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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Samuel Prout’s watercolors of picturesque views and architectural marvels of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland attracted a wide audience, helped inspire travel, and shaped the English perception of Continental Europe. The influential critic John Ruskin...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial is a circa 1660–1665 oil religious painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Murillo's many artistic depictions...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In a composition borrowed from imperial Byzantine art, Mary is shown seated on a jeweled throne with the Christ child and flanked by archangels Michael and Gabriel. Above, Christ appears in a radiant light supported by...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a circa 1678 oil religious painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. Murillo's many artistic depictions of the immaculate conception of the Virgin...
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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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! St. Sebastian is the subject of three paintings by the Italian Early Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. The Paduan artist lived in a period of frequent plagues; Sebastian was considered protector against the plague as having been...
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,...
