Category: Culture
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What was Raphael’s deal with drawing characters sporting six fingers?
This rarity is demonstrated by the foot of St. Joseph in the painting The Betrothal of the Virgin (1504) and the hand of St. Sixtus in the famous Sistine Madonna, created between 1513 and 1514. For a long time this was considered to be a mistake of the great Italian artist and architect of the…
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Inspiration of the Stepmother of Snow White
It lies in the German aristocrat Uta of Ballenstedt (1000-1046). Her face is sculpted on one of the finest surviving medieval carvings of a female face: the one that can be admired in Naumburg Cathedral. She married the Margrave, Eckard II of Meissen. Since they had no children, the couple bequeathed their entire fortune to…
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