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    The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs is a porphyry sculpture group of four Roman emperors dating from around 300 AD. The sculptural group has been fixed...
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    Tetrarchy (redirect from Four tetrarchs)
    features—only the inscriptions on the coins indicate which one of the four emperors is being shown. The Byzantine sculpture Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs shows...
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  • Look up tetrarch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tetrarch, Tetrarchs, or Tetrarchy may refer to: Tetrarchy, the four co-emperors of the Roman Empire...
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    eventual abandonment of realism altogether, as we see in the very late Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs. Development of the Roman portrait was associated with...
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    Carmagnola (Venice) (category Roman sculpture portraits of emperors)
    belong to the same original. The head may come from the Philadelphion in Constantinople, the original location of the Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs that is...
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    Ukraine Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs in the corner of St Mark's Basilica, in Venice, Italy, looted by Venetians from Constantinople during the Fourth...
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    concord in the imperial family. In 1958, P. Verzone identified the statue groups known as the "Tetrarchs", which was plundered during the Fourth Crusade...
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    the mercantile classes of Italy and Flanders became important patrons during the 15th century, commissioning small portraits and a growing range of luxury...
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  • in), in use in the territory of the Roman Empire during the 1st to 6th centuries AD. Later swords, from the 7th to 10th centuries, like the Viking swords...
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    of the busts of Roman Emperors Porphyry panels in the Pantheon The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs Koptos is located in Wadi Rohanu. Typical materials...
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    Late antiquity (category History of the Mediterranean)
    portrayal of the human body for one that was more rigid and frontal. This is markedly evident in the combined porphyry Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs in Venice...
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  • The systematic codification of Roman law began with the Gregorian Code—a collection of imperial rulings—in 292. The tetrarchs' involvement in the process...
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    responsible, as the date and origin of the Venice Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs show, is the rise of Christianity to official support, as the changes predated...
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  • the Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs in Venice, the famous mosaics of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, and the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. BBC Four –...
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    The Tetrarch (1911–1935) was an Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. He was undefeated in a racing career of seven starts and was voted...
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  • Alexandria in 297. The tetrarchs launched military campaigns along the borderlands and restored its strategic control. Galerius forced the Persian king, Narseh...
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    style with roundels in the earlier full Greco-Roman style taken from elsewhere, and the Four Tetrarchs (c. 305) from the new capital of Constantinople, now...
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  • the Charioteer Porta Panagia Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs Pothos Argyros (11th century) Pothos Argyros (Domestic of the Schools) Poutza Praecepta Militaria...
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    Salome (redirect from Daughter of Herodias)
    demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to Josephus, she was first married to her uncle Philip the Tetrarch, after whose death (AD...
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    Roman art (redirect from Art of Rome)
    style with roundels in the earlier full Greco-Roman style taken from elsewhere, and the Four Tetrarchs (c. 305) from the new capital of Constantinople, now...
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    Galerius (category People of the Roman–Sasanian Wars)
    ISBN 9780870991790. "Marble portrait of Roman Emperor". Canellopoulos Museum. Corcoran, Simon, The empire of the tetrarchs: imperial pronouncements and...
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    portrait of Cleopatra accepted by scholars as being authentic survives at the Archaeological Museum of Cherchell, Algeria. This portrait features the...
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    the lectures of Lactantius, a Christian scholar of Latin in the city. Because Diocletian did not completely trust Constantius—none of the Tetrarchs fully...
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    Above the arcade are four plinths; some reconstructions of the gate prefer these, rather than the niches, as the location of the Tetrarchs' portrait statues...
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    governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene...
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  • Around the World. Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series Volume 24, Parts 12-13, Number 1: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips 1970 Library of Congress...
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    continued to mint coins with the name and portrait of Julius Nepos until 480 and later with the name and portrait of the Eastern Augustus, rather than...
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    yielded in AD 69 to the strife-torn Year of the Four Emperors, from which Vespasian emerged as victor. Vespasian became the founder of the brief Flavian dynasty...
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    style with roundels in the earlier full Greco-Roman style taken from elsewhere, and the Four Tetrarchs (c. 305) from the new capital of Constantinople, now...
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    of America" The photographs of Oscar Wilde taken by Napoleon Sarony in New York, 1882 (complete). Portraits of Oscar Wilde at the National Portrait Gallery...
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