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The 17th century palace inventories included the works of the greatest contemporary and ancient masters, like Rembrandt ( Portuguese rabbi, Jewish Girl in a beret, The Adoration of the Magi, Abraham and Hagar, Portrait of an old man in the so-called Dutch Room of the palace ), Pieter van Laer, called Bamboccio ( Travellers ), Anthony van Dyck ( Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane ), Ferdinand van Kessel ( batalistic scenes, allegorical paintings and still lifes ), Raphael, Caracci brothers, Guido Reni and Bernardo Strozzi.
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They serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that prevailed in the 17th century.
The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;
The speaking of the lines seemed excessively slow and stately, possibly in an effort to capture the spirit of 17th century elegance.
In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.
In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.
During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">
Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the famous 17th century microscopist, discovered living organisms ( living, because they were motile ) in deposits on the teeth ( what we now call dental plaque ).
The Mitanni appeared in the 17th century BC and spoke an Indo-Aryan language related to the Indo-European languages eventually to be found in India.
It was established to be an element around the 17th century.
Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).
A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.
For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.
It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.
Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Ever since Arminius and his followers revolted against Calvinism in the early 17th century, Protestant soteriology has been largely divided between Calvinism and Arminianism.
The Bolivian Andes produce principally tin although historically silver mining had a huge impact on the economy of 17th century Europe.
The rules were not completely fixed in the 17th century.
When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.
Natural philosophers ( astronomers and others ) of the 17th century transposed their discoveries into Latin anagrams, to establish their priority.
The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.
Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.
It was introduced to Europe at the close of the 17th century as a handsome greenhouse plant, and is hardy outdoors in the south of England and Ireland if protected from severe frosts.
The first assembly of the estates-general convened at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm his independence ) is a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.
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At the end of the 17th century, the margraves ' palace at Ansbach was rebuilt in Baroque style.
In 1910, G. A. Reisner found sixty-three inscribed potsherds while excavating the royal palace at Samaria, which were later dated to the reign of Jeroboam II and mention regnal years extending from the ninth to the 17th of his reign.
An Iranian woman playing a frame drum, from a painting on the walls of Chehel-sotoon palace, Isfahan ( city ) | Isfahan, 17th century, Iran.
The palace was a residence of the House of Orange-Nassau from the 17th century until the death of Queen Wilhelmina in 1962.
The palace, a Dutch renaissance structure four storeys tall with a stepped gable and called Braheska huset (" The Brahe house ") until its demolition, is often appearing next to the Fleming House in engravings and paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.
In the town there are fine examples of old architecture: a Renaissance castle ( 16th century ), named Little Wawel after the royal palace in Kraków ; a church with a cloister ( 17th century ); and an old wooden inn, called Rzym ( Rome ) ( 18th century ).
* The Alcázar of Madrid was a palace built by Emperor Charles V ( rebuilt by his son, Philip II ) and was the main royal residence in Madrid until the Buen Retiro Palace partly superseded it in the 17th century.
The original Terem Palace was also commissioned by Ivan III, but most of the existing palace was built in the 17th century.
The palace remained in use until the 17th century, when it was divided into tenements and warehouses, but was mostly destroyed by fire in 1814.
A mediaeval fort with embellishments dating from the 15th and 17th century, the entire construction a classified historical monument, the Bishops ' palace of Bourg-Saint-Andéol with inside the museum René Margotton, front of Rhône, is one of the largest and most complex in the Vivarais region.
Major public buildings were constructed at the beginning of the 17th century: the municipal palace, the monastery of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, and the Hospital de Nuestra Señora de Loreto.
** Château de l ' Hermine ( former castle, transformed into a palace in the 17th century )
The palace of Lednice began its life as a Renaissance villa ; in the 17th century it became a summer residence of the ruling Princes of Liechtenstein.
The city hall occupies the former bishop's palace, designed in the 17th century by Jules Hardouin-Mansart ( the architect of Versailles ), and with gardens designed by André Le Nôtre ( the designer of the gardens in Versailles ).
Extant historical Ostankino includes the main wooden palace, built in 1792-1798 around a theater hall, with adjacent Egyptian and Italian pavilions, a 17th century Trinity church, and fragments of the old Ostankino park with a replica of Milovzor folly.
Sheremetev's heirs barely maintained the palace ; in 1830s they demolished the old living quarters dating back to 17th century, and some of the free-standing service buildings.
As a part of decorative features of churches and palace staterooms, plafonds were popular from the 17th century until the beginning of the 19th century.
This palace was leased to a succession of nobles, and in the early 17th century was in the possession of Edward Lord Wotton, who employed John Tradescant the elder, to lay out formal gardens around it.
* Paolucci palace, built in the 17th century by Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci, sets out on Via Cairoli, near Piazza Pia.
* Pac-Radziwiłł Palace-The palace was constructed for Dominik Mikołaj at the end of the 17th century.
During the various wars in the late 17th century, the palace was unoccupied.
In the 17th century, the village belonged to Sapieha family, who founded a fortified monastery and a palace here.
The Bishop's Palace was pulled down in the 17th century, the only remnants being part of the moat and a yew tree which formerly stood in the palace grounds.
The present-day palace is a building from the 17th century and serves as a hotel.
The palace was originally in the 17th century a Renaissance summer seat for the archbishops of Esztergom ( since Esztergom had been occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1543, the archbishops were based in Bratislava ).
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