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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! On the night of February 4, 1428, a devastating fire broke out in a schoolhouse in Forlì, a town in northern Italy. Eyewitnesses reported that everything in the school burned except a humble woodcut representing the...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The precise date for this early work by Donatello is not known, but between 1408-1415 the artist worked on this large-scale marble figurative sculpture depicting Saint John the Evangelist. Typically depicted as a young man, Donatello...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This painting, probably meant to hang in a church, is also called The Two Trinities. It alludes on the one hand to Mary, Joseph, and the Christ Child, and on the other hand to God the...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, but Saint Jerome does not include...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, but Saint Jerome does not include...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Assumption of the Virgin Mary or Assumption of the Holy Virgin, is a painting by Peter Paul Rubens, completed in 1626 as an altarpiece for the high altar of the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp,...
