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The painting was inspired by a trip across Pennsylvania in an old car that required frequent repair. [1] Eternal City (1934–1937) was politically charged, portraying Benito Mussolini as a jack-in-the-box emerging from the Colosseum; as a one-man, one-painting exhibition, it excited considerable attention from critics and audiences.
Poussin places the story of Orpheus in the Campagna Romana (Roman countryside): the Castel Sant'Angelo and the Torre delle Milizie ("Tower of the Militia") figure in this painting, borrowed from the landscape of the Eternal City. [1] Dense smoke pours from a fire which devastates the Castle, and darkens a sky already overcast with sombre clouds.
The city of Rome; The city of Kyoto, Japan, specifically the historical Heian-kyō, dubbed Yorozuyo no Miya (万代宮, "The Eternal City") The Eternal City, a 1901 novel by Hall Caine; The Eternal City, a film based on the 1901 novel; The Eternal City, 1923 lost film directed by George Fitzmaurice based on the novel; The Eternal City, a 2008 film
Nevertheless, the city of Rome retained a paramount position as "the eternal city" and a spiritual center of the Empire. This was the first time in almost 800 years that Rome had fallen to a foreign enemy, and the sack was a major shock to contemporaries, friends and foes of the Empire alike.
The parallel of Rome and Babylon had a particular significance for Bruegel's contemporaries: Rome was the Eternal City, intended by the Caesars to last forever, and its decay and ruin were taken to symbolize the vanity and transience of earthly efforts. [6]
It was first called The Eternal City (Latin: Urbs Aeterna; Italian: La Città Eterna) by the Roman poet Tibullus in the 1st century BC, and the expression was also taken up by Ovid, Virgil, and Livy. [12] [13] Rome is also called Caput Mundi (Capital of the World).
Florence Evelyn Nesbit (December 25, 1884 or 1885 – January 17, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress.She is best known for her career in New York City, as well as her husband, railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw's obsessive and abusive fixation on both Nesbit and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
Leonardo Nierman, with Cristina Pacheco and artist Eugenia Marcos at a Uriarte Talavera event at the El Palacio de Hierro in Mexico City. Leonardo Nierman Mendelejis (November 1 1932 – June 7 2023) was a Mexican artist mostly known for his painting and sculpture.