Global Information Lookup Global Information

The Captive King information


The Captive King
ArtistJoseph Wright of Derby
Year1772 (1772)
Dimensions33.6 cm × 39.5 cm (13.2 in × 15.6 in)
LocationDerby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby

The Captive King is a sketch by Joseph Wright of Derby completed in 1772 or 1773. It depicts the French nobleman Guy de Lusignan held prisoner by Saladin. The sketch is thought to have been a preparation for the now-lost painting Guy de Lusignan in Prison.

and 25 Related for: The Captive King information

Request time (Page generated in 1.065 seconds.)

The Captive King

Last Update:

The Captive King is a sketch by Joseph Wright of Derby completed in 1772 or 1773. It depicts the French nobleman Guy de Lusignan held prisoner by Saladin...

Word Count : 403

Francis I of France

Last Update:

of the battle of Pavia". Zuppa alla Pavese was supposedly invented on the spot to feed the captive king after the battle. Francis was held captive morbidly...

Word Count : 5958

King cobra

Last Update:

The king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah) is a venomous snake endemic to Asia. The sole member of the genus Ophiophagus, it is not taxonomically a true cobra...

Word Count : 4975

Popular crusades

Last Update:

the 1320s that the papacy criticised a popular crusade. The objectives were traditional, such as regaining Jerusalem or liberating the captive King Louis...

Word Count : 304

Thibaw Min

Last Update:

King Thibaw, also Thebaw or Theebaw (Burmese: သီပေါ‌မင်း, pronounced [θìbɔ́ mɪ́ɰ̃]; 1 January 1859 – 19 December 1916), was the last king of the Konbaung...

Word Count : 1904

The Lion King

Last Update:

captive hyenas, listed "boycott The Lion King" in an article listing ways to help preserve hyenas in the wild, and later "joke[d] that The Lion King set...

Word Count : 17077

Battle of Wakefield

Last Update:

battle of the Wars of the Roses. The opposing forces were an army led by nobles loyal to the captive King Henry VI of the House of Lancaster and his Queen...

Word Count : 3863

Flag of Argentina

Last Update:

symbolizing the allegiance to the rightful, and then captive King Ferdinand VII of Spain. Most portraits about the creation or first uses of the flag show the modern...

Word Count : 2619

Max Jacobson

Last Update:

Robins, Robert S. (1995). When Illness Strikes the Leader: The Dilemma of the Captive King. Yale University Press. p. 69. ISBN 0-300-06314-8. Jane E....

Word Count : 1478

William I of Sicily

Last Update:

the rest of the Regno, avenging the rebel burning of Butera. During the initial assault on the palace, to release the captive king, the king's son Roger...

Word Count : 1217

Stephen King

Last Update:

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. Called the "King of Horror", he has also explored other genres, among them suspense...

Word Count : 14997

Neverwas

Last Update:

himself) who enters a secret world to free a captive king. T.L. later committed suicide; Riley, who found the body, has always partly blamed himself for...

Word Count : 558

Jeconiah

Last Update:

after Jeconiah became king, the armies of Nebuchadnezzar II seized Jerusalem, with the intention to take high class Judahite captives and assimilate them...

Word Count : 4222

Captives

Last Update:

Captives is a 1994 British romantic crime drama film directed by Angela Pope and written by the Dublin screenwriter Frank Deasy. It stars Julia Ormond...

Word Count : 443

Binnya Dala

Last Update:

Hsinbyushin, the second son of Alaungpaya, ordered the execution of the captive king after a Mon rebellion in 1773 had tried to restore the captive king. Pegu...

Word Count : 3081

Henry III of England

Last Update:

Press. ISBN 978-0-86193-319-8. Wild, Benjamin L. (2011). "A Captive King: Henry III Between the Battles of Lewes and Evesham 1264-5". In Burton, Janet E...

Word Count : 17189

Babylonian captivity

Last Update:

king of his own choice and taking heavy tribute brought it back to Babylon. Jehoiachin's Rations Tablets, describing ration orders for a captive King...

Word Count : 3437

The Blonde Captive

Last Update:

The Blonde Captive is a 1931 American controversial pre-Code film directed by Clinton Childs, Ralph P. King, Linus J. Wilson, and Paul Withington. The...

Word Count : 1134

Manuha

Last Update:

represent the stress and lack of comfort the 'captive king' had to endure. Spiro 1996: 113 Coedès, George (1968). Walter F. Vella (ed.). The Indianized...

Word Count : 491

King quail

Last Update:

The king quail (Synoicus chinensis), also known as the blue-breasted quail, Asian blue quail, Chinese painted quail, or Chung-Chi, is a species of Old...

Word Count : 1417

Nyaunggyin

Last Update:

of the 37 nats in the Burmese pantheon of nats. He was a descendant of the captive King Manuha of Thaton. He died of leprosy during the reign of King Anawrahta...

Word Count : 102

Order of the Golden Shield

Last Update:

with the king John II of France. This release came in 1369, three years after the death of the captive king. The knighthood order counted, except the Grand...

Word Count : 182

Alaungpaya

Last Update:

and the Mon south. The Hanthawaddy leadership escalated "self-defeating" policies of persecuting southern Bamars. They also executed the captive king of...

Word Count : 5164

Captive breeding

Last Update:

Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves...

Word Count : 6754

Maha Chakkraphat

Last Update:

the urging of his son Mahinthrathirat.: 45–46, 49–50  In early 1568, the captive king successfully convinced Bayinnaung to allow him to go back to Ayutthaya...

Word Count : 1094

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net