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'The Golden Legend' or 'Legenda Aurea' was written by Jacopo de Voragine (or Varagine), a Dominican friar who, in 1292, became archbishop of Genoa. It begins with an elaboration of the events recounted in the Gospels especially the life of Christ,...

Vanitas is the Latin for vanity, in the sense of emptiness or a worthless action. 'Vanity of Vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity' (Ecclesiastes 12: 8). The implication of these words from the Old Testament is that all human action is trans...

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Before the 19th century most women painters who enjoyed anything like professional status were the daughters, and often the wives, of male artists. This may be true of Marie Blancour, whose only known painting is in the National Gallery’s collecti...