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1814 In Art
Events in the year 1814 in Art. Events *''A Madonna of St Jerome'' by Antonio da Correggio is returned to Parma, eighteen years after being looted by the French. Works * Jean-Antoine Alavoine – The Elephant of the Bastille (full-size model) *Merry-Joseph Blondel - ''La Circassienne au Bain'' * Antonio Canova – ''The Three Graces (Canova), The Three Graces'' * Louis Daguerre – ''Interior of a Chapel of the Church of the Feuillants'' * Jacques-Louis David – ''Leonidas at Thermopylae'' * Francisco Goya **''The Second of May 1808'' **''The Third of May 1808'' * Hokusai ** ''The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'' (woodcut) ** ''Hokusai Manga'' (publication begins) * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ** ''Grande Odalisque'' ** ''Portrait of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples'' ** ''Raphael and La Fornarina'' * Thomas Lawrence ** '':File:George IV bust1.jpg, The Prince Regent'' (oil sketch) ** ''Portrait of Marshal Blücher'' *Ernest Meissonier - ''The Campaign of France'' * John Smit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife
, also known as ''Girl Diver and Octopi'', ''Diver and Two Octopi'', etc., is a woodblock-printed design by the Japanese artist Hokusai. It is included in ('Young Pines'), a three-volume book of erotica first published in 1814, and has become Hokusai's most famous design. Playing with themes popular in Japanese art, it depicts a young diver entwined sexually with a pair of octopuses. History and description ''The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'' is the most famous image in , published in three volumes from 1814. The book is a work of (erotic art) within the ukiyo-e genre. The image depicts a woman, evidently an (a shell diver), enveloped in the limbs of two octopuses. The larger of the two mollusks performs cunnilingus on her, while the smaller one, his offspring, assists by fondling the woman's mouth and left nipple. In the text above the image the woman and the creatures express their mutual sexual pleasure from the encounter. All designs in the publication are untitled; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 17
Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea. * 1377 – Pope Gregory XI reaches Rome, after deciding to move the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon. * 1524 – Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. * 1562 – France grants religious toleration to the Huguenots in the Edict of Saint-Germain. *1595 – During the French Wars of Religion, Henry IV of France declares war on Spain. 1601–1900 * 1608 – Emperor Susenyos I of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat; his army reportedly kills 12,000 Oromo at the cost of 400 of his men. * 1648 – England's Long Parliament passes the "Vote of No Addresses", breaking off negotiations with King Charles I and thereby setting the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wallace Statue, Bemersyde
The William Wallace Statue near the grounds of the Bemersyde estate, near Melrose, Scotland, Melrose in the Scottish Borders is a statue commemorating William Wallace. It was commissioned by David Steuart Erskine, 11th Earl of Buchan, and it protected as a listed building#Scotland, category B listed building. The statue was made of red sandstone by John Smith of Darnick and was erected in 1814. It stands high and depicts Wallace looking over the River Tweed. In 1991, the William Wallace Trust ,which owns the statue and surrounding land and car park raised funds for a renovation which was carried out by Bob Heath and Graciella Glenn Ainsworth. At Wallace's feet reads the inscription: Below the statue of Wallace, as part of the same construction by John Smith is a smaller statue of a funeral style urn inscribed as follows: Close by are Brotherstone Hill, Dryburgh Abbey, the Leaderfoot Viaduct, Newtown St. Boswells, Scott's View, and the Smailholm Tower. See also *Wallace Mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darnick
Darnick is a village near Melrose in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland, in the former Roxburghshire. The name was first recorded in 1124, and has changed from Dernewic, Dernwick and Darnwick to the present Darnick. was built in c. 1425, and another tower house, Fisher's Tower, is still recognisable by its remains. Skirmish Hill by Darnick is the site of a battle which took place on 25 July 1526 between the Scotts of Buccleuch and the Kerrs of Ferniehirst, trying to intercept King James V who was then under the guardianship of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus. John Smith of Darnick created the Wallace Statue at Bemersyde House. His family were builders and masons during the first half of the 19th century, and they have to their credit an extension to Abbotsford, Dryburgh Abbey House, Eckford Church, Gattonside House, Hawick North Bridge, the bridge over the Hermitage Water, Melrose Parish Church, and Yetholm Parish Church. Places nearby include Abbotsford, Buckho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Meissonier
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (; 21 February 181531 January 1891) was a French Classicist painter and sculptor famous for his depictions of Napoleon, his armies and military themes. He documented sieges and manoeuvres and was the teacher of Édouard Detaille. Meissonier enjoyed great success in his lifetime, and was acclaimed both for his mastery of fine detail and assiduous craftsmanship. The English art critic John Ruskin examined his work at length under a magnifying glass, "marvelling at Meissonier's manual dexterity and eye for fascinating minutiae". Meissonier's work commanded enormous prices and in 1846 he purchased a great mansion in Poissy, sometimes known as the Grande Maison. The Grande Maison included two large studios, the ''atelier d'hiver'', or ''winter workshop'', situated on the top floor of the house, and at ground level, a glass-roofed annexe, the ''atelier d'été'' or ''summer workshop''. Meissonier himself said that his house and temperament belonged to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Marshal Blücher
The ''Portrait of Marshal Blücher'' is an 1814 portrait painting by the English artist Thomas Lawrence of the Prussian Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher. Blücher was a noted military commander who had played a key role in the 1813-14 defeat of Napoleon's French Empire by a coalition of Allies including Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria, culminating in the capture of Paris in April 1814. It was painted while Blücher was in London for the Allied sovereigns' visit to England, victory celebrations attended by the leaders of the allied nations including Blücher's monarch Frederick William III. Blücher was popular with the British public during his visit and in the euphoria that followed the victory he was frequently mobbed in the streets of the city. The following year he gained further success when he joined forces with the Duke of Wellington in the Waterloo Campaign to inflict the final defeat of Napoleon, who had escaped from Elba. The work was commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lawrence
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At 18 he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oil paint, oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen Charlotte, in 1790. He stayed at the top of his profession until his death, aged 60, in 1830. Self-taught, he was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a likeness, as well as his virtuoso handling of paint. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. In 1810 he acquired the generous patronage of the George IV, Prince Regent, was sent abroad to paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raphael And La Fornarina
''Raphael and La Fornarina'' was painted in 1813, in Italy, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. It is the first of five versions of the painting, which he completed between 1813 and his death in 1867. In 1814 his first version was exhibited at the Salon. The work shows the renowned painter, Raphael, sitting in his studio with his mistress, La Fornarina (the baker), on his knee. His embrace reflects his affection and desire for her, while his gaze towards his own artwork, his portrait of his mistress, indicates his love for art. This contrast represents the painter's major conflict between who he loves and what he loves. The mistress makes eye contact with the viewer and her posture, specifically her arms resting on his shoulders, shows how proud and satisfied she is with being his mistress and inspiration. The Fornarina's sensual gaze at the viewer claims her importance and place both within the artist's studio and profession. Although Ingres thoroughly researched the Renaissance a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portrait Of Caroline Murat, Queen Of Naples
''Portrait of Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples'' is an 1814 oil on canvas painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Caroline Murat, née Bonaparte, was the sister of Napoleon, and married Joachim Murat, a Marshal of France and Admiral of France, and later King of Naples. Caroline commissioned the portrait as part of an effort to convey her standing and worth to reign as Queen of Naples during an unstable political climate.Dahlin, 47 Long considered lost or destroyed since the fall of Murat in 1815, the painting was rediscovered in 1987 by the art historian Hans Naef. It is now in a private collection in New York. Commission Caroline was an art lover, and in 1814 commissioned a number of paintings from Ingres, her favored artist. These include his '' Grande Odalisque'', its now lost sister piece '' La Dormeuse de Naples'', and ''Paolo and Francesca''. The painting was completed shortly before the 1815 collapse of the Naples regime after Napole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grande Odalisque
''Grande Odalisque'', also known as ''Une Odalisque'' or ''La Grande Odalisque'', is an oil painting of 1814 by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres depicting an odalisque, or concubine. Ingres' contemporaries considered the work to signify Ingres' break from Neoclassicism, indicating a shift toward exotic Romanticism. ''Grande Odalisque'' attracted wide criticism when it was first shown. It is renowned for the elongated proportions and lack of anatomical realism. The work is owned by the Louvre Museum, Paris which purchased the work in 1899. __TOC__ History The painting was commissioned by Napoleon's sister, Queen Caroline Murat of Naples, and finished in 1814. Ingres drew upon works such as ''Dresden Venus'' by Giorgione, and Titian's ''Venus of Urbino'' as inspiration for his reclining nude figure, though the actual pose of a reclining figure looking back over her shoulder is directly drawn from the 1800 ''Portrait of Madame Récamier'' by Jacques-Louis David. Ingres portrays a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
