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    Sir John Denis Mahon, CH, CBE, FBA (8 November 1910 – 24 April 2011) was a British collector and historian of Italian art. Considered to be one of the...
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  • Major Denis Mahon was the Irish landlord of Strokestown in County Roscommon who was shot and killed during the Great Famine of Ireland. His death is considered...
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    little reason for them to regard each other as business rivals, states Denis Mahon. The contract signed on 24 September 1600 stipulates that "the distinguished...
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    little reason for them to regard each other as business rivals, states Denis Mahon. The contract signed on 24 September 1600 stipulates that "the distinguished...
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    collected by Denis Mahon, who loaned it to the National Gallery, to which it was presented in 2013 by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust...
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  • Christopher Mahon (1922–2004), Irish-born priest in Kenya Sir John Denis Mahon (1910–2011), British scholar Johnny Mahon (disambiguation) Jack Mahon (disambiguation)...
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  • and Labour Party politician Barry Mahon, Brendan Mahon (b. 1995), American football player Carl Mahon, Major Denis Mahon (British Army officer), assassinated...
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    historical research by Prof. Dr. Maurizio Marini and Dr. Dario Succi, Sir Denis Mahon, Prof. Mina Gregori, Dr. Federica Gasparrini , Mag. Maria Ranacher, Dr...
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    landlord reprisal occurred in West Roscommon. The "notorious" Major Denis Mahon enforced thousands of his tenants into eviction before the end of 1847...
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    Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The British art historian Sir Denis Mahon acquired a copy of Cardsharps at auction in 2006. Although it had been...
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    these exhibitions were curated by Guercino's biggest modern champion, Denis Mahon, who was responsible for their catalogues. In 2011–2012, a large exhibition...
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    of 17th-century art historical biographer Gian Pietro Bellori, though Denis Mahon suggests 1602–1604. According to Bellori, Caravaggio produced the piece...
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    visible under X-ray images proved the painting was the original. Sir Denis Mahon, who had in 1993 authenticated the Dublin version, in 2004 stated that...
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    gallery accepted a bequest of 26 Italian Baroque paintings from Sir Denis Mahon. Earlier in the 20th century many considered the Baroque to be beyond...
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    Carracci and Caravaggio to regard each other as business rivals, states Denis Mahon. Tiberio Cerasi died on 3 May 1601 and was buried in the chapel. In his...
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  • the estate passed to his first cousin, Major Denis Mahon, who was assassinated by his tenants in 1847. "Mahon, Maurice (MHN790M)". A Cambridge Alumni Database...
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    Straus and Giroux, 1999 (original UK edition 1998) ISBN 978-0-374-11894-5 Denis Mahon (1947). Studies in Seicento Art. London: Warburg Institute. Alfred Moir...
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  • Denis (Russian: Денис) is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include: Saint Denis of Paris (3rd century), French bishop and Christian...
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    iceberg and sank in 1849 while carrying Irish emigrants to Canada Major Denis Mahon, an Irish landlord who sent thousands of tenants in coffin ships to Canada...
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  • engaged in a dispute with Sir Denis Mahon regarding the authenticity of a Poussin work which rumbled on for several years. Mahon was shown to be correct. Blunt...
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    Gabriele; Kitson, Michael (1997). Discovering the Italian Baroque: the Denis Mahon collection. London, UK; New Haven, CT: National Gallery Publications;...
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    Gabriele and Kitson, Michael, Discovering the Italian Baroque: the Denis Mahon Collection, p. 56, 1997, National Gallery Publications, London/Yale UP...
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  • in London he started a prolific relation with Denis Mahon. In the early 1960s, in collaboration with Mahon, he authenticated two Caravaggio paintings in...
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    Gallery, in London, to which it was presented by the Trustees of Sir Denis Mahon's Charitable Trust via the Art Fund in 2013. List of paintings by Matthias...
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    noted in Denis Mahon I p. 303 note 1. Mahon notes that the Reynst collection was as well known for its antiquities as for its paintings (Mahon p 304 note...
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    to Mullingar. In May 1847, during the Great Famine, tenants of Major Denis Mahon, left his Strokestown Park estate in County Roscommon. The tenants, who...
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    1634–1636, Prado Museum, Madrid Landscape with Fortifications, c. 1634–35, Denis Mahon Collection, London Cumaean Sybil, c. 1610, Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome...
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    Carracci translation and edition by Denis Mahon in his Studies in Seicento Art and Theory (London, 1947); on Mahon, see Finaldi and Kitson, 15–16, and...
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    occurred during the Great Famine. The Mahon family alone in 1847 evicted 3,000 people. After the killing of Major Denis Mahon in November 1847, as a direct reaction...
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     298–299. Denis Mahon, Studies in seicento art and theory London, 1947 Mostra dei Carracci: disegni catalogo critico a cura di Dennis Mahon, Bologna 1956...
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