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| x Annunciation |
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The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors |
The Annunciation is, in Christianity, the revelation to Mary, the mother of Jesus by the angel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God. Some Christian churches celebrate this event, which happened in "the sixth month" (Luke...
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| Cestello Annunciation | ||||
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| x Last Judgment |
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The Last Judgement |
The concept of a Last Judgment is found in all Abrahamic religions and elsewhere like Zoroastrianism and Duat.
In Islam, the Last Judgment is referred to as "the Day of Standing" and God Almighty, will judge all Creation.
In Christian theology, the...
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| The Last Judgement | ||||
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| Winter, or The Flood | ||||
| x Battle of Trafalgar |
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The Battle of Trafalgar |
The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a sea battle fought between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803...
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| x Spanish Civil War |
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Guernica |
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict that devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. It began after an attempted coup d'état by a group of Spanish Army generals against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the...
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| x Cupid |
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Amor Vincit Omnia |
In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin cupido) is the god of erotic love and beauty. He is also known by another one of his Latin names, Amor (cognate with Kama). He is the son of goddess Venus.
In popular culture Cupid is frequently shown shooting his...
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| Venus and Cupid with a Satyr | ||||
| Cupidon | ||||
| Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time | ||||
| Sleeping Cupid | ||||
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| x Washington's crossing of the Delaware |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware |
Washington's crossing of the Delaware, occurring on December 25, 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack against the Hessian forces in Trenton, New Jersey at the Battle of Trenton.
After securing the army...
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| Washington Crossing the Delaware | ||||
| Washington at the Delaware | ||||
| x Boudica |
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Boudica and Her Daughters |
Boudica (pronounced /ˈbuːdɨkə/; also spelled Boudicca), formerly known as Boadicea (/boʊˌædɨˈsiːə/) and known in Welsh as "Buddug") (d. AD 60 or 61) was a queen of the Brittonic Iceni tribe of what is now known as East Anglia in England, who led an...
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| x Madonna and Child |
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Madonna of the Pinks |
The Madonna and Child is one of the central icon of Christianity, representing the Madonna or Mary, mother of Jesus and her son. After some initial resistance and controversy, the formula "Mother of God" (Theotokos) was adopted officially by the...
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| Madonna and Child with St. Anne | ||||
| The Benois Madonna | ||||
| Madonna and Child | ||||
| Madonna of Bruges | ||||
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| x Venus |
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Venus and Cupid with a Satyr |
Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths. From the third century BC, the increasing Hellenization of Roman upper classes identified her...
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| Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time | ||||
| Venus and Mars | ||||
| Venus Anadyomene | ||||
| The Birth of Venus | ||||
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| x David |
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David with the Head of Goliath |
David (Hebrew: דָּוִד, Modern David Tiberian dɔwið "beloved"; Arabic: دَاوُۥدَ Dāwud) was the second king of the united Kingdom of Israel according to the Bible. He is depicted as a righteous king, although not without fault, as well as an...
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| David with the Head of Goliath | ||||
| David and Goliath | ||||
| David | ||||
| David | ||||
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| x Goliath |
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David with the Head of Goliath |
Goliath (Hebrew: גָּלְיָת, Modern Golyat Tiberian Golyāṯ ; Arabic: جالوت , Jalut (Qur'anic term), جليات Julyat (Christian term)), known also as Goliath of Gath (one of five city states of the Philistines), is the Philistine warrior, famous for his...
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| David and Goliath | ||||
| David with the Head of Goliath | ||||
| David Vainqueur de Goliath | ||||
| x Socrates |
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The Death of Socrates |
Socrates (pronounced /ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης, Sōkrátēs; c. 469 BC–399 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known only through the classical accounts of his...
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| Socrates | ||||
| The Death of Socrates | ||||
| x Apple |
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The Basket of Apples |
The apple is the pomaceous fruit of the apple tree, species Malus domestica in the rose family Rosaceae. It is one of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. The tree is small and deciduous, reaching 3 to 12 metres (9.8 to 39 ft) tall, with a broad,...
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| Pommes et Serviette | ||||
| Young Man with an Apple | ||||
| Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes | ||||
| Still Life with Apples | ||||
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| x Hell |
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The Gates of Hell |
In many religious traditions, Hell is a place of suffering and punishment in the afterlife, often in the underworld. Religions with a linear divine history often depict Hell as endless (for example, see Hell in Christian beliefs). Religions with a...
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| x Jack Pine |
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Jack Pine |
The Jack Pine (Pinus banksiana) is a North American pine with its native range in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, and the northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine, with the southernmost...
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| x Lady Jane Grey |
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Lady Jane Grey Preparing for Execution |
Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554) was a claimant to the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Ireland. She was de facto monarch of England for just over a week in 1553.
Executed on 12 February 1554, Lady Jane Grey's claimed rule of less than...
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| The Execution of Lady Jane Grey | ||||
| x John the Baptist |
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Saint John the Baptist |
John the Baptist (Hebrew: יוחנן המטביל, Yo-hanan ha-matbil, Arabic: يحيى Yahyá AND يوحنا Yūhannā al-mamadan in arabic, Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ Yokhanan) (died c 30) was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of Baptism at the...
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| The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist | ||||
| The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist | ||||
| St. John the Baptist | ||||
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| x Holofernes |
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Judith and Holofernes |
Holofernes (Hebrew, הולופרנס) was an Assyrian invading general of Nebuchadnezzar, who appears in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. It was said that the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar dispatched Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the...
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| Judith Beheading Holofernes | ||||
| Judith Beheading Holofernes | ||||
| x Le Havre |
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Impression, Sunrise |
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in...
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| x Alyscamps |
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Les Alyscamps |
The Alyscamps is a large Roman necropolis, which is a short distance outside the walls of the old town of Arles, France. It was one of the most famous necropolises of the ancient world. The name is a corruption of the Latin Elisii Campi (that is,...
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| L'Allee des Alyscamps | ||||
| x Autumn leaf color |
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Les Alyscamps |
Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, one or many colors that range from red to yellow. The phenomenon is commonly...
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| x Arles |
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Starry Night Over the Rhone |
Arles (French pronunciation: [aʁl]; Provençal Occitan: Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms) is a city in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in the former province of Provence.
The...
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| View of Arles, Flowering Orchards | ||||
| Entrance to the Public Gardens in Arles | ||||
| Van Gogh's House | ||||
| Yellow House | ||||
| x Rhône River |
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Starry Night Over the Rhone |
The Rhone (French: Rhône; Arpitan: Rôno; Occitan: Ròse; standard German: Rhone; Valais German: Rotten; Italian: Rodano) is one of the major rivers of Europe, originating in Switzerland and running from there through the south-eastern corner of...
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| x Auvers-sur-Oise |
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Wheat Field with Crows |
Auvers-sur-Oise (French pronunciation: [o/vɛːr/syr/waz]) is a commune in the north-western suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 27.2 km (16.9 mi). (16.9 miles) from the center of Paris. It is associated with several famous artists, the most...
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| Wheat Fields at Auvers Under Clouded Sky | ||||
| x Wheat |
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The Wheat Field |
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a worldwide cultivated grass from the Fertile Crescent region of the Near East. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize (784 million tons) and rice (651...
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| Wheat Field with Crows | ||||
| x Peasant |
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The Potato Eaters |
A peasant is an agricultural worker who subsists by working a small plot of ground. But if you are working on a BHII essay then this is not the place to look. The word is derived from 15th century French païsant meaning one from the pays, or...
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| Young Peasant Woman Drinking Her Caf au Lait | ||||
| The Irish Peasant (Mary Ryan) | ||||
| A Peasant Woman Digging in Front of Her Cottage | ||||
| The Peasant Wedding | ||||
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| x Egon Schiele |
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Self Portrait with Black Vase |
Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə], approximately SHEE-luh) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century.
Schiele's work is noted for...
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| x Raphael |
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Self-portrait with a friend |
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (April 6 or March 28, 1483 – April 6, 1520), better known simply as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings and drawings. Together...
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| Self-portrait | ||||
| x Marc Chagall |
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Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers |
Marc Chagall (IPA: ʃʌ-ɡɑːl); [shuh-GAHL] (7 July 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian-French artist, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the twentieth century. He created a unique career in...
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| x George Washington |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware | Washington at Princeton |
George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731] – December 14, 1799) was the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) and served as the first President of the United States of America (1789–1797)....
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| Lansdowne portrait | ||||
| Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth | ||||
| Mount Rushmore National Memorial | ||||
| Princeton Battle Monument | ||||
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| x Pope Paul V |
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Portrait of Pope Paul V |
Pope Paul V (Rome, 17 September 1552 – 28 January 1621), born Camillo Borghese, was Pope from 16 May 1605 until his death.
He was born into the noble Borghese family of Siena which had recently fled to Rome, and ROMANUS appears in most of his...
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| x House of Barberini |
The Barberini are a family of the Italian nobility that rose to prominence in 17th century Rome. Their influence peaked with the election of Cardinal Maffeo Barberini to the papal throne in 1623, as Pope Urban VIII. Their urban palace, the Palazzo...
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| x Bindo Altoviti |
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Portrait of Bindo Altoviti |
Bindo Altoviti was born in Rome in 1491, but of Florentine origin. He was wealthy banker and a cultured man who loved the arts.
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| x Pablo Picasso |
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Portrait of Picasso |
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. Commonly known simply as Picasso, he is one...
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| Self-Portrait | ||||
| Pablo Picasso 1957 | ||||
| x Musician |
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The Musicians |
A musician is a person who performs or writes music. Musicians can be classified by their roles in creating or performing music:
Conductor · leader · Concertmaster
Composer · Songwriter · arranger · Orchestrator
Bassist or Double bassist ·...
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| Three Musicians | ||||
| x Icarus |
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Landscape With The Fall of Icarus |
Icarus (Greek: Ἴκαρος, Latin: Íkaros, Etruscan: Vicare) is a character in Greek mythology. He is the son of Daedalus and is commonly known for his attempt to escape Crete by flight, which ended in a fall to his death.
Icarus' father, Daedalus, a...
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| Icarus and Daedalus | ||||
| x Hyde Park, London |
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Figure in a landscape |
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, England and one of the Royal Parks of London, famous for its Speakers' Corner.
The park is divided in two by the Serpentine. The park is contiguous with Kensington Gardens; although often...
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| x Prudence |
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Allegory of Prudence |
Prudence is the exercise of sound judgment in practical affairs. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one of the four Cardinal virtues (which are with the three theological virtues part of the seven virtues).
The word comes...
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| x War |
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Guernica | The Split of Life |
War is a reciprocated, armed conflict between two or more non-congruous entities, aimed at reorganising a subjectively designed, geo-politically desired result. In his book, On War, Prussian military theoretician Carl Von Clausewitz calls war the ...
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| The Face of War | ||||
| x Fishing |
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Tuna Fishing |
Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild. Techniques for catching fish include hand gathering, spearing, netting, angling and trapping.
The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as...
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| x John the Apostle |
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The Four Apostles |
John the Apostle (Greek Ιωάννης) (c. 6 - c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of James, another of the Twelve Apostles.
Christian tradition identifies him as the author of several New...
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| x Saint Peter |
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The Four Apostles |
Simon Peter Greek: Πέτρος, Pétros “Rock”, Kephas in Hellenized Aramaic) (c.1–AD 64) was a leader of the early Christian Church, who features prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles. Peter was the son of John, and was...
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| The Repentant Peter | ||||
| Crucifixion of St. Peter | ||||
| Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Dominic and a Donor | ||||
| The Liberation of St. Peter | ||||
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| x Paul of Tarsus |
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The Four Apostles |
Paul of Tarsus, also called Paul the Apostle, the Apostle Paul, or Saint Paul, (Ancient Greek: Σαούλ (Saul), Σαῦλος (Saulos), and Παῦλος (Paulos); Latin: Paulus or Paullus; Hebrew: שאול התרסי Šaʾul HaTarsi (Saul of Tarsus) (c.5 BC - c.67 AD), was a...
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| Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, Dominic and a Donor | ||||
| St. Paul Healing the Cripple at Lystra | ||||
| x Sunflower |
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Vase with Three Sunflowers | Sunflowers |
Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) are annual plants native to the Americas, that possess a large inflorescence (flowering head).
What is usually called the flower is actually a head (formally composite flower) of numerous florets (small flowers)...
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| Vase with Five Sunflowers | ||||
| Vase with Twelve Sunflowers | ||||
| Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers | ||||
| Two Cut Sunflowers | ||||
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| x Gabriel |
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Virgin Annunciate |
In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel (Hebrew: גַּבְרִיאֵל, Modern Gavriʼel Tiberian Gaḇrîʼēl; Latin: Gabrielus; Greek: Γαβριήλ, Gabriēl; Arabic: جبريل, Jibrīl or جبرائيل Jibrail; Aramaic: Gabri-el, "God is my strong man/hero") is an angel who serves as a...
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| x Flagellation |
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The Flagellation of Christ |
Flagellation or flogging is the act of methodically beating or whipping (Latin flagellum, "whip") the human body. Specialised implements for it include rods, switches, the cat-o-nine-tails and the sjambok. Typically, flogging is imposed on an...
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| The Flagellation | ||||
| x Jesus Christ |
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The Flagellation of Christ |
Jesus Christ is God. He is infinite. Jesus Christ was and still is the Messiah the Jews were waiting for. Jesus Christ founded Roman Catholicism and no other religion. The religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion because it is...
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| The Flagellation | ||||
| Christ washing the Disciples' Feet | ||||
| Head of Christ | ||||
| Bust of Jesus as a Youth | ||||
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| x Passion |
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The Flagellation |
The Passion is the Christian theological term used for the events and suffering – physical, spiritual, and mental – of Jesus in the hours before and including his trial and execution by crucifixion. The Crucifixion of Jesus is an event central to...
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| The Flagellation of Christ | ||||
| Fragment from Christ Carrying the Cross: Saint John the Evangelist | ||||
| The Yellow Christ | ||||
| Lamentation over the Dead Christ with Saints | ||||
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| x American Revolutionary War |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware |
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also sometimes known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies in North America, and concluded in a global war...
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| Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth | ||||
| Princeton Battle Monument | ||||
| x Battle of Trenton |
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Washington Crossing the Delaware |
The Battle of Trenton took place on December 26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War after General George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River north of Trenton, New Jersey. The hazardous crossing in adverse weather allowed Washington...
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| x Battle of Monmouth |
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Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth |
The Battle of Monmouth (pronounced /ˈmɒnməθ/) was an American Revolutionary War battle fought on June 28, 1778 in New Jersey. The main Continental Army under George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army column commanded by Sir Henry...
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| x Pietà |
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Pietà |
The Pietà (pl. same; Italian for pity) is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture. As such, it is a particular form of the Lamentation of Christ, a scene from the Passion of...
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| x Child Jesus |
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The Madonna and Child |
The Child Jesus (also called Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, or Christ Child) represents Jesus from his birth to the age of twelve. At thirteen he was considered to have become adult, in accordance with both the Jewish custom of his own time, and that of...
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| Madonna and Child | ||||
| Madonna and Child | ||||
| Madonna Colonna | ||||
| Madonna and Child with St. Anne | ||||
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| x Marianne |
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Liberty Leading the People |
Marianne, a national emblem of the French Republic, is, by extension, an allegory of Liberty and Reason. She represents France as a state, and its values (as opposed to the "Gallic rooster" representing France as a nation and its history, land and...
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| Ancient Bust of Marianne | ||||
| x July Revolution |
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Liberty Leading the People | ||
| x Adoration of the shepherds |
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Portinari Triptych |
The Adoration of the shepherds, in the Nativity of Jesus in art, is a scene in which shepherds are near witnesses to the birth of Jesus, at his birthplace, typically depicted as a barn, near Bethlehem. It is based on the account in the Gospel of...
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| x Japanese American internment |
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Japanese American Internment Memorial |
Japanese American internment was the forcible relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese residing in the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in the...
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| x Mermaid |
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Andrea Mermaid Fountain |
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a human head and torso and the tail of an aquatic animal such as a fish. Mermaids have a broad representation in folklore, literature, and popular culture.
The word is a compound of mere, the Old...
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| A Mermaid | ||||
| x San Francisco |
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Hyatt on Union Square Fountain |
San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976. It is the second most densely populated large city in North America and is the financial,...
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