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Title Company of Captain Reinier Reael, known as the 'Meagre Company' Year 1637 Artist Frans Hals ( Pieter Codde ) Technique Oil on canvas Dimensions 209 x 429 cm Just to see that painting would make the journey to Amsterdam worthwhile.' wrote Vincent...
A crowd has gathered outside a bookshop and lottery agency in Amsterdam's Kalverstraat. It is 25 October, 1779, and the sale of lottery tickets for the 66th General Lottery has begun. Men, bent on obtaining a ticket, push and shove around the entrance....
Paula Rego The Family 1988 In The Family the absent father and husband returns to the picture plane, only to be manhandled by his daughter and his wife. As usual, the narrative clues are ambiguous, and the story could have several endings. Are the women...
TitleInterior of an Inn with an Old Man, the Landlady and Two Men Playing Backgammon, known as 'Two Kind Yearc. 1636-79 A group of men are having fun in a tavern. A young man is drinking beer, draining his tankard, while a couple of others are playing...
Gilbert, b. 1943, Dolomites, ItalyGeorge, b. 1942, Devon, England Gilbert was born Gilbert Proesch in 1943 in the Italian Dolomites. He studied at the Wolkenstein School of Art and Hallein School of Art, Austria and the Akademie der Kunst, Munich. George...
TITEL: Miss January 1997 Biography:1953Born in Cape Town, South Africa1972-1975 BA Fine Art, University of Cape Town1976-1978 Atelier 63, Haarlem, Netherlands1979-1980 Institute of Psychology, University of Amsterdam Artist's Writings Marlene Dumas I...
Bearded Man with Loincloth, ca. 1909 Albertina, Vienna. Schiele's 1909-10 postcard designs anticipate several of his later allegorical concerns, such as the concept of the artist as a holy figure. Child with Halo in a Field of Flowers, ca. 1909, Albertina,...
Two Men With Halos, ca. 1909, Albertina, Vienna. In late 1909 or early 1910, Schiele proposed a series of four postcard designs to the Wiener Werkstatte.Although many young artists, including Kokoschka, earned extra money doing projects such as this,...
George, Lord Digby and William, Lord Russel c. 1637, or earlier Aristocratic portraiture operated broadly within the same parameters as Royal portraiture. Just as the monarch had reason to announce his humanity as well as his authority, aristocracy had...
Man with a glove, c. 1520 Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio (c. 1488-90 – August 27, 1576), better known as Titian, was the leader of the 16th-century Venetian school of the Italian Renaissance. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, in the Cadore territory, near...
Nude Girl in yellow coat, 1911, Albertina, Vienna In 1910, the year he executed his first breakthrough Expressionism works, Egon Schiele was scarcely twenty years old-four years younger than Oskar Kokoschka,five years younger than Max Oppenheimer.Youthful...
Egon Schiele Girl with sun glasses ( Gertrude Schiele ), 1910 Albertina, Vienna Isolated patches of relatively unmodulated color, on the sunglasses and belt, are played against more expressively nuance flesh tones. The balancing of these two different...
b. 1883, Cortona, Italy; d. 1966, Paris Gino Severini was born April 7, 1883, in Cortona, Italy. He studied at the Scuola Tecnica in Cortona before moving to Rome in 1899. There he attended art classes at the Villa Medici and by 1901 met Umberto Boccioni,...
THE GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (Meisje met de parel)c.1665-1667 oil on canvas18 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (46.5 x 40 cm.) Mauritshuis, The Hague "It is always the beauty of this portrait head, its purity, freshness, radiance, sensuality that is singled out for...
I went to play pool this weekend in the Spijker in Amsterdam Local pool competition I did not win first prize but got a key older and some nice pictures of my Amsterdam Not much rain so far and still chilly but there are small signs here and there of...
Days go by Why? Why? Why? Do we even listen to this CRAP? And the council of Europe questions why? We don't trust them. Shame shame shame Patriarch Alexy of Russia assails gays in speech at Council of Europe By Stephen CastlePublished: October 2, 2007...
Gay pride or LGBT pride refers to a world wide movement and philosophy asserting that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals should be proud of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Gay pride advocates work for equal "rights and benefits"...
Tonight I'm at home, Reno is here next to me yapping like a chicken. No guesses on what are we having for Dinner. My love will be here Very soon, Nice. Me and Maxine are ready for the 16 weeks of having the company of our Loved one. Will be busy beeing...
The view from my old bedroom window, the window is beeing painted. The curtains are beeing cleaned, it is the firts time since 10 years that I enjoy this view. I had forgoten the feeling I got the first time I saw this view, nice feeling. The weather...
The wind is blowing hard tonight, and the seeds from the Trees around the city are flying around they look like snow flakes. Every were you see them, some are eaten by the birds but some manage to germinate. It's amazing that from such a small seed you...
Trolls in Iceland Icelandic Trolls Like elves, trolls are also part of the ancient heritage of the Scandinavian mythology. The Icelandic Trolls are human-like in form, they are still inhumanly strong, huge and ugly. The Trolls are very often thought to...
VIKINGS IN ICELAND Like many details of Viking history, the settlement of Iceland is clouded in mystery. Vikings did not record their exploits. However tales written in the 12th or 13th centuries, called Sagas, purport to tell of the founding of this...
" Cristal Palace " Rua Dom Manuel II, Porto, Portugal 4050 Enjoy this peaceful park located outside of the Palácio de Cristal. Relax to the refreshing sounds of the fountains and the calming songs of geese, swans, and ducks as they swim in the pond. Take...
Póvoa de Varzim The ancient town of Póvoa de Varzim received its charter in 1308 and has developped over the ages from a poor fishing community to a resort popular for its sandy beaches and amusements, including a casino which animates the local nightlife....
We arrived in Florence around 13.00. The flight from Milan was easy around 1h.We got a taxi from the airport to the hotel Lungarno Suites.The trip is not so far away as in Milan.I will never forget that moment when I first saw the River Arno and the Ponte...
