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17 hours ago · Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as Sissi, was a remarkable figure whose life was marked by both extraordinary beauty and profound tragedy. Born Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, she became Empress of Austria through her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph in 1854.
3 days ago · Battle of Lepanto. / 38.250°N 21.250°E / 38.250; 21.250. The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement that took place on 7 October 1571 when a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.
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5 days ago · Visitor looking at a painting in the National Gallery, London. The National Gallery was founded in 1824 when the British government bought a collection of 38 paintings from the estate of the merchant John Julius Angerstein. The collection was first exhibited on May 10 of that year in Angerstein’s house at 100 Pall Mall, but in 1838 it was ...
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3 days ago · Early Netherlandish painting is the body of work by artists active in the Burgundian and Habsburg Netherlands during the 15th- and 16th-century Northern Renaissance period, once known as the Flemish Primitives. [1] It flourished especially in the cities of Bruges, Ghent, Mechelen, Leuven, Tournai and Brussels, all in present-day Belgium.
3 days ago · The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.
5 days ago · Seashore at Saint-Adress. A painting by Monet, still under the influence of his two teachers. 2. The Magpie, 1868–1869. Claude Monet, The Magpie, 1868-1869, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France. Claude Monet struggled for years, amassing debts and borrowing money from family and friends.
4 days ago · Artworks: Laughing Cavalier, Marriage Portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen, Portrait of an Elderly Lady, Portrait of Jaspar Schade, The Regents of the Old Men's Almshouse in Haarlem. Birthplace: Antwerp, Belgium. Associated periods or movements: Dutch Golden Age, Baroque. Nationality: Dutch Republic.
