Art history is littered with work that involves light.Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses.We are the prisoners of history.History begins in novel and ends in essay.History is petrified imagination.
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ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (1122 – 1204), THE DUCHESS OF AQUITAINE IS ONE OF THE MOST CAPTIVATING WOMAN OF HER DAY.SHE MARRIED KING LOUIS VII OF FRANCE,SHE WAS TWICE QUEEN,FIRST QUEEN OF FRANCE THEN QUEEN OF ENGLAND.SHE WAS ALSO THE MOTHER OF THREE KING OF ENGLAND : HENRY OF YOUNG KING,THE RENOWNED RICHARD THE LIONHEART AND JOHN LACKLAND. -
PERSIAN EMPEROR CYRUS THE GREAT AND HIS EMPRESS CASSANDRA OF THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE (600/ 576 – 530 BC).THE VICTORY OVER BABYLONIA EXPRESSED ALL THE FACETS OF THE POLICY OF CONCILIATION WHICH CYRUS HAD FOLLOWED UNTIL THEN. -
XERXES THE GREAT I (486-465 BCE) WAS THE PERSIAN KING OF ACHAEMENID EMPIRE (MODERN IRAN).THE NAMES XERXES IS ACTUALLY A GREEK TRANSCRIPTION, XERXES ASCENDED THE THRONE AND BECAME EMPEROR OF ONE THE LARGEST EMPIRES IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME. -
THE FALL OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE ,NAPOLEON EXILED TO ST .HELENA ,1815,AFTER HIS DEFEAT AGAINST ALEXANDER I OF RUSSIA AT THE BATTLE OF LEIPZIG (GERMANY) IN OCTOBER 1813.NAPOLEON DIED ON MAY 5,1821,AT THE AGE OF 51,WHILE STILL IN EXILE ON ST.HELENA. -
TITUS AELIUS HADRIANUS ANTONINUS AUGUSTUS PIUS ,(86 – 161 BC) KNOWN AS ANTONINUS,WAS ONE OF THE FIVE GOOD ROMAN EMPERORS IN THE NERVA - ANTONINE DYNASTY AND THE AURELII. HE DIED OF ILLNESS IN 161 AND WAS SUCCEEDED BY HIS ADOPTED SONS MARCUS AURELIUS AND LUCIUS VERUS AS CO - EMPERORS. -
PERSEPOLIS, PERSIAN ANCIENT,THE AUDIENCE HALL OF KINGS DARIUS THE GREAT AND KING XERXES,PERSEPOLIS FROM GREEK LANGUAGE "PERSIAN CITY",THE GLITTERING CAPITAL OF THE ACHAEMENID EMPIRE.PERSEPOLIS WAS CAPTURED BY ALEXANDER THE GREAT ,BEFORE HE LEFT THE CITY,HE ORDERED THE PALACE BURNED TO THE GROUND.(LATER ALEXANDER THE GREAT MARRIED PERSIAN PRINCESS,ROXANA) -
QUEEN NEFERTITI (1370 - 1336 BCE ) WAS THE MOST FAMOUS EGYPTIAN QUEEN AFTER CLEOPATRA.NEF -
EGYPTIAN ANCIENT ,THE PHARAOH,RAMESSES II, RAMSES II WAS CROWNED THE PHARAOH OF EGYPT IN 1279 BC.HE WAS THE THIRD PHARAOH OF NINETEENTH DYNASTY.RAMSES THE GREAT (1279 -1213 B.C.) LED EGYPT IN THE FAMOUS BATTLE OF KADESH,HE NARROWLY ESCAPED DEATH AND FOUGHT VALIANTLY AT KADESH. -
EMPRESS CATHERINE THE II OF RUSSIA (CATHERINE THE GREAT)( 1729 -1796).THIS REMARKABLE WOMA -
ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF MACEDON (356-323 B.C.) WAS EDUCATED BY THE PHILOSOPHER ARISTOTLE.AF -
Queen Maria I of portugal (1734-1816) was Queen of Portugal from 1777 until her death. K -
Empress Isabella of Portugal (1428 -1496) was Queen consort of Castile and Leon. She was t -
Philip II (1527 – 1598) & Philip III ( 1578 – 1621) was King of Spain.PHILIP III WAS AL -
MARIE ANTOINETTE,QUEEN OF FRANCE (1755-1793) WIFE OF KING LOUIS XVI .SHE WAS ONLY 14 YEARS OLD WHEN SHE MARRIED THE FUTURE LOUIS XVI.QUEEN MARIE ANTOINETTE AND HIS HUSBAND KING LOUIS XVI EXECUTED IN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. -
THE LAST GERMAN EMPEROR AND THE LAST KING OF PRUSSIA,WILHELM II (1859 – 1941) WAS ENGLAND'S QUEEN VICTORIA'S FIRST GRANDSON.WILLIAM II RULED GERMANY AND PRUSSIA FOR 30 YEARS.HE LED GERMAN FORCES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR UNTIL HIS ADDICTION IN NOVEMBER 1918,HE WENT TO THE EXILE TO NETHERLANDS. -
THE EXECUTION OF LADY JANE GREY,SHE WAS ONLY 18 YEAR- OLD.IN THE VIOLENT AND DRAMATIC OF ENGLISH MONARCHY ,SHE WAS A TEENAGE QUEEN OF ENGLAND WHO RULED FOR ONLY NINE DAYS BEFORE SHE WAS DEPOSED AND ULTIMATELY EXECUTED. -
GENGHIS KHAN (1162 – 1227) WAS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CONQUEROR CIVILIZED AND INNOVATOR.GENGHIS KHAN AND THE MONGOL EMPIRE THAT CAPTURE HIS LARGER THAN LIFE LEGACY FROM HIS HISTORIC WARS.HE WAS THE LARGEST BRUTAL MONSTER IN WORLD HISTORY,HE KILLED TENS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. -
FRANCIS JOSEPH I OF AUSTRIA (1830 – 1916) AND HIS WIFE EMPRESS ELISABETH OF AUSTRIA (SISSI,1837 – 1898) :THE MOST BELOVED EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF HABSBURG MONARCHY. FRANCIS JOSEPH WAS TROUBLED BY NATIONALISM DURING HIS ENTIRE REIGN.HE CONCLUDED THE ASTRO - HUNGARIAN COMPROMISE OF 1867,WHICH TRANSFORMED THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE INTO THE ASTRO - HUNGARIAN EMPIRE,UNDER HIS DUAL MONARCHY. -
THE BATTLE OF FRIEDLAND (JUNE,14, 1807) WAS A MAJOR CONFRONTATION OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS BETWEEN THE ARMIES OF FRENCH EMPIRE COMMANDED BY NAPOLEON I,AND THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE LED BY GENERAL LEVIN AUGUST VON BENNIGSEN.NAPOLEON WAS VIRTUALLY IN CONTROL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE.