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    Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Polish painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome. Best remembered...
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    Nero's Torches (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    Pochodnie Nerona) is an 1876 oil-on-canvas painting by the Polish artist Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Candlesticks of Christianity (Świeczniki chrześcijaństwa)...
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    The Sword Dance (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    mieczów) is a 19th-century painting series by the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Dance Amongst Daggers and Dance Amongst Swords...
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    Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    very large-scale history painting by the Russian-born Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki, completed in 1889. It is part of the collections of the State Russian...
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    The Girl or the Vase (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    Presentation of the Slave, is an 1878 painting by the Polish artist Henryk Siemiradzki. The subject is from ancient Rome and shows a patrician who contemplates...
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    related to Antoni Radziwiłł. "Chopin u Radziwiłła — Berlin 1829" by Henryk Siemiradzki. In. Biblioteka chopinowska , Tom 7 Polskie Wydawn. Muzyczne, 1960...
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    Fryderyk Chopin. Chopin's visits to Antonin property were documented by Henryk Siemiradzki in a photogravure titled "Chopin u księcia Radziwiłła" ("Chopin's...
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    Muzeum Narodowe w Warzawie. p. 151. ISBN 8371003277. Represented by Siemiradzki is the ancient Roman staging of the myth at the Emperor Nero's wish....
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    many famous painters, including Ilya Repin, Zinaida Serebryakova, Henryk Siemiradzki, and Vasyl Yermilov. There are many modern arts galleries in the city:...
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    Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis (c. 1889) by Henryk Siemiradzki, showing the scene of the courtesan Phryne stripping naked at Eleusis, which allegedly...
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  • artist Henryk Gotlib (1890–1966), Polish-born painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and writer, who settled in England after World War II Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902)...
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    Prince Alexander Nevsky receiving Papal legates, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1870s)...
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    ceremonial ball of October 3, 1879, it was announced that artist Henryk Siemiradzki had offered his monumental painting called Nero's Torches (Pochodnie...
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    Night on the Eve of Ivan Kupala, by Henryk Siemiradzki (c. 1880)...
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    Jacek Malczewski (symbolism), Stanisław Wyspiański (art nouveau), Henryk Siemiradzki (Roman academic art), Tamara de Lempicka (art deco), and Zdzisław...
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    Chopin plays for the Radziwiłłs, 1829 (painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1887)...
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    Nero's Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire....
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    Dirce, by Henryk Siemiradzki. A Christian woman is martyred under Nero in this re-enactment of the myth of Dirce (painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1897, National...
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    Christ in the house of Martha and Mary, by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1886...
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    Christ with Martha and Mary (1886) by Henryk Siemiradzki, showing the conflated "composite Magdalene" sitting at Jesus's feet while her sister Martha performs...
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    Marica, by Henryk Siemiradzki Lviv National Art Gallery, Ukraine...
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    Nero's Torches, Henryk Siemiradzki...
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    zachodniej, t. 1–2 s.72 2002; Henryk Łowmiański. Początki Polski: z dziejów Słowian w I tysiącleciu n.e., t. 5 s.472; Stanisław Henryk Badeni, 1923. s. 270. Central...
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    line with those of Vladimir Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin and most importantly Henryk Grossman and Paul Mattick with an emphasis on monopolies and the falling...
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    Alexander Nevsky standing near a Mongolian shaman in the Golden Horde. Painting by Henryk Siemiradzki....
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    of a Rus chieftain as described by the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan who visited Kievan Rus in the 10th century, painted by Henryk Siemiradzki (1883)....
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    Nero's Torches, by Henryk Siemiradzki (1876). According to Tacitus, Nero used Christians as human torches...
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    Jacek Malczewski, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Henryk Siemiradzki, Veit Stoss, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Jan Matejko...
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    ibn Fadlan, who visited north-eastern Europe in the 10th century. Henryk Siemiradzki (1883) Model of the original Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv; used on...
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    of Fine Arts (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sztuk Pięknych). His friend Henryk Siemiradzki, moved to Italy from Munich, Germany in 1872. Most of the artist's...
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