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  2. David of Gareji - Wikipedia

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    David of Gareji (Georgian: დავით გარეჯელი, romanized: davit garejeli; lit. 'David who sits outside' [1]) (fl. 6th century) was an anchorite, desert father, wonderworker and one of the thirteen Assyrian apostles [2] [3] of the Kingdom of Iberia. [4] He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church. [5] [6]

  3. Raymond of Burgundy - Wikipedia

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    Raymond of Burgundy (c. 1070 – 24 May 1107) was the ruler of Galicia as vassal of Alfonso VI of León and Castile, the Emperor of All Spain, from about 1090 until his death.

  4. David (Bernini) - Wikipedia

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    David is a life-size marble sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini's patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese – where it still resides today, as part of the Galleria Borghese .

  5. Arche (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Archē (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχή) in ancient Greek religion was the muse of origins and beginnings. [1] She was one of the 4 (alternatively) identified Boeotian muses recognized in Delphi, [2] also known as the Mouse Titanides.

  6. Kingdom of Galicia - Wikipedia

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    Arms of the Kingdom of Galicia, illustrated in L´armorial Le Blancq, Bibliothèque nationale de France, 1560. The Kingdom of Galicia (Galician: Reino de Galicia, or Galiza; Spanish: Reino de Galicia; Portuguese: Reino da Galiza; Latin: Galliciense Regnum) was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian ...

  7. Replicas of Michelangelo's David - Wikipedia

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    The bronze cast of David in Piazzale Michelangelo, Florence, is flanked by casts of the reclining figures in the Medici Chapel. [4]A plaster cast copy in the Cast Courts at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was intended for the education of art students, and had a detachable fig leaf, used for added modesty during visits by Queen Victoria and other important ladies, when it was hung on ...

  8. Davidic line - Wikipedia

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    The grandson of Hezekiah ben David through his eldest son David ben Chyzkia, Hiyya al-Daudi, died in 1154 in Castile according to Abraham ibn Daud and is the ancestor of the ibn Yahya family. Several families, as late as the 14th century, traced their descent back to Josiah, the brother of David ben Zakkai who had been banished to Chorasan (see ...

  9. David (Michelangelo) - Wikipedia

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    David is a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance sculpture in marble [1] [2] created from 1501 to 1504 by Michelangelo. With a height of 5.17 metres (17 ft 0 in), the David was the first colossal marble statue made in the High Renaissance , and since classical antiquity , a precedent for the 16th century and beyond.