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A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Saint Dominique et Saint François préservant le monde de la colère du Christ (Rubens)]]; see its history for attribution.
Le Christ au jardin des Oliviers. Oil painting – height: 3.20 m – length: 2.40 m [4] [5] – listed as a historic monument. [6]Le Christ au jardin des Oliviers (Christ in the Garden of Olives or Jesus in the Garden of Olives) is a work by the painter Jean-François de Troy [7] completed in December 17515 and commissioned in March of the same year by the chapter of Besançon4 for the sum of ...
Carte de la Guyane françoise et l'isle de Cayenne, 1763 CE, by Bellin. During his reign the Depot published a prodigious number of charts and maps, among which were large folio-format sea-charts of France, the Neptune Francois. He also produced a number of sea-atlases of the world, e.g., the Atlas Maritime and the Hydrographie Francaise. These ...
The Musée du Petit Palais is a museum and art gallery in Avignon, southern France. It opened in 1976 and has an exceptional collection of "primitives" and early Renaissance paintings from Italy, which reunites those of the collection of Giampietro Campana deposed by the Musée du Louvre as well as paintings of the Avignon school deposed by the ...
Speculum Orbis Terrae ("Mirror of the World") was an atlas published by Cornelis de Jode in Antwerp in 1593. The atlas was largely a continuation of unfinished works of his father, Gerard de Jode, who died in 1591. Contemporary scholars consider many of de Jode's maps to be superior, both in detail and style, to those of the competing atlas of ...
Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...
Atlas and the Hesperides by John Singer Sargent (1925).. The etymology of the name Atlas is uncertain. Virgil took pleasure in translating etymologies of Greek names by combining them with adjectives that explained them: for Atlas his adjective is durus, "hard, enduring", [9] which suggested to George Doig that Virgil was aware of the Greek τλῆναι "to endure"; Doig offers the further ...
Nicolas de Fer (French pronunciation: [nikɔla də fɛʁ], 1646 – 25 October 1720) was a French cartographer and geographer. He also was an engraver and publisher . His works focused more on quantity than quality, there were often geographical errors, [ 1 ] and they were more artistic than accurate.