Download or read book A Palace for a King written by Jonathan Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buen Retiro, a royal retreat and pleasure palace, was built for Philip IV on the outskirts of Madrid in the 1630s. With its superb display of paintings by Vel zquez and other contemporary artists, the palace became a showcase for the art and culture of Spain's Golden Age. A Palace for a King, first published in 1980, provides a pioneering total history of the construction, decoration, and uses of a major royal palace, emphasising the relationship of art and politics at a critical moment in European history. produced on different aspects of the history of the palace and its decoration since the 1970s. A number of new, unpublished illustrations have been added, and many of the plates are now reproduced in colour. The publication of this edition gains added importance from the fact that plans for the expansion of the Prado Museum include the restoration of the Hall of Realms to approximate its original appearance, as reconstructed in this volume.
Download or read book A Palace for Our Kings written by James Wright and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dragon King s Palace written by Laura Joh Rowland and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, Laura Joh Rowland's dazzling combination of history and storytelling draws us into a sumptuous and treacherous world, in The Dragon King's Palace. On a whim of the shogun's mother, a procession has left the sweltering heat of Edo, bound for the cooler climate of Mount Fuji. Among her traveling companions are Reiko, the beautiful wife of Sano Ichiro, the shogun's Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People; Reiko's friend Midori, nine months pregnant; and Lady Yanagisawa, the deranged wife of the shogun's powerful second-in-command. None of them look forward to the trip. But their troubles have only begun when their procession is stopped suddenly on a deserted road. The entire retinue is viciously slaughtered and the four women are bound and taken away, imprisoned by a mysterious kidnapper. Sano now finds himself faced with the most important case of his career. The shogun demands quick action, and under the threat of death, Sano is forced to work with his bitter enemies---Chamberlain Yanagisawa and Police Commissioner Hoshina. The women are in imminent danger, and the delivery of a ransom note only complicates matters---forcing both Sano and Reiko to take desperate measures.
Download or read book Pregnant in the King s Palace written by Kelly Hunter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sizzling nights will have life-changing consequences in this scandalous royal baby romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Kelly Hunter! The woman who could cost him his crown Or save it! Rumors abound that our beloved king, Valentine, is abdicating! His reasons are unknown, although speculation is that he cannot provide our kingdom with an heir. The eyes of the world are on him, yet our rebellious royal has eyes only for enchanting Angelique, horse trainer to the elite… Their attraction is as potent now as it was ten years ago, when they first met! We thought Valentine’s abdication was his biggest scandal…but given their fiery reunion, could passionate, headstrong Angelique be carrying an even more shocking secret? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the books in the Claimed by a King miniseries: Book 1: Shock Heir for the Crown Prince Book 2: Convenient Bride for the King Book 3: Untouched Queen by Royal Command Book 4: Pregnant in the King’s Palace
Download or read book In the Palace of the King written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Palace of the King written by Francis Marion Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love story of old Madrid.
Download or read book Midnight at the Pera Palace The Birth of Modern Istanbul written by Charles King and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the Netflix series premiering March 3rd "Hugely enjoyable, magnificently researched, and deeply absorbing." —Jason Goodwin, New York Times Book Review At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock. Yet in Istanbul—an ancient crossroads and Turkey's largest city—people were looking toward an uncertain future. Never purely Turkish, Istanbul was home to generations of Greeks, Armenians, and Jews, as well as Muslims. It welcomed White Russian nobles ousted by the Russian Revolution, Bolshevik assassins on the trail of the exiled Leon Trotsky, German professors, British diplomats, and American entrepreneurs—a multicultural panoply of performers and poets, do-gooders and ne’er-do-wells. During the Second World War, thousands of Jews fleeing occupied Europe found passage through Istanbul, some with the help of the future Pope John XXIII. At the Pera Palace, Istanbul's most luxurious hotel, so many spies mingled in the lobby that the manager posted a sign asking them to relinquish their seats to paying guests. In beguiling prose and rich character portraits, Charles King brings to life a remarkable era when a storied city stumbled into the modern world and reshaped the meaning of cosmopolitanism.
Download or read book The King of the Dead at the Dark Palace Vol 1 light novel written by Tsukikage and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BEGINNING OF END When a sickly boy succumbs t illness only to awaken as a lowly undead named End, his initial reaction is not horror but joy. No longer weak and bedridden, he is eager to experience the freedom of a properly functioning body. Sadly, his delight is cut short when he realizes the shackles of his previous life have simply been replaced by new ones—specifically, the powerful necromancer who revived him. To gain true freedom, he’ll need to overcome the many obstacles in his way...starting with his dark master!
Download or read book In the Palace of the King written by Lorimer Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New National Theatre, W.H. Rapley, manager, T. Arthur Smith, treasurer. Miss Viola Allen and her company, presenting "In the Palace of the King," a dramatization, in six scenes, by Lorimer Stoddard, from the novel by F. Marion Crawford, produced under the stage direction of William Seymour, Liebler & Co., managers.
Download or read book Into the King s palace written by Annie M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Palace of the Great King written by Julie Ash and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil doesn't care how much money your parents make. All that matters is that you keep your mind on anything and everything but God. Fourteen-year-old Char Fisher isn't as popular as her beautiful younger sister, Kayla. Lately it seems as though every time the phone rings, it's for Kayla. Even their mother seems to like Kayla best. Then a family trip to Cleveland changes everything when their mother has a major meltdown over a pro-life protester. After her beloved Abuelita Isabel dies, seventeen-year-old Tia Esperanza gets uprooted from her hometown of San Antonio when her mother decides to move them all to Cleveland. She'll be graduating soon, and then what? She's so busy working and helping take care of her special needs brother that she doesn't have time to think about anything else. Char and Tia come from totally different worlds, but when a chance bus ride in a terrifying storm throws them all together in Holy Angels Monastery, something beautiful emerges that even Tia with her Catholic upbringing couldn't have expected! This true-to-life young adult novel is packed with gripping adventure, heartwarming humor, and a stunning conclusion that you won't see coming!
Download or read book IN THE PALACE OF THE KING written by F. MARION CRAWFORD and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Palace of the King written by S. Collis and published by . This book was released on 1906* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evening in the Palace of Reason written by James Gaines and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2005 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the history-making meeting between scorned master composer Johann Sebastian Bach and Prussia's Frederick the Great.
Download or read book In the Palace of the King written by F. Marion F. Marion Crawford and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two young girls sat in a high though very narrow room of the old Moorish palace to which King Philip the Second had brought his court when he finally made Madrid his capital. It was in the month of November, in the afternoon, and the light was cold and grey, for the two tall windows looked due north, and a fine rain had been falling all the morning. The stones in the court were drying now, in patches, but the sky was like a smooth vault of cast lead, closing over the city that lay to the northward, dark, wet and still, as if its life had shrunk down under ground, away from the bitter air and the penetrating damp.
Download or read book The King s Palace written by Anna Louise Strong and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Palace of the King a Love Story of Old Madrid written by F. Marion Crawford and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
