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  • [[Image:Michelangelo - Fresco of the Last Judgement.jpg|thumb|200px|The Christian idea of Jesus returning on the clouds may have originated in ...
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  • The golden calf (עגל הזהב), in Jewish tradition, was an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites during Moses' absence on Mount Sinai ...
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  • Platina prefect of the Vatican Library, fresco by Melozzo da Forlì, c. 1477 (Vatican Museums)]] The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica ...
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  • Nicholas, the patron saint of Russian merchants (fresco by Dionisius from the Ferapontov Monastery).]] For his help to the poor, Nicholas is the ...
    19 KB (3,124 words) - 00:48, 23 December 2022
  • In the Saint Sophia Cathedral, one may see a fresco representing the whole family: Yaroslav, Irene (as Ingigerd was known in Rus), their five ...
    19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology [[Image:Paramore Mausoleum.JPG|right|thumb|200px|The Paramore family mausoleum in ...
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  • Veliky Novgorod, the third largest city in Russia and the administrative center of Novgorod Oblast, has deep historical roots to Russian culture ...
    19 KB (2,901 words) - 14:59, 3 May 2023
  • have largely disappeared, save some fresco decorations, the haloed figure remains a part of Roman mosaics. In a second century C.E. Roman floor ...
    19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
  • |caption=Simone Martini, detail depicting Saint Clare from a fresco (1312–1320) in the Lower basilica of San Francesco, Assisi |birth_place ...
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  • Prophet, depicted in the 1510 Sistine Chapel fresco by Michelangelo.]] Ezekiel (592 to 570 B.C.E.) (Hebrew: יְחֶזְקֵאל—"God will ...
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  • Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria, with a population of 150,000 and is the capital of the federal state of Salzburg. The Baroque ...
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  • Francis]] "exorcised demons" in Arezzo, fresco of Giotto]] Exorcism (from Late Latin exorcismus—to adjure) is the practice of evicting ...
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  • [[Image:Fra Angelico 031.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Detail from fresco by Fra Angelico]] After his death, Saint Benedict became extremely influential ...
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  • Hōryū-ji (法隆寺; Temple of the Flourishing Law) is a Buddhist temple in Ikaruga, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Its full name is Hōryū Gakumonji ...
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  • borrowing from a figure in a Raphael fresco, and perhaps an allegory reflecting the moment when a son attains the skill of his father. ...
    23 KB (3,452 words) - 18:55, 21 May 2024
  • (right), from a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael. Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics secured the two Greek philosophers ...
    23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
  • Sassanid silk import, which was in turn based on a fresco of King Khosrau II fighting Axum Ethiopian forces in Yemen, fifth–sixth century.]] ...
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  • Ceres (Demeter), allegory of August: detail of a fresco by Cosimo Tura, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 1469-1470]] In Greek mythology, Demeter ...
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  • Benedict of Nursia (c. 480-543), detail from a fresco by Fra Angelico, San Marco, Florence (c. 1400-1455).]] Christian monasticism first appeared ...
    25 KB (3,878 words) - 09:13, 27 September 2023
  • The Alhambra (Arabic: الحمراء—Al-Ħamrā'; literally "the red") is a palace and fortress complex of the Moorish monarchs ...
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