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The monogram for which the Brunswick Monogrammist is named appears only once, on his (or her) Parable of the Great Supper in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum in Brunswick.It is composed of the interlocked letters J, V, A, M, S and L, [2] and neither it nor careful analysis of his work have yielded consensus about his identity.
Napoleon, a typical great man, said to have created the "Napoleonic" era through his military and political genius. The great man theory is an approach to the study of history popularised in the 19th century according to which history can be largely explained by the impact of great men, or heroes: highly influential and unique individuals who, due to their natural attributes, such as superior ...
The Parable of the Great Banquet or the Wedding Feast or the Marriage of the King's Son is a parable told by Jesus in the New Testament, found in Matthew 22:1–14 [1] and Luke 14:15–24. [2] It is not to be confused with a different Parable of the Wedding Feast recorded in the Gospel of Luke.
This is a list of people known as the Great, or the equivalent, in their own language. Other languages have their own suffixes, such as Persian e Bozorg and Hindustani e Azam . In Persia, the title "the Great" at first seems to have been a colloquial version of the Old Persian title "Great King" ( King of Kings , Shahanshah ).
The parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-37) [5] complemented by a series of Old and New Testament typologies served as a popular subject for cathedral glazing programs in the thirteenth century. [6] Three French cathedral windows fabricated between 1200 and 1215 function in this way: Sens (c.1200), Chartres (1205/1215), [7] and Bourges (c ...
"The Brave Little Tailor" is a story of Aarne–Thompson Type 1640, with individual episodes classified in other story types. [1] Andrew Lang included it in The Blue Fairy Book. [2] The tale was translated as Seven at One Blow. [3] Another of many versions of the tale appears in A Book of Giants by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. [1] A parable is a type of metaphorical analogy. [2]
The parable of the talents, depicted in a 1712 woodcut. The lazy servant searches for his buried talent, while the two other servants present their earnings to their master. The Parable of the Talents (also the Parable of the Minas) is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in two of the synoptic, canonical gospels of the New Testament: