destroyed it, and to the increase in the tribute to be paid to the Sublime Porta, set at 12,500 ducats. Ragusa survived its Venetian rival, which was...

Cestio or Piramide Cestia) is a Roman Era pyramid in Rome, Italy, near the Porta San Paolo and the Protestant Cemetery. It was built as a tomb for Gaius...

Solari detto il Gobbo 1512 Gerolamo della Porta 1519 Bernardo Zenale di Treviglio 1524 Giangiacomo della Porta 1526 Cristoforo Lombardo 1539 Baldassarre...

pursued by Porta, antithetical to Manzoni's linguistic research and never appreciated by Manzoni. The most explanatory judgment on Porta can be found...

needed] Despite this incident, della Porta remained religiously devout and became a lay Jesuit brother. Porta's involvement with the Inquisition puzzles...

the 2008 recession. In 2001, Baggio wrote an autobiography entitled Una porta nel cielo (literally "A Door in the Sky", also known as "A Goal in the Sky")...

this period. In 1585 the energetic Pope Sixtus V appointed Giacomo della Porta who was to be assisted by Domenico Fontana. The five-year reign of Sixtus...

the "Laurenziana [...] reveals Mannerism in its most sublime architectural form". Giacomo della Porta, (c. 1533–1602), was famous as the architect who made...

emotional appeal of the Hellenistic style than with the "more severe and sublime creations of the Phydian era" (although he made it evident that among expert...

and the overall theme of the painting, which was a Romantic one of the sublime power of nature to destroy man's creations. The Roman city of Pompeii,...