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The Royal Box of the National Theatre [PDF]

, 2018
The subject of the master's thesis is the royal box at the National Theater in Prague. The diplomat elaborates in detail its construction history from the initial construction, later reconstructions and repairs.
Brachtlová, Magdalena
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Rājyaśrī : Royal Splendour in the Vedas and the Epics [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis analyses the late-Vedic goddess Śrī and her non-personified precedent śrī ‘splendour, glory, excellence, fortune’. Śrī has not before been studied in the light of the Avestan royal splendour, xᵛarənah, and is often interpreted one-sidedly as ...
af Edholm, Kristoffer
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Two God-Kings, Two Skulls: Artificial Cranial Deformation in Akhenaten of Egypt and Khingila of the Huns. [PDF]

Cureus, 2023
Turner MD.
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Imaging vulnerability: the iconography of climate change [PDF]

This paper explores the iconography of climate change in contemporary climate action campaigns in the UK. I aim to show how sample images are simultaneously scientific denotations of global warming and cultural connotations of danger and vulnerability. I
Manzo K
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The features of Saint Louis [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2017
The recent ninth centenary of the birth of Saint Louis, in 2014, gave the possibility to renew the study of the man and his reign, so important for French history, not in a nationalistic agenda or for a mere celebration, but in order to shed new light on
Pierre-Yves Le Pogam
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English Romanesque tympana : a study of architectural sculpture in church portals c.1050-c.1200 [PDF]

This thesis presents a study of the use made of tympana in English Romanesque portals and the evidence they offer for religious, social and cultural expression in village churches where the vast majority of examples are preserved.
Givans, Duncan Blair Cameron
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The Palace of Queen Anne Jagiello and Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol by the White Tower in Prague Castle [PDF]

Historie - Otázky - Problémy, 2015
From the times of Vladislaus II Jagiello (1456–1516) the residence in Prague Castle had two parts. After a costly refurbishment, the Old Royal Palace was adapted as the King’s seat and a new palace was built for the Queen by the White Tower on the west
Petr Uličný
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The Spanish Royal Hunting Portrait from Velazquez to Goya [PDF]

, 2009
xi, 102 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.At the Habsburg and Bourbon courts of early modem Spain, hunting served as an important regal pastime.
Miller, Olivia Nicole, 1982-
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Henri Frankfort, Aby Warburg and ‘Mythopoeic Thought’ [PDF]

, 2011
This is the text of a lunchtime lecture given at the Warburg Institute in the spring of 2004. It formed part of a series given by current members of staff which were devoted to the work of past Warburg scholars, and was intended to introduce the ...
Taylor, Paul, Paul Taylor
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Royal Statuary of Early Dynastic Mesopotamia [PDF]

, 2011
The corpus of Early Dynastic figurative monuments from ancient Mesopotamia is substantial. For many years, establishing the chronological sequence and development of these artifacts has been a complicated and problematic task.
MARCHETTI, NICOLO', MARCHESI, GIANNI
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