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The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1508 and now at the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna, Austria. It is signed on a cartouche which hangs from the artist's self-portrait in the center, saying Iste fatiebat Ano Domini 1508 Albertus Dürer Aleman. The pa...

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Tosini, who entered in the workshop of Ridolfo Ghirlandaio, frequently collaborated with Ridolfo. The continuing practice of Ridolfo and his workshop, with their familiar, legible, definitive style of unmistakable force and charm, in many later altarpieces produced after 1550, like The Martyrdom of ...

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Peter Paul Rubens confessed that “my talent is such that no undertaking in size, or how varied in subject, has ever exceeded my confidence and courage.” His monumental works exalting the Church and royal families of Europe are among the grandest accomplishments of the seventeenth century. As part of...

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The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula (1610), is a painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio (1571-1610). It is owned by the Intesa Sanpaolo Bank. The holy Ursula, accompanied by eleven thousand virgins, was captured by the Huns. The eleven thousand virgins were slaughtered, but the king of the Huns was ove...

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Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753-1800), French general, received his military education in Munich. Resigning his commission in the Austrian army, he returned to France and studied fortification and military science. Winning distinction in the Vendéan war, Kléber was made division general. Under Bonaparte,...

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According to legend, Saint Ursula traveled with eleven thousand virgins to Cologne, where the chief of the Huns besieging the city fell in love with her. When she rejected his advances, he killed her with an arrow. In this haunting depiction, Caravaggio places the two figures improbably close to eac...

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Shifting time and distance are the subject of the well-known poem by the Tang poet Li Bo (701–762) that inspired and grace this landscape by Ike no Taiga: Early morning, we leave Baidi, surrounded by tinted clouds. Although Jiangling is a thousand li away, we arrive in a day. Gibbons calling from ri...

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The Southern Song artist, eschewing the Northern Song monumental landscape traditions of 'a hundred peaks and ten thousand trees,' viewed nature through the microcosm of a single pair of trees and one or two rocks suspended in an infinite void. In this scene of unbounded space, vigorous wet-ink line...

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In the inscription on this fan, Shitao sets forth his theory of painting, 'the single stroke,' or 'the painting of oneness (yihua)':On a windy, rainy, spring day, I am happy I have no visitors; my hand is free, my mind relaxed and cleansed. The ancients called it yihua, the 'single stroke': a thousa...

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A pair of ebullient Manzai performers in courtier robes and caps help ring in the New Year. The lead figure carries an offering tray while the second performer accompanies their dance with a hand drum. This type of performance can be traced back to ancient times in Japan when the two Manzai (literal...

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This is one from a set of scrolls (30.76.290–.294) illustrating the theme of the Ten Kings of Hell, which developed during the second half of the Tang dynasty (618–907). The theme transforms the Indian Buddhist view of judgment after death into a typically Chinese bureaucratic process. Before being ...

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Alex Cerveny é um artista multimídia conhecido principalmente por seus desenhos e pinturas. Estudou desenho com Valdir Sarubbi nos anos 1970, e nos anos 1980, tomou aulas de gravura com Selma Daffré. Cerveny vem de uma longa vivência no teatro e circo, citações que aparecem até hoje em seu trabalho....

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This masterpiece by Annibale portrays one of the most popular female saints, Catherine of Alexandria. The Virgin and Child miraculously appear before Catherine, who bows her head as the infant Christ places a ring on her finger. This mystical marriage is a metaphor for her commitment to a chaste Chr...

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Alex Cerveny é um artista multimídia conhecido principalmente por seus desenhos e pinturas. Estudou desenho com Valdir Sarubbi nos anos 1970, e nos anos 1980, tomou aulas de gravura com Selma Daffré. Cerveny vem de uma longa vivência no teatro e circo, citações que aparecem até hoje em seu trabalho....

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Yang Yongliang’s photo collages combine the visual language of premodern landscape painting with digital techniques to engender moments of shock and surprise. Viewing the Tide faithfully follows the composition of Zhao Fu’s (active 12th century) Ten Thousand Li of the Yangzi River (Palace Museum, Be...

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