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The Death of Saint Innocent

The Death of Saint Innocent, Gothic Art

The Death of Saint Innocent, zoomed in

120 cm

The Death of Saint Innocent scale comparison

55 cm

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The Death of Saint Innocent is a Gothic Alabaster Sculpture created from c.1520 to 1530. It lives at the Musée du Louvre in Paris. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Death in Art, Allegory and Skeletons. Source

Inscription:

He is not alive as full of art
Born of force for resistance
that I do not strike with my dart
to give to their pitance
pray God for the deceased

The Death of Saint Innocent, Gothic Art

The Death of Saint Innocent, Gothic Art

The Death of Saint Innocent, Gothic Art

The Death of Saint Innocent, Gothic Art

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata, Giotto di Bondone

Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata

Giotto di Bondone, 1295 – 1300

Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis, Gothic Art

Chalice of the Abbot Suger of Saint-Denis

100BCE – 1140CE

The Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian, Carlo Crivelli

The Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian

Carlo Crivelli, 1491

Male Worshiper of Ninshubur, Mesopotamia

Male Worshiper of Ninshubur

Statue of Artemis Ephesus, Ancient Greece

Statue of Artemis Ephesus

Two forms, Barbara Hepworth

Two forms

Barbara Hepworth, 1933

Christ Carrying His Cross, Giampietrino

Christ Carrying His Cross

Giampietrino, 1530

The Penitent Magdalene, Giampietrino

The Penitent Magdalene

Giampietrino, 1530

Portrait of a Young Man, Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait of a Young Man

Agnolo Bronzino, 1530

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