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    The document provides summaries of 4 famous paintings: 1) Transfiguration (1520) by Raphael depicts Jesus' transfiguration and was Raphael's last painting before his death. 2) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) by Salvador Dali shows Jesus on the cross floating over water with a boat and fishermen. 3) The Angelus (1859) by Jean-Francois Millet portrays two peasants bowing over potatoes, saying a prayer that marks the end of the day's work. 4) The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1588) by El Greco illustrates a local legend from his time

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    The document provides summaries of 4 famous paintings: 1) Transfiguration (1520) by Raphael depicts Jesus' transfiguration and was Raphael's last painting before his death. 2) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) by Salvador Dali shows Jesus on the cross floating over water with a boat and fishermen. 3) The Angelus (1859) by Jean-Francois Millet portrays two peasants bowing over potatoes, saying a prayer that marks the end of the day's work. 4) The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1588) by El Greco illustrates a local legend from his time

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    Transfiguration (1520) - Raphael

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    The document provides summaries of 4 famous paintings: 1) Transfiguration (1520) by Raphael depicts Jesus' transfiguration and was Raphael's last painting before his death. 2) Christ of Saint John of the Cross (1951) by Salvador Dali shows Jesus on the cross floating over water with a boat and fishermen. 3) The Angelus (1859) by Jean-Francois Millet portrays two peasants bowing over potatoes, saying a prayer that marks the end of the day's work. 4) The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1588) by El Greco illustrates a local legend from his time

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    Transfiguration (1520) – Raphael

    The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance


    master Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later
    Pope Clement VII and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne
    Cathedral in France, Raphael worked on it until his death in 1520
    Christ of St John of the Cross (1951) – Salvador Dali

    Christ of Saint John of the Cross is a painting by Salvador Dalí made in


    1951. It depicts Jesus Christ on the cross in a darkened sky floating over a
    body of water complete with a boat and fishermen
    The Angelus (1859) – Jean-Francois Millet

    The Angelus is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet,


    completed between 1857 and 1859. The painting depicts two peasants
    bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus,
    that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon
    marks the end of a day's work
    The Burial of the Count of Orgaz (1588) – El Greco

    The Burial of the Count of Orgaz is a 1586 painting by El Greco, a


    prominent Renaissance painter, sculptor, and architect of Greek origin.
    Widely considered among his finest works, it illustrates a popular local
    legend of his time

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