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It depicts Charles' visit to Rome after the Bourbon victory over the Austrians at the Battle of Velletri in 1744 – he and pope Benedict XIV were already friends and had signed a Concordat in 1741. It originally hung in the Capodimonte Palace in Naples and in 1806 was moved to the Palazzo degli Studi.
The picture frame with the two children are the other two daughters of Louis and Maria Theresa who died in 1662 and 1664. Nevertheless, Bourbon's action brought a very negative response from Spain, and for his incompetence Bourbon was soon replaced by Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, the young king's tutor, in 1726. Fleury was a peace-loving ...
Family tree of the Sanmicheli family. Much of the information about Michele Sanmicheli's life is known through his first biographer, Giorgio Vasari, who wrote about the Veronese architect in his famous work Le vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori e architettori, though providing scant information for the entire period of his training between Verona and Rome.
The Bourbon Restoration was the period of French history during which the House of Bourbon returned to power after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814 and 1815. The second Bourbon Restoration lasted until the July Revolution of 1830, during the reigns of Louis XVIII (1814-1815, 1815-1824) and Charles X (1824-1830), brothers of the late King ...
The passe-partout serves two purposes: first, to prevent the image from touching the glass, and second, to frame the image and enhance its visual appeal. The cutout in the passe-partout is usually beveled to avoid casting shadows on the picture. The French word may also be used for the tape used to stick the back of the picture to its frame.
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The original page 13 of the Codex Borbonicus, showing the 13th trecena of the Aztec sacred calendar. This 13th trecena was under the auspices of the goddess Tlazolteotl, who is shown on the upper left wearing a flayed skin, giving birth to Cinteotl. The 13 day-signs of this trecena, starting with 1 Earthquake, 2 Flint/Knife, 3 Rain, etc., are ...
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (/ ˈ æ ŋ ɡ r ə / ANG-grə; French: [ʒɑ̃ oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.