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Signe des gémeaux

Life and masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine artist loved by the Medici family and mentioned in Dan Brown's novel Inferno.

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Full title: The Magdalen Reading Artist: Ambrosius Benson Date made: about 1525 Source: www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/ Contact: [email protected] Copyright © The National Gallery, London

As Renaissance culture grew more secular in the wake of the Reformation, painters and poets expanded their thematic repertoires to include subjects drawn from the natural world and from daily life.

aka Hugh of Avalon; Hugh of Burgundy 1135-1200 born in France, died in the United Kingdom bishop of Lincoln canonized 1220 feast 16 November