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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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06 Works, Today, April 22nd, is St. Hieromartyr Januarius’s day, With Footnotes – #108
Saint Theodore of Sykeon was a revered Byzantine ascetic, who lived between the first half of the 6th century and the thirteenth year of the Emperor Heraclius’ rule (i. e. 623) in the early 7th century. Theodore was born in Sykeon, a village in Galatia. The public highway of the imperial post ran through this village,…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination…
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