Beautiful Chess Art: Identify Painter, City
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2014
Hello everyone,
Can you identify the artist and the city in this beautiful chess painting?
This beautiful chess painting, aptly titled 'Chess Players' is by Stanislaw Chlebowski. He painted images of historical battles related to the history of Turkey, oriental genre scenes, landscapes, and portraits of Sultans. This painting was in Istanbul. Click on photo to read the wikipedia entry on the artist.
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500 Chess Paintings in a Video - Check it Out
Chess Blog for Daily Chess News and Trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2014
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We found this nice chess video uploaded by JMRWS on YouTube with a montage of 500 chess paintings! Pretty cool. Music: Vivaldi - Nisi Dominus - Ensemble Matheus
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Which chess 'art piece' do you like?
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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We just found these nice chess photos on the Facebook page of David Joueur D'echecs. Definitely worth sharing. Enjoy and have a chess-filled weekend.
If you have a nice chess photo or chess painting to share, don't forget to send it to us.
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Weekend Chess Trivia Quiz - Two Simple Questions
Classical chess art - Egyptian Chess Players by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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Chess has been a major influence in art. We have a very nice copy of a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (January 1836 – 25 June 1912) sent to us by Chess Blog friends www.blackandwhiteindia.com.
Sir Lawrence was a Dutch painter born in Dronrijp, The Netherlands, and trained at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium. He settled in England in 1870 and spent the rest of his life there. A classical-subject painter, he became famous for his depictions of the luxury and decadence of the Roman Empire, with languorous figures set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean Sea and sky.
Merovingian themes were the painter's favorite subject up to the mid-1860s. It is perhaps in this series that we find the artist moved by the deepest feeling and the strongest spirit of romance. However Merovingian subjects did not have a wide international appeal, so he switched to themes of life in ancient Egypt that were more popular.
During the summer of 1864, Tadema met Ernest Gambart, an influential print publisher and art dealer of the period. Gambart was highly impressed with the work of Tadema, who was then painting Egyptian chess players (1865).
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Nice chess painting from Scotland
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
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We have here a nice chess painting snapshot sent to us by Chess Blog reader Jeremy Andrews from Dublin, Ireland. Here is all the info we have. But then, we love all things chess so here's the lovely photo. You are welcome to send us more info and your own favourite 'chess things' - photos, videos, stories, jokes and more.
George Watson (1767 - 24 Aug. 1837) was a Scottish portrait painter and first president of the Royal Scottish Academy.
George Watson
(1767 - 1837)
The game is mine, she cries with joy, you can't prevent checkmate
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Timeout: Defending a film critic with a chess painting!
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
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We found this very interesting article written by at Brian Morarty. He chose to defend film critic Roger Ebert with the motif of a chess painting! Very interesting. Here is the chess painting. Below is interpretation of it. For the full article in the context it was written you can access this link.
It was painted around 1730 by James Northcote, a member of the British Royal Academy of Arts.
Northcote was amazingly prolific. Over 2,000 works are attributed to him.
He painted historic and current news events, scenes from the Bible and classic literature, together with hundreds of portraits.
It was his animal paintings that attracted the most attention, though. Northcote made a fortune with his dramatic depictions of jungle cats, elephants, dogs and birds.
This Northcote in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum is not, for the most part, about animals.
The Chess Players shows a pair of gentlemen pondering over an endgame. There's a boy standing behind one of the players, and a little dog sitting in the corner.
If you study the painting for a while, you'll notice a couple of interesting details.
For one thing, the chess players clearly are not the center of attention. They're dressed in dark, sober colors, receding into the space of the painting.
By contrast, the boy appears in blazing gold. It almost looks as if he's under a spotlight.
Yet he shows no interest in the chess game. His attention is directed away from the world of the painting. In fact, he appears to be staring directly at you, the viewer.
In his left hand is a sheet of paper, covered with undecipherable characters.
His right finger appears to be pointing at something. But what? The sheet of paper? The man beside him?
And what is that dog doing there?
We'll probably never know. Everyone connected with the creation of this painting has been dead for generations.
I spent a long time sitting on the bench in front of Northcote's Chess Players. Labels: chess blog, chess painting
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