Flourished Gallery

PRAXITELES (flourished 370, -330 BC). Hermes

PRAXITELES (flourished 370, -330 BC). Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus. ca. 330 BC. Hermes carrying the child Dionysus to the nymphs who were charged with his rearing. Classical Greek art. Sculpture on marble. GREECE. Olympia. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Proc: GREECE. Olympia

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Miles Prance, Informer

MILES PRANCE, Catholic goldsmith who found fame during the Popish Plot as an informer, claiming to reveal the murderers of Edmund Berry Godfrey : perjurer, impostor. Date: flourished 1678 - 1689

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Saint Justina of Padua

We know little about JUSTINA shown here with Alfonso I of Ferrara, who we may suppose is making improper suggestions which she will resist aided by the unicorn, symbol of purity. Date: flourished circa 1520

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