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5 days ago · In the early 17th century, Queen Marie de Medici began the development of the area by extending the garden of the Tuileries Palace with a long tree-lined walkway called the Grand Cours. But the Champs-Élysées as we know it today really began to take shape in 1667, when the famous landscape architect André Le Nôtre redesigned it as a wide ...
2 days ago · The cumulative impression of the volume is a multi-faceted, kaleidoscopic view of the 15th-century Medici regime in Florence. As the reader progresses from one chapter to the next, the perspective, object of analysis, and conclusions shift, sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically.
5 days ago · What is perhaps even more startling is with so many female sovereigns in this age of the ‘Monstrous Regiment’, figures such as Elizabeth’s sister Mary Tudor, Mary Stuart, Mary of Guise, Marie de Medici, Christina of Sweden etc. are entirely missing.
5 days ago · May 26, 2024. Introduction. In the vibrant and tumultuous world of Renaissance Italy, few figures stand out as vividly as Alessandro de‘ Medici, the first Duke of Florence. Born into one of the most powerful families in Europe, Alessandro was a man of many contradictions.
1 day ago · The Multitudes. Beyond his own followers, the teachings of Christ inspired the masses present in Ancient Rome. As such, there were plenty of people unidentified but present at the Crucifixion. The ...
3 days ago · Marie de Medici, mother of Queen Henrietta Maria, stayed there in 1638. Sir John Eyles, Bt., demolished the old house about 1720, and replaced it with a three-storey mansion. Some stabling from the 16th-century house survived until 1922. Richard Benyon (d. 1796) appears to have altered and enlarged Gidea Hall.
3 days ago · The Power of Kings: Monarchy and Religion in Europe, 1589-1715. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1999; 427pp. Paul Kliber Monod has written an ambitious and very welcome book, which seeks to investigate the relationship between Christianity and kingship across the whole of Christian Europe in the 'long' seventeenth century from 1589 to 1715.
