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Quince, Cabbage, Melon And Cucumber
''Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber'', commonly known as ''Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber'', is a c. 1602 oil on canvas painting by Spanish painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. It is a still life painting of various fruits and vegetables. It is considered to be Cotán's masterpiece, and is on display at the San Diego Museum of Art. Background Juan Sánchez Cotán was a wealthy Spanish still life painter, active in Toledo in the early 17th century. His best paintings are considered to be of fruits and vegetables.Grootenboer 2005, p. 123. He later abandoned still lifes for religious figures after joining a Carthusian monastery. Composition ''Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber'', commonly known as ''Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber'', was painted c. 1602. It is an oil on canvas painting.Kallendorf 2018, p. 441. In the painting, the titular food items are displayed on a window ledge, left to right. The quince and cabbage are suspended above t ...
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Juan Sánchez Cotán
Juan Sánchez Cotán (June 25, 1560 – September 8, 1627) was a Spanish Baroque painting, Spanish Baroque painter, a pioneer of realism in Spain. His still lifes and ''bodegón, bodegones'' were painted in an austere style, especially when compared to similar works in the Netherlands and Italy. Life Sánchez Cotán was born in the town of Orgaz, near Toledo, Spain. He was a friend and perhaps pupil of Blas de Prado, an artist famous for his still lifes whose Mannerism, mannerist style with touches of realism the disciple developed further. Cotán began by painting altarpieces and religious works. For approximately twenty years, patronized by the city's aristocracy, he pursued a successful career as an artist in Toledo painting religious scenes, portraits and still lifes. These paintings found a receptive audience among the educated intellectuals of Toledo society. Sánchez Cotán executed his notable still lifes around the beginning of the seventeenth century, before the end o ...
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Pennsylvania Academy Of The Fine Arts
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum is internationally known for its collections of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Its archives house important materials for the study of American art history, museums, and art training. It offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, certificate programs, and continuing education. Beginning in 2025, the academy will cease offering degrees except bachelor's degrees in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania. History 19th century The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts was founded in 1805 by painter and scientist Charles Willson Peale, sculptor William Rush, and other artists and business leaders. Its first building on Chestnut and 10th Streets in Center City Philadelphia was ...
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Spanish Renaissance
The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spread to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries. This new focus in art, literature, Quotation, quotes and science inspired by the Greco-Roman tradition of Classical antiquity, received a major impulse from several events in 1492: *Reconquista, Unification of the longed-for Christian kingdom with the Granada War, definitive taking of Emirate of Granada, Granada, the last Islamic controlled territory in the Iberian Peninsula, and the Alhambra Decree, successive Forced conversions of Muslims in Spain, expulsions of thousands of Muslim and Judaism, Jewish believers, *The official discovery of the western hemisphere, the Americas, *The publication of the first grammar of a vernacular European language in Printing press, print, the ''Gramática de la lengua castellana, Gramática'' (''Grammar'') by Antonio de Nebrija. Historical background The beginning ...
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1602 Paintings
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and is considered Holy city, holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both Israel and Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital city; Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there, while Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power. Neither claim is widely Status of Jerusalem, recognized internationally. Throughout History of Jerusalem, its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, Siege of Jerusalem (other), besieged 23 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, and attacked 52 times. According to Eric H. Cline's tally in Jerusalem Besieged. The part of Jerusalem called the City of David (historic), City of David shows first signs of settlement in the 4th ...
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Ori Gersht
Ori Gersht (; born 1967) is an Israeli fine art photographer. He is a professor of photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Rochester, Kent, England. Biography Ori Gersht was born in Tel Aviv. He graduated in Photography, Film and Video from University of Westminster, London and studied for an M.A. in Photography from the Royal College of Art, London. Art career Gersht has exhibited widely in museums and galleries since the early 1990s. He is represented by Angles Gallery in Los Angeles, CRG Gallery in New York, Ben Brown Fine Arts in London, anNoga Galleryin Tel Aviv. In 2012, Gersht's show ''History Repeating'' was mounted at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Artistic themes Gersht engages the themes of life, death, violence, and beauty. His photographs and films transcribe images of sites of historical significance—the Judean Desert, Sarajevo, Auschwitz, the Galicia region of Ukraine, the Lister Route in the Pyrenees (on which Walter Benjamin made his il ...
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Photorealistic
Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be used broadly to describe artworks in many different media, it is also used to refer to a specific art movement of American painters that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. History Origins As a full-fledged art movement, Photorealism evolved from Pop ArtLindey (1980), pp. 27–33.Meisel and Chase (2002), pp. 14–15. Nochlin, Linda, "The Realist Criminal and the Abstract Law II", ''Art In America.'' 61 (November–December 1973), p. 98. and as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movementsBattock, Gregory. Preface to Meisel, Louis K. (1980), ''Photorealism''. New York: Abrams. pp. 8–10 in the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States. Photorealists use a photograph or several photographs to gath ...
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John Clem Clarke
John Clem Clarke (June 6, 1937 – June 5, 2021) was an American painter and graphic artist who was active in the SoHo art scene during the 1970s. Early life Clarke was born in Bend, Oregon to Wilma (née Owen) and Eugene Clarke, both of whom were school teachers. He was an only child and grew up a rural region of the Willamette Valley. His father later became a farmer who grew wheat and rye and also tended to sheep. Attending Central High School in Independence, Oregon, he played football and became an all-state fullback, later earning a football scholarship to Oregon State University. At the 1957 Rose Bowl, he was the kicker for Oregon State. Clarke later transferred to the University of Oregon where he took up art classes, graduating with a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1960. Career After graduating, Clarke travelled Europe before settling in New York City where he eventually bought loft in the neighborhood of SoHo and an art studio in Greenwich Village. Clarke beca ...
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Joseph Bonaparte
Joseph Bonaparte (born Giuseppe di Buonaparte, ; ; ; 7 January 176828 July 1844) was a French statesman, lawyer, diplomat and older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. During the Napoleonic Wars, the latter made him King of Naples (1806–1808), and then King of Spain and the Indies (1808–1813). After the fall of Napoleon, Joseph styled himself ''Comte de Survilliers'' and emigrated to the United States, where he settled near Bordentown, New Jersey, on Pointe Breeze estate overlooking the Delaware River not far from Philadelphia. Early life and career Joseph was born in 1768 as Giuseppe Buonaparte to Carlo Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino at Corte, the capital of the Corsican Republic. In the year of his birth, Corsica was invaded by France and conquered the following year. His father was originally a follower of the Corsican patriot leader Pasquale Paoli, but later became a supporter of French rule. Bonaparte trained as a lawyer. In that role and as a politician and ...
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San Diego Museum Of Art
The San Diego Museum of Art is a fine art museum in Balboa Park in San Diego, California, that houses a broad collection with particular strength in Spanish art. It opened as the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego on February 28, 1926, and changed to its current name in 1978. The official Balboa Park website calls it "the region's oldest and largest art museum". Nearly half a million people visit the museum each year. Structure The museum building was designed by architects William Templeton Johnson and Robert W. Snyder in a plateresque style to harmonize with existing structures from the Panama–California Exposition of 1915. The dominant feature of the façade is a heavily ornamented door inspired by a doorway at the University of Salamanca. The Cathedral of Valladolid also influenced the museum's exterior design, and the architects derived interior motifs from the Santa Cruz Hospital of Toledo, Spain. The original construction took two years. Sponsor Appleton S. Bridges dona ...
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Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt (born February 19, 1955) is an American novelist and essayist. Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, seven novels, two books of essays, and several works of non-fiction. Her books include ''The Blindfold'' (1992), ''The Enchantment of Lily Dahl'' (1996), '' What I Loved'' (2003), for which she is best known, ''A Plea for Eros'' (2006), '' The Sorrows of an American'' (2008), ''The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves'' (2010), ''The Summer Without Men'' (2011), ''Living, Thinking, Looking'' (2012), ''The Blazing World'' (2014), and '' Memories of the Future'' (2019). '' What I Loved'' and ''The Summer Without Men'' were international bestsellers. Her work has been translated into over thirty languages. Early life Daughter of American professor Lloyd Hustvedt and a Norwegian mother, and grew up in Northfield, Minnesota, speaking both English and Norwegian. Siri attended public school in her hometown, Northfield, Minnesota, and received a degree from the Ca ...
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Norman Bryson
William Norman Bryson (born 1949) is an Anglo American art historian who authored several major works that were particularly influential in the 1980s and 1990s. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1977, and subsequently worked as a professor at King's College until 1988, when he moved to Rochester, NY. There, he worked for two years at the University of Rochester before moving to Harvard University in 1990. In a shift from that earlier period, he now is faculty at University of California, San Diego, and primarily writes about contemporary art, such as Sharon Lockhart. His career is characterized by a move to a more literary theory-based approach to art history, including ''Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime'' (1983), ''Vision and Painting: The Logic of the Gaze'' (1986), and ''Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix'' (1987). He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been a ...
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