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The paintings feature a variety of tearful children looking morosely straight ahead. They are sometimes called "Gypsy boys" although there is nothing specifically linking them to the Romani people . He was an academically trained painter, working in post-war Venice as painter and restorer, producing the Crying Boy pictures for tourists.
The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin [1] (1911–1981). This was the pen-name of the painter Bruno Amarillo. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards. There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls. [1]
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Bush wrote the descriptive prose that accompanies each painting. Bush donated his share of the proceeds from the book to the non-profit George W. Bush Presidential Center. The book is available as a hardcover and in a limited edition signed by Bush, a deluxe oversized cloth-bound book with a specially designed slipcover. [3]
A Charge to Keep (W.H.D. Koerner) The title of the book comes from the hymn, "A Charge to Keep I Have" (1762) by Charles Wesley. Wesley's title is a paraphrase of Leviticus 8:35: "keep the charge of the LORD, so that you may not die." A painting by W.H.D. Koerner, lent to Bush, shows a horseman charging up a rugged mountain trail, followed by ...
Most recently, Ethel Kennedy’s family was caught in political strife, when her second-eldest son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ran for president in 2024, initially as a Democrat and later as an ...
Earlier 1635 painting with both Prince Charles and Prince James wearing skirts. In 1635 Van Dyck had painted a portrait of the same three children, which was intended to be sent to the Queen's sister Christina, in exchange for portraits of the Duchess's children. However, the King was angry with Van Dyck for showing Prince Charles wearing ...
The painting depicts an injured soldier of the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War (1861 to 1865) waiving an improvised flag of surrender. [2] The soldier is accompanied by black man and a woman holding an infant: the black man is presumed to be the soldier's slave, and the woman and infant are presumed to be his wife and child.