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The Cupid and part of the relief. Sacred and Profane Love (Italian: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano) is an oil painting by Titian, probably painted in 1514, early in his career. The painting is presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten, whose coat of arms appears on the sarcophagus or fountain ...
The Victory of Sacred Love over Profane Love is a marble relief by Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy. The patron of the relief is unknown. [1] However, the oeuvre's stucco copy came into the possession of Cardinal Bernardino Spada (1594 – 1661) [2] early on. [3] The original marble relief is currently housed at the Galleria Doria Pamphilj ...
Late Mannerist, Baroque. Drawing of Saint Catherine, Carried up to Heaven by Angels, c. 1625. Giovanni Baglione (Italian: [d͡ʒoˈvan.ni baʎˈʎoː.ne]; 1566 – 30 December 1643) was an Italian Late Mannerist and Early Baroque painter and art historian. Although a prolific painter, Baglione is best remembered for his encyclopedic collection ...
Canon Giovanni Pietro Francesco Agius de Soldanis ( Maltese: Ġan Piet Franġisk Agius de Soldanis, 30 October 1712 – 30 January 1770), often called de Soldanis ( Maltese: Sultana ), was a Maltese linguist, historian and cleric from the island of Gozo. He wrote the first lexicon and systematic grammar of the Maltese language, and he was the ...
The Biblioteca universale sacro-profana (1701–07) was an unfinished encyclopedia from the early eighteenth century, published in Italian by the cartographer and Franciscan friar Vincenzo Coronelli. [ 1 ] Coronelli announced the encyclopedia to his Franciscan colleagues in 1696 and began work on it in 1698.
An intergovernmental symposium in 1991 titled "Transparency and Coherence in Language Learning in Europe: Objectives, Evaluation, Certification" held by the Swiss Federal Authorities in the Swiss municipality of Rüschlikon found the need for a common European framework for languages to improve the recognition of language qualifications and help teachers co-operate.
The House of Wisdom (Arabic: بَيْت الْحِكْمَةBayt al-Ḥikmah), also known as the Grand Library of Baghdad, was believed to be a major Abbasid -era public academy and intellectual center in Baghdad. In popular reference, it acted as one of the world's largest public libraries during the Islamic Golden Age, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] and was ...
Amor sacro e Amor profano, Galleria Borghese (Italian) Sacred and Profane Love, Web Gallery of Art (English) Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur PID: 0001141690 ; Bpk-ID: 70316036 ; Artstor artwork ID: 13609979 ; Smartify artwork ID: titian-sacred-and-profane-love ; Utpictura18 artwork ID: 14192 ; Zeri image ID: 43527