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Currently owned by Mohammad bin Salman. [ 1] Salvator Mundi ( Latin for 'Savior of the World') is a painting attributed in whole or in part to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1499–1510. [ n 1] Long thought to be a copy of a lost original veiled with overpainting, it was rediscovered, restored, and included ...
Los Sueños (Dreams or Visions) is a satirical prose work by the Spanish Baroque writer Francisco de Quevedo.Written between 1605 and 1622, it was first published in Barcelona in 1627 under the title Sueños y discursos de verdades descubridoras de abusos, vicios y engaños en todos los oficios del mundo ("Dreams and discourses on truths revealing abuses, vices and deceptions in all the ...
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures was released at a Jehovah's Witness convention at Yankee Stadium, New York, on August 2, 1950. [ 34][ 35] The translation of the Old Testament, which Jehovah's Witnesses refer to as the Hebrew Scriptures, was released in five volumes in 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, and 1960.
Bruno’s cosmology was groundbreaking in that it proposed an infinite universe populated by innumerable worlds. Central to this vision was the idea of the world soul, or anima mundi, which Bruno described as an immanent and animating force pervading the entire cosmos. He argued that the world soul is the source of all motion, life, and ...
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (transl. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain) is a first-person narrative written in 1568 [1] by military adventurer, conquistador, and colonist settler Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492–1584), who served in three Mexican expeditions: those of Francisco Hernández de Córdoba (1517) to the Yucatán peninsula; the expedition of ...
The story was included in Márquez's 1984 "Collected Stories". [4] A study guide has been produced for the story. [5]Constance Pedoto, in the Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, compares the magical realist story to tales from Alaska such as "The Cormorant Hunters" by the Iñupiat Frank Ellana or "Two Great Polar Bear Hunters" by the King Island Eskimo Aloysius Pikonganna.
The Iglesia del Dios Vivo, Columna y Apoyo de la Verdad, La Luz del Mundo (Spanish: [iˈɣlesja ðel ˈdjos ˈβiβo koˈlumnaj aˈpoʝo ðe la βeɾˈðað la ˈlus ðel ˈmundo]; English: "Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of the Truth, The Light of the World")—or simply La Luz del Mundo (LLDM)—is a nontrinitarian Christian denomination in the Restorationist tradition, with ...
De contemptu mundi. De contemptu mundi ( On Contempt for the World) is the most well-known work of Bernard of Cluny. It is a 3,000 verse poem of stinging satire directed against the secular and religious failings he observed in the world around him. He spares no one; priests, nuns, bishops, monks, and even Rome itself are mercilessly scourged ...