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Dresden Triptych is a very small hinged-triptych altarpiece signed and dated 1437 by In the news
the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck. It consists of five paintings: one central and
four on two double-sided wings. It may have been intended as a portable altarpiece, and is
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his only extant non-portrait painting signed with his personal motto ALC IXH XAN ("I Do as I
Can"). The outer wings show the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel in
an Annunciation scene in grisaille. The inner panels are set in an ecclesiastical interior. In  Dozens of civilia
the central inner panel Mary holds the Christ Child; in the left-hand outer wing after Islamist rebels
the Archangel Michael presents a kneeling donor; on the right Saint Catherine of  The cargo ship E
Alexandria reads a prayer book (depicted). The triptych's frames are the originals; richly blocking the Suez C
decorated with Latin inscriptions, they indicate that the donor, whose identity is now lost, resulting in a traffic j
was highly educated. The coats of arms on the interior borders are associated with  A fire at the Roh
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Ana Kansky painted by Henrika Šantel (1932)

 ... that chemist Ana Kansky (pictured) became the first person to be awarded a

doctoral degree by the newly established University of Ljubljana in 1920?
 ... that before the consulate was ready, the first Russian consul in Hakodate lived
in local temples? Moments after the attempt
 ... that when Fred Stewart was appointed the manager of Cardiff City F.C., he paid
the transfer fee of his first signing himself?  1822 – The Unit
 ... that Berwind, a mining ghost town in Colorado, was a battle site during create the Florida T
the Colorado Coalfield War in 1913 and 1914?  1861 – British ch
 ... that Christina Adane's free school meal campaign created a UK government U- of thallium using fla
turn?  1918 – Four day
 ... that the first Route 128 station was built in just one week? Azerbaijan, resulting
 ... that Irish Times columnist Róisín Ingle has penned more than 4,000 pieces,  1981 – John Hin
including "It was love at first riot" about meeting her life partner in Northern Ireland? president Ronald Re
 ... that the New York Produce Exchange's business was described in 1886 as Hilton (immediate af
"callithumpian discord" with "fiendish screeches"?  2009 – The Man
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Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutc

famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In j
including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the
paintings during his lifetime, and was contemporaneously cons
attained widespread critical and popular acclaim since the early
world's most expensive paintings. Van Gogh produced this oil-
of his several self-portraits, it may have been his last, produced
southern France. The work is now in the collection of the Musé
Painting credit: Vincent van Gogh