Baal with Thunderbolt or the Baal stele is a white limestone bas-relief stele from the ancient kingdom of Ugarit in northwestern Syria. The stele was...
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The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (𐎁𐎓𐎍 lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility...
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Hadad (redirect from Baal Hadad)
Babylonian Bel.[citation needed] The Baal Cycle or Epic of Baal is a collection of stories about the Canaanite Baal, also referred to as Hadad. It was composed...
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Baal (/ˈbeɪ.əl, ˈbɑː.əl/), or Baʻal, was a title and honorific meaning 'owner' or 'lord' in the Northwest Semitic languages spoken in the Levant during...
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Ugaritic texts (category Articles with short description)
the approximately fifty epic poems; the three major literary texts are the Baal Cycle, the Legend of Keret, and the Tale of Aqhat. The other texts include...
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Tale of Aqhat (category Articles with short description)
have been found at Ugarit, the other two being the Legend of Keret and the Baal Cycle. It dates to approximately 1350 BCE. While the complete tale has not...
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Ugarit (category Articles with Open Library links)
the respective cults. Within the Temple of Baal, discoveries include the Baal with Thunderbolt depicting Baal holding a club aloft, portrayed in a typical...
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Horned deity (category Articles with short description)
as Baal and El were likely originally horned bull gods.: 15 : 28 Several Indus seals show a fighting scene between a tiger-like beast and a man with horns...
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Mona Lisa (category Pages with Italian IPA)
horizon line not at the neck, as he did with Ginevra de' Benci, but on a level with the eyes, thus linking the figure with the landscape and emphasizing the...
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Venus de Milo (category Articles with short description)
most likely Aphrodite, depicted with a bare torso and drapery over the lower half of her body. The figure stands with her weight on her right leg, and...
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Winged Victory of Samothrace (category Articles with short description)
part in plaster, attached the left marble wing with a metal frame, and replaced the entire right wing with a plaster model. But he did not reconstruct the...
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Stele (category Articles with short description)
depicting the king receiving his law from the sun god Shamash Baal with Thunderbolt (c. 14th century BC), an Ugaritic stele from Syria The Merneptah...
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Liberty Leading the People (category Articles with short description)
toppled King Charles X (r. 1824–1830). A bare-breasted “woman of the people” with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied...
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Code of Hammurabi (category Articles with short description)
Louvre Museum. The top of the stele features an image in relief of Hammurabi with Shamash, the Babylonian sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are...
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Legend of Keret (category Articles with short description)
Ilimilku, a high priest who was also the scribe for the Myth of Baal-Aliyan (a part of the Baal cycle) and the Tale of Aqhat, two other famous Ugaritic epic...
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Souvenir de Mortefontaine (category Articles with short description)
Impressionist movement. Souvenir de Mortefontaine verges on the Impressionistic, with the lake and landscape captured by broad rather than detailed strokes and...
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Louvre (category Articles with French-language sources (fr))
1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the...
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Mesha Stele (category Articles with short description)
his son, forty years. And Chemosh had mercy on it in my time. And I built Baal-meon and made therein the ditch, and I built Kiriathaim. And the men of Gad...
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Dying Gaul (category Articles with short description)
lower right chest. The warrior is represented with characteristic Celtic hairstyle and moustache with a Celtic torc around his neck. He sits on his shield...
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The Clubfoot (redirect from Boy with a Club Foot)
a Neapolitan beggar boy with a deformed foot. Behind him is a vast and luminous landscape, against which the boy stands with a gap-toothed grin, wearing...
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Virgin of the Rocks (category Articles with short description)
by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, with a composition which is identical except for several significant details....
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Stele of Zakkur (category Articles with short description)
portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zakkur Stele AO 8185. Baal with Thunderbolt List of artifacts significant to the Bible Herbert Niehr 2014, The...
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The Broken Vessel (category Articles with short description)
low-cut white dress with balloon sleeves. She is holding an armful of roses in one side of her apron, she also wears a ribbon with three flowers, and has...
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Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (category Articles with short description)
was acquired in 1922 by the Louvre in Paris. Dürer looks out at the viewer with a psychologically complex but rather melancholy and reserved, serious minded...
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The Wedding at Cana (Veronese) (category Articles with Italian-language sources (it))
Mannerism exaggerated the Renaissance ideals – of figure, light, and colour – with asymmetric and unnaturally elegant arrangements achieved by flattening the...
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. It depicts Saint...
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Niqmaddu II (category Articles with short description)
good relations with Egypt, and conceded to the Amorites in a dispute over the Shiyannu region early in his reign. He commissioned the Baal cycle about the...
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Maestà (Cimabue) (category Articles with short description)
Louvre in 1813 as part of Napoleonic looting of artworks in Italy, together with Giotto's Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, also from the church of San...
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Ammurapi (category Articles with short description)
Niqmaddu III Ammurapi Culture Alphabet Language Grammar Pantheon Hurrian songs Baal with Thunderbolt Texts Baal Cycle Legend of Keret Tale of Aqhat v t e...
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Pygmalion and Galatea (Girodet) (category Articles with short description)
by Ovid in the Metamorphoses. The figures Pygmalion and Galatea are shown with Cupid, the god of desire. Girodet began the work in 1813, but it took him...
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