Word: petronilla
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...life. But Rome was the great magnet, and he almost made it to the Roman big time when his patron, the Bolognese Cardinal Alessandro Ludovisi, became Pope in 1621 and summoned Guercino to the Vatican. There he painted one enormous canvas, the Burial and Reception into Heaven of Saint Petronilla, for an altar in Saint Peter's, but the Pope died in 1623, and back to Cento the painter went. Later he moved to nearby Bologna. Guercino had a steady stream of commissions from local churches in Emilia, but from Rome's point of view he was overshadowed by other...
...women chosen for the table each made some kind of contribution to society; each, too, attempted to improve the conditions of women during their lives. And each struggled with her own creativity in a hostile world. Many are unknown--Petronilla de Meath, for example, burned as a witch in Ireland in the fourteenth century. She symbolizes the persecution of women in medieval times, a persecution more gory but no more tragic than that which exists till this...
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