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Absolute Power and the Aristocratic Style
www.csun.eduAbsolute Power and the Aristocratic Style ... Aristocratic Style – flamboyant, lavish, luxurious, elite, Baroque theatricality and grandeur. The Arts worked to serve the majesty of the crown and flourished as an expression of the majesty of the ruler of the wealth and strength of his domain, and to legitimize and glorify the power of ...
Lefebvre - The Production Of Space - The Charnel-House
thecharnelhouse.orgwith an aristocratic mode of life, and, alongside them, squares for the people and monuments for social institutions. The resulting whole might constitute a space with a particular style, often even a dazzling style - but it was still a space never rationally defined which came into being and disappeared for no clear reason.
Plato in a Nutshell: A Beginner’s Guide to the Philosophy ...
www.sophia-project.orgPlato was born in Athens in 427 BC to a well established aristocratic family. His father, Ariston, could trace his lineage back to the old kings of Athens; his mother, Perictione, was a sister of Charmides and the cousin of Critas, two prominent figures in …