Sentences with phrase «european aristocracy»
Información en español sobre la exposición Franz Xaver Winterhalter, the 19th century's most renowned portraitist of European aristocracy, captured the elegance and opulence of his distinguished sitters with an unrivaled brilliance.
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No portraitist was more admired by the 19th - century European aristocracy than Winterhalter, as some 45 lush canvases here demonstrate.
Alfred Jonniaux was a Belgian painter, known for the portraits of society figures, and members of the European aristocracy and royal families.
Karen Kilimnik, with a typical installation of girlishly romantic canvases on themes of bygone European aristocracy, in a room with a pretty chandelier, offers similar reassurance, to the effect that confused feelings are a problem only if you insist on making them one.
The 2018 menu is inspired by the «Grand Tour», i.e. the long journey across the Old Continent undertaken in the seventeenth century by the European aristocracy in a quest to expand their knowledge.
Their unique looks made them popular amongst European aristocracy from the 16th Century onwards and Pomeranians made good companion dogs for many a royal.
Eventually, in the 1800s, these dogs lost their popular with the European aristocracy.
It was a favorite of the notable European aristocracy, including Catherine the Great of Russia and Madame de Pompadour.
It was like a mix of old European aristocracy with contemporary luxury, and I felt like a princess walking around.
Originally known as «Fratelli Prada», this Milanese design house soon became a favorite amongst European aristocracy.
As it was said of Napoleon after he murdered a well - connected French duke and united European aristocracy against him, «it was worse than a crime, it was a blunder.»
The founding fathers were concerned enough about this to reject inherited titles and the other trappings of European aristocracy in favor of an egalitarian society, in which privilege was not heritable.
Well over 6 feet tall, he dresses in the tweedy elegance of European aristocracy, often with the added fillip of shirts in dazzling pink or yellow.
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No, my dream for America is for an aristocracy based on achievement, rather than an aristocracy based on the accident of birth, or the color of skin, or whether you are a Wasp or a southern European in ancestry.
In 1931 the bar opened in an old rope warehouse facing the Grand Canal near Piazza San Marco and soon welcomed various European kings and queens, aristocracy and celebrities including Truman Capote, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Aristotle Onassis and Ernest Hemingway — who had his own table.
However, even the most democratic Americans, who rejected European monarchies and aristocracies, found it difficult to resist the multifaceted allure of European culture — including art, architecture, decorative arts, literature, music, and fashion.
That all arrogant brainwashing is based on an idea of so called «intellectual aristocracy» put into zombi - live by Richard von Coudenhove - Kalergi — the father of European Union and globalism in general.
It's also interesting to note that in Tocqueville's view, demagoguery and aristocracy were mainly European problems... but problems nonetheless.
Such a decision would add fuel to the incendiary question that has reared its head with the end of the «permissive consensus» for European integration since Maastricht — Wither (national) democracy on the altar of the (European) technocracy — or in more classic terminology — aristocracy?