Word: reigning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last years of James I Reign", Professor Merriman...
...Last years of James' I Reign", Professor Merriman...
According to information given out by the museum, the exhibition represents all the principal tendencies in French painting during the Eighteenth Century. A portrait group by Largilliere depicts the change from the Seventeenth Century, and the type of work done during the reign of Louis XIV to the emancipated and freed spirit of the time of his grandson, Louis XV. The court painting of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century is represented in its chief examples by the two pictures by Wateau; several examples of the different styles of Fragonard, still life pictures by Chardin, and a group of contemporary...
...refused. Where upon Sempronius ordered her outraged. Miraculously she preserved her virginity. Then Sempronius ordered her burned at the stake. The fagots would not ignite. Thereupon the officer commanding her captors drew his sword and brutally sliced her head from her shoulders. This happened Jan. 21, 304, in the reign of Diocletian...
...greatest slave nation of the world, congratulations on his coronation (TIME, Nov. 10), declaring "on behalf of the American People and Government . . . confidence that the traditional ties of friendship and mutual understanding which so happily exist between our two countries . . . will be strengthened during your majesty's reign...