Returning to Italy, the most celebrated doors are those of the Battistero di San Giovanni ( Florence ), which together with the door frames are all in bronze, the borders of the latter being perhaps the most remarkable: the modeling of the figures, birds and foliage of the south doorway, by Andrea Pisano ( 1330 ), and of the east doorway by Ghiberti ( 1425 – 1452 ), are of great beauty ; in the north door ( 1402 – 1424 ) Ghiberti adopted the same scheme of design for the paneling and figure subjects in them as Andrea Pisano, but in the east door the rectangular panels are all filled, with bas-reliefs, in which Scripture subjects are illustrated with innumerable figures, these being probably the gates of Paradise of which Michelangelo speaks.

Julius extended his patronage to the great Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whom he brought to Rome as his maestro di cappella, Giorgio Vasari, who supervised the design of the Villa Giulia, and to Michelangelo, who worked there.

Masaccio (; December 21, 1401 – autumn 1428 ), born Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone, was the first great painter of the Quattrocento period of the Italian Renaissance.

Among the cast was the young Enrico Caruso, who performed with great success the Lamento di Federico: È la solita storia del pastore, the romance which was to keep alive the memory of the opera even to the present day.

Because of his influence, Cimarosa obtained a scholarship at the musical institute of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained for eleven years, chiefly studying with great masters of the old Italian school ; Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini, and other musicians of repute are mentioned among his teachers.

Lebesgue's great thesis, Intégrale, longueur, aire, with the full account of this work, appeared in the Annali di Matematica in 1902.

He was the great founding patron of the Certosa di Pavia, completing the Visconti Castle at Pavia begun by his father and furthering work on the Duomo of Milan.

The annual payment of a tax which had been in place for over 100 years caused great discontent and rebellion finally broke out in Mondovì, where the people refused to pay taxes to the emissary of Savoy, Andrea Cantatore di Breo.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great Sala di Cosimo I of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where he and his assistants were at work from 1555, and the frescoes he started inside the vast cupola of the Duomo, completed by Federico Zuccari and with the help of Giovanni Balducci.

* The State Censors were set up in 1517 by Marco Giovanni di Giovanni, a cousin of Doge Andrea Gritti ( 1523 – 1538 ) and nephew of the great Francesco Foscari.

In Florence, the Medici again took the lead in establishing the Accademia di Belle Arti Firenze in 1563, the first of the more formally organised art academies that gradually displaced the medieval artists ' guilds, usually known as the Guild of Saint Luke, as the bodies responsible for training and often regulating artists, a change with great implications for the development of art, leading to the styles known as Academic art.

" The great scholars of the Renaissance with whom he corresponded include Shmuel ben Moshe di Modena, Joseph Katz, Solomon Luria, Moses Isserles, Obadiah Sforno, and Moses Alashkar.

His great work, however, is the Dissertationi di fisica animale e vegetale ( 2 vols, 1780 ).

Nevertheless the Catholic Counter-Reformation, which under Jesuit influence was reaching a peak in Bavaria in the late sixteenth century, had a demonstrable impact on Lassus ' late work, including the liturgical music for the Roman Rite, the burgeoning number of Magnificats, the settings of the Catholic Ulenberg Psalter ( 1588 ), and especially the great penitential cycle of spiritual madrigals, the ' Lagrime di San Pietro ' ( 1594 ).

Villani describes the indulgence connected with this jubilee as a full and entire remission of all sins di culpa e di pena (), and he dwells upon the great contentment and good order of the people, despite the fact that during the greater part of that year there were two hundred thousand pilgrims on an average present in Rome over and above the ordinary population.

He returned to his studies and commenced his great Storia della Repubblica di Firenze ; but he followed political affairs with great interest, and helped to convince Lord John Russell, who stayed with him in 1859, of the hopelessness of the grand duke's position.

" The final title that was applied to the work when it was first published in October, 1806, was Sinfonia Eroica ... composta per festeggiare il sovvenire di un grand Uomo (" heroic symphony, composed to celebrate the memory of a great man ").

Son of Vittoria Francesca di Savoia ( 1690 – 1766 ; great < sup > 5 </ sup >- granddaughter of Diane ) & Vittorio Amadeo de Savoie ( 1690 – 1741 ; great < sup > 3 </ sup >- grandson of Catherine ), Prince de Carignano.

Giovanni Francesco Abela was born in Valletta to Marco Abela and Benarda Vella whose great great grandfather was Barone di Pietra Lunga and whose ancestors ruled Malta on more than one occasion and were part of the royal family of Spain.

United States Senator Royal S. Copeland was wearing the robes of Santa Claus and a great white beard ; ;

He also encouraged architecture, and the general improvement of Rome, where houses were razed to straighten and widen streets and where he had the opportunity to be a great patron for Gian Lorenzo Bernini: the decorations of the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, titular churches for several of the Chigi cardinals, the Scala Regia, the Chair of St. Peter in the Vatican Basilica.

The name of Sixtus is often connected with a great building boom in Rome: Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill was dedicated during his pontificate and he built Santa Maria Maggiore, whose dedication to Mary the Mother of God reflected his acceptance of the Ecumenical council of Ephesus which closed in 431.

In 1988, Hurricane Gilbert caused great damage to the city ; the Santa Catarina River overflowed, causing about 100 deaths and economic damage.

Other projects include the new district near the Santa Gilla pond ( Piazza Santa Gilla ), a luxurious beauty-center on the Poetto beach, where now is the old abandoned " Marino " hospital, the new university campus, designed by Paulo Mendes da Rocha, and the new " Parco della musica ", a great park with an amphitheatre and fountains, channels and water-games, between T-hotel and the Civic Theatre ; the latter will be finished by the end of the year, while the other works will be finished by 2010 – 2011.

" He also performed a great deal of voice work in his cartoons, usually throwaway bits ( e. g. the Santa Claus seen briefly in Who Killed Who?

However, the rapid increase in Westward exploration and expansion ultimately made Independence the starting point for three of the great Westward Trails: the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail and the California Trail.

Forty-four years after his death, on 7 June 1871, his remains were brought to Florence, and with all the pride, pomp and circumstance of a great national mourning, found their final resting-place beside the monuments of Machiavelli and Alfieri, of Michelangelo and Galileo, in the church of Santa Croce, the pantheon of Italian glory he had celebrated in Dei sepolcri.

Yorba's great rancho included the lands where the communities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach stand today.

Yorba's great rancho included the lands where the cities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach stand today.

Yorba's great rancho included the lands where the cities of Olive, Orange, Villa Park, Santa Ana, Tustin, Costa Mesa and Newport Beach stand today.

The town of Edmond sprang up overnight during the great Oklahoma land run on April 22, 1889, when homesteads were staked around the Santa Fe station.

Meanwhile, Dropo, Kimar's assistant, has taken a great liking to Santa Claus and Christmas, puts on one of Santa's spare suits and starts acting like Santa Claus.

The was a great wooden steamer launched in 1914 to serve as a ferry across the San Pedro Channel to Santa Catalina Island.

For many years, Canadian Tire's Christmas ads featured Santa Claus and Ebenezer Scrooge arguing about whether Canadian Tire's great selection or their low prices are the better reason to do Christmas shopping there, with the tagline " Give like Santa, save like Scrooge ".

His court was the center of great splendor, of which the palace and church of Santa María del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo are testimony.

The centre stage for the Renaissance would prove to be Italy, where city-states such as Florence erected great structures, including the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, the Fountain of Neptune, and the Laurentian Library which was planned and built by Michelangelo Buonarroti, a famous stonemason of the Renaissance.

Frawley had a notable performance in the 1947 holiday favorite, Miracle on 34th Street, as Judge Harper's political adviser ( who warns his client in great detail of the dire political consequences if he rules that there is not any Santa Claus ).

The Virgin Assumed in Heaven is also patroness of the Maltese Islands and her feast, celebrated on 15 August, apart from being a public holiday in Malta is also celebrated with great solemnity in all the local churches especially in the seven localities known as the Seba ' Santa Marijiet.

Maria Key, 2, 2:06 looked great in 2:22 ; ;

Maria Feodorovna's grandson-in-law, Prince Felix Yusupov, noted that she had great influence in the Romanov family.

Not only did they impose themselves as moral guides to the people of Milan, but they also gave a great impulse to culture, with the creation of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, in a building designed by Francesco Maria Ricchino, and the nearby Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.

Following the Spanish discovery of great silver deposits at Potosí in Bolivia and in Mexico during the 16th century, international trade came to depend on coins such as the Spanish dollar, Maria Theresa thaler, and, in the 1870s, the United States Trade dollar.

Mozart also made a strong impression on the manager of the theater, Count Franz Xaver Rosenberg-Orsini, when in the home of Mozart's friend and patroness Maria Wilhelmine Thun the Count heard him play excerpts from his opera Idomeneo, premiered with great success the previous year in Munich.

During this Austrian period the University was greatly supported by Maria Theresa of Austria and saw a great renaissance that eventually led to a second renaissance due to the presence of leading scientists and humanists like Ugo Foscolo, Alessandro Volta, Lazzaro Spallanzani, Camillo Golgi among others.

Thus, the birth of Maria Theresa was a great disappointment to him and the people of Vienna ; Charles never managed to overcome this feeling.

* In the Piazza dei Signori is the beautiful loggia called the Gran Guardia, ( 1493 – 1526 ), and close by is the Palazzo del Capitaniato, the residence of the Venetian governors, with its great door, the work of Giovanni Maria Falconetto, the Veronese architect-sculptor who introduced Renaissance architecture to Padua and who completed the door in 1532.

Maria Theresa, as a woman, was perceived as weak, and other rulers ( such as Charles Albert of Bavaria ) put forward their own competing claims to the crown as male heirs with a clear genealogical basis to inherit the elected dignities of the great Imperial title.

Francesco Maria Tassi ( 1716-1782 ), in his Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects of Bergamo remarks that Zuccarelli paints " landscapes with the most charming figures and thus excels not only artists of modern times but rivals the great geniuses of the past ; for no one previously knew how to combine the delights of an harmonious ground with figures gracefully posed and represented in the most natural colours ".

Marie Louise was a great granddaughter of Empress Maria Theresa through her father, and thus a great niece of Marie Antoinette.

The works best known to English speakers are three great orations delivered at the funerals of Queen Henrietta Maria, widow of Charles I of England ( 1669 ), her daughter, Henriette, Duchess of Orléans ( 1670 ), and the outstanding soldier le Grand Condé ( 1687 ).

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

Vigevano is crowned by the Castello Sforzesco, a stronghold rebuilt 1492 – 94 for Ludovico Maria Sforza ( Ludovico il Moro ), the great patron born in the town, who transformed the fortification / hunting lodge of Luchino Visconti ( who in turn had re-used a Lombard fortress ) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance.

According to Dr. Roy Whitehead in his book Lugo, " Don Antonio Maria Lugo … rode around Los Angeles and his Rancho San Antonio in great splendor.

In 1565 his marriage with Maria of Portugal was celebrated in Brussels with great splendour.

She therefore somehow stands in the tradition of great lady novelists like Maria Edgeworth, Jane Austen or Susan Ferrier.

Ferrary's mother, the Duchess of Gallièra, born Maria de Brignole-Sale, was the great niece of the Princess of Monaco and daughter of the Marquis Antoine de Brignoly-Sale, ambassador of the King of Sardaigne in Paris, under the Restoration and during the reign of Louis-Philippe.

“ Led by Mrs. Washington, Mrs. Morris, and ‘ the dazzling Mrs. Bingham ,’ as Abigail Adams called her, the city embarked on a lavish program of public and private entertainment patterned on English and French models .” Mrs. Adams reports being presently surprised by “ an agreeable society and friendliness kept up with all the principal families, who appear to live in great harmony, and we are met at all the parties nearly the same company .” After the death of their parents, Henrietta, Maria, and Catherine Chew vacated their house on South Third Street, and moved to a family-owned property on Walnut Street.