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andrew wyeth

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Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833‑1898)
St. Elizabeth of Hungary’s Great Act of Renunciation
1891
Oil on canvas
153 x 213 cm
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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 to fulfil her desire to serve God. Pressed by a domineering monk, Conrad, whose natural affections had been starved by celibacy, Elizabeth finally vowed that ‘naked and barefoot’ she would follow her ‘naked Lord’. Calderon’s picture shows this moment of self-abasement.
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Andrew Wyeth

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Wilhelm Sasnal

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Lars Teichmann
Ghost Sisters
2011
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 250

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Lars Teichmann
Hunting Bird
2012
230 x 200
Acrylic on canvas

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Odd Nerdrum, Woman with Child (1978)

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Lars Teichmann
Miss Verdi
2011
Acrylic on canvas
290 x 200

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Garden of Hope, by James Gurney

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Agostino Arrivabene
Vanitas
oil on linen cm 50 x 40

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Agostino Arrivabene
ADS. 2011/2012
oil on canvas
www.agostinoarrivabene.it

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Pneuma. 2012
oil and gold on paper on wood
cm 55 x 39,5
www.agostinoarrivabene.it

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Henry Scott Tuke (British, 1858-1929)
Sleeping Sailor
1905
45.7 x 30.5cm

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Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant (1845–1902)
Empress Theodora at the Coliseum

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Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902)Sunset in California, YosemiteOil on canvas55.88 x 72.39 cmPublic collection

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