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1400–1500 in European fashion. Full-bodied houppelandes with voluminous sleeves worn with elaborate headdresses are characteristic of the earlier 15th century. Detail from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Fashion in 15th-century Europe was characterized by a series of extremes and extravagances, from the voluminous robes called ...
Juan Tafures. Joan Tafures or Tafurer (died after 1477) was a Catalan adventurer in the mid fifteenth century. Owner of a merchant ship, Joan landed at Larnaca in Cyprus in July 1457 when James de Lusignan, bastard son of John II of Cyprus and Archbishop of Nicosia, was fleeing his father, for he had murdered the royal Chamberlain.
Charles Somerset. George Somerset. Mary Somerset, Baroness Grey de Wilton. Father. Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset. Mother. Joan Hill. Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, KG (c. 1460 – 15 March 1526) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the bastard son of Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset by his mistress Joan Hill.
The Colosseum ( / ˌkɒləˈsiːəm / KOL-ə-SEE-əm; Italian: Colosseo [kolosˈsɛːo]) is an elliptical amphitheatre in the centre of the city of Rome, Italy, just east of the Roman Forum. It is the largest ancient amphitheatre ever built, and is still the largest standing amphitheatre in the world, despite its age.
Pius II, convenor of the council. The Council of Mantua of 1459, [1] or Congress of Mantua, was a religious meeting convoked by Pope Pius II, who had been elected to the Papacy in the previous year and was engaged in planning war against the Ottoman Turks, who had taken Constantinople in 1453. His call went out to the rulers of Europe, in an ...
The Amalgamated Press ( AP) was a British newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth (1865–1922) in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner. [1] At one point the largest publishing company in the world, [2] AP employed writers such as Arthur Mee, John ...
St. Nicolai in Kalkar Innenraum. Die römisch-katholische Kirche St. Nicolai in Kalkar bei Kleve und Xanten am Niederrhein ist unter anderem bekannt für ihre neun (von ursprünglich mindestens 16) geschnitzten Retabel, ihre Kirchenfenster, ihr Chorgestühl, die historische Seifert-Orgel und ihren Marienleuchter
