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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Rose of Lima was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the city...
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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! 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! During the Renaissance, altarpieces commonly portrayed biblical scenes, such as Madonna and Child, examples of which are in this gallery. These two paintings, Saint Sirus and Saint Paul, were likely part of a larger altarpiece made...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This tapestry is a fragment of a larger hanging. Since both Saint John the Evangelist and the faltering Virgin look upward, it is probable that this was from the left side of a tapestry of the...
