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    The Sermon of Saint Stephen is an oil-on-canvas by Italian artist of the Venetian school Vittore Carpaccio, painted in 1514. It is now in the Louvre in...
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    an Italian painter of the Venetian school who studied under Gentile Bellini. Carpaccio was largely influenced by the style of the early Italian Renaissance...
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    City of God, Book XIX (St. Augustine)". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 31 July 2018. Oort, Johannes Van (5 October 2009). "Augustine, His Sermons, and Their...
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    artists such as the Master of St Cecilia. The Dream of Pope Innocent III The Approval of the Franciscan Rule The Sermon to the Birds Gardner, Julian (May...
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  • 1514 in art (category Years of the 16th century in art)
    Portrait of a Man Giovanni Bellini – The Feast of the Gods (in original form) Vittore Carpaccio St. Vitale on horseback and other saints The Sermon of St. Stephen...
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    Passion as the Virgin tries to restrain him. The painting was commissioned as the high altarpiece for the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and its...
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    includes the Sermon on the Mount, one of the major discourses of Jesus in Matthew, and the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke. The Sermon on the Mount...
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    Christine. "The Raft of the Medusa in Britain". In: Noon, Patrick & Bann, Stephen. Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism...
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    anniversary. The work depicts the figure of John the Baptist in isolation through the use of chiaroscuro, with the figure appearing to emerge from the shadowy...
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    Painting in the Age of Romanticism. Harry N. Abrams. ISBN 978-1-8543-7513-1. Pastore, Stephen R. (2012) Zola and Delacroix: Genius Amidst the Turmoil. London:...
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    in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The Death of Sardanapalus is based on the tale of Sardanapalus, a king of Assyria, from the historical library of Diodorus...
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    differences: for example, Stephen Bertman has suggested that where earlier collections are concerned with compensating victims, the Code is concerned with...
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    in the 1870s. Ruskin continued to travel, studying the landscapes, buildings and art of Europe. In May 1870 and June 1872 he admired Carpaccio's St Ursula...
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    The Winged Victory of Samothrace, or the Niké of Samothrace, is a votive monument originally found on the island of Samothrace, north of the Aegean Sea...
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    The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante), also Dante and Virgil in Hell (Dante et Virgile aux enfers), is the first major painting by the French...
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    in the Louvre in Paris. The painting immediately became a huge success with critics and the public and remains one of the best-known paintings in the Neoclassical...
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    located under the car park of the St. Nicholas Greek church in Sidon, but has not been excavated in modern times. A dozen statues from the Mithraeum were...
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     349. ISBN 3-8228-7031-5 – via the Internet Archive. Zaczek, Iain (2006). "The Pilgrimage to Cythera". In Farthing, Stephen (ed.). 1001 Paintings You Must...
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    The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain...
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    The Stele of the Vultures is a monument from the Early Dynastic IIIb period (2600–2350 BC) in Mesopotamia celebrating a victory of the city-state of Lagash...
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  • Thumbnail for The Coronation of Napoleon
    The Coronation of Napoleon (French: Le Sacre de Napoléon) is a painting completed in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David, the official painter of Napoleon, depicting...
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  • Thumbnail for Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople
    The Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (Entrée des Croisés à Constantinople) or The Crusaders Entering Constantinople is a large painting by Eugène...
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    but modified in 1862. The painting depicts a group of nude women at a pool in a harem. It has an erotic style that evokes both the Near East and earlier...
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    Mona Lisa (redirect from The Mona Lisa)
    Medici name in the wrong place." Along with The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist "The Mona Lisa's Twin Painting Discovered". All...
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    The relatively small (75 cm high) limestone Cretan sculpture called the Lady of Auxerre (or Kore of Auxerre), at the Louvre Museum in Paris depicts an...
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    all the wisdom of the Egyptians"). The provenance of The Astronomer can be traced back to 27 April 1713, when it was sold at the Rotterdam sale of an unknown...
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    e Suoi Contorni [Inscriptions in the church of St. Sebastion and its Environs]". Delle Inscrizioni Veneziane [Of the Venetian Inscriptions]. Vol. IV....
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    The sculptured Dendera zodiac (or Denderah zodiac) is a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated...
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  • Thumbnail for Project for the Transformation of the Grande Galerie du Louvre
    the Transformation of the Grande Galerie du Louvre is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French painter Hubert Robert, made in 1796. It is held at the Louvre...
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  • Thumbnail for Bonaparte Crossing the Alps
    glorified vision of Napoleon "calm on a spirited horse" rather than a mule, crossing Great St. Bernard Pass. As part of his 1798 campaign during the French Revolutionary...
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