David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Feb 9, 2012, 2:51 pm
The White Slave (1894) by the British artist Ernest Normand (1859-1923), who was specialized in historical nudes. Here his main concern was the exotic outlook, ancient architecture, oriental costumes and landscape and … in the center the exotic woman.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Feb 3, 2012, 2:13 pm
A nymph drinking at a spring (1907) by the German painter Ferdinand Keller (1843-1922). Keller started as a typical Romantic painter and moved later on to Art Nouveau and Symbolism, which is evident in this painting.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Feb 3, 2012, 12:37 pm
The Delphic Oracle (1899) by the British painter John William Godward (1861 –1922). Godward was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadelma and had great success at the end of the 19th century. Here he depicted the Oracle of Delphi, the so called "Pythia", sitting on a tripod breathing the volcanic v...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Jan 28, 2012, 1:46 pm
Thingvellir (1897) by the British painter William Collingwood (1819-1903). Collingwood was a well known watercolor landscape painter and depicted here the Althing (Alþingi) in medieval Iceland, which was probably the oldest parliament in Europe. I think that it’s intentional how people and tents ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Jan 28, 2012, 1:32 pm
Another nude by the Hungarian American painter Pal Fried (1893–1976). Fried did so much of this kind that it looks to me much more like a good pin-up production. But anyway a nice painting.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Jan 22, 2012, 1:54 pm
Napoleon Near Moscow, Waiting for a Boyar Deputation (1891-1892) by the Russian painter Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842-1904). Vereshchagin depicted here Napoleon in a very symbolic way. Despite the dust clouds may be realistic they illustrate much more the treacherous illusion of Napoleons vi...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Jan 22, 2012, 12:49 pm
A mysterious, seductive woman by the American artist Ron Lesser, who did a lot of covers for thrillers and western.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Jan 17, 2012, 3:32 am
Freja Seeking her Husband (1852) by the Swedish painter Nils Blommér (1816-1853). Blommér was greatly influenced by late German Romanticism and turned to national mythology like so many of this movement. Here he shows the Nordic goddess of love and fertility Freya in her cart drawn by cats. Despit...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Jan 15, 2012, 3:28 am
Jewish Girl in Tangiers by the French Orientalis Painter Charles Landelle (1821-1908).
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Jan 10, 2012, 12:49 pm
Moonblade by the American artist Gerald Brom (born 1965). Brom is a recent painter well known in the gothic and fantasy scene. The strong influences of neo-classical art and Orientalism is obvious.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Jan 10, 2012, 5:29 am
Two book illustrations by the great Russian artist Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942). Bilibin was probably the most influential art nouveau illustrator in Russia. He himself studied under Ilya Repin and was later fascinated with old folkloric Russian art of the Russian North. Despite there are ma...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Jan 4, 2012, 3:35 am
Saragossa 10 February 1809 by the British painter Harold Hume Piffard (1895-1938). Piffard depicts here the bloody struggle in a church during the siege a Saragossa. The defending Spanish priests are showing even more bloodlust than their French adversaries. And to me it seems that the priest in cen...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Jan 3, 2012, 3:08 am
A Harem Beauty (1899) by the Spanish painter Francisco Masriera y Manovens (1842-1902). Masriera y Manovens was specialized in historical and oriental subjects, his main issue was something exotic.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Dec 28, 2011, 2:43 pm
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post 1934 by the great American artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951). Sure, that’s no history painting, but Leyendecker refers to that kind of history fashion, where stuffy bourgeois went dressed up as Romans. It’s kind of the same fashion that favored pa...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Dec 27, 2011, 1:47 pm
In the Tepidarium (1913) another classical Roman nude by the British painter John William Godward (1861–1922).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Dec 22, 2011, 1:11 pm
Mariamne Leaving the Judgment Seat of Herod (1887) by the British painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Mariamne I was the second wife of Herod the Great. She was famous for her beauty, but because of her conflict with Salome the sister of Herod she was finally convicted and executed in 29 BC...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Dec 20, 2011, 2:36 pm
Cleopatra (1939) by the American artist Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960). Despite the historical name and requisites it’s obviously a typical showgirl of the thirties. But anyway a gorgeous nude painting. Download over 50 classical pin-ups by Rolf Armstrong.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Dec 17, 2011, 3:29 am
Ferdinand de Soto on the banks of the Mississippi by the American artist Herbert Moore (1881-1943). This was an illustration for the book "The Men Who Found America" by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson (1909). The Spanish conquistador is looking on the endless waters of the Mississippi, where he should...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Dec 14, 2011, 1:04 pm
Moroccan Dancer by the Polish artist Adam Styka (1890-1959). Styka was specialized in these opulent Arab girls.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Dec 10, 2011, 12:27 pm
Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusin (1889) by the Polish painter Henryk Hector Siemiradzki (1843-1902). Here a print of this popular painting Phryne was the most famous hetaera of Ancient Greece (390-330 BC) whose beauty was compared to a goddess. Because of her lovers she was very rich an...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Dec 7, 2011, 1:57 pm
Odalisca (1862) by the Italian painter Luigi Mussini (1813-1888). Despite it’s already in the fashion of orientalism it’s still a very neoclassical painting.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Dec 4, 2011, 3:49 am
A Musical Interlude (1903) by the French artist Adolphe Alexandre Lesrel (1839-1929). Lesrel did a really good job, costumes, gowns, architecture, and furniture, all is well researched and perfectly painted. But nevertheless it demonstrates only the hollowness of academic art at the beginning of the...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 28, 2011, 2:32 pm
Signing the Treaty with the Indians (c.1890) by the American painter John Ward Dunsmore (1856-1945). Despite it’s a well done history painting, there is nothing special about it. It’s good old European academic style.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 28, 2011, 3:35 am
Two sweet Berber girls by the French painter Alphonse-Étienne Dinet (1861- 1929). I don’t believe that he really saw anything like this, but he made a lot of money with his fantasies.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 21, 2011, 1:15 pm
The Chasseur in the Forest (1814) by the German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). Despite it doesn’t look like very patriotic at first glance it’s eminently that. There is a French soldier (one of Napoleon’s occupants) lone and lost in a dark German forest. So the painting is suggest...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 20, 2011, 2:33 pm
Cool Lady in New York by by the British illustrator David Wright (1912-1967). Kind of pin up, but gorgeous anyway.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Nov 12, 2011, 1:45 pm
Another of these kitschy harem dancers by the Austrian painter Hans Zatzka (1859-1945).
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Nov 1, 2011, 12:56 pm
The Lovers of Teruel (1884) by the Spanish painter Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840-1924). Muñoz Degrain depicted here an old Spanish legend. He did with all the drama and perfection of the heyday of history painting, which won him a medal in the national exposition.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 27, 2011, 2:24 pm
Cleopatra's Banquet (c.1675) by the Dutch Golden Age painter Gerard de Lairesse (1640-1711). Cleopatra is here dissolving her earring in vinegar and will drink it to prove to the Roman Mark Antony that she can spent ten million sestertia for one supper. Despite the architecture is pure fantasy it sh...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 25, 2011, 3:07 am
Leda with the Swan (1917) by the Russian Art Nouveau painter Nikolai Kalmakov (1873-1955). Most impressing to me seems, that it’s a black swan. Was it only because of the colour or should it indicate some kind of evil?
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 23, 2011, 12:02 pm
Miranda in prison (1896) by the Venezuelan painter Arturo Michelena (1863-1898). Miranda, who was a student of the famous French history painter Jean-Paul Laurens, depicts here one of the founders of Latin American Liberty. Sebastián Francisco de Miranda was a Venezuelan revolutionary and is consid...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 16, 2011, 2:16 pm
Bendiction by the Australian painter Norman Lindsay (1879-1969). Another of these proud and self confident women, which are so typical fpr Lindsay.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 15, 2011, 12:49 pm
A Sick Child Brought into the Temple of Aesculapius (1877) by the British painter John William Waterhouse (1849-1917). Waterhouse specialized in sugary scenes likes this. Sometimes he choose medieval sceneries, on other occasions classical Greek or Roman ones. But he always provided what the Victori...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 8, 2011, 1:18 pm
Faust (1878) by the Spanish painter Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896). Falero shows here very sensational the witches' sabbath or Walpurgis Night, to wich Faust was taken by Mephisto.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Oct 6, 2011, 1:57 pm
The Combat of the Thirty by the French (1857) painter Octave Penguilly L'Haridon (1811-1870) Penguilly L'Haridon shows here an episode of the Hundred Years War which happened on 26 March 1351 in Brittany. Thirty English knights (many of them were foreign mercenaries) fought there in a kind of formal...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Oct 1, 2011, 12:26 pm
Callirrhoe by the French painter Raymond Auguste Quinsac Monvoisin (1790-1870). Monvoisin depicted here a Greek naiad in a pure neoclassical style including the temple in the back.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 30, 2011, 3:35 am
The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 (1889) by the Spanish painter Emilio Sala y Francés (1850-1910) Several months after the fall of Granada an Edict of Expulsion was issued against the Jews of Spain by the so called Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. It ordered all Jews of whatever...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 23, 2011, 3:44 am
The Massage in the Harem (1883) by the French painter Édouard Debat-Ponsan (1847-1913). One of the better, means more interesting oriental paintings.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 15, 2011, 2:13 pm
Salomé (1932) by the Spanish painter Federico Beltrán Massés (1885-1949). Kind of an Art Deco interpretation. Because there’s no head to be seen, it must be the moment when she’s still dancing, putting down the veils.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 13, 2011, 2:44 pm
A book with beautiful pin-ups by the famous Japanese artist. I found it here on the web.
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Sep 6, 2011, 11:22 am
One of these wonderful studies by the Scottish artist William Russell Flint (1880 - 1969). So easily done and so perfect.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Sep 5, 2011, 12:10 pm
The First Thanksgiving (c1912) by the American painter Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (1863-1930). Ferris shows here a scenery very popular in American culture and iconography. In autumn of 1621 the surviving Pilgrims celebrated their successful harvest and invited the Indians who helped them before with ...
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 29, 2011, 2:28 pm
The Alchemist Sedziwoj and King Sigismund III (1867) by the Polish painter Jan Matejko (1838-1893). Matejko depicted here the famous alchemist not as a charlatan but as a kind of early engineer and scientist, which he was. Because Sedziwoj constructed mines and foundries and did a lot of chemical ex...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Aug 27, 2011, 2:54 pm
A slave on the market by the Brazilian painter Oscar Pereira da Silva (1867-1939). The sign between her breasts announces that she’s a virgin, but she doesn’t seem scared more curious and defying.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 20, 2011, 1:56 pm
Semiramis constructing Babylon (1861) by the French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917). This may be a little surprising because the impressionist artist despised history painting as a typical form of academic art. And Degas ist considered as one of the founders of impressionism. But at the beginning of...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Aug 18, 2011, 12:12 pm
Reclining nude by the French Art Deco painter Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962). Domergue painted such elegant women that it’s more about style than about erotic, which also can be the same.
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 12, 2011, 3:21 am
El Gran Capitán visits the battlefield of Ceriñola (1835) by the Spanish history painter Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz (1815–1894). Madrazo shows here the famous Spanish military leader after his great victory of Ceriñola in 1503. He is looking at the dead body of Louis d'Armagnac the leader of t...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Aug 7, 2011, 3:22 am
Flora (1559) by the Flemish painter Jan Massys (1509-1575). One of my personal theories is, that Massys mostly painted the same girl, but she must have been something of gorgeous…
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David I. posted an article on Painting History - Aug 5, 2011, 1:18 pm
Luther singing as a boy before lady Cotty in eisenach in 1499 (1872) by the Belgian history painter Ferdinand Pauwels (1830-1904). The later Reformer is here aleready a devoted Christian and probably singing like an angel. It’s idyllic and kind of protestant religious kitsch. Pauwels did a series ...
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David I. posted an article on Exotic Painting - Jul 30, 2011, 3:49 am
Alice Joyce (1920) a magazine cover illustration by the famous American artist Rolf Armstrong (1889-1960). Armstrong became famous for his pin ups, but this mysterious lady is much better.
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