Tag: Charles-Antoine Coypel IV
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06 Works, Today, May 10th is Saint Thais’ day, With Footnotes – #131
José de Ribera (January 12, 1591 — September 2, 1652) was a Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker, better known as Jusepe de Ribera. He also was called Lo Spagnoletto (“the Little Spaniard”) by his contemporaries and early writers. Ribera was a leading painter of the Spanish school, although his mature work was all done in Italy. Longing…
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06 Works, Today, May 10th is St. Thais’s day, With Footnotes – #131
St. Thaïs reportedly lived during the fourth century in Roman Egypt. Her story is included in hagiographic literature on the lives of the saints in the Greek church. Two such biographical sketches exist. The first, in Greek, perhaps originated during the fifth century The other sketch comes to us in medieval Latin from Marbod of…
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