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The Thrissil and the Rois is a Scots poem composed by William Dunbar to mark the wedding, in August 1503, of King James IV of Scotland to Princess Margaret Tudor of England. The poem takes the form of a dream vision in which Margaret is represented by a rose and James is represented variously by a lion , an eagle and a thistle . [ 1 ]
St. Jerome and the Lion (also known as St. Jerome Extracting the Thorn [1] or Saint Jerome in the Desert) is an oil on oak panel painting by Rogier van der Weyden or his studio from c. 1450–1465, showing Jerome and a lion. It is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts. This painting was part of a renewed interest in depictions of St. Jerome. [2]
The painting illustrates the story of 'The King and the Beggar-maid", which tells the legend of the prince Cophetua who fell in love at first sight with the beggar Penelophon. The tale was familiar to Burne-Jones through an Elizabethan ballad published in Bishop Thomas Percy 's 1765 Reliques of Ancient English Poetry and the sixteen-line poem ...
Lev is a common Slavic name meaning "lion". The Latin name for Lviv is Leopolis, meaning "Lion City". The name of the city of Oran in Algeria is derived from the Berber root 'HR meaning lion, from which are also derived the names of Tahert and Souk Ahras. The name is attested in multiple Berber languages, for instance as uharu and ahra. A ...
Today versions of it are in the Royal Collection, the National Portrait Gallery [5] [6] and the Art Gallery of South Australia. [7] Ramsay also painted a similar work showing Queen Charlotte in her coronation robes. His depiction of the King was widely copied and featured in a number of works across the British Empire, including the American ...
"The White Man's Burden" was first published in The New York Sun on February 1, 1899 and in The Times (London) on February 4, 1899. [7] On 7 February 1899, during senatorial debate to decide if the US should retain control of the Philippine Islands and the ten million Filipinos conquered from the Spanish Empire, Senator Benjamin Tillman read aloud the first, the fourth, and the fifth stanzas ...
A lion he rescues from a dragon [1] proves to be a loyal companion and a symbol of knightly virtue, and helps him defeat a mighty giant, three fierce knights, and two demons. After Yvain rescues Lunete from being burned at the stake, she helps Yvain win back his wife, who allows him to return, along with his lion.
In 1957, Ruth Matilda Anderson, Curator of Costumes at the Hispanic Society of America (HSA), published her book Costumes: Painted by Sorolla in his Provinces of Spain. In great detail, she commented on the ethnographical background, referring to local dress and lifestyles, regional Spanish history and literature of Sorolla's paintings.