In Nov 1852 Leighton arrived in Rome. He was just 21 years old and fresh from his training. Over the next 3 years he worked on the paintings that launched his career including Cimabue’s Celebrated Madonna is carried in Procession through the Streets of Florence.

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Study: "Bridal Procession on the Hardangerfjord / Hardanger" by Hans Gude and Adolph Tidemand, sans figures/boats. Somethingto learn some of the new default brushes I'd missed and to try and dissect how to better handle an environment, something I feel I still fumble a lot.

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David Bomberg, The Virgin of Peace in Procession through the Streets of Ronda, Holy Week, 1935, Oil on canvas, The Syndics of Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge

© The estate of David Bomberg, the Bridgeman Art Library

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Crystal Cavern Procession. Ancient cave lions and Irish elks forever marching through time in a crystalline cavern. https://t.co/DuVO2Hlz5E

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Join a festival procession of around 300 people along Marygate in the centre of Berwick from 4pm, before a community choir gathers in front of the town’s beautiful Georgian Guildhall to sing a rousing selection of well-loved Berwick and Northumbrian songs- https://t.co/FwYjfF2U5n

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🦑I saw phantom processions of priests with the heads of bulls, falcons, cats & ibises; phantom processions marching through subterraneous labyrinths & avenues of titanic propylaea beside which a man is as a fly & offering unnamable sacrifices to nameless gods🎨Jake Murray🦑#HPL

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Bacchanalia, also called Dionysia, one of the several festivals of Bacchus (Dionysus) the wine god. The Great Dionysia had dramatic performances in the theatre of Dionysus. There was also the Lenaea, which included a procession and dramatic performances

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Countdown to 3 days to go! & No.3 of our suffrage timeline: Parliamentary Franchise (Women) Bill is defeated in 1912 by 222 votes to 208, leading to increasingly militant tactics from WSPU – and more hostile anti-suffrage propaganda (image).

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Lesser-known suffragettes: WSPU members Flora Murray & Louisa Garrett Anderson set up Endell Street Military Hospital in 1915, staffed entirely by suffragettes. On 10 June we're celebrating all the amazing figures who fought so hard for women's suffrage

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"I realised that I needed to try to find a way to work that reflected my beliefs"

is one of 10 artists, commissioned by for . Read more about the focus of their work and involvement in here: https://t.co/homeUNadhV

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Born 1886, King Alfonso XIII of Spain. King from birth as his father had died the previous year & his mother Maria Christina served as regent until he came of age. Married Princess Ena of Battenberg in May 1906 Couple narrowly escaped death when anarchists bombed procession

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'Procession of Characters from Shakespeare's Plays' by an unknown 19th-century artist

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