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Miniature in the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany, 1503–1508, by Jean Bourdichon. The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph.The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, [1] but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a confraternity.
However, the name of the gazelle is scarcely, if at all, to be found in the Bible; in its stead we read roe, hart, or deer. Like a few other names of graceful and timid animals, the word gazelle has always been in the East a term of endearment in love. It was also a woman's favourite name (1 Chronicles 8:9; 2 Kings 12:1; 2 Chronicles 24:1; Acts ...
Bernardino Luini, Holy Family with Saint Anne and the infant John the Baptist Francesco Melzi, Vertumnus and Pomona. Although apparently not being developed into a painting by Leonardo, the drawing was used as a source for the paintings of others. A painting based on the cartoon was made by Bernardino Luini. He was a pupil of Leonardo.
Anne is also shown as the matriarch of the Holy Kinship, the extended family of Jesus, a popular subject in late medieval Germany; some versions of these pictorial and sculptural depictions include Emerentia who was reputed in the fifteenth century to be Anne's mother. In modern devotions, Anne and her husband are invoked for protection for the ...
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Henry the Horse, the waltzing horse from The Beatles' "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite" (based on a real horse called Zanthus, from Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal) The Horse With No Name, the horse in the eponymous song by America; Leroy, the cowboy's horse in Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy) by Big & Rich
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Holy Family with Saints Anne and John the Baptist is a c. 1530 oil on panel painting by Bernardino Luini. It was previously in the collection of cardinal Federico Borromeo , who recorded his acquisition of it in his writings and gave it to the new Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan in 1618, where it still hangs. [ 1 ]