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her countenance radiant with a transcendent glow

" Rubens showcases his ability to create a harmonious union of the celestial and the earthly

The four avenging angels purge the earth of the wicked

lived in poverty and bore his illness with a profound trust in God

Benedict's original monasteries in Monte Cassino in Northern Italy

The Prodigal Son nursia her countenance radiant with aAn engraving of the Prodigal Son, kneeling among swine. The Prodigal Son, who humbly returned to his father, was a personification of the sinner returned to the community of the faithful. Durer has chosen to portray the moment when the Prodigal Son, working as a swineherd, realizes his sins and resolves to make amends: "And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my fathers have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!