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Albert I (April 8, 1875 – February 17, 1934) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1909 through 1934. This was a crucial period in the History of Belgium since it included the period of World War I (1914 - 1918) when 99 percent ofBelgium was overrun, occupied, and ruled by the German Empire. Other crucial events included the adoption of the Treaty of Versailles, the ruling of the Belgian Congo as an overseas possession of the Kingdom of Belgium, the reconstruction of Belgium following the war, and the first five years of the Great Depression (1929 - 1934). King Albert was killed in a mountaineering accident in eastern Belgium in 1934, at the age of 58, and he was succeeded by his son Leopold.

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#Albert I #King of the Belgians #World War I #Interbellum

Music room of the Behrens house with Schiedmayer grand piano, 1901

#Piano #1900s #Art nouveau #Schiedmayer #Peter Behrens’ House

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

#Mozart #Classical music #18th century #1700s #Vienna

The Pena National Palace

#Portugal #The Pena National Palace #Romanticism #Sintra #19th century

The Iron Bridge crosses the River Severn in Shropshire, England. It was the firstarch bridge in the world to be made of cast iron, a material which was previously too expensive to use for large structures. However, a new blast furnace nearby lowered the cost and encouraged local engineers and architects to solve a long-standing problem of a crossing over the river.

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#The Iron Bridge #River #Severn #Shropshire #England #18th century

Keizersgracht (literal English translation: Emperor's Canal) is the second and widest of the three major canals in the city centre of Amsterdam, in between Herengracht and Prinsengracht. It is named afterMaximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor

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#Keizersgracht #Amsterdam #Canal #The Netherlands

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

#German #Philosopher #Pessimism #Arthur Schopenhauer #19th Century

Cityscape (1939)

Tullio Crali

#1930s #Futurism #Tullio Crali #Cityscape #Italy #Painting

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907)

Gustav Klimt

#1900s #Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer #Gustav Klimt #Austrian #Painting #Jugendstil #Art Nouveau #Belle Époque

The Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius is an ancient Roman statue in the Campidoglio, Rome, Italy. It is made of bronze and stands 4.24 m tall. Although the emperor is mounted, it exhibits many similarities to standing statues of Augustus. The original is on display in the Capitoline Museums, with the one now standing in the open air of the Piazza del Campidoglio being a replica made in 1981 when the original was taken down for restoration.

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#ancient Roman #Ancient Rome #Campidoglio #Rome #Italy #Marcus Aurelius #Bronze #Capitoline Museums #The Equestrian Statue

Mole Antonelliana

#Italy #Turin #Mole Antonelliana #National Museum of Cinema

Castel del Monte (English: Castle of the Mount, Bari dialect: Castídde d'u Monte) is a 13th-century citadel and castle situated in Andria in theApulia region of southeastItaly. It stands on a promontory, where it was constructed during the 1240s by the Emperor Frederick II, who had inherited the lands from his mother Constance of Sicily.

#Citadel #Castel del Monte #1240s #Middle Ages #Italy #Andria #Apulia #Emperor Frederick II #Castle

Ophelia (1889)

John William Waterhouse

#Ophelia #John William Waterhouse #1880s #Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood #Painting #English

Notre Dame de Paris (IPA: [nɔtʁə dam də paʁi]; French for "Our Lady of Paris"), also known as Notre Dame Cathedral or simply Notre Dame, is a historic Roman Catholic Marian cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the largest and most well-known churches in the world,Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris; that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra (official chair) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois.

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#Notre Dame #Paris #Roman Catholic #Cathedral #Gothic #Architecture #French #France

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an Anglo-Scottish poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the short lyric "She Walks in Beauty." He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential.

#Lord Byron #Romanticism #Poet #British #1800s

Margareta Maria de Roodere and Her Parents (1652)

Gerard van Honthorst

#1650s #Gerard van Honthorst #Dutch #Painting #Dutch Golden Age

Bruges, view from the Rozenhoedkaai in the evening

#Bruges #Belgium #Middle Ages

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