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About the Artist: Leon Jan Wyczółkowski was one of the leading painters of the Young Poland movement, as well as the principal representative of Polish Realism in art of the Interbellum. From 1895 to 1911 he served as professor of the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Kraków,...
About the Image: "Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert (born 1817), the Artist's Uncle, as a Monk" is a painting by Paul Cézanne from 186612345. The painting depicts Cézanne's uncle, Antoine Dominique Sauveur Aubert, as a monk. The painting is an oil on canvas and measures...
About the Image: Jacek Malczewski painted this piece called "At the Hill of the Norbertines' Monastery" in 191013. The painting depicts a hill located at the Norbertines' Monastery in Poland. The Norbertines' Monastery is a religious institution St. Norbert founded in the 12th century4. The...
About the Image: "The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame" is a painting by the French artist Maximilien Luce[1][2][3][6]. It was created in 1901 using the technique of separate dabs of color, which was characteristic of the Neo-Impressionist movement[1]. The painting depicts a view of...
About the Image: The "Palm Sunday - Triptych. Hutsul Boys with Catkins" is a painting created by Kazimierz Sichulski, a Polish painter, lithographer, and caricaturist associated with the Young Poland movement[1]. The painting depicts Hutsul boys holding catkins, and it is a triptych, meaning it consists of...
About the Artist: Ferdinand Hodler was one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century. His early works were portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings in a realistic style. Later, he adopted a personal form of symbolism which he called "parallelism". Hodler was born in Bern, the eldest...
About the Artist: Stanisław Józef Juliusz Kamocki was a Polish painter and graphic artist. In the years 1891-1900 he studied under Leon Wyczółkowski, Jacek Malczewski and Jan Stanisławski at the School of Fine Arts in Krakow, and in 1901 and 1902 in Paris. During World War I, he served in...
About the Image: Santa Maria della Salute is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica located at Punta della Dogana in the Dorsoduro sestiere of the city of Venice, Italy[1][2][3][4][5]. It was built to commemorate the end of a terrible outbreak of the plague that...
About the Artist: Knut Magnus Enckell was a Finnish symbolist painter. At first he painted with a subdued palette, but from 1902 onwards used increasingly bright colors. He was a leading member of the Septem group of colorist painters. In Finland, Enckell is considered to have been a very influential...
About the Artist: Ludvig O. Ravensberg, born in Oslo, Norwegian painter. He studied in Munich in 1893–94 and in Italy, lived in Rome in 1930–39, as well as in Sweden from 1940. He depicted Roman ruins in meticulously drawn images. 🙏🏽 This image is in the public domain. Free...
About the Image: Pope Benedict XVI's funeral took place on January 5, 2023, in St. Peter's Square, and was attended by around 50,000 people[1]. The funeral was presided over by Pope Francis[1][2]. Benedict's body lay in state in St. Peter&...
About the Painting: The four cardinal virtues are prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance1234. Prudence is considered the "mother" of all virtues, as it is the ability to recognize one's moral duty and the good means to accomplish it24. It is also the ability to discern the...
Details: Henry IV of France was baptized as a Catholic but raised as a Protestant by his mother[1]. As a Huguenot, he was involved in the French Wars of Religion and later led Protestant forces against the French royal army[1]. Upon becoming king of France in 1589, he...
Details: According to the Gospel of Luke, John the Baptist began his ministry in the desert, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins4,5. He lived much of his life in the obscurity of the Judean desert before the word of God came to him, initiating his...
Details: Toward the end of his life, Rembrandt explored religious themes from an intimate perspective, producing a number of works for a possible Apostle series. The personal religiosity of An Elderly Man in Prayer, formerly attributed to Rembrandt, bears resemblance to such late works. Seated with eyes nearly closed and...
Details: The illuminator is unknown, but his style seems to conform to that known as "Antwerp Mannerism." It emerged among a group of Antwerp painters during the first half of the 1500s. Bolstered by its rich trade and cultural contacts, the port city of Antwerp attracted hundreds of...
Details: Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago, also known as "Blessed Charlie", was a Catholic catechist and liturgist from Puerto Rico who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2001. He was the first Puerto Rican and Caribbean-born layperson to be beatified. Rodríguez was born in Caguas in...
Details: This precious volume was obviously highly prized by its owner, the French-born King of Navarre, who had his coat of arms painted on no less than twenty folios. Rather than directly commissioning this manuscript from a specific workshop, it seems that Charles the Noble acquired his book of hours...
Details The Corpus Christi Benediction is a religious ceremony in the Catholic Church where the Eucharist, or consecrated bread, is displayed and blessed by a priest. This event commemorates the Catholic belief in the presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. Before the benediction there...
Details: The Corpus Christi Procession is a religious event that commemorates the Catholic belief in the presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. During this procession, a consecrated host is carried in a monstrance (a vessel for displaying the host) through the streets of a...
Details: This work depicts Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Virgin Mary, and is likely a fragment from an altarpiece dedicated to the life of the Virgin. While Joachim was fasting in the wilderness, an angel appeared to tell him that he and Anne, who had previously been unable...
Details: Apart from the title, our only clue to the subject of this work is the inscription "VAEA," the name of the mountain in Samoa where Robert Louis Stevenson is buried. Stevenson's poetic tales of men at war with themselves had dazzled Abbott Handerson Thayer, whose...
Details: The 1520s Hours Workshop produced luxury books of hours for a wealthy, often royal, clientele. Recent evidence points to Paris as the site of the workshop’s activity under the direction of Antwerp-born miniaturist Noël Bellemare (died 1546). Containing fuschia pinks and bright acid greens, the palette is unusual...
Details: This small, gold-ground panel—most likely a fragment of a larger altarpiece—layers several episodes from Christ's Crucifixion at Golgotha (in Hebrew, "the place of the skull"). These are rendered in poignant detail and include the soldier piercing Christ's side with a lance,...
