Christianity
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Madonna with the Long Neck
Painting · Parmigianino
Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck (1535) is a defining work of Mannerism, its elongated proportions and cool elegance a deliberate departure from High Renaissance balance.Crosses Mannerism × P
Tres Riches Heures: January
Painting · Limbourg Brothers
The Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (c. 1412-1416), the January calendar page shown here, is the supreme surviving Gothic illuminated manuscript.Crosses International Gothic × Painting × Christiani
Antiphonary of Hartker (Gregory I)
Illuminated manuscript page (Gregorian chant notation) · Hartker of Sankt Gallen (Benedictine monk, c. 1000 CE)
This opening folio of the Antiphonary of Hartker depicts Pope Gregory I (the Great) seated at his writing desk with the dove of the Holy Spirit at his ear dictating the chants that, according to Carol
