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The Incredulity of Saint Thomas: Lyon, cathédrale Saint-Jean 1693: Joseph Parrocel: Saint John the Baptist Preaching: Arras, musée des Beaux-Arts 1694: no may: no may: 1695: Louis de Boullogne the younger: Christ and the Samaritan Woman: Wardour Castle, Wiltshire 1696: Joseph Christophe: The Miracle of the Loaves: Lost 1697: François Marot ...
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.
St Bernward of Hildesheim. The Stammheim Missal is an illuminated manuscript Roman Missal made between 1160 and 1170. It is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, having been acquired from the private collection of the barons of Fürstenberg, who sold it to raise funds to repair Schloss Körtlinghausen.
In the United States the Romantic tradition of landscape painting was known as the Hudson River School: [51] exponents include Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, and John Frederick Kensett. Luminism was a movement in American landscape painting related to the Hudson River School. Young Mother Sewing, Mary Cassatt
Medieval manuscript illuminators were often asked to illustrate technology, but after the Renaissance, such images continued in book illustrations and prints, with the exception of marine painting which largely disappeared in fine art until the early Industrial Revolution, scenes from which were painted by a few painters such as Joseph Wright ...
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare 'to colour with minium', a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.
Portraiture ranged from the informal miniature, almost invariably painted from life in the course of a few days and intended for private contemplation, [6] to the later large-scale portraits of Elizabeth I such as the Rainbow Portrait, filled with symbolic iconography in dress, jewels, background, and inscription.
The life-size double portrait depicts the two youngest sons of Esmé Stewart, 3rd Duke of Lennox: Lord John Stewart (1621–1644) and Lord Bernard Stuart (1622–1645), aged about 17 and 16 respectively. The painting measures 237.5 cm × 146.1 cm (93.5 in × 57.5 in), and has been in the collection of the National Gallery, London, since 1988.