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Sculpture-Augmented Frescoes at Würzburg Residenz
Last summer (2023) I toured Würzburg's Residenz, the palace of the Prince-Bishop when the area was a unit of the Holy Roman Empire. Its Wikipedia entry is here. Its artistic highlights regarding...
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More on Vadim Voitekhovitch's Steampunk World
Vadim Voitekhovitch (1963 - ), born in what is now Belarus, moved to Germany in 2004. He mostly paints Steampunk scenes of apparently fictional Hanseatic area port cities. Some Steampunk views are of...
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Some Very Early Jon Whitcomb Illustrations
Jon Whitcomb (1906–1988) was an illustrator best remembered for depictions of glamorous women. I wrote about him here and here. Some biogrphiacal information is here. When writing those earlier...
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MSC Cruise Ship's Streamlined Front End
I was at Malta's Grand Harbour recently (May, 2024) and noticed a large cruise ship with an unusually-streamlined "G-shape" front end. That ship was MSC line's World Europa that entered service in...
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Multi Ritratti: Mary Robinson "Perdita"
My "Multi Ritratti" posts that present multiple portraits of the same subject -- usually by more than one artist -- are of people who are well-known. Well, nearly all were well-known subjects at the...
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Up Close: William Orpen's Adrian Carton de Wiart
Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931), Wikipedia entry here, is perhaps best-known for his portrait work and Grear War related paintings. Combining those was a series of sketch-portraits of...
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