Tag: Philip Hermogenes Calderon
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01 Work , RELIGIOUS ART, Philip Hermogenes Calderon’s St Elizabeth of Hungary’s Great Act of Renunciation – with footnotes #200
Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) was the wife of Lewis, Landgrave of Thuringia. After his death in 1227 during one of the Crusades, she entered a convent and devoted herself to good works. Before becoming a nun, she passed through a spiritual crisis, torn by the need to renounce the world, and therefore her children, in order…
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01 Painting, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Philip Hermogenes Calderon’s Roman beauty, with Footnotes. #168
Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was an English painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London. Calderon planned to study engineering, but he became so interested…
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