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Pietro da Cortona (1596/97-1669) was an Italian Baroque painter and architect. Along with his contemporaries and rivals Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini, he was one of the key figures in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. He was also an important designer of interior decorations. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Gentile da Fabriano (c.1370-1427) was an Italian painter known for his participation in the International Gothic pictorial style. He worked in various places in central Italy, mostly in Tuscany. His best-known works are his Adoration of the Magi from the Strozzi Altarpiece (1423), and the Flight into Egypt. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Angelo da Fonseca (1902–1967) was a 20th-century Indian painter. He began in medical studies at the Grant Medical College, Bombay, but soon left for J. J. School of Art, later joining Shantiniketan in Calcutta, where he was trained by Rabindranath Tagore in the Bengal School of Art. Nandalal Bose was his teacher. Since he was a Christian, many of...

Antonello da Messina (c.1425–1430-1479), properly Antonello di Giovanni di Antonio, but also called Antonello degli Antoni, was an Italian painter active during the Italian Early Renaissance. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini (c. 1383-c. 1447), known by his nickname Masolino da Panicale (lit. 'Tommy from Panicale'), was an Italian painter. His best known works are probably his collaborations with Masaccio: Madonna with Child and St. Anne (1424) and the frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel (1424–1428). (Source and image: wikipedia.org)

Fr. Ricardo da Silva, S.J., is a Jesuit priest who has worked in journalism, theology, and ministry across three continents. Currently based in New York City, he serves as an associate editor at America Media, where he produces and hosts the podcasts "Inside the Vatican" and "Preach," while also working as...

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he...

Bernardo Daddi (c.1280-1348) was an early Italian Renaissance painter who contributed to the revolutionary art of the time, breaking away from the conventions of the preceding generation of Gothic artists. (Source: wikipedia.org)

Rev. Gordon Dalbey is an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada. The author of eight books, he has ministered around the US and world, including France, Italy, England, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa. Gordon has been a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nigeria, high school teacher in...

Rev. Thandiwe Dale-Ferguson is pastor at Lovedale United Church of Christ in Lovedale, CO, and is ordained in the Church Church (Disciples of Christ). (Source and photo: lovelanducc.org; worshipwords.co.uk)