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During the 1937 election, his party registered its strongest showing, placing third and winning 15.8% of the vote. It was blocked out of power by King Carol II , who invited the rival fascists and fourth-place finishers of the National Christian Party to form a short-lived government, succeeded by the National Renaissance Front royal dictatorship.
[6] [7] The overall message of the anthem is a "call to action"; it proposes a "now or never" urge for change present in many national anthems like the French revolutionary song "La Marseillaise" – hence why Nicolae Bălcescu called it the "Romanian Marseillaise".
Roman mosaic was a minor art, though often on a very large scale, until the very end of the period, when late-4th-century Christians began to use it for large religious images on walls in their new large churches; in earlier Roman art mosaic was mainly used for floors, curved ceilings, and inside and outside walls that were going to get wet.
Fortuna (Latin: Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at least the Renaissance.
Roman Charity (Latin: Caritas Romana; Italian: Carità Romana) or Cimon and Pero is an ancient Greek and Roman exemplary story (exemplum) of filial piety (pietas) in which a woman secretly breastfeeds her father or mother, incarcerated and supposedly sentenced to death by starvation. Once caught, the loving devotion shown so moves the ...
Giulio Pippi (c. 1499 – 1 November 1546), known as Giulio Romano and Jules Romain (US: / ˌ dʒ uː l j oʊ r ə ˈ m ɑː n oʊ / JOOL-yoh rə-MAH-noh, [1] Italian: [ˈdʒuːljo roˈmaːno]; French: Jules Romain), [a] was an Italian Renaissance painter and architect.
The famous Capitoline Wolf may be of Etruscan or Old Latin origin. [10] But, a discovery during its restoration in 2000 and radiocarbon dating has cast doubt on an ancient origin. [ 11 ] An Etruscan stele from Bologna , dated to between 350 and 400 BC, depicts an animal, possibly a wolf, nursing a single infant.
Gypsy Fortune Teller by Taras Shevchenko.. Many fictional depictions of the Roma in literature and art present Romanticized narratives of their supposed mystical powers of fortune telling, and their supposed irascible or passionate temper which is paired with an indomitable love of freedom and a habit of criminality.