Tag: Juan de Juanes
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10 works, Today, August 14th, is St. Antonio Primaldo’s day, his story illustrated #226
St. Antonio Primaldo and his Companion Martyrs, also known as the Martyrs of Otranto, were 813 inhabitants of the Salentine city of Otranto in southern Italy who were killed on 14 August 1480 when the city fell to an Ottoman force under Gedik Ahmed Pasha; an Albanian Ottoman statesman and admiral, who served as Grand…
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Bible, Christ, Jesus, Joan Maçip Navarro, Juan de Juanes, mythology, religion, RELIGIOUS ART, THE CRUCIFIXION, Zaidan,
Joan Maçip Navarro, Called Juan De Juanes The Crucifixion. Juan de Juanes was the dominant artistic personality working in Valencia during the mid-sixteenth century and this representation of the Crucifixion was painted in 1578, the year before his death. A late masterpiece by Juanes, the present work is precisely the type of painting that earned…
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