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The royal couple, who is sitting in a dark, stage-like room, illuminated by a light source, are wrapped in lavishly flowing robes. The king is wearing a turban-like cap with a crown. His gaze is somber and fixed forward into space. He is perhaps worried because the death of his unmarried daughter will mean the end of his line.
[2] [3] [4] Karl Thopia, the Prince of Albania, died in 1388 and was buried in Saint John Vladimir's Church. [5] [6] During the 18th century Kostandin Shpataraku painted the walls of the church. [7] An Orthodox monastery grew around the church, and became the seat of the newly founded Archdiocese of Dyrrhachium in the 18th century.
Hanf was the fifth child of the pharmacist Karl (d. 1817) in the monastery of St Lambrecht in Upper Styria. He was born Karl Ignaz Hanf. While just nine, his father and at the age of eleven he went to school to Admont Abbey where his mother Elizabeth Zach (d. 1824) took him on a two-day journey by foot. He studied briefly at Judenberg the next ...
Karl Friedrich Lessing, also known by Carl Friedrich Lessing (15 February 1808, Breslau – 4 January 1880, Karlsruhe), was a German historical and landscape painter, grandnephew of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing [1] and one of the main exponents of the Düsseldorf school of painting.
The free-standing tombs are usually variations of either a flat-topped storage chest, or a tub with sloping sides and a convex lid of tapered decks. Ornamentation ranges from simple to elaborate. Until far in the 18th century, the most common material for a sarcophagus here was a bronze-like alloy of tin, coated with shellac.
The Valley of Death or Winnetou and Shatterhand in the Valley of Death (German: Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten) is a 1968 western film directed by Harald Reinl and starring Lex Barker, Pierre Brice and Rik Battaglia. It was the last in a series of films based on Karl May novels. These had previously enjoyed major commercial success ...
System Mechanic is an easy solution for optimal PC performance and simple computing. Once downloaded, it helps speed up slow computers by removing unnecessary software and files and fixes problems ...
Karl George Matzek ( 6 July 1895 – 16 April 1983) was an Austrian artist of Czech descent who is best noted for his panoramas of historic battles [1] and murals of Biblical scenes in churches. Matzek was a graduate of the Berlin Academy of Art. His artwork was shown in museums and at major galleries of Europe at his artistic height (in the ...