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A Royal Passion
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Author : Katie Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-08-12
A Royal Passion written by Katie Whitaker and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From quarrels, passion, treason to execution, discover one of the great overlooked love stories of history. King Charles I was a Protestant. Henrietta Maria, a 15-year-old French princess, was a Catholic. Arranged for political gain, their marriage was a dangerous experiment, yet against the odds they fell in love. However Henrietta's Catholicism fuelled rumours of improper influence over a supposedly helpless king. Unable to trust his Parliament, Charles's fear for the queen's safety plummeted the country into civil war and forced her to flee abroad, never to see her husband again. They kept up a poignant correspondence but in 1649, the king was condemned as a traitor and publicly executed, thus ending an extraordinary partnership that influenced the course of history. 'Bright, subtle and astute' The Spectator 'In her lively portrait of the ill-fated marriage of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, Katie Whitaker has brought their tragedy and the English Civil War vividly to life' David Starkey
A Royal Passion
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Author : Katie Whitaker
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2010-08-17
A Royal Passion written by Katie Whitaker and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-17 with History categories.
A royal marriage, based on romantic passion and ferocious, unbridgeable religious differences, ends in tragedy—a history worthy of Shakespeare. It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage was arranged for political purposes, and it seemed a mismatch of personalities. But against the odds, the reserved king and his naively vivacious bride fell passionately in love, and for ten years England enjoyed an era of peace and prosperity. When Charles became involved in war with Puritan Scotland, popular hatred of Henrietta’s Catholicism roused Parliament to fury. As the opposition party embraced new values of liberty and republicanism—the blueprint for the American War of Independence and the French Revolution—Charles’s fears for his wife’s safety drove him into a civil war that would cost him his crown and his head. Rejecting centuries of hostile historical tradition, prize-winning biographer Katie Whitaker uses a host of original sources—including many unpublished manuscripts and letters—to create an intimate portrait of a remarkable marriage.
A Royal Passion
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Author : Anne M. Lyden
language : en
Publisher: Getty Publications
Release Date : 2014-02-04
A Royal Passion written by Anne M. Lyden and has been published by Getty Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Photography categories.
In January 1839, photography was announced to the world. Two years prior, a young Queen Victoria ascended to the throne of Great Britain and Ireland. These two events, while seemingly unrelated, marked the beginnings of a relationship that continued throughout the nineteenth century and helped construct the image of an entire age. A Royal Passion explores the connections between photography and the monarchy through Victoria’s embrace of the new medium and her portrayal through the lens. Together with Prince Albert, her beloved husband, the Queen amassed one of the earliest collections of photographs, including works by renowned photographers such as Roger Fenton, Gustave Le Gray, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Victoria was also the first British monarch to have her life recorded by the camera: images of her as wife, mother, widow, and empress proliferated around the world at a time when the British Empire spanned the globe. The featured essays consider Victoria’s role in shaping the history of photography as well as photography’s role in shaping the image of the Queen. Including more than 150 color images—several rarely seen before—drawn from the Royal Collection and the J. Paul Getty Museum, this volume accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from February 4 to June 20, 2014.
A Royal Passion
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Author : Robert W. Berger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
A Royal Passion written by Robert W. Berger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architects and patrons categories.
Royal Passion
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Author : Maxine Patrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Royal Passion written by Maxine Patrick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with categories.
Royal Passion
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Author : Jennifer Blake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Royal Passion written by Jennifer Blake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Fiction categories.
Amid the colour and music of a gypsy camp in the foothills of France, Mara Delacroix of Louisiana and Roderic, Prince of Ruthenia, met for the first time. He did not know however, that Mara was deliberately trying to seduce him in order to pay back a family debt to the ruthless Nicholas de Landes.
Ruthlessly Royal Rich Ruthless And Secretly Royal Passion Purity And The Prince The Royal Marriage Mills Boon By Request Self Made Millionaires Book 1
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Author : Robyn Donald
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2014-02-01
Ruthlessly Royal Rich Ruthless And Secretly Royal Passion Purity And The Prince The Royal Marriage Mills Boon By Request Self Made Millionaires Book 1 written by Robyn Donald and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Fiction categories.
Rich, Ruthless and Secretly Royal Exotic beauty Hannah Court has never known a man who excites her as quickly as Kelt. He’s achingly persuasive and thrillingly powerful. But the chiselled god who pleasures her at night is holding a secret...one almost as dark as her own.
Art Passion Power
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Author : Michael Hall
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-12-07
Art Passion Power written by Michael Hall and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-07 with Art categories.
"Hall’s consummate history is not just the story of the evolution of one of the world’s great collections... The book is also a through-the-keyhole insight into the shifting tastes, good or bad, of 1,000 years of monarchs." - The Times The Royal Collection is the last great collection formed by the European monarchies to have survived into the twenty-first century. Containing over a million artworks and objects, it covers all aspects of the fine and decorative arts, from paintings by Rembrandt and Michelangelo to grand sculpture, Fabergé eggs and some of the most exquisite furniture ever made. The Royal Collection also offers a revealing insight into the history of the British monarchy from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II, recording the tastes and obsessions of kings and queens over the past 500 years. With unprecedented access to the royal residences of St James' Palace, Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace, Art, Passion & Power traces the history of this national institution from the Middle Ages to the present day, exploring how royalty used the arts to strengthen their position as rulers by divine right and celebrating treasures from the Crown Jewels to the "Abraham" tapestries in Hampton Court Palace. Author Michael Hall examines the monarchy's response to changing attitudes to the arts and sciences during the Enlightenment and celebrates the British monarchy's role in the democratisation of art in the modern world. Packed with glimpses of rarely seen artworks, Art, Passion & Power is a visual treat for all art enthusiasts. Accompanying the BBC television series and a major exhibition at the Royal Academy, Art, Passion & Power is the definitive statement on the British monarchy's treasures of the art world.
A Royal Passion
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Author : Robert W. Berger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-04-28
A Royal Passion written by Robert W. Berger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-28 with Architecture categories.
A Royal Passion is the first in-depth study of the Sun King as a patron of architecture. Surveying such monuments as the Louvre, Versailles, the Invalides, and other buildings that are closely identified with Louis XIV, Robert W. Berger demonstrates why these buildings, gardens, urban spaces, and their decorations were so important to him. Serving as functional necessities, objects of aesthetic delight, and as political statements, his architectural enterprises collectively underscored his absolutist authority. Moreover, by adopting the guise of 'builder-prince', Louis XIV reasserted his kinship with the Roman emperors, whose grandeur he sought both to emulate and to surpass.
The Passion In Art
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Author : Richard Harries
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-07-23
The Passion In Art written by Richard Harries and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-23 with Religion categories.
Jesus was not depicted on the cross until the early fifth century. Since then this scene has been painted or carved in sharply differing ways. With the aid of over thirty full-page plates, The Passion in Art explores the historical contexts and theologies that led to such differing depictions. Because the first Christians saw the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus as different aspects of a unified victory over sin and death, scenes of the Passion are juxtaposed with some of the Resurrection, which again are highly varied in what they do and do not show. This is the first book to consider the Passion as portrayed in the whole sweep of Christian history. Each picture is considered both from the point of view of its context and its theological standpoint. Spanning the centuries, the images reproduced and discussed include: scenes from the Passion of Christ in the Catacombs of Domitilla, mosaics in Ravenna, the Rabbula Crucifixion and Resurrection, the Crucifixion Plaque from Metz, the Gero Crucifix, Cimabue's Crucifix, Giotto's Noli me Tangere, Piero della Francesca's Resurrection, the Isenheim altarpiece, Caravaggio's Supper at Emmaus, Rembrandt's Christ on the Cross, Chagall's White Crucifixion, contemporary paintings by Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland, Nicholas Mynheer, and many more works of great acclaim.