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1816 Fresco Room of the Ark, Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence This scene is a detail of the fresco cycle in the Room of the Ark. This shows the preparation of a Jewish festivity that is about to take place under a tentlike structure. Baskets of bread and jars of wine are being set up for distribution to the crowds during the celebration. The display of the massive menorah, a golden candelabrum with seven arms, serves as the dominating symbol of the Jewish people.
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Florence, Room of the Ark
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This is one of six panels painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder for the suburban Antwerp home of the wealthy merchant Niclaes Jongelinck, one of the artist’s most enthusiastic patrons—Jongelinck owned no less than sixteen of Bruegel’s works. The series, which represented the seasons or times of the year, included six works, five of which survive. The other four are: The Gloomy Day, The Return of the Herd, Hunters in the Snow (all Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna), and Haymaking (Lobkowicz Collections, Prague). Through his remarkable sensitivity to nature’s workings, Bruegel created a watershed in the history of Western art, suppressing the religious and iconographic associations of earlier depictions of the seasons in favor of an unidealized vision of landscape. The Harvesters probably represented the months of August and September in the context of the […]
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Dutch, Farm, Harvesters, People
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Geisha. A term which makes many people think about the traditional entertainers of Japan while the others –with little knowledge- wrongly knows Geisha as prostitutes. Whatever the reason is, Geisha is a known term in modern world with many controversies lugging behind it. David Lloyd Glover has given a way through his art to make us realize the truth behind the word. Originally in Japanese culture, Geisha, The Person of Arts are the trained hostesses to receive guests and entertain them with their skills of dance, singing and conversations. They entertained people on purpose after getting at least 5 years’ training. That was their life. They were even not allowed to be in a relation while they are in the Geisha profession. In the current […]
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Geisha
