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Saint John the Baptist: the model Florentine the transformaiton of John the Baptist's image in fifteenth-century Florentine painting | Muren, Gladys Elizabeth | Since the earliest years of Italian painting, artists have depicted John the Baptist as an emaciated, weathered, hermit-prophet, a portrayal that reflects his reclusive biblical experience in the wilderness. In the mid-fifteenth century, some Florentine patrons commissioned images of John the Bapti... | Art/Art History | 2005-12 |
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Carl Theodor Dreyer and La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc: expanding avant-garde modernism in the early twentieth century | Dixon, Hilary | Danish film maker, Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889-1964) is acknowledged as one o f the world's great directors. His 1927 film, La Passion de Jeanne d 'Arc is often cited as his greatest masterpiece. However, the works of Dreyer are rarely screened or discussed because they cannot be cate... | Art/Art History | 1999-08 |