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The reverse side of the Cross

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nomina nuda tenemus

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Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (c. 1412).

> Illuminators: The Limbourg brothers.

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Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (c. 1412).

> Illuminators: The Limbourg brothers.

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Mario Bettini S. J. - Apiaria universae philosophiae mathematicae (1642).

> Engraver: Francesco Curti.

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Mario Bettini S. J. - Apiaria universae philosophiae mathematicae (1642).

> Engraver: Francesco Curti.

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Vetus Testamentum (X c.).

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Mario Bettini S. J. - Anamorphic projection of Cardinal Colonna’s eye.

From Apiaria universae philosophiae mathematicae (1642).

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Lucas van Leyden - Joseph Interpreting the dreams in prison (1512).

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Reliquaire de la “Ceinture de Saint Joseph”.

Cette ceinture de chanvre a été donnée en 1248 par Saint Louis à Jehan, sire de Joinville, qui l'a rapportée à Joinville en 1250. Elle est placée dans un reliquaire néogothique du 19ème siècle.

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Schloss Seehaus: the chapel.

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St. Magnus Cathedral (est. 1137), Kirkwall, Orkney Islands.

> Photo: George Vickers (2009).

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For his crimes, Marino Faliero was condemned to damnatio memoriae, and accordingly his portrait displayed in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doge’s Palace, Venice, was removed and the space painted over with a black shroud.

The inscription on the painted shroud reads: Hic est locus Marini Faletro decapitati pro criminibus (“This is the space reserved for Marino Faliero, beheaded for his crimes”).

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State Purse of the Speaker of the House of Commons of Great Britain, Arthur Onslow (1728 – 1761).

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Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry (c. 1412).

> Illuminators: The Limbourg brothers.

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David Gough - The Evisceration of Adam (2007).

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Cherubino Alberti (after) - Allegory of Fame (c. 1570). Detail.

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