The city always had a fairy-tale aspect, but until the seventeenth century its irreality was checked by an appetite for business.
An unusual and absorbing new film about North American Indians and a French Jesuit missionary in the early seventeenth century.
Not much different than the pirates of the seventeenth century, really, challenging authority in defense of the living treasures of the Enchanted Islands.
Palenque de San Basilio was one of the walled communities called palenques, which were founded by escaped slaves as a refuge in the seventeenth century.
But the second part of the book goes on to compare the educational institutions of the Chinese, Islamic and European traditions in the seventeenth century.
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Kabuki is a Japanese traditional theatre form, which originated in the Edo period at the beginning of the seventeenth century and was particularly popular among townspeople.
Francesco Grimaldi in the seventeenth century (something no physics textbook that I have ever seen bothers to mention, so that few scientists are aware of it).
From Velazquez in the seventeenth century, through Goya straddling the eighteenth and nineteenth, to Picasso in the twentieth, Spain has the proudest of traditions in art.
During the seventeenth century, from the fort of Lahore, the Mughal emperors ruled most of India, all of what is now Pakistan, and large areas of Afghanistan.
Performed since the end of the seventeenth century in communities throughout the region, the Akiu no Taue Odori today takes place during festivals in the spring or autumn.
By the end of the seventeenth century, church membership in New England had undergone a startling transformation, with women for the first time finding themselves in a substantial majority.
One study even suggested that people whose mother and father were both descended from ancestors who survived the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century appeared to be immune to HIV.
Such tales, which came into being at the end of the seventeenth century, are original literary works short stories, really except that they have fanciful subject matter: unhappy ducks, princesses who dance all night, and so on.
However, since gold is also an emotional trade, it may emulate to some degree the seventeenth century tulip mania where it was reputed that 40 bulbs of a famous tulip variety sold for 100, 000 Dutch florins.
By the end of the seventeenth century, refined versions of the hunting horn had made their way out of the fields, off the shoulder, and into the orchestra, and by the mid-eighteenth century most orchestras included a pair of horns.
By contrast, virtually every work in "The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth Century China" warrants its own essay on the composition's literary or political allusions, the lineage of its brushwork, and the personal and historical context in which the painter dipped brush into ink.
Seventeenth-century paneling on the walls gives way to window seats that were once pews in a boys school.
Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish painters will also feature in the sales.
The immediate ancestors of the modern horn were sixteenth- and seventeenth-century hunting horns, brass hoops (with flared bells) that were played slung over the shoulder, sometimes on horseback.
He believed these notes were the work of the seventeenth-century Venetian composer Tomaso Albinoni, and spent the next twelve years reconstructing a larger piece from the charred manuscript fragment.
Seventeenth-century Dutch painters also made themselves masters of cityscapes.
Johnny Depp, who has made his name with misfits, outsiders, and untrammelled wackos, now turns his attention to John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester the scourge of seventeenth-century London, and by some distance the wickedest poet in the language.
The film is an adventure story in the truest sense: the filmmakers lead us into unknown territory, and keep pushing us farther and farther on, until, by the end, we find ourselves deep in the wilderness of the seventeenth-century consciousness.
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