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Marcus Antonius Pallas (died AD 62) was a prominent Greek freedman and secretary during the reigns of the Roman Emperors Claudius and Nero. His younger brother was Marcus Antonius Felix, a procurator of ludaea Province. According to Tacitus, Pallas and Felix descended from the Greek Kings of Arcadia.
Flandria Illustrata is a historiographical and topographical work from 1641 by the Flemish canon Antonius Sanderus. It contains historical descriptions of the main towns and villages of the former County of Flanders, in addition to the lives of its counts and bishops. The works is lavishly illustrated.
Antonius Felix (possibly Tiberius Claudius Antonius Felix, [1] in Greek: ὁ Φῆλιξ; born c. 5–10) was the fourth Roman procurator of Judea Province in 52–60, in succession to Ventidius Cumanus. He appears in the New Testament in Acts 23 and 24, where the Apostle Paul is brought before him for a trial. [2]
Marcus Antonius, one of the most well known members of the gens.. The gens Antonia was a Roman family of great antiquity, with both patrician and plebeian branches. The first of the gens to achieve prominence was Titus Antonius Merenda, one of the second group of Decemviri called, in 450 BC, to help draft what became the Law of the Twelve Tables.
Pallas Athena is a c. 1657 [1] oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt that belongs to the collection of Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. [ 2 ] A print of Pallas Athene in the 1659 parade for the marriage of Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau to John George II of Anhalt-Dessau is similar in pose and costume to this painting.
Rembrandt Laughing is a c. 1628 oil on copper painting by the Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.It is an elaborate study of a laughing face, a tronie, and, since it represents the painter himself, one of over 40 self-portraits by Rembrandt, probably the earliest elaborate one.
Gallia Polla, the proprietor of a first-century ousia [i] in Egypt that later passed to the imperial freedman Marcus Antonius Pallas, and after him to Lucius Septimius Severus, (an ancestor of the emperor). She may have been related to Tiberius' adoptive father. [13] [14] [15]
Antonius (Anton) Matthias Hirschig (18 February 1867, Naarden - 6 November 1939, Alkmaar), also known as Tony or Tom, was a Dutch artist who, as a young man, lodged with Vincent van Gogh at the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise at the time of Van Gogh's death in 1890.