Kurt Masur (* 18.Juli 1927 in Brieg/Niederschlesien, heute Brzeg, Polen; † 19. Dezember 2015 in Greenwich, Connecticut) war ein deutscher Dirigent.Er war von 1970 bis 1996 Gewandhauskapellmeister in Leipzig, von 1991 bis 2002 Musikdirektor der New Yorker Philharmoniker und von 2000 bis 2007 Chefdirigent des London Philharmonic Orchestra.Neben …

Biography. Chaim Weizmann was born in the village of Motal, located in what is now Belarus and at that time was part of the Russian Empire.He was the third of 15 children born to Oizer and Rachel (Czemerinsky) Weizmann. His father was a timber merchant. From ages four to eleven, he attended a traditional cheder, or Jewish religious primary school, where he also studied Hebrew.

Kurt Honolka: Bedřich Smetana in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-499-50265-8. V. Reittererová: In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL).

Heraclius (Greek: Ἡράκλειος, translit. Hērákleios; c. 575 – 11 February 641), sometimes called Heraclius I, was the Eastern Roman emperor from 610 to 641. His rise to power began in 608, when he and his father, Heraclius the Elder, the exarch of Africa, led a revolt against the unpopular usurper Phocas. Heraclius's reign was marked by several military campaigns.

The Hand of God, or Manus Dei in Latin, also known as Dextera domini/dei (the "right hand of God"), is a motif in Jewish and Christian art, especially of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods, when depiction of Yahweh or God the Father as a full human figure was considered unacceptable. The hand, sometimes including a portion of an arm, or ending about the wrist, is …

The icon is a tempera painting on wood, 106 by 69 centimetres (42 in × 27 in) in size, with the central 78 by 55 centimetres (31 in × 22 in) portion being original and the rest being a later expansion undertaken possibly to accommodate a larger riza.The icon depicts Jesus Christ as a child being held in the arms of his mother, Mary.They embrace cheek to cheek, with the child …

Diocletian's Palace (Croatian: Dioklecijanova palača, pronounced [diɔklɛt͡sijǎːnɔʋa pǎlat͡ʃa]) is an ancient palace built for the Roman emperor Diocletian at the turn of the fourth century AD, which today forms about half the old town of Split, Croatia.While it is referred to as a "palace" because of its intended use as the retirement residence of Diocletian, the term can be ...

The Colossus of Barletta is a large bronze statue of a Roman emperor, nearly three times life size (5.11 meters, or about 16 feet 7 inches) in Barletta, Italy.. The statue supposedly washed up on a shore, after a Venetian ship sank returning from the Sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade in 1204, but it is not impossible that the statue was sent to the West much earlier.

Further reading. There is a large modern literature on spolia, and the following list makes no claim to be comprehensive. J. Alchermes, "Spolia in Roman Cities of the Late Empire: Legislative Rationales and Architectural Reuse," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 48 (1994), 167–78. S. Bassett, The urban image of late antique Constantinople (Cambridge, 2004). L. Bosman, The power of …

Gli affreschi di Castelseprio sono un ciclo di pitture, variamente datate tra il VI e il X secolo, presenti nella chiesa di Santa Maria Foris Portas a Castelseprio, opera di un pittore anonimo indicato come Maestro di Castelseprio, un artista probabilmente bizantino, che lavorò per una committenza greca, longobarda, carolingia oppure milanese.Il ciclo rappresenta scene …