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Wednesday 23 November 2011

Saint Cecilia - Nov 22 - Feast Day

Saint Cecilia - 1895 -  John William Waterhouse
St Cecilia - Guido Reni - http://www.nortonsimon.org/collections/browse_title.php?id=F.1973.23.P
Saint Cecilia and an Angel - Giovanni Lanfranco - http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/caravaggio/fig7.htm
St Cecilia and the Angels - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80869/oil-painting-st-cecilia-and-the-angels/
Saint Cecilia - Pietro da Cortona - http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pietro-da-cortona-saint-cecilia
Saint Cecilia - Micael Von  Coxcie
Saint Cecilia and the Angel - Carlo Saraceni
The Martyrdom of St Cecilia - Carlo Saraceni
Saint Cecilia - Richard Westall - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-cecilia-86716
Saint Cecilia - Edouard Veith - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-cecilia-29478
Saint Cecilia Playing the Organ - http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/saint-cecilia-playing-the-organ-101349 - Justus Sustermans (attributed to)

Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions
To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughter, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire.
W. H. Auden, Hymn to St. Cecilia

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