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Cecilia

Saint Cecilia - Nov 22 - Feast Day

Saint Cecilia - 1895 -  John William Waterhouse - http://gather-ye-rosebuds-while-ye-may.blogspot.com/2010/02/john-william-waterhouse-st-cecilia-1895.html
St Cecilia, 1626 - Simon Vouet -
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)
The Ecstasy of St Cecilia - Raphael http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ecstasy_of_St._Cecilia_(Raphael)
St Cecilia with a Choir - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/34176/Domenichino-Domenico-Zampieri-1581-1641
St. Cecilia, 1671 (oil on canvas) - Carlo Dolci - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/75324/Dolci-Carlo-1616-86/St.-Cecilia-1671-oil-on-canvas?
St. Cecilia, 1896 - Strudwick, John Melhuish - http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/image/600283/john-melhuish-strudwick-st-cecilia-1896
Study for a Portrait of Lady Hamilton as St. Cecilia, c.1785 (oil on canvas) - George Romney - http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/122485/Romney-George-1734-1802/Study-for-a-Portrait-of-Lady-Hamilton-as-St.-Cecilia

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

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/29/dulwich-picture-gallery-st-cecilia - Dulwich Picture Gallery saves St Cecilia from ruin – but who painted her?