Paradoxplace Italy, Spain, Portugal and Britain Photo & History Pages
Paradoxplace Insight Pages
Interesting subjects, themes, groups of people, places and events which shaped the course of history and give scope for our photographs
ARTISTS OF THE ITALIAN RENSISSANCE
TRAVELLERS, TRADERS AND EXPLORERS
OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, THE TOPKAPI PALACE AND SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT
CISTERCIAN MONKS AND THEIR ABBEYS
THE MEDIEVAL EUROPEAN CHRISTIAN CHURCH
THE NORMANS IN SOUTHERN ITALY & SICILY - 1000 TO 1266
CONDOTTIERI AND THE GREAT EQUESTRIAN STATUES AND PAINTINGS
1500 - CHARLES V, HENRY VIII, FRANCIS I, J FUGGER, M LUTHER, CLEMENT VII, SULEIMAN - 1550
THE MONGOL CONQUERORS (Khans: Ghengis, Kublai, Hulagu and Tamerlane)
THE INDIAN MUGHAL EMPERORS (including Akbar and Shah Jahan, and the Taj Mahal)
ARTISTS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
80 Artists, Architects, Writers and Composers born between 1200 and 1600
TRAVELLERS, TRADERS AND EXPLORERS
Genghis Khan, Ilkhan Helegu, Prester John, John of Plano Carpini, William of Rubruck, Marco Polo, Friar Odoric, Jacob d'Ancona, Ibn Battuta, Sir John Mandeville, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli , John Cabot, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Giovanni da Verrazzano, Sir Frances Drake
US World War II cemetery near Greve-in-Chianti
1943 - 1945
The unknown part of WW II
Roxelana - Suleiman's Chief Wife
The Topkapi Palace
& Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Istanbul at the Peak of the Ottoman Empire - mid 1500s
Lorenzo "Il Magnifico" de'Medici
The Medici Family
The Glorious 1400s - the Medici Bankers
The Medici Queens of France - Caterina and Maria
Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany
The Master Abbey Builders of the 11 & 12 Hundreds
The Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
St-Pierre de la Bouïsse, St-Côme-d'Olt (Lot Valley)
Pope Innocent III (1198 - 1216), Sacro Speco, Subiaco
Medieval Christian Church
Architecture, Art and History
Roger II (La Martorana, Palermo)
THE NORMANS IN SOUTHERN ITALY & SICILY
1000 TO 1266
The 4th Crusade - Basilica di San Giovanni Evangelista, Ravenna
lasted from 1095 to 1291
The 100 Years War
1337 to 1453
Tomb of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral
Donatello's equestrian statue of Gattamelata in Padova
Condottieri
and the
Great Equestrian Statues and Paintings
of the Renaissance
Santa Sophia - Justinian's Greatest Church in Christendom - 530s
Constantinople 527 - 565
Emperor Justinian
and the
Byzantine Empire
An Emperor, two Kings, a Banker, a Priest, a Pope and a Sultan kick off the Age of European Nation States
The Indian Mughal Emperors
1483 - 1707
Gur Emir, Tamerlane's mausoleum in his capital, Samarkand.
The Mongol Conquerers
1160 - 1265
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