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5 days ago · Paintings of a young French girl dressed in armor, riding a white horse and carrying a banner represent how many people view St. Joan of Arc. Other works of art, including sculptures, sketches and stained-glass images, depict her kneeling in prayer, standing in a pasture and even carrying a sword.
5 days ago · The basilica contains an icon of the Virgin Mary titled Mater Ecclesiae, which means “Mother of the Church.” The original image of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child was painted on a column in old St. Peter’s Basilica, built by Emperor Constantine in the fourth century.
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3 days ago · Lively portraits by Joan Carlile (1606-79) show satin-clad aristocrats with watery eyes and occasional double chins, real and recognisable women staring out of the canvas. The poet and painter Anne Killigrew (1660-85) depicts herself barefoot, with an expression of unmitigated dismay, pretending to be Venus mourning Adonis.
1 day ago · Crawford looks the part of a 1920s flapper in a leopard print-trimmed silk dress. The actress, who got her start as a dancer and then as a Broadway chorus girl, was the star of six pictures in 1928.
3 days ago · The Lady of the Lake. High up in a hollow of the Black Mountains of South Wales is a lonely sheet of water called Llyn y Fan Fach. In a farm not far from this lake there lived in the olden time a widow, with an only son whose name was Gwyn. When this son grew up, he was often sent by his mother to look after the cattle grazing.
3 days ago · Before the mountain - George Mallory in photographs by Vanessa Bell, paintings by Duncan Grant George Mallory photographed by Vanessa Bell at 38 Brunswick Square, circa 1912. George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) is a mountaineering legend for his famous attempts to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
