scholarly journals Reinterpretación del relieve histórico emeritense de M. Agrippa a partir de un nuevo fragmento

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio M. Poveda Navarro
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Imperial Cult ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
High Ranking Official

La reciente identificación de un fragmento escultórico con la representación de un toro preparado ornamentalmente para su sacrificio, que se encontraba depositado entre los fondos del Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, ha permitido relacionar la pieza con el conocido relieve de M. Agrippa en acción de sacrificar, de esta forma se puede completar el relieve en su parte derecfia según se le contemple frontalmente. A partir de este nuevo dato se revisa la visión interpretativa de la obra, que encuentra atiora la verificación de que se trata de un sacrificio de los típicos destinados al culto imperial romano, donde frecuentemente aparece una alta figura del estado o de la familia del emperador, que se encarga de sacrificar una víctima animal muy simbólica y recurrente, que generalmente, como en este caso, es un toro. Además, se plantea la posibilidad de que el relieve formase parte del ara Providentiae de Augusto, altar monumental de Mérida conocido a través de su aparición en el reverso de algunas emisiones monetales de Tiberio.The recent Identification of a piece of a sculpture with the representation of an ornamentally prepared bull for its sacrifice, which was among the collection of the National Museum of Román Art has made possible to relate the piece with the famous M. Agripa's relief in a sacrificing position, in this way we can complete the relief in its right part if we look at it directiy. Taken this, the interpretative visión of the work of art is revised, thus obtaining verification that it is a typical sacrifice destined to the Román imperial cult, where very frequently we find either a high ranking official or someone belonging to the emperor's family, who is in charge of offering up the animal victim, a highiy symbolic and recurring sacrifice, which, like in the present case generally involves the ritual killing of a a bull.

Ezra Taft Benson Meets Nikita Khrushchev, 1959

2019 ◽  
pp. 53-67
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Leader ◽  
Brigham Young University ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
Small Doses ◽  
Lds Church ◽  
High Ranking Official

In 1966 Ezra Taft Benson, high-ranking official of the LDS church and former U.S. secretary of agriculture, delivered a speech on the campus of LDS-owned Brigham Young University in which he summarized his encounter with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in September 1959. Benson told BYU students that Khrushchev had bragged to him, in part, “[W]e’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find you already have Communism. We'll so weaken your economy until you'll fall like overripe fruit into our hands.” This essay examines the accuracy of Benson's recital of Khrushchev’s alleged comments and concludes that Benson misstated the incident and attributed statements to Khrushchev he did not make. It also speculates why Benson misrepresented, or misremembered, the facts of the encounter.

The Making of a Success Story

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-32
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Kingdom Of Naples ◽  
High Ranking Official ◽  
Main Protagonist ◽  
Political Economic

This chapter introduces the main protagonist of the book: Carlo Calà Duke of Diano, a jurist and high-ranking official in the viceregal administration. This chapter also sets the historical context of the story of the forgery by describing the main political, economic, social, and religious characteristics of the Kingdom of Naples in the seventeenth century. More specifically, this chapter explains the social, cultural, and intellectual advantages that a noble pedigree conferred to the Neapolitan non-aristocratic elites; explores the main sources of tension between the papacy and the Neapolitan viceroy; sheds light on the power dynamics between the Roman Inquisition and the local ecclesiastical leaders; and introduces the complexities of the liturgical and devotional life of early modern Catholics.

The Blaškić trial: Politics, the Control of Information and Command Responsibility

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Gordy
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Political Responsibility ◽  
World War ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
High Ranking Official

In one of ICTY’s first prosecutions of a high-ranking official, Tihomir Blaškić’s 45-year sentence was heralded as an exemplar of decisive justice when it was handed down in 2000. With much of the conviction reversed and the sentence reversed on appeal three years later, the case looked less secure. Much of the conviction and appeal turned on issues of command responsibility, where the ICTY’s jurisprudence set a precedent going beyond that established by post-World War II jurisprudence. While this constituted an advance in law and a step toward demonstrating political responsibility, public perception of the trial treated it as a triumph for the accused.

Unrest will complicate Macron’s reform agenda

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Euro Area ◽  
Budget Deficit ◽  
Economic Reforms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Area Growth ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
High Ranking Official ◽  
Ability To Drive

Significance Fort will be the eighth high-ranking official to resign since Macron took office in 2017. This will raise further doubts over the credibility of Macron’s presidency and reform agenda. Impacts As the euro-area’s second-largest economy, France threatens euro-area growth prospects. Failure to control France’s budget deficit will result in conflict with Brussels. Such economic concerns will reduce Macron’s ability to drive EU political and economic reforms.

White marble sculptures from the National Museum of Roman Art (Mérida, Spain): sources of local and imported marbles

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 333-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pilar Lapuente ◽  
Trinidad Nogales-Basarrate ◽  
Hernando Royo ◽  
Mauro Brilli
Keyword(s):  
National Museum ◽  
Roman Art ◽  
White Marble ◽  
Marble Sculptures

The Icon of the Holy Unmercenaries (Greek: Άγιοι Ανάργυροι) Cosmas and Damian, as Bequeathed by Zofia Ruebenbauer, in the Collection of the National Museum in Cracow

Ikonotheka ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Mirosław P. Kruk
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Paint Layer ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
14Th Century ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Restoration Work ◽  
The 19Th Century

In 2011 the National Museum in Cracow received a bequest that had been specified in the last will and testament of Zofia Ruebenbauer from Ottawa. The gift was described as a 19th century Russian icon. Comparative stylistic analysis complemented by restoration work and a material study revealed an exquisite paint layer, for which analogies may be found in the mid-14th-century Greek art of the Paleologian period. The icon was probably painted in the third quarter of the 14th century in one of the centres in northern Greece including Kastoria, Veria, Mt. Athos, Thessalonike and Constantinople itself. The collection of the Byzantine Museum in Kastoria includes many icons of the holy physicians depicted in a similar pose. Iconographical details such as the surgical knives in the hands of the physicians and in the open tool case find close analogies in the 14th-century wall paintings in Peloponnese, e.g. in the Church of Saint Paraskevi (Αγία Παρασκευή, Agia Paraskevi) and Saint John Chrysostom (Άγιος Ιωάννης Χρυσόστομος, Agios Ioannes Chrisostomos) in Geraki, as well as in the Orthodox Church of the Holy Unmercenaries (Άγιοι Ανάργυροι, Agioi Anargyroi) in Nomitsi. The conclusions of the analysis regarding the icon’s provenance find indirect corroboration in the recently discovered fact that in the first half of the 19th century the work of art was owned by Haryklia Mavrocordatos-Serini, Sas-Hoszowska (1836–1906), a member of the Lvov line of the Greek princely family of Mavrocordatos. The names of her children with the exact dates of their birth appear on the reverse side of the icon. The work of art was passed down to Jerzy Ruebenbauer, who carried it away from Lvov during the Second World War, taking it first to Warsaw, where he met his future wife Zofia, and after the war to Canada via Belgium.

I. IMMUNITY OF STATE OFFICIALS FROM THE CRIMINAL JURISDICTION OF A FOREIGN STATE

2013 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 193-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Sanger
Keyword(s):  
High Court ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Criminal Jurisdiction ◽  
State Immunity ◽  
Foreign State ◽  
State Official ◽  
State Practice ◽  
High Ranking Official

AbstractIn Khurts Bat, the English High Court held that Mr Bat, a Mongolian State official charged with committing municipal crimes on German territory, was not immune from the jurisdiction of German courts and could therefore be extradited to Germany. This article examines the three theories of immunity put forward in that case: (1) special missions immunity, (2) high-ranking official immunity, and (3) State immunity. It focuses on the question of whether State officials charged with municipal crimes may plead immunity ratione materiae from the criminal jurisdiction of a foreign State by examining key examples of State practice.

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