The Spanish guitar of David Rizzio.
The Guitar of David Rizzio.
Tag: Cultural history
The English royal crowns.
The King’s crowns. St. Edward’s Crown. The Imperial State Crown. The Imperial Crown of India.
Agnes of Rome or Saint Agnes, martyr of purity.
Saint Agnes is venerated as a martyr, consecrated virgin and saint; celebrated on 21 January according to the Roman Martyrology as a martyr of purity.
Odin the Father of Gods and Men.
ODIN, Wuotan, or Woden was the highest and holiest god of the Northern races.
The Palazzo Vecchio at Florence by Alexandre Dumas.
The Palazzo Vecchio (“old palace”), as the seat of the city parliament, represented the center of secular power in 14th century Florence.
Hilendar on Mount Athos, the “Holy Mountain.”
The mountain of Athos is well known throughout the entire Orthodox world as the centre of a great monastic republic.
King Richard and the third crusade. The Knights of english history.
The Exploits of King Richard I. the Third Crusade. The siege of Acre. The third crusade.
Bramshill House. Hampshire, United Kingdom.
BRAMSHILL HOUSE is one of the most perfect of the remaining mansions of the time of James the First.
James Wolfe and the capture of Quebec City.
James Wolfe (1727-1759) was a British general, significant for his role in Britain’s conquest of Canada.
The Jains. Benares, the sacred city in India.
Jainism is the only one of the early Indian monastic orders which has handed down almost intact its tenets and organisation to the present day.