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St. Louis King of France with a Page (1592-95) is a oil on canvas painting by the Spanish Renaissance painter, sculptor and architect El Greco. The painting obviously represents a king, since all the royal attributes are present - crown, sceptre with fleur-de-lys, and 'main de justice'; he wears mod...

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A number of paintings have been attributed from time to time to the Italian artist Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610), but are no longer generally accepted as genuine. Immensely popular in his own lifetime, he fell into neglect almost immediately upon his death, with the result that now, ...

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A Panoramic Landscape of Death

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The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (Dutch: Het Lam Gods or The Lamb of God; completed 1432) is a very large and complex Early Netherlandish polyptych panel painting which is considered to be one of Belgium's masterpieces and one of the world's treasures. It was once in the Joost Vi...

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo and His Mannerist Masterpiece

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In fourteenth-century Italy new interest arose in the life of the early hermits who retired to the Theban and Nitrian deserts in Egypt and lived there alone or in small groups. Vernacular Italian texts based on earlier Greek and Latin hagiographic sources popularized the lives of these cenobitic mon...

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The Disrobing of Christ or El Expolio (Latin: Exspolĭum) is a painting begun in the summer of 1577 and completed in the spring of 1579 for the High Altar of the sacristy of the Cathedral of Toledo, where it still hangs. It is one of El Greco's most famous works. A document dated July 2, 1577 which r...

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