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| x Annunciation |
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The Annunciation with two Kneeling Donors |
The Annunciation (anglicised from the Latin Vulgate Luke 1:36-39 Annuntiatio nativitatis Christi), also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary or Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the...
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| x Last Judgment |
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The Last Judgement |
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, or The Day of the Lord or in Islam Yawm al-Qiyāmah or Yawm ad-Din is part of the eschatological world view of the Abrahamic religions and in the Frashokereti of Zoroastrianism.
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| The Last Judgement | ||||
| The Last Judgment | ||||
| 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 naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French Navy and Spanish Navy, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars ...
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| x Spanish Civil War |
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Guernica |
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals under the leadership of José Sanjurjo against the elected...
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| x Cupid |
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Amor Vincit Omnia |
In Roman mythology, Cupid (Latin cupido, meaning "desire") is the god of desire, affection and erotic love. He is often portrayed as the son of the goddess Venus, with a father rarely mentioned. His Greek counterpart is Eros. Cupid is also known in...
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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 River, which occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against the Hessian forces in Trenton,...
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| Washington Crossing the Delaware | ||||
| Washington at the Delaware | ||||
| x Boudica |
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Boudica and Her Daughters |
Boudica ( /ˈbuːdɨkə/; alternative spelling: Boudicca), also known as Boadicea /boʊdɨˈsiːə/ and known in Welsh as Buddug [ˈbɨ̞ðɨ̞ɡ] (d. AD 60 or 61) was queen of the British Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman...
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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 (Latin: [ˈwɛnʊs]) is a Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty, sex, fertility, prosperity and military victory. She played a key role in many Roman religious festivals. From the third century BC, the increasing Hellenization of...
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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, דָּוִיד, Modern David Tiberian Dāwîḏ; ISO 259-3 Dawid; Strong's Daveed; beloved; Arabic: داوود or داود Dāwūd) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and, according to the Gospel...
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| David with the Head of Goliath | ||||
| David and Goliath | ||||
| 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, Ǧālūt (Qur'anic term), جليات Ǧulyāt (Christian term)) or Goliath of Gath (one of five city states of the Philistines) is a figure in the Hebrew Bible (Christian Old Testament)....
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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 ( /ˈsɒkrətiːz/; Greek: Σωκράτης, Ancient Greek pronunciation: [sɔːkrátɛːs], Sōkrátēs; c. 469 BC – 399 BC) was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known...
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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, and the most widely known of the many members of genus Malus that are used by humans....
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| Pommes et Serviette | ||||
| Young Man with an Apple | ||||
| Still Life with Apples, Pears, Lemons and Grapes | ||||
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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. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as endless. Religions with a cyclic history often depict a hell as an intermediary period between...
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| x Jack Pine |
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Jack Pine |
Jack pine, Pinus banksiana, is an eastern North American pine. Its native range in Canada is east of the Rocky Mountains from Northwest Territories to Nova Scotia, and the north-central and northeast of the United States from Minnesota to Maine,...
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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), also known as The Nine Days' Queen, was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England from 10 July until 19 July 1553. She was subsequently executed. The great-granddaughter of Henry VII through...
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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, Yoḥanan ha-mmaṭbil, Arabic: يحيى بن زكريا Yahya ibn Zakariya, Aramaic: ܝܘܚܢܢ Yoḥanan, Greek: Ὁ Ἅγιος/Τίμιος Ἐνδοξος Προφήτης, Πρόδρομος καὶ Βαπτιστής Ἰωάννης Ho Hagios/Timios Endoxos, Profetes, Prodromos, kai...
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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 |
In the deuterocanonical Book of Judith Holofernes (Hebrew, הולופרנס) was an invading general of Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar dispatched Holofernes to take vengeance on the nations of the west that had withheld their assistance to his reign....
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| Judith Beheading Holofernes | ||||
| Judith Beheading Holofernes | ||||
| x Le Havre |
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Impression, Sunrise |
Le Havre (French pronunciation: [lə avʁ]) 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...
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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]; Occitan: Arle [ˈaʀle] in both classical and Mistralian norms; Arelate in ancient Latin) is a city and commune in the south of France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, of which it is a subprefecture, in 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, IPA: [ʁon]; German: Rhone; Walliser German: Rotten; Italian: Rodano; Arpitan: Rôno; Occitan: Ròse) is one of the major rivers of Europe, rising in Switzerland and running from there through southeastern France. At Arles,...
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| x Auvers-sur-Oise |
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Wheat Field with Crows |
Auvers-sur-Oise (French pronunciation: [ovɛːʁ syʁ wɑz]) is a commune in the northwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 27.2 km (16.9 mi) from the centre of Paris. It is associated with several famous artists, the most prominent being...
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| Wheat Fields at Auvers Under Clouded Sky | ||||
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Wheat Field with Crows | The Wheat Field |
Wheat (Triticum spp.) is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East and Ethiopian Highlands, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after...
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| x Peasant |
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The Potato Eaters |
A peasant is an agricultural worker who generally works land owned or rented by/from a noble, with regards to the era. The peasant was bound to the land and could not move or change their occupation unless they became a yeoman (free person), which...
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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 | ||||
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| x Egon Schiele |
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Self Portrait with Black Vase |
Egon Schiele (help·info) (German pronunciation: [ˈʃiːlə], approximately SHEE-leh; June 12, 1890 – October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter. A protégé of Gustav Klimt, Schiele was a major figurative painter of the early 20th century. His work is...
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| Self-Portrait | ||||
| 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. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its...
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| Self-portrait | ||||
| x Marc Chagall |
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Self-Portrait with Seven Fingers |
Marc Chagall (English pronunciation: /ʃəˈɡɑːl/ shə-GAHL; Russian: Марк Заха́рович Шага́л; (7 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985), was a Russian-French artist associated with several major artistic styles and one of the most successful artists...
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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 first President of the United States of America, serving from 1789 to 1797, and the dominant military and political leader of the United States from 1775 to...
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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 (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 inscriptions...
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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, known as Pablo Picasso (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo piˈkaso], 25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973), was a Spanish painter,...
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| Self-Portrait | ||||
| Pablo Picasso 1957 | ||||
| Autoportrait à la palette | ||||
| x Musician |
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The Musicians |
A musician usually plays a musical instrument, especially as a profession. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music. It's also a person who makes music a...
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| Three Musicians | ||||
| Three Musicians | ||||
| I See the Rhythm of Gospel by Michele Wood | ||||
| Songs of My People | ||||
| x Icarus |
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Landscape With The Fall of Icarus |
In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient Greek: Ἴκαρος, Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. The main story told about Icarus is his attempt to escape from Crete by...
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| Icarus and Daedalus | ||||
| x Hyde Park |
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Figure in a landscape |
Hyde Park is one of the largest parks in central London, United Kingdom, 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...
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| x Prudence |
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Allegory of Prudence |
Prudence (Lat. prudentia, contracted from providentia, seeing ahead) is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one of the four Cardinal virtues (which are,...
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| Cardinal and Theological Virtues | ||||
| x War |
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Guernica | The Split of Life |
War is an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality. War should be understood as an actual, intentional...
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| The Face of War | ||||
| The Pestilence | ||||
| x Fishing |
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Tuna Fishing |
Fishing is the activity of trying to catch 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...
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| x John the Apostle |
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The Four Apostles |
John the Apostle (Aramaic Yoħanna, Koine Greek Ἰωάννης) (c. AD 6 – c. 100) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He was the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of James, son of Zebedee, another of the Twelve Apostles. Christian tradition holds...
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| x Saint Peter |
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The Four Apostles |
Saint Peter or Simon Peter was an early Christian leader and one of the twelve apostles of Jesus who is featured prominently in the New Testament Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles and who is venerated as a saint. The son of John or of Jonah, he...
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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 the Apostle (c. AD 5 – c. AD 67; variously referred to as the "Apostle Paul" or "Saint Paul"), also known as Saul of Tarsus, is perhaps the most influential early Christian missionary. The writings ascribed to him by the church form 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 |
Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is an annual plant native to the Americas. It possesses a large inflorescence (flowering head). The sunflower is named after its huge, fiery blooms, whose shape and image is often used to depict the sun. The sunflower...
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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 Gavri'el Tiberian Gaḇrîʼēl, God is my strength; Arabic: جبريل, Jibrīl or جبرائيل Jibrāʾīl) is an angel who typically serves as a messenger to humans from God.
He first appears in the Book...
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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 ( /ˈdʒiːzəs/; Greek: Ἰησοῦς; 7–2 BC/BCE to 30–36 AD/CE), also referred to as Jesus Christ or simply Christ, is the central figure of Christianity, and is also regarded as an important prophet of God in Islam. Most Christian denominations...
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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), the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War in America, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended 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 made it possible...
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| x Battle of Monmouth |
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Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth |
The Battle of Monmouth was an American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) battle fought on June 28, 1778 in Monmouth County, New Jersey. The Continental Army under General George Washington attacked the rear of the British Army...
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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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| Pietà (after Delacroix) | ||||
| x Flight | Bird in Space | |||
| x Child Jesus |
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The Madonna and Child |
The Child Jesus (Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, Christ Child) represents Jesus from his Nativity to age 12. At 13 he was considered to be adult, in accordance with the Jewish custom of his time, and that of most Christian cultures until...
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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 is a national emblem of France and an allegory of Liberty and Reason. She represents the state and values of France, differently from another French cultural symbol, the "Coq Gaulois" ("Gallic rooster") which represents France as a nation...
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| Ancient Bust of Marianne | ||||
| x July Revolution |
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Liberty Leading the People |
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, saw the overthrow of King Charles X of France, the French Bourbon monarch, and the ascent of his cousin Louis-Philippe, the Duc d'Orléans, who himself, after 18 precarious years on...
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| 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 in Bethlehem. It is often combined with the Adoration of the Magi, in which case it is typically just referred to...
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| The Adoration of the Shepherds | ||||
| x Japanese American internment |
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Japanese American Internment Memorial |
Japanese-American internment was the relocation and internment by the United States government in 1942 of about 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast of the United States to camps called "War Relocation Camps," in...
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| x Mermaid |
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Andrea Mermaid Fountain |
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. Mermaids are represented in the folklore, literature and popular culture of many countries worldwide.
A male version of a mermaid is known...
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| A Mermaid | ||||
| x San Francisco |
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Hyatt on Union Square Fountain |
San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only...
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