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From that time on , though hesitatingly at first , for fourteen hundred years , the world's greatest artists used the story of the Passion as the source of some of their most frequently painted subjects . Church walls were decorated ...
From that time on , though hesitatingly at first , for fourteen hundred years , the world's greatest artists used the story of the Passion as the source of some of their most frequently painted subjects . Church walls were decorated ...
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Through the sensuous appeal of its colour and other pictorial elements it was invaluable as a stimulus to moods of devotion and contrition , and some of the greatest painters for this reason painted their religious pictures from the ...
Through the sensuous appeal of its colour and other pictorial elements it was invaluable as a stimulus to moods of devotion and contrition , and some of the greatest painters for this reason painted their religious pictures from the ...
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The first painted Crucifixion scene is thought to be that in the Syriac Bible of the monk Rabbula , painted in 586 . Being for the use only of the learned and devout , this manuscript depicted the scene with a frankness unusual for some ...
The first painted Crucifixion scene is thought to be that in the Syriac Bible of the monk Rabbula , painted in 586 . Being for the use only of the learned and devout , this manuscript depicted the scene with a frankness unusual for some ...
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JANUARY | 1 |
The Problems of Malta | 10 |
WILL ENGLISH BE THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE | 47 |
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