAAAAAA-A/aRiBFMOeHA0/s1600/Lefebvre_-_Lady_Godiva.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Wo9mNOneEms/U7Jh5-WSzLI/AAAAAAAAA-A/aRiBFMOeHA0/s1600/Lefebvre_-_Lady_Godiva.jpg" height="400" width="247" /></a></div>
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Lady_Godiva by the
French painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911). As legend tells
Lady Godiva was a 11th century English princess married to Leofric,
the Earl of Mercia and lord of Coventry. She begged her husband to
relieve the townspeople of the oppressive taxes and tolls. He
refused, unless she agree to ride through the town naked on
horseback. Out of respect for their lady, it is said, the townspeople
stayed indoors during her ride.
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-89013393531198200972014-10-29T11:17:00.000-07:002014-10-29T11:17:00.021-07:00Ever-Present Peril <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Sword of Damocles (1812) by the neoclassical British painter
Richard Westall (1765-1836).</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-53728331119417308122014-10-23T10:19:00.000-07:002014-10-23T10:19:00.209-07:00Romantic Knight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-njIv7W6e9rU/U7Jg8CM-amI/AAAAAAAAA9w/pKcAJSyA1Hk/s1600/Christy---The-Princess-1911.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-njIv7W6e9rU/U7Jg8CM-amI/AAAAAAAAA9w/pKcAJSyA1Hk/s1600/Christy---The-Princess-1911.jpg" height="400" width="297" /></a></div>
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The Princess (1911) by
Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952). Christy was an American artist
and illustrator famous for the "Christy Girl", he published
published in Scribner's and Harper's magazines and in Collier's
Weekly.
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-81507865339684263222014-10-17T10:38:00.000-07:002014-10-17T10:38:00.510-07:00Kind of Harem Painting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Brenn and His Share of
the Spoils (1893) by the French painter Paul Jamin (1853-1903). Jamin
depicts here the Gallic chieftain who sacked Rome probably in 387 BC
in the popular manner of an Orientalistic harem painting. So it's in
the end more the modern French going to a luxury brothel.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-83822393831032753212014-10-11T00:16:00.000-07:002014-10-11T00:16:00.142-07:00Heroic Waterloo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pNufbBf5Y_w/U7JgSw94rzI/AAAAAAAAA9g/-Mr2RHnJwJA/s1600/Sullivan,-William-Holmes---Battleof-Waterloo-18th-June-1815,-1898.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pNufbBf5Y_w/U7JgSw94rzI/AAAAAAAAA9g/-Mr2RHnJwJA/s1600/Sullivan,-William-Holmes---Battleof-Waterloo-18th-June-1815,-1898.jpg" height="277" width="400" /></a></div>
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Waterlo, 18. Juni 1815
(1898) by the British painter William Holmes Sullivan (1870-1898).
Another of these stupid heroic battle paintings. Here the English
cavalry gas conquered a French flag.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-38504351349842378662014-10-05T10:24:00.000-07:002014-10-05T10:24:00.392-07:00Defeated Enemies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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They Fell into
Captivity (1885) by the Russian painter Bogdan Pavlovich Willewalde
(1819-1903). Some French prisoners of Napoleon's terrific Grande
Armée are conducted by a single Cossack. The painter contrasts the
superb French uniforms with the simple outfit of the Cossack.
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-5052357959128022342014-09-29T09:52:00.000-07:002014-09-29T09:52:00.296-07:00Prehistoric Sweethearts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Prehistoric Woman
(1895) by the French painter James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1836-
1902). Tissot was famous as a painterr of elegantly dressed women
shown in scenes of fashionable life. Here he painted two really
fashionable Neolithic girls.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-80898603802576630752014-09-23T11:41:00.000-07:002014-09-23T11:41:00.437-07:00Romantic Death<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hSMnYvFUfJE/U6ljp4aACbI/AAAAAAAAA9A/ZIlfsmOA7ZQ/s1600/story-The_Black_Prince_of_Crecy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hSMnYvFUfJE/U6ljp4aACbI/AAAAAAAAA9A/ZIlfsmOA7ZQ/s1600/story-The_Black_Prince_of_Crecy.jpg" height="285" width="400" /></a></div>
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Black Prince at the
battle of Crecy by the British painter Julian Russell Story
(1857-1919). After the battle the victorious English prince is
contemplating the body of the dead King John of Bohemia. It should be
mentioned that Edward Prince of Wales the eldest son of King Edward
III of England was never called “Black” in his lifetime. It's an
attribution of the 16th century. But anyway he looks nice so deadly
black with the crows in the back.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-65008757446297688322014-09-17T00:19:00.000-07:002014-09-17T00:19:00.701-07:00Those Who Are About To Die<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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"Ave, Imperator,
morituri te salutant" (1859) by the French painter Jean-Léon
Gérôme (1824-1904). Gérôme loved the spectacular death in the
arena and painted it normally with the perspective from inside out.</div>
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-42263717755500872732014-09-11T09:37:00.000-07:002014-09-11T09:37:00.037-07:00Obsequies For A Cat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kl12_l-dQRg/U6li6IrqwtI/AAAAAAAAA8w/OtEvk5RIFyI/s1600/weguelin-the-obsequies-of-an-egyptian.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kl12_l-dQRg/U6li6IrqwtI/AAAAAAAAA8w/OtEvk5RIFyI/s1600/weguelin-the-obsequies-of-an-egyptian.jpg" height="251" width="400" /></a></div>
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The Obsequies of an
Egyptian Cat (1886) by the British painter John Reinhard Weguelin
(1849-1927). A priestess kneels before an altar upon which is placed
the mummy of a cat. She is burning incense, and has presented
offerings of flowers and food to the cat's spirit, together with a
plate of milk. On the wall behind the priestess is an Egyptian
fresco, and a statue of the goddess Sekhmet or Bastet enthroned
guards the entrance to the temple.
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Xenophonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07670105499646555863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634366373925634459.post-47684105745269464372014-09-05T11:48:00.000-07:002014-09-05T11:48:00.678-07:00A Warrior Saint<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BOndDNKsEPA/U6linIyv_7I/AAAAAAAAA8o/rEAmTXUUXB8/s1600/stilke+-+joanna+-+mittelteil+trypt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BOndDNKsEPA/U6linIyv_7I/AAAAAAAAA8o/rEAmTXUUXB8/s1600/stilke+-+joanna+-+mittelteil+trypt.jpg" height="372" width="400" /></a></div>
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Joan of Arc in battle
by the German Romantic painter Hermann Anton Stilke (1803-1860). This
is the central part of a his Joan of Arc Triptych.
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