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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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    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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  • Thumbnail for The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo)
    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Code of Hammurabi
    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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  • Thumbnail for The Death of Sardanapalus
    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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  • Thumbnail for Sidon Mithraeum
    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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  • Thumbnail for The Charging Chasseur
    The Charging Chasseur, or An Officer of the Imperial Horse Guards Charging, is an oil painting on canvas executed ca. 1812 by the French painter Théodore...
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  • Thumbnail for Great Sphinx of Tanis
    The Great Sphinx of Tanis is a granite sculpture of a sphinx, whose date may be as early as the 26th century BC. It was discovered in the ruins of the...
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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 Venus de Milo
    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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    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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    The sculpture was discovered at Saqqara, north of the alley of sphinxes leading to the Serapeum of Saqqara, in 1850, and dated to the period of the Old...
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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 Stele of the Vultures
    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 Turkish Bath
    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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  • Thumbnail for Stele of Zakkur
    The Stele of Zakkur (or Zakir) is a royal stele of King Zakkur of Hamath and Luhuti (or Lu'aš) in the province Nuhašše of Syria, who ruled around 785...
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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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  • Thumbnail for John Ruskin
    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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  • Thumbnail for The Barque of Dante
    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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     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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  • Thumbnail for The Intervention of the Sabine Women
    The Intervention of the Sabine Women is a 1799 painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David, showing a legendary episode following the abduction...
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