The Persian Gardener Arfan‚ the gardener‚ accepted the horses from the Prince. The gardener was so scared of Death that he couldn’t think about anything else but running away to Isfahan. He used to live in Isfahan before‚ and he knew it was going to be a half-day trip. He was happy that the Prince gave him two horses‚ so he could ride a cart with both of them almost twice faster. Once he left the Prince’s house‚ he couldn’t stop thinking about reasons why Death met him. “What have I done to
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Once upon a time there was a Siamese cat who pretended to be a lion and spoke inappropriate Zebraic. That language is whinnied by the race of striped horses in Africa. Here now: An innocent zebra is walking in a jungle‚ and approaching from another direction is the little cat; they meet. “Hello there!” says the Siamese cat in perfectly pronounced Zebraic. “It certainly is a pleasant day‚ isn’t it? The sun is shining‚ the birds are singing‚ isn’t the world a lovely place to live today!” The zebra
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Persian Empire may refer to: * Achaemenid Empire (558–330 BC)‚ also called "First Persian Empire" * Parthian Empire (247 BC–224 AD)‚ adopted both Hellenistic and Iranian customs * Sassanid Empire (224–651 AD)‚ also called "Neo-Persian Empire" and "Second Persian Empire" * Persia (1501-1979) under Safavid dynasty‚ Afsharid dynasty‚ Zand dynasty‚ Qajar dynasty and Pahlavi dynasty The Achaemenid Persian Empire (c. 550–330 BCE)‚ sometimes known as First Persian Empire‚ was an Iranian empire
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Brithny Zhang 10/1/10 The Trinity (La Trinidad) by El Greco This oil on canvas painting was implemented between 1577 and 1580‚ and was one of nine paintings that El Greco made for the monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos. It represents the scene in which God‚ the most imposing figure in the painting‚ is holding his son Jesus Christ‚ who presumably has passed away. The third part of the trinity El Greco is referring to resides in the presence of the dove flying overhead‚ which is the symbol
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environment in turn. Therefore‚ one would have to understand the intertwined aspects of the Greco-Roman world since that is the context in which the New Testament was written in. to understand
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El Greco was born in 1541 in Heraklion‚ Crete‚ Greece. He is one of the most recognized people from the renaissance and he was known to many as an artist but he is also an architect and a sculptor. His original name was Doménikos Theotokópoulos but he is widely and most famously known as El Greco which meant the greek in spanish. He was trained to be a painter when he was very young‚ later he moved to Venice because at that time Crete belonged to Venice. He then decided to move to Rome and lived
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El Greco was a painter‚ sculptor‚ and an architect. When in Spain he was the first great genius of his Spanish school. El Greco’s real name is not the one you see on all of the paintings his real name is Domenikos Theotocopoulos. El Greco was born in 1541 and died in 1614. None know of his childhood. In 1566 he became a master painter and moved or traveled to Venice. Later in 1570 he traveled to Rome to meet Giulio Clovio a miniaturist. Very few of his pieces survived the years. One of the surviving
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museum‚ it was even more elegant on the inside. The marble staircase had sculptures on each side leading up to the rotunda where white Christmas lights were strung around the banister in decoration for the Christmas season. Saint Catherine by El Greco was found in the European Old Master Paintings section of the museum. A brief history of Saint Catherine stated that she was widely renowned for her learning and wisdom‚ so much so that the Roman emperor Maximilian wanted her to be his wife. Her Christian
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“The Burial of Count Orgaz” analysis The Burial of Count Orgaz is a painting by famous renaissance artist El Greco. The painting is sixteen by eleven feet and was drawn with oil on canvas. The painting depicts a burial scene of Count Orgaz and a heaven scene with Christ above them. This painting is the most intriguing for El Greco’s use of two focal points. In El Greco’s career The Burial of Count Orgaz is widely accepted as his greatest work. In describing the painting itself it is divided into
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Introduction - The Persian Gulf The Persian Gulf is a geographical area in the Middle East. It is located in the Western Asia between Iran (Persia) and the Arabian Peninsula. The basin countries include: Iran‚ Iraq‚ Kuwait‚ Saudi Arabia‚ Qatar‚ Bahrain‚ United Arab Emirates‚ Oman and the Musandam Governorate. This land is well-known because of the oilfields and natural gas fields but also for different good fishing grounds‚ extensive coral reefs‚ and abundant pearl oysters even though this activities
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