invading Cimbrian Gauls at Vercellae, in Lombardy, an event that took place in 101 B.C
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Left:nswt Ds=f, „the king himself“Hr.w anx-msw.t, Horus Ankhmesu (Horus name of Senwosret I)Below vulture: Di=s…,may she give…“n[Tr nfr sHtp-jb-]raw Di(.w) an[x mj D.t]Right:Hr
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This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
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The reconstructed portal is composed of five medieval elements. Neither the bases nor the arch of rosettes were part of the medieval monument. The two jambs of gray Carrara marble were apparently recarved from sections of antique sarcophagi
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the sitter, the artist’s widow, Suzanne Manet, Paris (1883–94; sold on March 26, 1894, as „Moi chapeau noir / manteau gris“ [Me, black hat / gray coat], for Fr 60, to Vollard); [Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1894–95; sold on March 5, 1895, as „esquisse de Manet / Mme Manet au chapeau / noir et manteau gris,“ for Fr 250 to Ménard-Dorian]; Mme Louise Aline Ménard-Dorian, Paris (1895–d
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In this painting, the Madonna and Child are flanked by Saint Francis to the left, shown in the gray habit of the Franciscan order and holding the cross within his stigmata-marked hand, and Saint Jerome to the right, attired in the red robes of a cardinal, signifying his service to Pope Damasus I (305–384 CE)
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Two Tusk Fragments with the Ascension of Christ:17.190.46 and 17.190.48Conforming to the shape of the ivory tusks from which they were carved, these two fragmentary images of the Ascension are so similar that they must have been carved by the same workshop
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From the chapel of Château-de-Bouvreuil, Rouen (destroyed late 16th century; glass installed in the chapel of a building constructed on the same site (late 17th century–early 19th century); [ Art market, rue Saint-Remain, Rouen (sold 1905)] ; Albert Gorge, Rouen (1905–sold shortly after 1910) ; [ Bacri Frères, Paris (acquired shortly after 1910–sold before 1935)] ; [ Michel Acézat Paris, 1878–1944 (acquired before 1935–until 1944)] ; his posthumous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (November 24-25, 1969, no
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