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The mosaics present allegories of events and persons from Swedish history in the Byzantine idiom. [9] The northern wall shows a large seated Queen of Lake Mälar, with Stockholm in her lap. This alludes to the poetic name Mälardrottningen (Queen of Lake Mälar) for Stockholm; the city is located between Lake Mälar and the Baltic Sea.
360° panorama. Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (better known as The Peacock Room [1]) is a work of interior decorative art created by James McNeill Whistler and Thomas Jeckyll, translocated to the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Whistler painted the paneled room in a unified palette of blue-greens with over-glazing and metallic gold leaf.
The Nobel Banquet (Swedish: Nobelfesten) is an annual banquet held on 10 December (the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death) in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall, after the Nobel Prize ceremony. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] At the banquet, for which a formal dress code exists, a multi-course dinner is served and entertainment provided. [ 3 ]
The heads of state then had the opportunity to enjoy the banquet, which took place in Buckingham Palace’s Ballroom, the largest of the state ballrooms in the Palace which has been the location ...
The sapphire-blue silk fabric used for the draperies and furniture upholstery was chosen by Hillary Clinton. The silk lampas upholstery fabric retains the gold eagle medallion on the chair backs, which was adapted from the depiction of one of the Monroe-era chairs in a portrait of James Monroe. The painting, however, depicts the chair ...
The opening day of the 2023 Blue and Gold Tournament featured one of the best individual performances in the tournament's history along with a handful of others that helped lead their teams to ...
Blue & Gold, the school newspaper of Taipei American School "Navy Blue and Gold", the alma mater of the United States Naval Academy; Nocturne: Blue and Gold – Old Battersea Bridge, an 1870s painting; An Annapolis Story, alternatively known as The Blue and Gold, a 1955 American war/drama film; Winnipeg Blue Bombers, a football team in the ...
It was a regal young woman riding a magnificent white horse, wearing a gold crown and a flowing white cape. The woman’s name was Inez Milholland, and on that day in March 3, 1913, she was about ...