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Details: Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil on canvas painting executed c.1665 by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo which is now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. It depicts the Holy Family, attended by two Cupids, resting during a flight to safety. The theme...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), is a church built in the Renaissance style...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A kneeling woman begs Christ in the midst of his disciples to heal her daughter, who is possessed by the devil (Matthew 15:21-21; Mark 7:24-30). On the right there is a disciple with a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James), Mary is presented as an extraordinary child destined for great things from the moment of her conception. Her parents, the wealthy Joachim and his wife...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In the Book of Genesis, the son of Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob, went to Haran, saw a well where shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them and met Laban's younger daughter, Rachel, his...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Convent of Santo Domingo was a convent of the Dominican Order in the city of Valencia, Spain. Construction of the church began on land granted by King James I of Aragon in 1239, but it...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in Christian iconography, divided into many traditional subtypes. Marian devotion rose to great importance after the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Theotokos iconography as it developed in...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located at 2535 Collingwood Boulevard in the Old West End of Toledo, Ohio. The cathedral is the mother church of the 122...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! One of the most popular saints in the Late Middle Ages, Saint Christopher—whose name means "Christ-bearer"—was the patron saint of travelers and pilgrims. A legendary giant, Christopher wished to serve the most...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Laib was a German painter who spent most of his career in Austria. Proof that he came to Salzburg at an early age is suggested by the stylistic affinity of many of his works with Salzburg...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The main sources which directly attest the fact of Christ's Resurrection are the Four Gospels and the Epistles of St. Paul. Easter morning is so rich in incident, and so crowded with interested persons,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet is a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City. It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The southern part...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! These pinnacles were originally set on top of a multipanel altarpiece that has now been lost. The angels' gestures and glances suggest that they were placed to the left and right of a central image....
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A saint, holding an abbot or bishop’s crozier, blesses a kneeling figure, probably the donor who commissioned the window. It forms a pair with another panel showing Saint Fiacre, also owned by the Museum. This...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Dürer’s earliest engraving of the Virgin and Child theme features the Madonna seated on a grassy bench in an enclosed garden, a traditional subject alluding to her virginity. The divine presence of God the Father...
