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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The highly finished surface of this sculpture—made by Severo da Ravenna—suggests it belonged to a refined collector. Small sculptures would often be held to admire details such as the strands of hair streaming onto...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! When he presented Jesus to the Jews demanding his Crucifixion, Pontius Pilate cried Ecce homo (Behold the man). The words Ecce Homo have come to signify a type of devotional image that depicts Jesus after the...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Representative of the early work of Lorenzo Monaco, a Camaldolese monk and leading Florentine painter of the end of the fourteenth century and the beginning of the fifteenth century, the delicate colors and simplified forms of...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! "A chasuble is the sleeveless outer vestment worn by the celebrant at Mass. Its color is prescribed according to the seasons of the Church or the particular feast being celebrated. It is typically made of...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A Eucharistic procession is one in which the Host is carried in procession in a monstrance. It is often covered with a canopy and accompanied with candles. This Eucharistic procession is held annually on the Virginia...
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