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Christ as Ruler, with the Apostles and Evangelists (represented by the beasts). The female figures are believed to be either Santa Pudenziana and Santa Praxedes or symbols of the Jewish and Gentile churches. Mosaic in the apse of Santa Pudenziana, Rome,A

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

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Dutta Promeet

Article History

Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Added new Web site: The Catholic Encyclopedia - Lector.	Dutta Promeet	May 15, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998