Sunday, July 14, 2013
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Seven Paintings of French Romantic Painter Théodore Chassériau - 19th Century
Théodore Chassériau (September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.
Andromeda and the Nereids - 1840
Desdemona Retiring to her Bed - 1849
Orientalist Interior: Nude in a Harem - 1850-52
Peace 1844-48
The Artist's Sisters - 1843
The Tepidarium - 1853
The Toilet of Esther - 1841
Sunday, July 7, 2013
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The Scream by Norwegian painter and printmaker Edvard Munch - 1893
The Scream is the popular name given to each of four versions of a composition, created as both paintings and pastels, by the Expressionist artist Edvard Munch between 1893 and 1910. Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) is the title Munch gave to these works, all of which show a figure with an agonized expression against a landscape with a tumultuous orange sky. Arthur Lubow has described The Scream as "an icon of modern art, a Mona Lisa for our time.
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Medium: Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard
Source: Wikipedia
Saturday, May 11, 2013
The Children of the Wolf by British Sculptor Sir George Frampton in the State Gallery of H.H. the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda
Sir George James Frampton, RA (18 June 1860 – 21 May 1928) was a notable British sculptor and leading member of the New Sculpture movement.
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Color Illustrations from the Book "Arabian Nights' Entertainments" - 1913
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
Based on a translation from the Arabic by Edward William Lane
Selected, edited and arranged for young people by Frances Jenkins Olcott
Selected, edited and arranged for young people by Frances Jenkins Olcott
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
As soon as I throw some stones out of my chamber window come out
Be restored to thy original form
Give me what is my due, that I may go
He placed her behind him, and soared upward into the sky
Immediately a Genie of enormous size rose out of the earth
The Caliph Smiled (oldarts.info)
The Magic Carpet
The Sheikh Abdelsamad
The old man and the sea
The people fled with their daughters
The smoke collected and became an afrite
There arrived a great sage versed in the wisdom of the philosophers
When we beheld him we were filled with dread and terror
Who will change old lamps for new ones
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Stories from the Arabian Nights with Illustrations by Edmund Dulac - 1907
Writer: Laurence Housman
A city among the isles named Deryabar
Aladdin in the cave
At so arrogant a claim all the courtiers burst into loud laughter
Great was the astonishment of the vizier
Pirouze, the fairest and most honourably born
Princess Scheherazade, the heroine of the thousand and one nights, ranks among the great storytellers of the world
Princess badoura
She gave orders for the banquet to be served
So strange of from and so brilliant and diverse in hue
Supposing me asleep they began to talk
The Rokh
The damsel upset the pan
The episode of the old man of the sea
The final marriage procession
The lady Bedr-El-Budur
The lady advanced to meet him
The princess Deryabar
Their chief in a low but distinct voice uttered the two words, open sesame
This way and that she led him blindfold
Till the tale of her mirror contented her
This gorgeous book includes the following stories as retold by Laurence Housman:
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves;
The Story of the Wicked Half-Brothers;
The Story of the Princess of Deryabar;
The Story of the Magic Horse;
The Fisherman and the Genie;
The Story of the King of the Ebony Isles;
The History of Badoura, Princess of China, and of Camaralzaman, the Island Prince;
Sinbad the Sailor;
The first voyage of Sinbad the Sailor;
The second voyage of Sinbad the Sailor;
The third voyage of Sinbad the Sailor;
The fourth voyage of Sinbad the Sailor;
The fifth voyage of Sinbad the Sailor;
The sixth voyage of Sinbad the Sailor;
The seventh voyage of Sinbad the Sailor; and
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.
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