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Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...
A school of chess denotes a chess player or group of players that share common ideas about the strategy of the game. There have been several schools in the history of modern chess. Today there is less dependence on schools – players draw on many sources and play according to their personal style.
An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess. [41] [42] [43] I Giocatori di Scacchi (The Chess Players) (c. 1590) by Ludovico Carracci; Arabes jouant aux échecs (Arabs Playing Chess) (1847) by Eugène Delacroix
Chess table with chess pieces designed by Alexander Lavrentiev. 2021 reconstruction Since the middle of the 20th century, when the loss of the Workers' Club became apparent, there have been numerous attempts in various countries – Britain, Spain, the Netherlands , Finland , France, the USSR, and the United States – to fully or partially ...
Michael Clapper of Franklin & Marshall College has noted, "Eakins’s choice of [chess] and his knowledgeable treatment of it suggest that he was familiar with and interested in the game, though there is little direct evidence of it apart from the painting." [1] Art historian Akela Reason proposes that the painting is a tribute to a number of ...
Chess explodes on Twitch.tv. Twitch.tv is a live-video streaming website that was started in 2011 as a platform for users to watch other people play video games.
The Chess Players is a painting from 1913 by the Finnish (later Swedish) painter Antti Favén (1882-1948). It was created from Favéns fascination for the chess scene in the Café de la Régence at Paris. The painting displays a fictitious scene with various well known chess players who Favén met during his stay in Paris. [1]
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