The King’s crowns. St. Edward’s Crown. The Imperial State Crown. The Imperial Crown of India.
The English royal crowns.
Tag: Cultural history
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.
The Order of the Garter. The most exclusive British order
The Order of the Garter is the most exclusive British order and one of the most prestigious in Europe.
Mesopotamia. The Sumerian Chale. Sumer & Accad.
Restitution of the Sumerian garment in real life, based on a seated statue of Gudea, known as the “Architect with a ruler”.
Attitudes by Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815)
Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815) was a Europe-wide celebrated beauty, artist and socialite of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.
The Hagia Sophia of Trebizond, Turkey. Byzantine Architecture.
The Hagia Sophia, former Byzantine monastic church in Trabzon. Byzantine Art, History and Architecture.