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June 14, 1325~ Ibn Battuta leaves Tangier on a journey that will last 29 years

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Tile with the Great Mosque of Mecca by Turkish Artist

 

Ibn Battuta started on his travels in 1325, when he was 20 years old. His main reason to travel was to go on a Hajj, or a Pilgrimage to Mecca, to fulfill the fifth pillar of Isla. But his traveling went on for around 29 years and he covered about 75,000 miles visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries which were then mostly under the governments of Muslim leaders of the World of Islam, or “Dar al-Islam”. ~Office of Resources for International and Area Studies, UC Berkeley

17th century (Ottoman Empire) / Fritware with underglaze painting
/ 24 9/16”x14 1/8”x1 3/8” / The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

 

The three lines of Arabic writing in the upper part of this large, ceramic wall tile are from the third chapter of the Qur’an, and exhort the Muslim faithful to make the pilgrimage to Mecca. The rest of the tile is given over to a bird’s-eye representation of the Great Mosque in Mecca, with the Ka’ba, Islam’s holiest shrine, in the center. ~The Walters Art Museum

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Previous June 14 posts:

Pride Month~ June 14

Margaret Bourke-White: Born June 14, 1904

June 14: Flag Day

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/14~

March 17~ Women’s History Month in visual arts

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Phoebe Anna Traquair (1852-1936), Arts & Crafts artist created paintings, embroideries, illuminations, and illustrations
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/phoebe-anna-traquair

Annunciation (study for mural) / 1900 / Tempera on card / 11”x9”

 

Nampeyo (c.1859-1942)
One of the most important figures in Native American Pottery
https://www.adobegallery.com/artist/Nampeyo_of_Hano_1857_19428853486

Jar / c.1910 / Ceramic / H-8 1/4” W-14 1/4”

Artist Birthday Quiz for 1/20~

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One of the most influential ceramic designers of the 20th century, this British ceramic artist was herself inspired by the Art Deco, Cubism, and De Stijl movements.

In 1863, this photographer’s innovations in the field were finally officially acknowledged when he received the prestigious cross of the French Legion of Honor.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/01/20/january-20/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 11/13~

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This 20th century American artist’s time as a volunteer restoring Native American clay vessels inspired his own hand-built pieces, which he would build, break, and reassemble after painting and glazing them.

One of the most famous Neoclassical artists in 19th century Europe, this Danish/Icelandic sculptor spent forty years in Italy and celebrated the date of his arrival there as his “Roman birthday.”

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/11/13/november-13/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 9/11~

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This American artist’s functional pottery ended up in hundreds of collections, including the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

This Moscow-born artist, along with his co-founder of the Soviet Pop and Conceptual Art movement in Russia, emigrated to Israel, and then to New York, in response to their arrest and the destruction of their artwork.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/09/11/september-11/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 8/19~

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This house-painter and handyman was the center of a furor in 1927 when he became the first living self-taught artist to be recognized by the American art establishment, upon his acceptance to the Carnegie International exhibition.

One of the members of the Bloomsbury circle, this painter, sculptor, writer, and educator began to study pottery at the age of 25 and in 1935 went to Staffordshire to acquire the necessary technical knowledge.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/08/19/august-19/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 6/24~

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What Pennsylvania artist and collector built his tile factory, museum, and house using coarse-textured and unconcealed reinforced concrete, an especially unusual building material for a house?

Of what artist did a writer for the Chicago Daily News state in 1934: “[He] might have developed into America’s greatest painter had he not chosen to become America’s greatest art teacher”?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/06/24/june-24/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/26~

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What Flemish-born Baroque painter was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, going on to become a professor and later the rector?

What contemporary ceramist is noted for his ability to work in porcelain and overglaze enamels with infinite patience and dexterity?

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/26/may-26/

Artist Birthday Quiz for 5/17~

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The watercolor medium fascinated this painter throughout his career, and in 1925 he and two other artists founded the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour, which continues actively to this day.

This self-taught Virginian ceramist has work in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Folk Art Museum, and other museums and private collections.

Answers here~ https://schristywolfe.com/2015/05/17/may-17/