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Under Wellington's Command by G.A. Henty includes a section on the Battle of Bussaco (sp. 'Busaco' in the text). Sharpe's Escape by Bernard Cornwell covers the battle. Stranger from the Sea by Winston Graham features a visit to the front line by Ross Poldark, who is on a government fact-finding mission.
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San Baudelio was constructed in the eleventh century, but the frescoes were not added for another century. There are two distinct cycles: the upper walls were covered in colorful scenes from Christ's life, while the lower walls depicted hunt scenes and exotic animals indicative of the Islamic influence in the region. [1]
Christ on the Cross is a 1627 oil painting on canvas by the Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán, now in the Art Institute of Chicago. [ 1 ] In 1626 Zurbarán signed a new contract with the Dominicans of San Pablo de Real Monastery in Seville to produce 21 paintings in 8 months.
At the entrance of the old convent, there is a plaque to the Battle of Bussaco which commemorates the fact that Viscount Wellington, who later became the Duke of Wellington, spent the night in the convent after the battle on 27 September 1810.
The Gospels only describe Jesus being "crucified" on the Golgotha, and do not provide a detailed account of process. [2] As an iconographic subject, the raising of the cross depicts the moment when, after Jesus was nailed on the cross on the ground, the cross is raised to a vertical position by Roman soldiers, sometimes using ropes or ladders.
Christ on the Cross may refer to one of four oil on canvas paintings by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: [1] [2] [3] c.1660-1670, Timken Museum of Art c.1675, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Christ on the Cross (1620) by Rubens. Christ on the Cross, Christ between the two murderers or Le Coup de Lance is a 1620 painting of the Crucifixion of Jesus by Peter Paul Rubens, originally intended for the Convent of the Friars Minor. [1] It is now in the Koninklijnk Museum voor Schone Kunsten in Antwerp.