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Eliseo Fumagalli 1887 - 1943 Design for The Annunciation for The Church at Maccio 1931 - 1932 Acquarelle on canvas  77 cm x 56 cm Museo Valtellinese di Storia ed Arte, Sondrio ...

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The Church of Saint-Jacques d’Abbeville in the course of being demolished One of the great concerns of the French art history web magazine La Tribune de l'Art   is the threat to the ...

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Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665) La Vision de sainte Françoise Romaine: The Vision of Saint Francesca Romana c. 1657 Oil on canvas 120,7 x 101,8 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Over thre...

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Andrea del Sarto (1486 - 1530) Disputa sulla Trinità / Debate on the Trinity 1517 Oil on wood panel 232 x 193 cm Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti, Palazzo Pitti, Florence The s...

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Francesco Hayez (1791-1882) S Michele Arcangelo Traffige Il Drago/ St Michael Archangel Slays The Dragon 1839 Oil on canvas Parrocchia Sant'Andrea Apostolo, Iseo, Brescia Hayez wa...

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Master of Saints Flora and Lucilla, active ca. 1300 - 1340 Saint Flora ca. 1310 Tempera on panel 90.4 x 55.4 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Ct Master of Saints F...

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Italian School The Whitsun Cassone Oil on panel 81 x 198 cm Campion Hall, University of Oxford Campion Hall in Oxford was established by the Society of Jesus in 1896 as a private...

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Fra Antonio da Monza (active 1492/1503 )  Pentecost 1492 - 1503 Miniature on Parchment 33,5 x 27,7 cm Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria Pope Pius XI  (Ambrogio Damiano...

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Anonymous Canonisation of St Teresa in Rome 1622  17th century Oil on canvas 165 x 211 cm Museo Carmelitano Teresa de Jesús. Monasterio de la Anunciación de Nuestra Señora. MM....

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Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1833-1922) Job 1880 Oil on canvas 161  x 129 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris Renowned as a portrait painter, the great academician Bonnat also was r...

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Grigor Khlat'etsi (1349-1425) Grigor of Khlat (Akhlat) Instructing his Pupil, Self-portrait  From The Four Gospels Illuminated  1419 Vellum; 23.5 x 16 cm Inv. Nr 3714 Fol. 14v  Ma...

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Grigor Narekats‘i (Gregory of Narek).  Գիրք աղօթից (Book of Prayers).  Constantinople: Tparan Astuatsatrean, 1763.  Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Divisio...

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John Constantine Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900) Byron visit the monks of the Mekhitarist Congregation . The Island of San Lazzaro, Venice  (1899) Oil on canvas  133 x 218 cm National G...

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Bartolomeo della Gatta ( born Pietro di Antonio Dei) (1448 - 1502) San Francesco riceve le stimmate; St Francis receives the stigmata 1486-1487 Tempera on panel 186 cm  x 162 cm...

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Ramón Casas y Carbó 1866 - 1932 Garrote vil The Public garrote 1894 Oil on canvas 127 x 166 cm Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid The work depicts the public...

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt 1833–1898 The Morning of the Resurrection 1886 Oil paint on wood 845 x 1511 mm Tate Britain, London Mary Magdalene visits  the empty tomb, wh...

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Lubin Baugin (c. 1612 – 1663) Déploration du Christ  Lamentation over Christ Oil on canvas 130 × 103 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Baugin was appointed Maître Peintre in...

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Christ on the Cross (Chapter XXIV) From Speculum humanæ salvationis Mid 14th century Manuscript on parchment 33,5 x 22 cm Karlsruhe 3378, 76 Badische Landesbibliothek, Karlsruh...

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Gustave Doré  1832 - 1883 Le Christ quittant le prétoire  Christ leaving the praetorium 1867-1872. Oil on panel 600 × 900 cm Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg ...

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Ford Madox Brown 1821–1893 Jesus Washing Peter’s Feet  1852–6 Oil paint on canvas 1168 x 1333 mm Tate Britain, London Ford Madox Brown 1821–1893 Jesus Washing Pet...

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Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)  The Last Supper  1920 Oil on panel  91.5 x 122 cm Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham Sir Stanley Spencer, R.A. (1891-1959)  The La...

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Meester van de Inzameling van het Manna (active c 1460 - 1470) The Offering of the Jews 1460 - 1470 Oil on panel 69,5 x 51,5 cm Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam This pai...

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Michel I Corneille dit Le Vieux  (Michel I Corneille, dit) 1602- 1664 La distribution des rameaux 1664 Oil on canvas 316 x 200 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France The ol...

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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656) The Birth of St. John The Baptist 1635 Oil on canvas 1.84m by 2.58m Museo del Prado, Madrid. In 1630 Artemisia moved to Naples, then Eur...

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Niccolo di Giacomo (c. 1325 – c. 1403) (known also as Niccolò da Bologna) Gabriel announces to Zacharias From Missal said to be of Clément VII and Urban V Tempera, gold, and ink on...

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