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  2. Dahomey Amazons - Wikipedia

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    There are many women soldiers in the Benin Armed Forces today. They keep the memory of the women soldiers of the Kingdom of Dahomey alive." [28] "The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo.

  3. Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych - Wikipedia

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    Art historian Otto Pächt says it "is the whole world in one painting, an Orbis Pictus". [10] In the Crucifixion panel, van Eyck follows the early 14th-century tradition of presenting the biblical episodes using a narrative technique. [11] According to art historian Jeffrey Chipps Smith, the episodes appear as "simultaneous, not sequential ...

  4. Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art - Wikipedia

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    Rays of light strike down Roman soldiers, and Jesus greets the two women, who kneel to adore him. [8] Several of the 6th-century pilgrimage souvenir Monza ampullae show the two women and angel, reflecting the scene pilgrims to Christ's tomb saw in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem , including a quasi-liturgical re-enactment of this ...

  5. African art - Wikipedia

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    The museum was opened out of the desire to acquaint the people of Yugoslavia with the art and culture of Africa since there was a deeply rooted notion about Yugoslavia sharing a friendship with African countries thanks to their similar struggles; all of the original items in the museums were legally bought by the Yugoslav ambassador and ...

  6. Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah - Wikipedia

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    Moses and his Ethiopian wife Zipporah (Dutch: Mozes en zijn Ethiopische vrouw Seporah) is a painting of 1645–1650, by the Flemish Baroque painter Jacob Jordaens. [1] [2] The painting is a half-length depiction of the biblical prophet Moses, and his African wife. The oil on canvas painting is now in the Rubenshuis museum in Antwerp, Belgium.

  7. Pics: Female soldiers around the world

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    On the occasion of International Women's Day, take a look at the lives of female soldiers worldwide who have fought wars and become real heroes.

  8. Black Madonna - Wikipedia

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    The Black Madonna of CzÄ™stochowa, Poland Black Madonna of Outremeuse, Liège, in a procession Black Madonna of Guingamp Madonna at House of the Black Madonna, Prague. The term Black Madonna or Black Virgin tends to refer to statues or paintings in Western Christendom of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, where both figures are depicted with dark skin. [1]

  9. Christina's World - Wikipedia

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    Christina's World is a 1948 painting by American painter Andrew Wyeth and one of the best-known American paintings of the mid-20th century. It is a tempera work done in a realist style, depicting a woman in an incline position on the ground in a treeless, mostly tawny field, looking up at a gray house on the horizon, a barn, and various other small outbuildings are adjacent to the house. [1]