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Magnificent baroque chapel

🪄✨ Architect: Sir Christopher Wren. Sculptor: Grinling Gibbons. Painter: Pierre Berchet. Location: Trinity College, Oxford. Year: 1691-4. #baroque #architecture #trinitycollege #oxford #trinitychapeloxford #interior #art #artmuseum #chapel #church #barocco #artist #architect #sculptor ... ещё

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Isabella II (1830—1904), Queen of Spain, she wears the sash of the Royal Order of Noble Ladies of Queen Maria Luisa.

Attrib. to Isidoro Lozano, Isabella II, c. 1844 (on display elsewhere), Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

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Saint Catherine, a III century martyr, belonged to a noble family in Alexandria. Driven by her Christian faith to disobey the Roman emperor, she was ordered to oppose him in a philosophical symposium. As a result of her debating skills, which led to the conversion of several highly placed figures at court including the empress herself, she was put to death. Given her social status and the fact that she was held to embody the virtues of wisdom, strength, and eloquence, she was hailed as a model for aristocratic ladies in early modern Spain. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that the Spanish royal collection should boast several works of art displaying this iconography, including this canvas painted by Guido Reni (1575—1642).

Guido Reni, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1606, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid @museoprado

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This portrait, commissioned from Eduardo Gimeno, depicts Alfonso X “the Wise” (1221—1284), King of Castile and León. He rests his hand on a parchment of the Siete Partidas, a legal code drafted during his reign, between 1256 and 1265, and on a table upon which rest the Tables of Astronomy or Alfonsine Tables, also created at his initiative.

Eduardo Gimeno y Canencia, Alfonso X the Wise, c. 1857, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid @museoprado

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Jan Thomas, Empress Margarita Teresa with her daughter Maria Antonia, c. 1670, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna @kunsthistorischesmuseumvienna

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