Saint Serapion (Zurbarán)
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Saint Serapion (Zurbarán)
''Saint Serapion '' or ''The Martyrdom of Saint Serapion'' is a 1628 oil painting on canvas by the Spanish artist Francisco Zurbarán (1598–1664). The work was commissioned by the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, Mercedarian Order to hang in the ''De Profundis'' (funerary chapel) hall of their monastery in Seville (now Museum of Fine Arts of Seville).Watt, Alison.Beyond the pale. ''The Scotsman'', 3 May 2003. Retrieved 24 April 2009.Brenson, Michael.Monastic Masterpieces from Zurbaran at Met. ''The New York Times'', 25 September 1987. Retrieved 24 April 2009. Zurbarán is noted for his portrayals of penitent or martyred monks and saints. Critic Tom Lubbock used this painting to illustrate a difference in the way the martyrdom of two different saints are depicted. He contrasted the understated and calm depiction of St. Serapion's violent death with the equally or more violent death of the Jesuit priest and martyr Saint Edmund Campion (1540–1581) who was publicly han ...
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Michael Brenson
Michael Brenson (born 1943) is an American art critic and curator. From 1982 to 1991, Brenson worked as a critic for ''The New York Times''. Early life and education Michael Brenson was born in 1943. He was raised in New York and traveled often to Paris with his father. Brenson attended Rutgers University, graduating with a BA in sculpture. He later received an MA in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University, followed by a PhD in art history from Johns Hopkins in 1974. Career Immediately after receiving his PhD, Brenson moved to Paris to teach and write, eventually publishing art reviews in the ''International Herald Tribune''. He returned to the United States in 1982 to work for ''The New York Times'' first as an art reporter and then an art critic. Brenson worked at the ''Times'' for nine years. In 2000, Brenson joined the faculty of Bard College's curatorial studies department. In 2001, he published ''Visionaries and Outcasts'', a book exploring the legacy of the vario ...
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Christian Art About Death
A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title (), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term '' mashiach'' () (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.3 billion Christians around the world, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, a ...
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Paintings About Death
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or " support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction. Paintings can ...
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Paintings By Francisco De Zurbarán
Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush. Other implements, such as palette knives, sponges, airbrushes, the artist's fingers, or even a dripping technique that uses gravity may be used. One who produces paintings is called a painter. In art, the term "painting" describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate other materials, in single or multiple form, including sand, clay, paper, cardboard, newspaper, plaster, gold leaf, and even entire objects. Painting is an important form of visual art, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture, narration, and abstraction. Paintings can ...
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1628 Paintings
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José Gudiol Ricart
Josep Gudiol i Ricart, also known as José Gudiol in citation (1904–1985), was a Catalan art historian, specializing in Catalan Romanesque painting, Gothic painting and other types of Spanish art. Biography Josep Maria Gudiol i Ricart was born in 1904 in Vic Vic, vic or VIC may refer to: People and fictional characters * Vic (name), a list of people, fictional characters and mascots with the given name * V.I.C. (rapper) (born 1987), stage name of an American rapper Places * Vic, Spain, a town and ..., Catalonia, Spain. Gudiol Ricart published a series of monumental books surveying Spanish art history, the ''Ars Hispaniae'' series. The two most important works in the series were, ''Las Pinturas Murales Románicas de Cataluña'' (Gudiol and Pijoán, 1948) and ''Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas'' (Gudiol and Gaya Nuño, 1948). He served as director of the Amatller Institute of Hispanic Art (Institut Amatller D'art Hispànic) in Barcelona, Spain. Gudiol's daughter ...
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Poetry Magazine
''Poetry'' (founded as ''Poetry: A Magazine of Verse'') has been published in Chicago since 1912. It is one of the leading monthly poetry journals in the English-speaking world. Founded by poet and arts columnist Harriet Monroe, who built it into an influential publication, it is now published by the Poetry Foundation. In 2007 the magazine had a circulation of 30,000, and printed 300 poems per year out of approximately 100,000 submissions.Goodyear, Dana"The Moneyed Muse: What can two hundred million dollars do for poetry?" article, ''The New Yorker'', double issue, February 19 and February 26, 2007 It is sometimes referred to as ''Poetry—Chicago''. ''Poetry'' has been financed since 2003 with a $200 million bequest from philanthropist and Lilly heiress, Ruth Lilly. History The magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, an author who was then working as an art critic for the ''Chicago Tribune''. She wrote at that time: "The Open Door will be the policy of this magazin ...
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Frank O'Hara
Francis Russell "Frank" O'Hara (March 27, 1926 – July 25, 1966) was an American writer, poet, and art critic. A curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara became prominent in New York City's art world. O'Hara is regarded as a leading figure in the New York School (art), New York School, an informal group of artists, writers, and musicians who drew inspiration from jazz, surrealism, abstract expressionism, action painting, and contemporary avant-garde art movements. O'Hara's poetry is personal in tone and content, and has been described as sounding "like entries in a diary".American Council of Learned Societies. "Frank O'Hara" in ''American National Biography''. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) Poet and critic Mark Doty has said O'Hara's poetry is "urbane, ironic, sometimes genuinely celebratory and often wildly funny" containing "material and associations alien to academic verse" such as "the camp icons of movie stars of the twenties and thirties, the daily landscape ...
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Alison Watt (Scottish Painter)
Alison Watt Order of the British Empire, OBE Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, FRSE Royal Scottish Academy, RSA (born 1965) is a Scotland, British painter who first came to national attention while still at college when she won the 1987 BP Portrait Award, Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, National Portrait Gallery in London. Biography Watt was born in Greenock, Scotland. She studied at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 1988. While a student, she came to national attention by winning the 1987 BP Portrait Award, John Player Portrait Award and as a result was commissioned to paint a portrait of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, The Queen Mother. Her first works to become well known were dryly painted figurative canvases, often female nudes, in light-filled interiors. An exhibition of her work entitled ''Fold'' in 1997 at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery was the first introducing fabric alongside these figures, simultaneously suggesting a debt to th ...
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