Beginning in Central Europe in the 1690s and spreading to the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire by 1700, large-scale Italian ceiling paintings soared in popularity as nobles of all ranks competed with one another to produce ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their ...
Eastern Germany, Poland, and Czech Republic are poor today, but the rest of what was once the Holy Roman Empire is very prosperous. So, two lines of thought here.One, socialism is really bad for people. It not only destroys economies and political and civil liberties, it also destroys ins...
Pseudohistorians unaware of that aspect of Latin grammar have concluded that the sentence is incomplete, missing a verb, and have speculated that it represents some esoteric message concealed in a (possibly anagrammatic) code."ET IN ARCADIA EGO" appears as the title of two paintings by Nicolas ...
Holy Roman Empire, political entity of lands in western and central Europe, founded by Charlemagne in ad 800 and dissolved by Emperor Francis II in 1806. The extent and strength of the empire largely depended on the military and diplomatic skill of its emperors, both of which fluctuated conside...
The museums, however, house only part of the Vatican's treasure, for many of the Renaissance and modern paintings are found in the galleries surrounding the various courtyards, such as the Cortile del Belvedere and the Cortile San Damasco. Adjoining the Cortile San Damasco is the building con...
Although ozone and nitrogen dioxide does not enter the showcase in any detectable amounts, the presence of either compound inside the church room still poses a risk to other, openly exposed heritage materials in the church room, such as dyes and pigments in paintings (see summary of literature...
Going far beyond what had been done there, Hagia Sophia would be the biggest Christian church in the Roman Empire and boast the largest dome ever built until the Renaissance. Sergius and Bacchus could have been fit inside Hagia Sophia with room to spare! No expense would be spared in making...
of the “Right Knowledge” that inspired various artistic works beginning in 16th and 17th Centuries that also produced Jay Z’s album cover of the 16th Century sculpture of Alpheus and Arethusa, and Nicolas Poussin’s coded works containing Knights Temp...
” <…> “In my opinion the Roman Catholic religion is not a faith at all, but simply a continuation of the Roman Empire, and everything is subordinated to this idea—beginning with faith”. <…> “Atheism is the child of Roman Catholicism—it proceeded from these Romans themselves, ...
The existence of the offices ofchief rabbiin the State of Israel derives from the situation in theOttoman Empire, where the various religious communities functioned as quasi-political entities in a multiethnic conglomerate. Israel has two chief rabbis, one for theAshkenazic(European) and one for th...