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    Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (24 October 1843 – 23 August 1902) was a Polish painter. He spent most of his active creative life in Rome. Best remembered...
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    Nero's Torches (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    Pochodnie Nerona) is an 1876 oil-on-canvas painting by the Polish artist Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Candlesticks of Christianity (Świeczniki chrześcijaństwa)...
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    The Sword Dance (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    mieczów) is a 19th-century painting series by the Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki. It is also known as Dance Amongst Daggers and Dance Amongst Swords...
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    Christ and Sinner (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    large-format painting by the Polish and Russian painter-academist Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902). It was completed in 1873 and is currently held in the...
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    Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    very large-scale history painting by the Russian-born Polish painter Henryk Siemiradzki, completed in 1889. It is part of the collection of the State Russian...
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    but the most famous nineteenth century painting of the subject was Henryk Siemiradzki's Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis. In nineteenth century literature...
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    Alexander the Great's trust in Doctor Philip (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    in Doctor Philip was created by Polish and Russian academic artist Henryk Siemiradzki (1843-1902) in 1870. It is held in the National Art Museum of the...
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    related to Antoni Radziwiłł. "Chopin u Radziwiłła — Berlin 1829" by Henryk Siemiradzki. In. Biblioteka chopinowska , Tom 7 Polskie Wydawn. Muzyczne, 1960...
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    The Girl or the Vase (category Paintings by Henryk Siemiradzki)
    Presentation of the Slave, is an 1878 painting by the Polish artist Henryk Siemiradzki. The subject is from ancient Rome and shows a patrician who contemplates...
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    Muzeum Narodowe w Warzawie. p. 151. ISBN 8371003277. Represented by Siemiradzki is the ancient Roman staging of the myth at the Emperor Nero's wish....
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    Fryderyk Chopin. Chopin's visits to Antonin property were documented by Henryk Siemiradzki in a photogravure titled "Chopin u księcia Radziwiłła" ("Chopin's...
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    Phryne at the Poseidonia in Eleusis (c. 1889) by Henryk Siemiradzki, showing the scene of the courtesan Phryne stripping naked at Eleusis, which allegedly...
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    many famous painters, including Ilya Repin, Zinaida Serebryakova, Henryk Siemiradzki, and Vasyl Yermilov. There are many modern arts galleries in the city:...
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  • artist Henryk Gotlib (1890–1966), Polish-born painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and writer, who settled in England after World War II Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902)...
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    Jacek Malczewski (symbolism), Stanisław Wyspiański (art nouveau), Henryk Siemiradzki (Roman academic art), Tamara de Lempicka (art deco), and Zdzisław...
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    Nero's Torches, Henryk Siemiradzki...
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    line with those of Vladimir Lenin, Nikolai Bukharin and most importantly Henryk Grossman and Paul Mattick with an emphasis on monopolies and the falling...
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    Dirce, by Henryk Siemiradzki. A Christian woman is martyred under Nero in this re-enactment of the myth of Dirce (painting by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1897, National...
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    Night on the Eve of Ivan Kupala, by Henryk Siemiradzki (c. 1880)...
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    Nero's Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. According to Tacitus, Nero targeted Christians as those responsible for the fire....
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    Christ with Martha and Maria by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1886...
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    ceremonial ball of October 3, 1879, it was announced that artist Henryk Siemiradzki had offered his monumental painting called Nero's Torches (Pochodnie...
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    Christ in the house of Martha and Mary, by Henryk Siemiradzki, 1886...
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    Jacek Malczewski, Raphael, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, Henryk Siemiradzki, Veit Stoss, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, Leon Wyczółkowski, Jan Matejko...
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    Christ with Martha and Mary (1886) by Henryk Siemiradzki, showing the conflated "composite Magdalene" sitting at Jesus's feet while her sister Martha performs...
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    Quo Vadis (novel) (category Novels by Henryk Sienkiewicz)
    Nero (Quo vadis: Powieść z czasów Nerona) is a historical novel written by Henryk Sienkiewicz in Polish. The novel Quo Vadis tells of a love that develops...
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    zachodniej, t. 1–2 s.72 2002; Henryk Łowmiański. Początki Polski: z dziejów Słowian w I tysiącleciu n.e., t. 5 s.472; Stanisław Henryk Badeni, 1923. s. 270. Central...
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    Moscow Prince Alexander Nevsky receiving Papal legates, painting by Henryk Siemiradzki (1870s) A statue of Alexander Nevsky in Gorodets For this battle,...
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    Nero's Torches, by Henryk Siemiradzki (1876)...
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    of a Rus chieftain as described by the Arab traveler Ahmad ibn Fadlan who visited Kievan Rus in the 10th century, painted by Henryk Siemiradzki (1883)....
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