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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...A child with his chimney-sweeping tools on his shoulders, the regular black clothing of a sweep, a bowl of meal and a little grin of having a break for meal after the tiresome work-hours represents a perfect, happy and satisfied embodiment of a child-sweep from the 19th century by the artist in this genre painting. But, the current painting is not even near to the actual situations of the real child sweep in old times. They were more similar to the African slaves before the whites left the job and Africans were imported and forced to do the job. In old times, until around the end of the 19th century, small kids were used as sweep (kids as little as 4 years old). After the […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Albert Zimmerman’s adequacy comes up shining in his landscape portrayals in which his mastery on colors (with including slightest variants of them) and choice of scenery really stands out. Here, as the title suggests, the painting portrays an Arabian caravan leaving the city perceived in the far background. They have come a long way in the vast plain but still the huge flat ground allows us to see the city. Thus, we understand the first impression as the journey has just begun. The depicted environment and land with mixture of high mountains and flat grounds represents the Arabian geography which the depicted one is from the greener areas of the country as the Arabian countries mostly contains deserts in majority of their land-space. There […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...In the series of depicting the port of Bacino de San Marco by the artist this is another fine depiction of the historically important place. The scene includes the monumental buildings like the Clock Tower of the St. Mark’s Square on the right side being the highest structure in the landscape. Right before it, the building is called Doge’s palace which was built by the Doge of Venice, the ultimate authority of the Venetian government. It became the central building of the government after the governance was moved in the palace. The building on the left side of Doge’s Palace is called Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana meaning National Library of St Mark’s in English. It is a building from the renaissance period. Throughout the many years, […]
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Another version of the same dock in Italy artist seams fascinated with the view of the Bacino de San Marco about which he has made around 5 more versions of the same landscape. The keen history and the novice of the surroundings may have intrigued him to portray the scene. Here, we are watching a more clear and detailed version of the port, with buildings having more detail and the Quai des Esclavons (the pavement near the creek) is having more objects than the other portrayals. The prominent buildings on the right are The Doge’s Palace, The clock Tower & The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana. The big square emerges between those buildings is called St Mark’s Square. All of them have their own significant histories in the […]