Though desirous of the union, Wenceslaus I of Bohemia nevertheless voiced his concerns given a preexisting agreement that Gertrude marry his eldest son and heir Vladislaus.

Though Gertrude was never formally canonized, nevertheless she received equipotent canonization, and a universal feast day was declared in the year 1677 by Pope Clement XII.

Though Gertrude herself possessed no powers she seemed to have a high level of intellect at her age being able in the first volume to understand how Cloaks ' cape and powers worked and how to revive them.

Though the money thus collected was considerable, it was by no means sufficient for a general crusade as planned by Honorius III.

Though it sometimes seems as though the mourners have collected all their memorabilia and conducted their interviews for some official purpose, this is never made clear.

Though a local educated worker at the Jiangyong Cultural Office ( Zhou Shuoyi ) had collected, studied and translated many Nüshu texts into standard Chinese, he was unable to draw outside attention to the script until a report was submitted to the central government on this subject in 1983.

Though theoretically the possibility of erecting a new Roman Catholic cathedral remains on the agenda, in reality most of the funds collected for the building of a new cathedral have been spent erecting new churches in the rapidly growing archdiocese.

Though not strictly speaking a postal history topic can be collected as such.

Though it did not last past issue # 3, a collected edition was published by Eternity Comics in 1987 that included the " missing " issue 4.

" Though he is normally calm, collected and intelligent, he can be irrational when angered.

Though in 1645 Lemercier was receiving, as first among the royal architects ( premier architecte du Roi ), a salary of 3000 livres, after his death — in the house he had built for himself, still standing at n ° 46 rue de l ’ Arbre Sec ( Gady )— it was necessary to sell the large library he had collected, in order to settle his debts.

Though he had an immediate impact on the team, Bouchard had not scored many points for the team ; in his first season, 1941 – 42, he collected six points in the regular season and scored the first NHL goal of his career in the Canadiens ' first-round playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings.

Though not strictly secular, the Yiddish works of authors like Sholem Aleichem ( whose collected works amounted to 28 volumes ) and Isaac Bashevis Singer ( winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize ), form their own canon, focusing on the Jewish experience in both Eastern Europe, and in America.

Though many such Buranjis have been collected, compiled and published, an unknown number of Buranjis are still in private hands.

Though tolls are no longer collected, beginning February 19, 2009 there was talk of resuming westbound toll collection to fund major traffic solutions and a tunnel.

Though A. ritteri has been collected for decades and there has been destruction of its habitat, the number of plants in habitat is several million.

Though the way sales figures were collected was less precise before 1995, the fastest selling album ( first week sales ) is Oasis ' Be Here Now, selling 663, 389 copies in its first week in the UK in August 1997.

Though the house does not include any items originally owned by the Poe family, many items are collected nearby at the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Though chiefly naturalistic, the cubist influence is also present here.

Though fascinated by the narrative elements of some of the pictures, particularly the Biblical themes of the massive paintings of Benjamin West, at this point Beaux had no aspirations of becoming an artist.

Though his popularity rested initially on paintings of animals and fruit, by the 1730s he introduced kitchen utensils into his work ( The Copper Cistern, ca. 1735, Louvre ).

Though using both flat wooden panel and stretched canvas paintings, Catholics traditionally have also favored images in the form of three-dimensional statuary, whereas in the East statuary is much less widely employed.

Though his work crossed many stylistic boundaries, his involvement with the other major figures of Impressionism and their exhibitions, his dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold color experiments, served to finally tie him to the Impressionist movement as one of its greatest artists.

Though he did not like the illustration work, Hopper was a lifelong devotee of the cinema and the theatre, both of which became subjects for his paintings.

Though she posed for many of his paintings, Josephine modeled for only one oil portrait, Jo Painting ( 1936 ).

Though Hopper claimed that he didn ’ t consciously embed psychological meaning in his paintings, he was deeply interested in Freud and the power of the subconscious mind.

Though dead elms also appear in Italian paintings of the late 15th century, this suggestion remains largely speculative, and there is no proof that it was caused by a fungus related to Dutch elm disease.

Though Ofili's detractors often state that he " splatters " elephant dung on his pictures, this is inaccurate: he sometimes applies it directly to the canvas in the form of dried spherical lumps, and sometimes, in the same form, uses it as varnished foot-like supports on which the paintings stand.

Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day.

Though the San people's artworks are predominantly paintings, the beliefs behind them can perhaps be used as a basis for understanding other types of rock art, including petroglyphs.

Though no large statues are known to still exist, many hand scrolls and paintings on silk can be found in private collections.

Though he was born and died in Venice, his paintings are distinctly Roman in style ; he moved to Rome in 1598, joining the Accademia di San Luca in 1607.

Though he primarily works with watercolour paints, many of his paintings make use of multiple media, including gouache, ink, enamel, crayon and collage.

Though the National Gallery, London has only a single example, a painting of dead game and a dog, the Wallace Collection, also in London, has a number of paintings, including the intriguingly disturbing " Flowers on a Fountain with a Peacock.

Though he lived until the 1680s, Heda ’ s last known paintings we created in the 1660s.

Though his ambition led him at times to try his skill in large religious, historical and mythological compositions, his claim to fame depends chiefly on his landscapes and paintings of peasants carousing, of kermesse scenes and the like, which are marked by a healthy sense of humour, and which are not infrequently confused with the early works of his son David.

Though the paintings and the garden remained back at city hall, 40 years after Carl Linnaeus had published his Systema Naturae no one was interested in the garden ( which was set up as a living version of that book ), and still fewer people were interested in the religious art.

Though comics were the main focus, many issues included galleries of non-comics illustration and illustrated prose or non-fiction pieces ; for example, Raw Volume 2 Number 2 featured one of the earliest published articles on Henry Darger, complete with fold-out color reproductions of his paintings and diaries.

Though much admired, like those of Gainsborough his landscapes were hard to sell, and he sometimes resorted, as Reynolds complained, to the common strategem of turning them into history paintings by adding a few small figures, which doubled their price to about £ 80.

Though he has been based in Ireland ever since, he is widely traveled and his richly expressionist, semi-abstract paintings have been strongly influenced by time spent in such far-flung places as Lapland, New Zealand, Borneo and Malaya.

Though still interested in including figures in his urban paintings, his new summer works done at Gloucester Harbor, Newport, Old Lyme, and other New England locales show increasing attention to pure landscapes and buildings.

Though the painting The Bridge in Curve was rejected from the Society of Artists exhibition in 1930 it is now considered one of Australia's best modernist paintings.

Though he was exceptionally good at perspective, he was not good in drawing figures or details, and used for his paintings a metal plate for bricks, and a sponge or moss for the leaves.