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[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.
Depiction of Karl Thopia in a founder icon presenting the church of Gjon Vladimiri in Elbasan. He is depicted in the scenes of the life of Saint Jovan Vladimir in Ardenica Monastery, painted by Kostandin Shpataraku. In 1381, Karl built the St. Gjon Vladimir's Church in the proximity of Elbasan, where Jovan Vladimir's remains were held until ...
A King and Queen in Mourning is an oil on canvas painting by German artist Karl Friedrich Lessing, created in 1830, showing a royal couple mourning their daughter's death, a scene from Ludwig Uhland's poem Das Schloß am Meere.
The saint is presented in a traditional way, as a bearded capitulary with a five-star glory, standing on a tripartite base. The base portrays scenes from the life of St. John of Nepomuk, including the confession of Queen Johanna and the saint's death. In 1393 St. John of Nepomuk was thrown from the bridge into the river where he drowned.
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 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 ...
Charles was left so grief-stricken by his wife's death that for two months he shut himself up in a monastery, where he prayed and mourned for her in solitude. [195] Charles never recovered from Isabella's death, dressing in black for the rest of his life to show his eternal mourning, and, unlike most kings of the time, he never remarried.
The killer of his father, Magnus Henriksen, was slain in 1161 by another pretender, Karl Sverkersson, who took the throne and resided in Näs Castle at the southern point of Visingsö, an island in Lake Vättern. Knut came over and slew Karl on 12 April 1167. The sources do not allow us to tell if it was a regicide or if Karl was killed in battle.