Sentences with phrase «aristocratic families in»

For those unfamiliar, the Pareto Principle says, roughly, that 20 % of a distribution will typically account for 80 % of Y, i.e. in Pareto's Renaissance Italy, the principle accounted for the fact that 80 % of the land was held by just 20 % of the aristocratic families in Italy, at the time.

In «To Wander Determined» at the Whitney Museum's lobby gallery, her first museum show in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola works in the same genre — portraiture — except her subjects are two fictional aristocratic families in her native Nigeria.

She envisions a pair of fictional aristocratic families in a new series of life - sized charcoal, pastel, and pencil portraits.

They were brought to Cuba from Europe during the 17th century and enjoyed immense popularity during the 18th and 19th centuries amongst aristocratic families in Cuba.

Patricia Grasso is the author of eighteen historical romances including the Douglas Series which follows the love stories of the amazing Douglas sisters (Angelica, Samantha and Victoria) in Regency London and the Lords of Stratford Series, Regency historical romances with a fairy - tale twist about the aristocratic families in Stratford - on - Avon.

Born in 1905 to an aristocratic family in Lucerne, Switzerland (hence the honorific «von»), von Balthasar was raised in a household where high culture and simple faith walked hand in hand.

* * * Read On Your Computer, MAC, Smartphone, Kindle Reader, iPad, or Tablet.For a champion of the poor, Mao Zedong was born to a wealthy aristocratic family in Shaoshan, Hunan China.

Built by an aristocratic family in 1830 and surrounded by lush, subtropical gardens, Belmond Villa Sant» Andrea...

Not exact matches

Diana was born in 1961, into the Spencer family, a British aristocratic family with royal ancestry.

Tocqueville's aristocratic age, however, did not have political parties of this sort in it; the affiliations he had in mind were more or less inherited ones that pertained to family name and rank... There are still echoes of that... however, the mid-twentieth-century socialist revolutions that occurred throughout the region... dismantled much of that old order, but without firmly establishing the individual in its place.

He could have arrived in a center - city aristocratic family and gathered to Himself a dream team of young, budding scholars.

In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through which the author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the lives of Jews.

In aristocratic societies the gentleman is defined as a person of high social position, one born into the «right» family.

He was born in 1878 into one of Germany's old aristocratic families with a tradition of service in both Church and nation.

Above all, for individuals in families Biblical order interdicts two kinds of pride, which combine and culminate in aristocratic nobility: pride in the unity of bloodline and virtu.

St Paul Miki, one twenty six Japanese martyrs who were executed in 1597, was from an aristocratic Japanese family but embraced the Jesuit vocation which eventually led him to crucifixion.

She had been brought up in a wealthy home and her family had aristocratic links.

Furthermore, the birth spacing effects of breastfeeding, largely forgotten in our day and age, were well known in those times, and aristocratic families wanted to have many children, so that breastfeeding by the mother was definitely discouraged amongst the nobles.

And, historically at least, upper ranks in the RC church were filled by people from aristocratic families with a class distinction existing between them and others.

Still owned by the Van Loon family (who occasionally hold dinner parties in the ornate dining hall), each room offers a unique glimpse into the history and style of aristocratic Dutch residents.

Production has already started on Warner Bros. and MGM's Tomb Raider reboot and the first photos from the set have debuted online from The Daily Mail, featuring Alicia Vikander in costume as Lara Croft, «the only daughter of an aristocratic family who ventures out into dangerous locations in search of ancient artifacts with supernatural powers.»

Born to an aristocratic English family, her early years were spent in a loving environment, that is until her father's obsession with alchemy and immortality gained by obtaining the Souls Blade drove him to an early grave.

The British channel ITV announced Sunday that it has commissioned a fifth season of the popular television show, a costume drama about a British aristocratic family and their servants in the 1910s and 1920s.

The magnificent Orson Welles directed this brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane.

Full of the lavish sets and extravagant costumes becoming of a royal family period drama, the film, steeped in monarchy, feels buoyant and vibrant in no small part thanks to the actors» ability to humanize such aristocratic characters.

In an exquisitely detailed adventure set in the Austro - Hungarian empire, Ibbotson skillfully enfolds deliciously cruel villains, crumbling aristocratic families, stolen jewels, and a cast of lovable, intrepid characters into a 12 - year - old's search for her true familIn an exquisitely detailed adventure set in the Austro - Hungarian empire, Ibbotson skillfully enfolds deliciously cruel villains, crumbling aristocratic families, stolen jewels, and a cast of lovable, intrepid characters into a 12 - year - old's search for her true familin the Austro - Hungarian empire, Ibbotson skillfully enfolds deliciously cruel villains, crumbling aristocratic families, stolen jewels, and a cast of lovable, intrepid characters into a 12 - year - old's search for her true family.

In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge schoolmate - a handsome, aristocratic young poet named Cecil Valance - to his family's modest home outside London for the weekend.

The city had only recently stopped mourning the aristocratic Mrs. Astor when it became necessary to don the crêpe for my employer, Mrs. Armslow, who was connected by birth or marriage to the finest families in the city.

She belonged to a wealthy, aristocratic, slave - holding family, and before stepping onto the public stage, she experienced intense longings for freedom, for a way to make a difference in the world, and to have a voice of her own, hopes that were repeatedly crushed.

«Palazzo Forani is one of only five remaining of the fortifications of the medieval stone village of Casperia, Originally bought by the Maldura family in Napoleonic times, it was inherited by the aristocratic Forani family, who have left furnishings & layout almost as they were for centuries.

Standard Schnauzers are not only highly intelligent and excellent family companions, they're uniquely handsome, even aristocratic, in appearance.

The Batthyány Castle Hotel was built in 1490 and owes its name to the Batthyánys, a famous Hungarian aristocratic family.

The Villa was built by Cardinal Francesco Maria Machiavelli, uncle of Niccol Machiavelli thanks to the substantial commissions given him by Pope Urban VIII then sold by the Machiavellis in 1645 to the aristocratic family of the Marchesi Mazzei (who kept it until the mid 20th century).

The island was completely transformed by the aristocratic Borromeo family in the 16th and 17th centuries, and is now dominated by the sumptuous Borromean Palace.

Born to an aristocratic English family, her early years were spent in a loving environment, that is until her father's obsession with alchemy and immortality gained by obtaining the Souls Blade drove him to an early grave.

The show, «To Wander Determined,» weaves together a fictitious narrative about two aristocratic Nigerian families, the House of Obafemi and the UmuEze Amara Clan, in a series of richly colored, intricately textured, life - size charcoal, pencil and pastel drawings.

In a series of colorful portraits, the exhibition chronicles the lives of two fictional, aristocratic Nigerian families.

To Wander Determined by Toyin Ojih Odutola, Whitney Museum, New York, NY For her first solo museum exhibition in New York, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits, chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

In her exhibition The Firmament, Toyin Ojih Odutola presents an interconnected series of fictional portraits chronicling the lives of two aristocratic Nigerian families.

TOYIN OJIH ODUTOLA In her first solo New York museum show, the young Nigerian artist presents fictional portraits of two aristocratic families.

The sides in Von Saher vs. Norton Simon Museum disagree as to whether the paintings ever belonged to the aristocratic Stroganoff family.

The black - and - white format refers to the 18th - century English and French silhouette tradition, in which aristocratic young women hand cut silhouette portraits of their friends and family.

Nicolas de Staël was born into an aristocratic Russian family in 1914.

It's a rare opportunity to see a single aristocratic family through Goya's eyes, and to appreciate a pivotal moment in his career: when he was shoring up his reputation as a pre-eminent court painter.

Edward Krasiński was born in 1925 in Lutsk (Volhynia) into a Polish aristocratic family.

While Reynolds» practice of aristocratic portraits seem exactly matched to his talents, Gainsborough, if not forced to follow the market for his work, might well have developed as a pure landscape painter, or a portraitist in the informal style of many of his portraits of his family.

M.S. Rau Antiques» latest exhibition, Aristocracy: Luxury and Leisure in Britain, delves into the aristocratic lifestyle of 19th - century England's most elite families.

An exemplary British period drama, Downton Abbey is an examination of the politics and personal lives of an aristocratic British family in the early 20th century.