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The Agony in the Garden is a painting of 1455–1456 by the Italian artist Andrea Mantegna [1] in the National Gallery, London. The painting shows Christ (at the centre) praying before a group of cherubs (at upper left) who are holding instruments of the Passion .
Polonius" is Latin for "Polish" or "a/the Polish man." The English translation of the book refers to its author as a statesman of the "polonian empyre". In the first quarto of Hamlet, Polonius is named "Corambis". It has been suggested that this derives from "crambe" or "crambo", derived from a Latin phrase meaning "reheated cabbage", implying ...
The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos .
Agony in the Garden is an egg tempera painting on wood panel, most likely painted on poplar, as is common of Bellini's wood panel works. [3] Bellini coated the wood panel with a gesso ground and provided an intricate underdrawing applied with a liquid medium, which provide the painting with a great complexity in texture especially seen in the ...
move to sidebar hide (Top) 1 Epigraph. 2 Awards. 3 Reviews. 4 Notes. Toggle the table of contents. ... The Garden Book is a 2005 novel by Australian author Brian ...
The Garden of Earthly Delights (Dutch: De tuin der lusten, lit. 'The garden of lusts') is the modern title [ a ] given to a triptych oil painting on oak panels painted by the Early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch , between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was between 40 and 60 years old. [ 1 ]
The man slowly sickens, but reveals nothing. When the wife increases the dose, he descends into a coma, and the wife flees the village, fearing she will be charged with murder. The man gradually regains his health, and resumes his work in the garden. He becomes increasingly detached from the local community, tending only to his garden.
The event leading up to America's invasion of Afghanistan was the terrorist attacks that took place in the United States on September 11th. (also known as 9/11) This assault was categorized by a string of four coordinated strikes carried out by Al Qaeda operatives, members of a militant group of non-state actors whose origin can be traced to Afghanistan. [2]