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Anthony of Sienna (?–2 January 1585) was a Portuguese Dominican theologian, so called because of his great veneration for Saint Catherine of Siena. [1] He was born near Braga in Portugal. He studied at Lisbon, Coimbra, and Louvain, eventually coming to teach philosophy at Louvain. There he was made Doctor of Theology in 1571, and in 1574 was ...
Dave Langford reviewed Shade of the Tree for White Dwarf #98, and stated that "From Anthony we'd also expect a tidy ending, resolving problems with that inhuman fairness so often found in fairy tales [...] the Tree responsible for interminable forebodings and sinister hallucinations is converted to niceness by a spot of telepathic computer systems analysis."
Also present in the church are a St Anthony preaches to Fishes (1697), by Annibale Mazzuoli; a stucco bas-relief or the Virgin offers her baby Jesus to St Antonio, by Giovanni Antonio Mazzuoli (1685); a wooden altarpiece with Scenes in the Life of St Anthony, by Antonio Manetti and Angelo Barbetti (1831-1832); a Madonna and Child, by Francesco ...
Donatello's Feast of Herod (1423–1427), baptismal font, Battistero di San Giovanni (Siena) The Feast of Herod is a bronze relief sculpture created by Donatello circa 1427. It was made for the font of the Siena Baptistery of San Giovanni in Italy. It is one of Donatello's earliest relief sculptures, and his first bronze relief. [1]
A lover of art, [9] Clarke had read Huxley's 1925 essay describing the Resurrection, which states: "It stands there before us in entire and actual splendour, the greatest picture in the world." [ 10 ] It was later ascertained that the Germans were in retreat from the area – the bombardment had not been necessary, though Clarke had not known ...
Matthias Grünewald, inner right wing of the Isenheim Altarpiece depicting the Temptation of St. Anthony, 1512-1516 (oil on panel). The Temptation of Saint Anthony is an often-repeated subject in the history of art and literature, concerning the supernatural temptation reportedly faced by Saint Anthony the Great during his sojourn in the Egyptian desert.
Much later sculpture of Nicola Pisano. According to the Siena Cathedral archives, Nicola Pisano was born to Petrus de Apulia between 1200 and 1205 in Apulia. [5] Nicola may have trained in the imperial workshops of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II who encouraged artists towards the "revival of classical forms" where "the representational traditions of classical art were given new life and ...
Strega Nona is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Tomie dePaola.If considered as a folktale, the story is Aarne-Thompson type 565, the Magic Mill. It concerns Strega Nona (resembling what would be "Grandma Witch" in Italian, although this would actually be "Nonna Strega", with the two words reversed and the first one spelled with a double n) and her helper, Big Anthony.