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    The Legend of Saint Ursula (Italian: Storie di sant'Orsola) is a series of large wall-paintings on canvas by the Italian Renaissance artist Vittore Carpaccio...
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    Ursula (Latin for 'little she-bear') was a Romano-British virgin and martyr possibly of royal origin. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic...
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    Sanpaolo Collection, the Gallery of Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples. According to one version of the legend of Saint Ursula, she and her eleven thousand...
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    is built upon the ancient ruins of a Roman cemetery, where the 11,000 virgins associated with the legend of Saint Ursula are said to have been buried. The...
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  • Master of the legend of St. Ursula may refer to: Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula (Bruges) Master of the Legend of St. Ursula (Cologne) This disambiguation...
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    commissioned by individual patrons in Venice. One of his largest pictorial series, The Legend of Saint Ursula, was begun in 1490. He is perhaps known best...
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    The Master of the Legend of St. Ursula (1436–1505) was a Flemish painter active in the fifteenth century. His name is derived from a polyptych depicting...
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    Dionotus (category Monarchs of Cornwall)
    which reflects the ninth century legend of Saint Ursula. According to the legend, Dionotus (her father, said to be king of Dumnonia) is asked her hand in...
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    role of artistic creativity in 15th-century society. The panel became widely influential with near copies by the Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula and...
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    and named them "Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Virgenes," after the legend of Saint Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. It was later shortened to " Las Virgenes...
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    Ursula y Las Islas Once Mil Vírgenes (Saint Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins), shortened to Las Vírgenes (The Virgins), after the legend of Saint Ursula...
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    Huns (category Invasions of Europe)
    takes the pope hostage and is forced by the saints to release him. In the legend of Saint Ursula, Ursula and her 11,000 holy virgins arrive at Cologne...
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    islands were named "Santa Úrsula y las Once Mil Vírgenes" by Christopher Columbus in 1493 after the legend of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. The...
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    priest who attempts to start a mission in China in the 1944 film The Keys of the Kingdom, for which he received his first nomination for the Academy Award...
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    served as the Captain General of the Sea and is notable for commissioning the Legend of Saint Ursula (1497/98), a series of large wall-paintings by Vittore...
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    las Once Mil Vírgenes by Christopher Columbus in 1493 after the legend of Saint Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. The name was later shortened to the Virgin...
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    related to Saint Ursula Shrine. site presenting the text of the legend of St. Ursula by Jacobus da Varagine and scenes of the St. Ursula shrine painted...
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    Triptych of the Annunciation is a 1483 triptych by the Flemish artist known only as the Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula, located in the Indianapolis...
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    Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (/ˈkroʊbər lə ˈɡwɪn/ KROH-bər lə GWIN; née Kroeber; October 21, 1929 – January 22, 2018) was an American author. She is best known...
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    by the Master of the Legend of Saint Ursula. Nicole Reynaud attributes to the same Master the following works: a triptych Mass of Saint Gregory at Bamberg;...
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    to have been martyred at Cologne with Saint Ursula, who is herself difficult to locate historically. Timeline of Basel Christian Müller and Stephan Kemperdick...
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    The Master of the Cologne Legend of St. Ursula (German: Meister der Kölner Ursula-Legende; active 1489–1515) was a German Renaissance painter. He was named...
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    the first half of the 18th century, the other major naval powers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Order of Saint John based in Malta, and of the Papal States...
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    1490s, when Carpaccio was painting the Legend of Saint Ursula and other cycles in Venice, and personal portraits of noblemen were becoming common. The painting...
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  • 1490s in art (category Years of the 15th century in art)
    1497–1498 Fra Bartolomeo paints Portrait of Girolamo Savonarola Vittore Carpaccio paints the Legend of Saint Ursula series for the Scuola di Sant'Orsola in...
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    Marine art (category Art of the Dutch Golden Age)
    arrivals and departures in his Legend of Saint Ursula. In the German-speaking lands, Konrad Witz's Miraculous Draught of Fishes (1444) is both the first...
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  • church; "An axe, one of the two that the eleven thousand Virgins were beheaded with". This refers to the legend that Saint Ursula, when returning to Britain...
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    served as the Captain General of the Sea and is notable for commissioning the Legend of Saint Ursula (1497/98), a series of large wall-paintings by Vittore...
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    Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Vírgenes (Saint Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins), shortened to Las Vírgenes (The Virgins), after the legend of Saint Ursula. He...
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    girls. From this organisation later sprang the Order of Saint Ursula, whose nuns established places of prayer and learning throughout Europe and, later,...
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