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The northern facade of the Palace of the Porphyrogenitus after the modern renovation. The Palace of the Porphyrogenitus (Greek: τὸ Παλάτιον τοῦ Πορφυρογεννήτου), known in Turkish as the Tekfur Sarayı ("Palace of the Sovereign"), [1] is a late 13th-century Byzantine palace in the north-western part of the old city of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul, Turkey).
'westerly wind'), also spelled in English as Zephyr, is the god and personification of the West wind, one of the several wind gods, the Anemoi. The son of Eos (the goddess of the dawn) and Astraeus , Zephyrus is the most gentle and favourable of the winds, associated with flowers, springtime and even procreation. [ 1 ]
Landscape with Psyche Outside the Palace of Cupid, or The Enchanted Castle, 1664, [1] is a painting, oil on canvas, by Claude Lorrain in the National Gallery, London. It was commissioned by Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna , a Roman aristocrat.
Recent investigations have shown that Janssens made the designs for three other tapestries: Zephyr abducts Psyche to an enchanted palace, Zephyr transports Psyches sisters to this palace and Psyche discovers the identity of Cupido (Paris, Louvre). [2]
Zephyrus on an antique fresco in Pompeii Zephyrus and Hyacinth; Attic red-figure cup from Tarquinia, c. 480 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Zephyr and Flora, c. 1720, by Antonio Corradini, Victoria and Albert Museum. Zephyrus (Gk. Ζέφυρος [Zéphyros]), [5] sometimes shortened in English to Zephyr, is the Greek god of the west wind. The ...
The set changes for the third act, representing a magnificent palace. At this time, Vulcan sings the second intermede, encouraging his crew of cyclops to finish building the palace. Act three: Zephyr informs Cupid that he has successfully brought Psyché to her new palace and expresses his surprise at Cupid's new, adult appearance. Psyché ...
Zephyr Wright was born in 1915 in Marshall, Texas. Zephyr Wright was born in 1915 in Marshall, Texas, where she was forced to confront the reality of the Jim Crow South. From an early age, Wright ...
The palace survived until the Tang dynasty, when it was burnt down by marauding invaders en route to the Tang capital, Chang'an. It was the largest palace complex ever built on Earth, [26] covering 4.8 square kilometres (1.9 sq mi), which is 6.7 times the size of the current Forbidden City, or 11 times the size of the Vatican City.