#Gustave Wappers

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Kronkelweg naar de democratie: de lange negentiende eeuw in Nederland

De voor elke rechtgeaarde democraat uiterst irritante gang van zaken rond het in de afgelopen maanden aangetreden kabinet-Schoof – een onmachtig amalgaam van rechtsextremisten, landbouwlobbyisten, aanhangers van een min of meer wereldvreemde en nogal ziekelijke Constitutie-verbeteraar en levensmoede liberalen – maakt het politieke leven dezer dagen nogal tot een bezoeking. Er schuilt iets…

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Comparison of what Anne Boleyn wore at her execution to how it's depicted in art over the centuries.

Description is from John Guy & Julia Fox's Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe, 2023. The art is from an anonymous German artist (1695), Jan Luyken (1699), Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret (1800-25), Édouard Cibot (1835), and Gustav Wapper (1838), respectively.

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Égide Charles Gustave Wappers (Belgian-Dutch, 1803–1874) Boccaccio reading from the Decameron to Queen Johanna of Naples, 1849 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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Gustaf Wappers, Young Mother with Child

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SIR LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA; "A FAVOURITE CUSTOM" 1909

This painting is set in the Stabian baths of Pompeii. In the foreground, one woman joyfully splashes another who is relaxing in the 'frigidarium', a cold pool. Some people assemble in a changing area further away. The artist created this piece using pictures of the bath remnants uncovered by archaeologists in 1824. He has enhanced their luxury with the addition of a marble floor and walls typically seen in grander imperial baths.

Around the beginning of the century, Alma-Tadema's color pallete grew brighter. He centered his attention on vibrant pink and purple shades in attire and blossoms, greens and ambers in accessories and decor, set against shining white marble. As depicted, the Stabian Bath symbolized a key element of Roman social life and culture. These baths represented the oldest public bathing facility in Pompeii, acting as a site for relaxation, social interaction, and exercise for all social classes.

At the age of 15, Alma-Tadema suffered a mental breakdown, causing him to abandon his training as a lawyer. While recovering, he started to teach himself how to draw and paint prior to pursuing formal art education at the age of 16. After being rejected from various Dutch art schools, he was eventually accepted to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Antwerp, where he trained under Gustave Wappers. Later, in 1855, he worked in the studio of Louis De Taeye as an assistant. De Taeye encouraged him to explore classical subjects, stories, and art. He fostered an appreciation of historical costuming within his student – it was this training that would become the most influential in Alma-Tadema's artistic career.

The Chantrey Bequest greatly impacted the display of this painting by offering monetary assistance for obtaining exceptional artworks for public collections. Founded by sculptor Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey, the fund sought to acquire works of "the highest merit" created in Britain, thus enriching the national art collection. This legacy enabled Tate Britain to acquire the painting in 1909, guaranteeing its conservation and availability to the public, in line with Chantrey's vision of promoting fine art for the nation.

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Italian literature tournament - First round (start Monday 21 October - end Sunday 10 November).

Boccaccio reading from the Decameron to Queen Johanna of Naples, Gustave Wappers, 1849.

👉 There you go the official list with the pairs of the authors for the first round, all the combinations have been randomly created.

👉 Each pair has its link to the apposite poll to vote, that start to function when the poll start. Each poll have a duration of 1 week. In any case don't worry, each poll is tagged with the name of the author featured so you can find it also with the search bar.

👉 Every poll completed, the result will be posted in the same row - the winning author signed in bold.

Elio Vittorini - Gianni Rodari

Giacomo Leopardi - Carlo Levi

Beppe Fenoglio - Giovanni Boccaccio

Anna Banti - Giosuè Carducci

Elena Cassandra Tarabotti - Cletto Arrighi

Goffredo Parise - Antonio Fogazzaro

Matilde Serao - Ugo Foscolo

Sibilla Aleramo - Dante Alighieri

(Carlo) Fruttero & (Franco) Lucentini - Luigi Pulci

Francesco Petrarca - Gabriele D'Annunzio

Pietro Bembo - Jacopo Sannazaro

Giovanni Verga - Giambattista Basile

Pietro Metastasio - Primo Levi

Dino Buzzati - Alba de Céspedes

Pier Paolo Pasolini - Veronica Franco

Carlo Cassola - Salvator Quasimodo

Lalla Romano - Amelia Rosselli

Umberto Saba - Jacopone da Todi

Gaspara Stampa - Mario Rigoni Stern

Goliarda Sapienza - Luigi Capuana

Pier Vittorio Tondelli - Tullia d'Aragona

Cecco Angiolieri - Dario Fo

Carlo Emilio Gadda - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Federico de Roberto - Antonio Tabucchi

Vittoria Colonna - Alessandro Manzoni

Francesco Guicciardini - Giacomo/Jacopo da Lentini

Giorgio Scerbanenco - Pietro Aretino

Giovanni Meli - Igino Ugo Tarchetti

Giovan Battista Marino - Torquato Tasso

Giorgio Bassani - Angelo Poliziano

Giovanni Pascoli - Natalia Ginzburg

Matteo Bandello - Leonardo Sciascia

Giuseppe Parini - Luciano Bianciardi

Renata Viganò - Carlo Collodi

Eugenio Montale - Cesare Pavese

Anna Maria Ortese - Vittorio Alfieri

Italo Svevo - Umberto Eco

Matteo Maria Boiardo - Ludovico Ariosto

Cielo (Ciullo) d'Alcamo - Giuseppe Ungaretti

Guido Gozzano - Carlo Goldoni

Sebastiano Vassalli - Tommaso Landolfi

Edoardo De Filippo - Emilio Salgari

Giordano Bruno - Andrea Camilleri

Alberto Moravia - Alda Merini

Elsa Morante - Italo Calvino

Niccolò Machiavelli - Grazia Deledda

Carlo Gozzi - Guido Cavalcanti

Luigi Pirandello - Ennio Flaiano

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Gustave Wappers, Antoine Van Dyck courtisant sa modèle (1827)

"Je suis fouuu de vous", semble clamer Van Dyck dans ce tableau, à la façon d’un Michel Polnareff, en dardant sa modèle de ses yeux de daim énamouré. Il s’agit visiblement de l’épilogue d’une séance de pose, puisque le peintre semble avoir saisi la modèle en ayant encore ses pinceaux en main, et que la modèle donne l’air de renfiler ses savates. Comme de nombreuses œuvres de ce genre, celle-ci joue du contraste entre les sujets d’études matériels de l’artiste, à savoir la modèle, ses vêtements et les accessoires, et leur transfiguration sur la toile. Cette toile montre une Vierge-Marie, avec le voile bleu et la robe rouge de rigueur. La robe de la modèle est elle aussi rouge, mais c’est une robe de servante, et le voile bleu, un tissu riche qui ne saurait lui appartenir en propre, traîne dans un panier en osier. Un tissu descend de la taille de la modèle, qui a les contours d’un drapé comme les peintures classiques en regorgent et sert la composition, mais qui n’est en fait qu’un tablier. L’ensemble de la scène est bien sûr une énième variation sur les relations amoureuses supposées entre artistes et modèles, avec beaucoup d’eau de rose. On ne peut s’empêcher de remarquer à quel point l’atelier de Van Dyck est décrit comme intimiste et plus que modeste, fidèle aux clichés du genre, alors même que Van Dyck était un artiste à succès, décoré par le roi d’Angleterre, et dont l’atelier était forcément vibrillonnant d’assistants que le maître dirigeait en chef d’entreprise.

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Portrait of the Belgian Queen Louise-Marie by Gustave Wappers and Eugéne Verboeckhoven, c. 1837-1840

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Gustave Wappers - Episode of the September Days 1830 (1835)

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Anne Boleyn Says a Final Goodbye to her Daughter, Princess Elizabeth by Gustav Wappers (1838)

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As I set out in search of an image to commemorate the first day of September, Episodes from September Days demanded my full attention.

Even at first glance, Gustave Wapper's striking 1830 oil on canvas encapsulates perfectly my mood today: the oppressive mood of a humid summer clashing with the onset of darker days. A tumult of bodies, streaming into the foreground of life all at once after weeks of humble solitude and rest. Beauty in violence. The unease of what will remain once the streets are cleared and the darkness of autumn edges closer...

The year 1930 was marked by revolutionary fervour. Paris went through the July Revolution, which marked the end of the rule of Charles X. Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People. Brussels, for its part, had its September Days, which ended Dutch rule over the Southern Provinces, imposed at the 1815 Congress of Vienna. Wappers created his Episode of the September Days 1830... in 1835. Commissioned by the new government of Belgium, this work was a monumental and jubilatory manifesto, exalting the recent revolution and the newly found independence of the young nation.

In a pyramidal composition, the work provides a synthesis of events of the revolution and its actors, stressing the promulgation of the proclamation Aux Citoyens de Bruxelles... ('To The Citizens of Brussels'), signed on 24 September by the Administrative Commission, which represented the Belgian authorities at the heart of the unrest.

Wappers triggered the Belgian Romantic movement, which wanted to break with Neoclassicism and pick up with the pictorial eloquence of a Rubens. Wappers revived history painting and stamped it with a national character.

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Gustave Wappers (Belgian, 1803–1874). The Shulammite (1870).

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Égide Charles Gustave Wappers (Belgian-Dutch, 1803–1874) Boccaccio reading from the Decameron to Queen Johanna of Naples, Detail, 1849 Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

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Louis XVII in the Temple by Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, circa 1823-1860. This version is in the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.