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Réflexions sur le style des statues aux façades du château de Versailles
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2008 One hundred and fifty-six statues stand on the façades of the palace and around the Royal Chapel. They constitute four groups, belonging to four different periods, and showing different ways of carving according to the period they were created, and also ...
Françoise de La Moureyre
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Ladislaus II Jagiełło (1386–1434)
Encyclopedia, 2022 Ladislaus II Jagiełło (1386–1434). Ladislaus II Jagiełło is the founder of the Jagiellonian dynasty that had ruled over Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (until 1572), Bohemia (1471–1526) and Hungary (1440–1444, 1490–1526).
Mateusz Grzęda
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Henry II of Trastámara (1366–1367, 1369–1379)
Encyclopedia, 2022 Henry II of Castile, also known as Henry of Trastámara, from the Latin “Tras Tamaris” (or beyond the Tambre River), King of Castile and León (1366–1367, 1369–1379) was the first king of the Trastámara Dynasty.
María Ángeles Jordano Barbudo
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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The iconography of Attic Late Geometric II pottery [PDF]
, 1987 The thesis is an attempt to view the iconography of Attic vase-painting of the Late Geometric II period, in relation to the previous Late Geometric I period as well as the ensuing Early Protoattic and to establish and interpret the origin and meaning of ...
Rombos, Theodora
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Pamiętnik Teatralny, 2018 The article discusses the use of Henry IV’s legend in the shaping of the image of King Stanisław August. In the first part of the article, the author explores the way the memory of “Good King Henry” functioned and manifested itself in the French plays of
Piotr Skowroński
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German Life and Letters, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 419-436, July 2026.ABSTRACT This article considers how trans lives are mediated across literary, painterly and filmic registers in Paul B. Preciado's Orlando, My Political Biography (2023). My analysis draws on Andrew Webber's development of reading practices applied to intertextual works that also exhibit interpictorial and interfilmic dynamics in his reading of a scene
Lawrence Alexander
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Between Byzantium and Islam: Royal iconography and the Church of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar [PDF]
, 1995 This thesis examines the royal iconography of the palatine Church of the Holy Cross, built by Gagik Artsruni, first king of Vaspurakan, on the island of Alt'amar in the years 915-21.
Jones, Lynn Anne
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Out of the wilderness : a fourteenth-century English drawing of John the Baptist [PDF]
, 2014 London, British Library, MS Royal 10 B XIV contains a large drawing of St. John the Baptist that is both exceptional for its quality and iconographically unique.
Luxford, Julian Marcus
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