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The Princess of Wales has spoken candidly about the life-changing long-term challenges of recovering after chemotherapy, as she visited a hospital in Essex. Catherine said during treatment "you ...
The artist’s 37ft-tall “Split-Rocker” was donated to the museum by collectors Lynda and Stewart Resnick ...
The final painting in the last section, and possibly Caravaggio’s last work, is “The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula” (1610), in which the blacks are absolute and the whites are ghostly.
The central image of St John the Evangelist and the flanking figures of St Catherine of Alexandria and St Lucy highlight key Christian virtues such as wisdom, faith, and martyrdom ...
Caravaggio: Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness. Photograph: Nelson-Atkins Digital Production and Preservation Caravaggio: St Catherine of Alexandria.
The National Gallery has resisted the temptation to devote a gallery to women artists: Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615-17) hangs between ...
Saint Catherine of Alexandria (ca. 1598-99) now also lives in Madrid, though the Palazzo Barberini was her original home.
Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land.Dating back to the ...
The monastery was founded by Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the sixth century at the biblical site of the burning bush at the foot of Mount Sinai, where Moses was believed to have received the 10 ...
It was named for Saint Catherine of Alexandria, whose remains are housed in the church, along with rare iconography and manuscripts. It is headed by the Archbishop of Mount Sinai and Raithu, under the ...
Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world.