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- Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ...ings, at a time when such heroic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
7: ...more talent than her brothers, who worked along side her. She learned drawing, how to mix color and ho...
9: ...anna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...]] in [[Pommersfelden]]. The picture shows how, under parental guidance, Artemisia assimilated the rea... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...ed following. She is probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professio...
10: ...Al Stewart]]) as a backup vocalist. She also recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[Chi...
13: ...ovie soundtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
15: ===''Under The Pink''=== - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
8: ... figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Chris...
11: ...t|250px|thumbnail|[[Gabriel (archangel)|Gabriel]] delivering the [[Annunciation]] to Mary. Painting by...
13: ... strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle.
15: ...rs only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded: his going up to [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years...
17: ... and other women (John 19:26). Mary cradling the dead body of her son is a common motif in art, calle... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
2: ...Buddhism|Buddhist]]s. Commonly known as the '''Goddess of Mercy''', Kuan Yin is also reverenced by [[C...
6: ...reas Avalokitesvara in other countries is usually depicted as a man.
12: ...a beautiful, white-robed woman, a depiction which derives from the earlier ''[[Pandaravasini]]'' form.
16: ...gain. With eleven heads gazing to the front and sides, Avalokiteshvara possesses the unique gift to se...
19: {| border="1" cellpadding="2" width="300" cellpadding="2" ... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
1: ...on for the visible pipes of an organ to be purely decorative, with the real pipes behind them.]]
7: ...lso found in town halls, and in arts centres intended for the performance of [[classical music]]. In t...
13: ''A more detailed article is to be written at [[styles of pip...
15: ...everal distinctive styles of pipe organ have been developed and achieved popularity at particular time...
19: ...n attempt to provide authentic voices for an extended repertoire, and each one of these instruments is... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
10: LargestCity = [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] |
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25: ...-4]] <br><small>(Some Upper Peninsula counties bordering Wisconsin are Central time.)</small> | - Fra Angelico (13116 bytes)
1: ...e town where he first took the vows. His life was described in [[Giorgio Vasari]]'s ''Vite''.
7: ...hich we find in use within thirty years after his death, but was not properly [[beatification|beatifie...
9: ...n became famous. He had the patronage of [[Cosimo de' Medici]]. According to Vasari, the first paintin...
13: ...the Virgin'' in the convent of Fiesole, and the ''Deposition of Christ'' executed for the Church of th...
15: ...s city; as a fresco-painter, he may have worked under, or as a follower of, [[Gherardo Starnina]]. Fro... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
3: ...85]]–[[1441]]) was a [[15th century]] [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[painter]] and one of the first to p...
7: ...rt admitted him into partnership, and both were made court painters to [[Philip the Good|Philip of Cha...
9: ...s|livres]] per annum, and from that time till his death Jan van Eyck remained the faithful servant of ...
11: ...s salary at [[Bruges]], yet settled in a fixed abode at [[Lille]].
13: ...f many distinctions by which Philip the Good rewarded his painter's merits. - Leonardo da Vinci (25889 bytes)
2: ... for designing many inventions that anticipated modern technology but were rarely constructed in his l...
7: .... It has also been suggested, albeit on scanty evidence, that she was a [[Middle East|Middle Eastern]]...
9: As he was born before modern naming conventions developed in [[Europe]], his full name was "Leonardo...
11: ...s father soon showed them to the painter [[Andrea del Verrocchio]], who subsequently took on the fourt...
12: ...ntellect that whatever he turned his mind to he made himself master of with ease" ([[Giorgio Vasari|Va... - Raphael (3466 bytes)
2: ...Santi, Raffaello de Urbino''' or '''Rafael Sanzio de Urbino'''.
4: ...' Born in [[Urbino]], he studied in [[Perugia]] under [[Pietro Perugino]]; but after moving to [[Flore...
8: ...ting Christian [[theology|theologian]]s grouped under [[Jesus]].
10: Under [[Pope Leo X]] he was chief architect of [[Saint...
12: ... his biographer) set a period to his labours, and deprived the world of further benefit from his talen... - Roger van der Weyden (3397 bytes)
1: ...n (c.1435) Oil on oak panel, 220 x 262 cm [[Museo del Prado]], Madrid]]
3: ...(c. [[1400]] - [[June 18]], [[1464]]) was a [[Flanders|Flemish]] [[painter]].
9: ...ult on his style, which owes nothing to Italian models; and he returned to [[Brussels]], where he died...
13: ...lip the Good, painted c. 1450 by Roger van der Weyden]]
15: ...Unlike other Flemish masters, Roger used little underdrawing for his oil paintings, only blocking out ... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...tic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters o...
5: ...lso the place of his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth ...
7: ... which he had no affinity and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the ''Studium...
9: ...s with fellow scholars. His early influences included Paolo da Perugia (a curator and author of a coll...
11: ...eoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ... - Endangered species (12553 bytes)
2: ...ding [[hunting]], banning their [[habitat]]s from development, etc.) to prevent extinction. Only a few...
4: ...ation has recovered; whether restrictions on land development constitute a "taking" of land by the [[g...
6: ...ire, as it makes a species more valuable and more desirable for collectors and poachers[http://news.bb...
8: ...the number remaining, but the overall increase or decrease in the population over time, breeding succe...
10: The best-known worldwide conservation status listing is the [[IUCN Red Lis... - Harry S. Truman (30022 bytes)
3: {{Infobox President | name=Harry S. Truman
6: | order=33rd President
9: | preceded=[[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]
10: | succeeded=[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]
13: | dead=dead - Byzantine art (10470 bytes)
1: '''Byzantine art''' is the term commonly used to describe the artistic products of the [[Eastern Roma...
3: ...e art of peoples of the former Byzantine Empire under the rule of the [[Ottoman Empire]] after [[1453]...
9: ... derived from its roots in [[Judaism]], and the nude was banished from its dominant position in art.
11: ...dition were elevated, and became the dominant - indeed almost exclusive - focus of Byzantine art. One ...
13: ...tation in art. This is sometimes interpreted as a decline in artistic skills and standards, and it is ... - Lorenzo de' Medici (6381 bytes)
2: '''Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici''' ([[January 1]], [[1449]] – [[8 A...
4: ...owever, he was also a very religious man, one who deeply loved his country.
8: ...er [[Piero di Cosimo de' Medici|Piero 'the Gouty' de' Medici]] in 1469, when Lorenzo was just twenty.
10: ... and his brother and co-ruler [[Giuliano di Piero de' Medici|Giuliano]] in the cathedral of Florence, ...
12: ... Naples|Alfonso, Duke of Calabria]], promptly invaded. - Padua (12961 bytes)
1: ...04565.JPG|thumb|280px|Tronco Maestro Riviera: a pedestrian walk along a section of the "inland waterwa...
2: ...anches of the [[Bacchiglione]], which once surrounded the ancient walls like a [[moat]].
7: ...e of [[1420]], when the Venetian architects who undertook the restoration removed them, throwing all t...
9: ...lose by is the [[Palazzo del Capitanio]], the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door...
11: ...ing century; tradition says that the building was designed by [[Nicola Pisano]]; it is covered by seve...
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