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Renoir: Dance at Bougival I
Another Favorite Dance at Bougival (French: La Danse à Bougival) is an 1883 work by Pierre-Auguste Renoir currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, Sebastian Smee of The Boston Globe writes that this Renoir painting is “one of the museum’s most beloved works“. (Smee 2014). The Museum of Fine…
Emile Claus: Winter Orchard (1911)
“Go Home Quickly” Emile Claus, a Belgian painter, draughtsman, pastellist, and print-maker, became one of the leading artists in Belgium supporting the movement of “Luminism.” Influenced by French Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism after viewing the works of Henri Le Sidaner and Claude Monet, Emile Claus changed his painting style to “brighter colors and pleinairisme.” in an…
Wishing You Joy on Christmas Day!
Latin text: Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum; benedicta tu in mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui. Alleluia. Translation: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. Alleluia. Click for Detailed Image Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Learn More Merry…
Samuel Peploe: Red and White Tulips (early 1920s)
Who Is Samuel Peploe? Samuel John Peploe (1871 – 1935) is a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life paintings. He is the best known of the Scottish Colourists, a group including John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell and Leslie Hunter. Peploe explains his focus on still lifes as follows: ‘There is so much in…
Hermenegildo Anglada-Camarasa : La novia de Benimamet (1906)
Click for Enlarged View: Slideshow best viewed At Sunnyside Details “La novia de Benimamet” Hermen Anglada Camarasa Barcelona, España, 1871 – Puerto de Pollensa, Mallorca, España, 1959 Fecha: 1906 Técnica: Óleo sobre lienzo Dimensiones: 140 x 175 c Source: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/coleccion/obra/novia-benimamet Thanks for Visiting 🙂 ~Sunnyside
Stepan Kolesnikov: Town in the South of Russia
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James Jebusa Shannon: Jungle Tales (Contes de la Jungle) 1895
Who Is James Jebusa Shannon? James Jebusa Shannon was born in the United States and moved to England in 1878 where he trained at South Kensington. According to ArtUK, “Shannon enjoyed early success and, under the influence of Sargent, developed a bravura portrait style which made him one of the most sought after society portraitists…
Art and Theology: “At Christmas” by Frank O’Malley
Let the Christbrand burst!Let the Christbrand blazon!Dartle whitely under the hearth-fire,Unwind the wind, turn the thunderer,And never, never thinning,Forfend fear.Flare up smartly, fix, flex, bless, inspire,Instar the time, sear the sorcerer,And never, never sparing,Save all year.Let the Christbrand burst!Let the Christbrand blazon! This poem appears in Scholastic 115, no. 10 (March 1, 1974), a publication…
“Bergell Mountains” and Mignarda’s “Bist du bei mir”
Bist du bei mir (Are You With Me?) Text and Translation Bist du bei mir, geh ich mit Freuden zum Sterben und zu meiner Ruh. Ach, wie vergnügt wär so mein Ende, es drückten deine schönen Hände mir die getreuen Augen zu. If you are with me, then I will go gladly to death and…
Édouard Vuillard: La balayeuse, 346 rue Saint-Honoré (1895)
Living at Work: 1891-1896 Painted in 1895, the year when Vuillard and the Hessels first met, this scene takes place in the [Vuillard] family apartment at 346 Rue Saint-Honoré… The Vuillard family lived there from 1891 to 1896… Vuillard’s mother, who struggled with recurrent financial difficulties, turned it into a dual living and working space…
Wassily Kandinsky: Rapallo, Boote (1905)
Abandoning a promising legal career in Moscow at the age of 30, Kandinsky traveled to Munich to study painting. From 1903 and for the next five years he traveled widely throughout Russia, North Africa and Europe, arriving with companion Gabriele Münter in Rapallo on Italy’s North West coast in December 1905. They rented a house…
Vivaldi: Violin Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor
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“Se potessero i sospir miei” (Imeneo)
“Se potessero i sospir miei” from Handel’s Imeneo Jeffrey Stivers produced this excellent video pairing of “Se potessero i sospir miei” sung by Ann Hallenberg, conducted by Andreas Spering, and accompanied by Capella Augustina on period instruments. The song is from Handel’s opera Imeneo, (HWV 41). Fortunately for those like me who need a bit of…
Albrecht Dürer: Saint Eustace (c.1501)
“According to the legend, a Roman soldier called Placidas saw a vision of the crucified Christ appear between the antlers of a stag he was hunting. Upon hearing God’s voice spoken by the animal, ‘O Placidas, why pursuest thou me?’” Even if you don’t know the name, chances are you’ve seen a reproduction of one…
Winter With Mednyánszky and Vivaldi
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Gerrit Haverkamp: Floral Symphony
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Pachelbel and Picasso
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Gustave Loiseau: Le Quai du Pothuis à Pontoise (1905)
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Henri Fantin-Latour: Asters and Fruit on Table
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Truth: The Power of Introverts
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“The Small One”
A vintage radio story narrated by Bing Crosby, this twelve minute audio tells a delightful tale of a boy and his donkey called “The Small One”. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Flight Into Egypt (1923) “Flight into Egypt” depicts the Holy Family’s clandestine evasion of King Herod’s assassins (Matthew 2:12–14), Tanner’s favorite biblical story… The painting, which…
J.S. Bach: Prelude in C Minor
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Victoria Emily Jones: Art and Theology, Advent Day 6
Don’t miss the story of this painting by Bryn Gillette! 🙂 ~Sunnyside Lament and hope are key elements of Gillette’s Beyond the Ruins series as a whole, as he elaborates: During the years I worked on these images, the painting process distilled countless hours of conversation, travel, prayer, heartache, and hope into color and form….
Mary Chapin Carpenter: I Have A Need For Solitude
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Balalaika: Art and Music
Who Is Thorvald Hellesen? Thorvald Hellesen (25 December 1888 – 22 October 1937) was a Norwegian abstract artist, designer and painter. His art was associated with the Orphic Cubism movement. Around 1920, Hellesen…was one of few Norwegian artists to be inspired by cubism, but the painting also evinces a keen awareness of the other nascent…
Cynthia Gregory and Ivan Nagy: “In A Rehearsal Room”
Seven Minutes of Magic According to shippermd, this video is “An EXTREMELY RARE, 1976 film-short of a romantic Pas de Deux Ballet to Pachelbel’s Canon In D Major.” Produced by David Hahn and choreographed by William Carter, this film highlights the talents of dancers Cynthia Gregory and Ivan Nagy. About ‘In A Rehearsal Room’, Director…
Frederick Carl Frieseke: Woman with a Mirror (1911)
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Thomas Francis Dicksee: Jessica (1867)
Farewell, and if my fortune be not crossed, I have a father, you a daughter, lost. — Jessica, The Merchant of Venice Who Is Jessica? This painting shows Jessica, a character in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice, the daughter of a Jewish moneylender Shylock, who defies her father’s wishes and falls in love with…
Gustave Loiseau: L’Église de Bennecourt
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