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My late participation to yesterday's : Saint Margaret of Antioch, inspired by an unknown French sculptor around 1475. I'm not used to doing this kind of fantasy-like drawings. That was a tough and fun one.

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2021-01-23

Thursday Saint Margaret of Antioch, created by an unknown French sculptor around 1475 ✍️
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2021-01-22

Did You Know: According to The Wolf Queen, Potema blackmailed her brother, the future Emperor Antiochus? In return for not revealing his enjoyment of Khajiiti pornography, Antiochus gave Potema a diamond broach.

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2020-12-21

Cependant qu’Antiochos, longeant la côte nord africaine depuis la Cyrénaïque à la tête de 75.000 fantassins dont 40.000 hoplites, 12.000 cavaliers et 200 éléphants, envahit le territoire de Carthage par le sud.

Après deux ans de campagne dont un an de siège de la capitale ⤵️

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2020-12-10


In Australia it's the Memorial of St Ignatius of Antioch, and This painting is of the symbol/emblem of St Ignatius. Happy Memorial!
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2020-10-17

King Antiochus III showed remarkable heroism at the Battle of the Arius River in 208 BC. Knowing that the fate of the battle depended on holding off the enemy cavalry force long enough for his army to form up he fought in the thickest of the action with his royal guard.

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2020-09-29

8) The early Christian writer, St. Jerome recounts that the Emperor Constantine made a special trip from Constantinople (modern Istanbul) to Antioch, across the entirety of modern Turkey, to view the ancient bones of a "satyr" that had been discovered in a salt-mine!

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2020-09-26

He often returned to painting images of the Virgin & appears to have used the same model for each image. Immaculate Conception (1630-5), St Margaret of Antioch (1631) & Still Life with Lemons, Oranges & a Rose (1633)

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2020-08-27

Holy women by Francisco de Zurbaran d. 27 Aug 1664.

St Elisabeth of Portugal, c.1635 &
Immaculate Conception,1628-30 (Museo del Prado)
St Margaret of Antioch, 1631 (National Gallery, London)
Virgin Mary as a girl living in the Temple, Jerusalem
c. 1632–33 (Met Museum)

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2020-08-27

King Antiochus III showed remarkable heroism at the Battle of the Arius River in 208 BC. Knowing that the fate of the battle depended on holding off the enemy cavalry force long enough for his army to form up, he fought in the thickest of the action with his royal guard

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2020-08-09

Thank you, myth lovers, for posting fantastic myths about competitions this
This is signing off. Join next week for a new theme.

(The Drinking Contest of Dionysos and Herakles, 100 CE, Antioch)

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2020-07-21

King Antiochus III showed remarkable heroism at the Battle of the Arius River in 208 BC. Knowing that the fate of the battle depended on holding off the enemy cavalry force long enough for his army to form up, he fought in the thickest of the action with his royal guard.

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2020-06-22