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THE DYNASTIES OF ITALY 🧵
The House of Gritti
Origin: Altinum, Veneto, or Candia, Crete (Disputed)
State: Republic of Venice
Highest Titles: Doge of Venice, Count of Zumelle
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While the President of the United States insults the very sinews of Christianity from the Oval Office, HM King Felipe VI and the Royal Family of Spain happily observe Easter proceedings from the rainy street.
Holy Week is the great unmasker of nations.
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In an age when Western regimes despise everything about such scenes, the Spanish are once again demonstrating magnificently why such regimes will only ever be temporary.
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@Culture_Crit
While there will always be stiff competition for the most breathtaking church in Italy, the dramatic setting of the Santuario della Madonna della Corona, clinging to a mountainside near Lake Garda, takes some beating!
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Much that is beautiful in the traditions of the West survives in Spain...
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@Culture_Crit
They wished to celebrate the water supply, by taking the Michelin Man hostage and subjecting him to public ridicule?
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"All men can be criminals, if tempted; all men can be heroes, if inspired"
G.K. Chesterton, Paganism and Mr. Lowes Dickinson
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@Culture_Crit
All tragic losses indeed, with perhaps Old Cincinnati Library being the most painful on principle. Imagine demolishing a temple of wisdom for a parking garage...
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@benshapiro
It's awkward, isn't it, when the State of Israel is no longer given a free pass to commit crimes against humanity. The mask has slipped, and a critical mass of the world is now seeing the reprehensible nature of the regime you support.
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The sheer otherworldly beauty of Eastern Christianity...
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@Culture_Crit
A decidedly honourable mention in this wonderful category must be the 'ideal city' of Palmanova!
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It is genuinely astonishing to witness the depths that the BBC seeks to plumb with the screaming alarm bells that are sounding over the new 'documentary', Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator.
Such alarm bells crescendo into veritable sirens the instant that Shelley Haley,…
Witness Julius Caesar: The Making of a Dictator
Produced by BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions, and featuring insights from
@holland_tom
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On this day, the 26th April 1248, King Saint Louis IX of France consecrated one of the glories of Western Christendom - the Saint-Chapelle of Paris...
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@UpdatingOnRome
My goodness, isn't this the same 'expert' who urged us to believe that Cleopatra was black?!
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@cremieuxrecueil
Meanwhile...
"President Biden, why is the US fomenting war across multiple continents?"
*dribbles
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"Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison"
C.S. Lewis, Equality, 27th August 1943
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@Culture_Crit
Schweriner Schloss is indeed a marvel of both built and landscape architecture!
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The Romans built not only to last for all time, but to excel for all time.
Almost two thousand years later, the great Pantheon is crowned by what, at 43.30 metres in diameter, is still today the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world!
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@calvinrobinson
In truth, you have been expelled from the 'Conservative' Party because you are actually conservative, and therefore exposed the total fraud of that party.
Your honour is intact, and theirs is but ashes and dust 🙏
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Breastplate of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I
Steel & brass, Nuremberg, 1549
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It was only when I stayed some days in Assisi, where the rhythm of life is set by such peals, that I realised how hostile a substitute for church bells alarm clocks are to the human spirit...
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For what could be a more powerful image in Christendom than the Descent of the Holy Fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre itself?
To think so many in the West spurned such scenes for mere chocolate eggs!
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THE DYNASTIES OF ITALY 🧵
The House of Corsini
Origin: Poggibonsi, Tuscany
States: Republic of Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Papal States, Kingdom of Italy, Republic of Italy
Highest Titles: Pontifex Maximus (Pope), Prince of Sismano
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@lporiginalg
*Translation: This game was made in a time when escapism was permitted, and divisive political issues remained in the political sphere.
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@Culture_Crit
Each of the examples are masterpieces indeed. On the matter of Mannerism, I could not help but suggest one of my own favourites,
The Wedding at Cana, Paolo Veronese, 1563
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It is indeed critical, now more than ever, to cut through centuries of indoctrination in the West and remember one simple truth.
Pontius Pilate wished for clemency. It was Democracy that condemned Christ to death.
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@Culture_Crit
Here indeed is the man behind the magic, Gianlorenzo Bernini, in his own self-portrait, painted just months later!
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It is scarcely possible to exaggerate just what a momentous leap forward the production of this film represents.
The present malaise of the West will never be cured so long as the source of it remains sacrosanct in the popular imagination - the myth of the French Revolution.…
"They have killed our king, chased away our priests, sold the goods of our church, eaten everything we have, and now they want to take our bodies ... No, they shall not have them.”
Vanquish or Die—
A few notes on a film you must see🧵
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The seeds of redemption in the West will not be found in the corridors of power or halls of academies, but in the flocks of the faithful...
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"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him"
Revelation 6:8
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"It Was All Started By a Mouse"
2024 opens with a significant cultural landmark, as 1928's Steamboat Willie, one of the most groundbreaking films of the 20th century, which first introduced audiences to the character of Mickey Mouse, today enters the public domain.
Filmed on a…
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The Olympic Theatre of Vicenza
On this day, the 3rd March 1585, the first permanent theatre to be built in the West since the days of Ancient Rome opened in the Italian city of Vicenza. How was this possible?
This is the story of a cultural and architectural resurrection 🧵 1/
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When the architects of Spain and the painters of Italy joined forces, as they did at the Church of San Antonio de los Alemanes, the Baroque achieved a higher tier of awe...
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"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state"
Tacitus, Annals III.27
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@EndWokeness
McDonald's knows that the Japanese would not stand for the nonsense they bombard westerners with
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"A Republic has no affection for its subjects. A King may be ill advised and act wrong, a Republic never acts right, for a knot of villains support each other, and together they do what no single person dare attempt"
Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson, 7th November 1799
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That the walled medieval core of Lucca is both almost entirely intact, and consistently ranked among the cities with the highest quality of life in Europe, is a magnificently defiant torpedo to the pretensions of postwar urban planners and architects.
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@Culture_Crit
This puerile scribble cost the same as an average skyscraper. The world of art is in palliative care.
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@100YearsAgoLive
Indeed - leading to the single biggest crackdown on the Sicilian Mafia in its history, and the main reason why so many Mafiosi ended up in New York!
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Braveheart will always serve as the primary case study of how grotesquely the public perception of a historical event or figure can be distorted by popular media.
The film is certainly entertaining, but the events, characters and costumes are all so far detached from the actual…
Most historically inaccurate movie of all time? I’ll start.
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The French Revolution was objectively a catastrophe for France, for Europe and for every corner of the world both its violence and ideology touched.
That it is seen otherwise is merely a result of it serving as the founding mythology of the current regimes which rule the West.
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@HistoricHive
Wonderful! It reminds me of when Wellington finally met Marshal Soult face to face at Queen Victoria's coronation, taking his arm and exclaiming "I have you at last!"
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@RishiSunak
It is fairly disgusting you would have the audacity to post this when Julian Assange is currently imprisoned in London for daring to expose NATO war crimes.
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There are few sights as potent or emotional as Pentecost at the Pantheon.
In an ancient tradition revived annually since 1995, the rain of rose petals poignantly evokes the descent of the Holy Spirit, and the blood shed by Christ for our redemption!
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The National Theatre is possibly the ugliest building in the United Kingdom.
Its continued existence, however, is a potent reminder of that great unspoken tragedy - that London city councils did more damage to the urban fabric of the capital than the Luftwaffe.
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@David_Cameron
For those abroad who did not know, this was a 'Conservative' Prime Minister, and yes, voting in the United Kingdom is a waste of time.
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@AlboMP
Does the carpet bombing of civilians in Gaza occur in full compliance with these 'global rules' in the eyes of the Australian government?
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Ridley Scott's Napoleon - Initial Thoughts
With a deep personal investment in the history of the 18th century, the French Revolution and its consequences, as well as a passion for cinema, the prospect of not seeing Ridley Scott's Napoleon was out of the question for me. Having…
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Italy is a land where unequalled beauty is never far away. Having said that, the city of Urbino is on a higher plain.
Impossibly picturesque, and one of the few places that can credibly challenge Florence for the title of cradle of the Renaissance!
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@Culture_Crit
We must not neglect that Bernini was as skilled with a brush as he was with a chisel, as evidenced by his own self-portrait!
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"A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity"
Voltaire, The Critical Review, or Annals of Literature, Volume XXVI
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THE DYNASTIES OF ITALY 🧵
The House of Scala
Origin: Verona, Veneto, or Rome (disputed)
States: Lordship of Verona
Highest Titles: Signore (Lord) of Verona, Imperial Vicar
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THE DYNASTIES OF ITALY 🧵
The House of Montefeltro
Origin: Monte Copiolo, Emilia-Romagna
States: Lordship, County and Duchy of Urbino, Papal States
Highest Titles: Duke of Urbino, Count of Montefeltro, Count of Castel Durante
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It is said that on this day, the 21st April 753 BC, Romulus founded a city on the Palatine Hill, and to that city he gave his very name.
2,777 years later, Rome remains an Eternal City, her glory bound by the farthest ocean and the highest star...
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@Culture_Crit
It is certainly worth remembering that Argentina derives her very name from wealth, after the Latin 'argentum' - silver!
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@Culture_Crit
Fifteen masterpieces, alongside which I would add the honourable mention of the 'Triumph of Divine Providence', Palazzo Barberini - Pietro da Cortona (1639) 🇮🇹
Rivalling the Sistine Chapel itself as one of the largest frescoed vaults in Rome, 'Il Trionfo della Divina…
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When the time comes, Russia must heal the spirit of Eurasia, and rebuild the great Cathedral of Christ the Saviour at Borki.
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@FT
Is the Financial Times officially absolving this man of war crimes, following a rigorous and independent international trial?
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@simonateba
If one ever doubts supporting Trump, just one look at those who stand against him is enough to prove how vital his victory will be
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@Culture_Crit
It suddenly struck me how the Washington National Cathedral echoes that of Lincoln, particularly in the proportions of the towers.
Both wondrous feats of human craft, vision and faith!
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@VDAREJamesK
The number of Britons who choose to cope over this by saying 'but we got welfare and the NHS out of it' and worshipping the latter in societal idolatry has always been truly depressing...
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@bbcstudios
@holland_tom
@RoryStewartUK
@BBCTwo
@BBCiPlayer
Why exactly would we not want a new Caesar to rise?
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@Culture_Crit
An extraordinary work indeed, and one that thematically complements an earlier work of Bosch, the Visions of the Hereafter, encouraging, and warning, of the consequences of our deeds on Earth...
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There is no modest honour in being named, without being shamed, as a footsoldier in the war against the BBC's shameless attempts to weaponise manipulated interpretations of history.
@UpdatingOnRome
, they would enlist us in the same cohort! Sound the horns and on to victory!
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@OwenJones84
What on Earth does that even mean? You've now forfeited credibility on a matter you yourself spent many months fighting for - the right for public figures to be spared physical attacks for their political beliefs.
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@AlboMP
You literally just held a referendum on establishing a racial hierarchy in Australia's institutions.
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The great Opera House of Venice is the staunch refusal of a city to allow her built heritage to perish.
Opened in 1792, destroyed by fire in 1836, rebuilt, destroyed again in 1996 and restored to glory in 2003, well has she earned her name - The Phoenix!
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@CoodzMac
Imagine being more infuriated by this than by the parents who raised them to think they could just walk onto somebody else's property and use their facilities.
What would have been the humane method to detain them?
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@mpmarky
@ChivalryGuild
Spoiler alert - in the pre-militant atheist age, people demanded their kings take up the cross.
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Name a bigger downgrade.
Italian art, 1499 and 2019.
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As the Olympic Torch is lit amid the ruins of Olympia, we can only give thanks to the Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
In reviving the Olympic Games in 1896, after one and a half thousand years of dormancy, he rekindled no modest flame in the West...
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Name bigger downgrades for national flags.
One that has always made me wince - the resplendent standard of the Republic of Venice and the aggressive dumbing down of it for the flag of the modern Veneto region.
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It never fails to amaze how the Baths of Caracalla, by far the grandest vestiges of Ancient Rome to survive in the Eternal City, remain a bastion of tranquillity, despite being a mere ten minute walk from the Colosseum.
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The Secret Room of Michelangelo
It scarcely seems possible that so modest a chamber, illuminated by the light of a sole barred window, once housed one of the greatest minds who ever lived.
Yet here, for two months in 1530, Michelangelo Buonarroti would hide for his very life 1/
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On the smearing of Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator
While Gladiator is a cinematic masterpiece, to which a tremendous debt is owed for the revival of interest in the classical world that it irrefutably inspired, there are of course notable historical inaccuracies. Many are trivial,…
What's your worst case of popular culture maligning or misrepresenting a historic person?
#SundayFunday
I'll start....
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@culturaltutor
Absolutely majestic, and a humbling homage from the Chinese to what the West could once produce 🙏
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Orthodox Easter yields some of the most remarkable scenes of beautiful solemnity that the 21st century still allows us.
The procession on Corfu of the Epitaphs, or the 33 icons of the dead Christ, one for each of his years of life, is especially moving.
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@Nigel_Farage
A polite reminder that there are now officially more undocumented migrants on Lampedusa than there are local residents on the island. An outrage that Rome and Brussels will do precisely nothing about.
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The Theft of a Saint
On this day, the 31st January AD 828, a priceless treasure arrived in Venice. Yet aboard that ship was no earthly gold, but relics holy indeed - the body of Saint Mark the Evangelist.
This is the story of how the City of Canals gained her patron saint 🧵1/
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St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
Rudolf von Alt, 1832
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@afneil
I am no supporter of Yousaf, but this is a ridiculous headline. Much of the world flocked to Qatar barely a year ago. Imagine holidaymakers visiting the UK being labelled as 'jetting off to a state accused of illegally invading Iraq'.
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"Agricultural prosperity brings nobility; industrial prosperity bring vulgarity"
Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Escolios a un Texto Implicito
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@other_mrs
He was Greek actually, since Anatolia becoming Turkish was a good thousand years in the future...
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