Word: nobleman
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...works, mostly portraits, by Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Frans Hals, Jean Honoré Fragonard, George Romney and Thomas Gainsborough. In money terms, the prize of the lot was one of the three Rembrandts: Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Commissioned in 1653 by a Sicilian nobleman named Don Antonio Ruffo, it was one of the finest masterpieces in any private collection...
...knows what great nobleman built the apse. It must have been part of a castle, church or chapel that loomed over a once thriving town. Most of the tiny sculptures that decorate it are still intact, but the fresco that presumably brightened the interior was long since washed away. The Cloisters was not dismayed: it already owned a magnificent fresco of a seated Madonna painted by the 12th century Master of Pedret. The fresco was a bit small, but once set in the new apse, it seemed perfectly at home. After 26 years The Cloisters had its golden treasure...
Later the Iron Crown was put there too, and-except for occasional absences (it has crowned 44 monarchs)-has been kept there to this day. No one knows what wealthy nobleman of the 15th century commissioned the frescoes, but the signature of the Zavattaris was plain...
...nobleman's son no longer can be recognized
...According to one version, it was the custom for sons of the British nobility to sign Oxford college registers fit. nob. - short for filius nobilis, son of a nobleman - and they were hence known as "nobs." Those who had no such claim but liked to associate with the aristocracy became known as quasi nobs, hence "snobs...