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111Berry Pomeroy Castle — The gatehouse, curtain wall, and at the far right, in shadow, St. Margaret s Tower, with the Tudor mansion behind Berry Pomeroy Castle, a Tudor mansion within the walls of an earlier castle, is near the village of Berry Pomeroy, in South Devon,… …
112Basilica of San Domenico — The Basilica of San Domenico is one of the major churches in Bologna, Italy. The remains of Saint Dominic, founder of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans), are buried inside the exquisite shrine Arca di San Domenico, made by Nicola Pisano and his… …
113Arca di San Domenico — The Arca di San Domenico (Ark of Saint Dominic) is a monument containing the remains of Saint Dominic. It is located in Dominic’s Chapel in the Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, Italy. History The elaboration of this artistic masterpiece was… …
114New World Tapestry — The New World Tapestry is the largest stitched embroidery in the world,[1] larger than the Bayeux Tapestry. It depicts English colonisation attempts in Newfoundland, North America, the Guyanas and Bermuda between the years 1583 and 1642, when the …
115Master of Liesborn — The Master of Liesborn was a Westphalian painter, of the fifteenth century, who remains anonymous. Works In 1465 the unknown painter executed an altar piece of note in the Benedictine Liesborn Abbey. His name is not mentioned by the historian of… …
116Medici giraffe — The Gathering of Manna (1540) by Francesco Bacchiacca. The artist s accurate depiction owes a debt to the Medici giraffe …
117Abbey of San Mercuriale, Forlì — The Basilica Abbey of San Mercuriale is the main religious building in Forlì, in Romagna (northern Italy); the rather smaller cathedral was largely destroyed by fire in the 19th century.History and overviewA first church was built here in the 4th …
118Hours of Catherine of Cleves — The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (The Hours, Morgan Library and Museum, M. 917; and M. 945, less widely known as the Guennol Hours, and rarely known as the Arenberg Hours) is an ornately illustrated manuscript, produced by the anonymous Dutch… …
119Marie de' Medici cycle — The Marie de Medici Cycle is a series of twenty four paintings by Peter Paul Rubens commissioned by Marie de Medici, wife of Henry IV of France, for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris. Rubens received the commission in the autumn of 1621. After… …
120Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings — The Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings in 1930 and 1931 resulted in the departure of some of the most valuable paintings from the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in Leningrad to western museums. Several of the paintings had been in the… …
