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The Healing of the Paralytic – one of the oldest known depictions of Jesus, [18] from the Syrian city of Dura Europos, dating from about 235. Initially Jesus was represented indirectly by pictogram symbols such as the ichthys (fish), the peacock, or an anchor (the Labarum or Chi-Rho was a later development).
Anguilla's thin arid soil being largely unsuitable for agriculture, the island has few land-based natural resources. [8] Its main industries are tourism, offshore incorporation and management, offshore banking, captive insurance and fishing. [8] [7] Anguilla's currency is the East Caribbean dollar, though the US dollar is also widely accepted. [7]
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful and devastating tropical cyclone that was the first Category 5 hurricane to strike the Leeward Islands on record, followed by Maria two weeks later. At the time, it was considered the most powerful hurricane on record in the open Atlantic region, outside of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, until it ...
The painting Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection in the State Russian Museum. On 24 September (6 October) 1836, the Imperial Academy of Arts bestowed upon Ivanov the title of Academician in recognition of his painting Christ's Appearance to Mary Magdalene after the Resurrection. The artist himself, who did not aspire to ...
The islands were named "Santa Úrsula y las Once Mil Vírgenes" by Christopher Columbus in 1493 after the legend of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. [3] [5] The name was later shortened to "the Virgin Islands". [3] The official name of the territory is still simply the "Virgin Islands", but the prefix "British" is often used.
Photos and videos captured the "biblical devastation" in Asheville, North Carolina as residents scramble to find resources after flooding and power outages caused gas and water shortages.. Roads ...
Michelangelo 's Pietà in Saint Peter's Basilica, 1498–1499. The Pietà (Italian pronunciation: [pjeˈta]; meaning " pity ", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus Christ after his Descent from the Cross. It is most often found in sculpture.
Year. 1940. The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]