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The focus on visual detail (and on musicality) gives his stagings an air of sumptuousness.

You see how the sumptuousness of the style made the cathedrals more welcoming and urban.

And this frigid mound of sumptuousness is the sort of thing that gets you that next Eddie Redmayne weepie.

Through her creations, she strives to capture the same color, texture and sumptuousness of these foods in their original state.

Part of Sookee's journey is one from perdition into opulence, from a lowly thieves' den into the sumptuousness of the mansion.

The set married royal sumptuousness to genocidal mania, littering the palace with taxidermy, glum military portraits, abandoned toys, and deep, shadowy spaces.

"The sticker choices were driven by visual sumptuousness and what worked on the iPhone medium rather than by the tapestries' symbolism," he said.

The décor of La Dimora has a colorful cast: Step into the roomy living area and you are struck by a baroque sumptuousness.

Richness reigned on Erdem Moralioglu's runway, too, which married the sumptuousness of Ottoman dress, its rich fabrics and gilded details, with a daintier, English prettiness.

There was a certain meatiness missing in the voices of both Ms. Pérez and Mr. Finley, a certain sumptuousness, but they compensated with accuracy, intelligence, earnestness.

The show makes palpable both the sumptuousness and formality of court life and the more intimate alliances among artists, art dealers, printers and so forth that make an art world.

Miyazaki, who is 77 and lives outside of Tokyo, is the greatest animator in history, the sumptuousness of his art matched only by the complexity and ambiguity of his stories.

Desiring simply to incorporate clothing into her illustrations, Kelly Beeman highlights the sumptuousness of fashion—the way it can transform a figure and serve as eye candy for the viewer.

It withholds the visual sumptuousness Ofili knows how to concoct and gives the viewer some rather bitter dregs to drink: the lesson that we make our own cages and our own heaven.

For that participatory exercise alone, above and beyond the volume's intelligence and visual sumptuousness, I believe Landscape Painting Now could play a significant role in our conversations about contemporary painting and its meaning.

Mi tai mu, an iconic street dish of stubby rice flour noodles made like spaetzle and usually eaten in soup, are here served in a Cantonese-style lobster broth whose sumptuousness is bolstered by rafts of sweet loofah gourd.

Meg Webster still signifies the power of the gallery and her position in the art ecosystem, but also moves her ego out of the way just enough so we see her pointing to the sumptuousness of the natural world's flora.

What marks individuality in the illustrations is the sheer sumptuousness of garments and an apparent lack of mobility—only the most noble, idealized women are marooned by their dozen layers of robes and long black hair spooling out like ribbon on the floor.

It's just one facet where I found "The Young Pope" — for all its over-the-top plotlines, Holy-See-as-a-Björk-video imagery and sumptuousness typical of a Paolo Sorrentino production — had some resonance in the real-life Roman Catholic Church.

There are the expected references to Jay's serial conquests of white women (a preference that helped bring down the real Jack Johnson and was the center of "The Great White Hope") and his love of sartorial sumptuousness, but they are not center stage here.

The opportunity to delight in the meeting of sumptuousness and rigor — a meeting we often associate with music — is more than enough reason to see the beautifully presented exhibition, Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions at The Drawing Center, thoughtfully organized by Chief Curator Claire Gilman.

John Lee Beatty's rustic set (which shifts neatly to royal sumptuousness for later scenes at the Dauphin's court), Jane Greenwood's homespun costumes and Alexander Sovronsky and Joanna Lynne Staub's sound design summon a world in which people are unavoidably subject to the whims of nature.

With his falsetto on fleek over a bed of soulful sumptuousness and a lyric that would melt the hardest heart as he pledges his eternal devotion ("If God one day struck me blind, your beauty I'd still see"), this one will stand until the end of time.

The interior consists of interweaving corridors, stairwells, alcoves and landings, allowing the movement of large numbers of people and space for socialising during intermission. Rich with velvet, gold leaf, and cherubim and nymphs, the interior is characteristic of Baroque sumptuousness.

In 1843 there existed five large vacation residences, with 23 others notable for their sumptuousness. There were also 273 private homes owned by wealthy families. In 1800, Cerro's population was 2,000; 2,125 in 1843; and by 1858, there were 2,530 permanent residents.

They argue that this is a phenomenon called the "liminal space of dreaming" in that the terrorist woman cannot fulfill her sexual desire so the songs fill the void of this desire by "their sumptuousness and exotic locales" in the Ladakh region.

250px Sivkov’s art is nurtured by the heavy, garish sumptuousness of his palette. His colours and application of, are powerfully expressive. The eloquence of his colours come to delineate the non-perspectival pictorial space. Combined with the impasto texture of his work, Sivkov's palette effectively creates a technically sensorial opus.

Detail of the large painting The Wedding of Martín García Oñas de Loyola with Doña Ñusta Beatriz Clara Qoya, ca. 17th- century, anonymous painter (Cusco School). It is located inside. Similar sumptuousness is seen in the carved tribunes and the rest of the altarpieces, some of which belonged to the defunct Templo de San Agustín.

The archivolt interrupts the monotonous shape of the windows, while the design of the main facade is consistent with the other buildings. The turrets above the finishing cornices, the richly decorated mansards and the clock tower enhance the sumptuousness of this warehouse. The rows of cast-iron mullions and the avant-corpses give the whole building an extraordinary perspective.

Bartoli is considered a coloratura mezzo-soprano with an unusual timbre. According to Nicholas Wroe, her distinctive voice is known for its "fully developed sumptuousness of the lower register, the vibrancy of the middle range...the top was limpid and powerful." She is one of the most popular (and one of the top-selling) opera singers of recent years.

39: "... Sternberg seems to have been driven, perhaps partly by censors, to retreat into the exotic past." The sheer sumptuousness of the sets and décor obscure the allegorical nature of the film: the transformation of the director and star into pawns controlled by the corporate powers that exalt ambition and wealth, "a nightmare vision of the American dream."Baxter, 1993. p. 177-178Baxter, 1971. p.

The Washington Post deemed the play "too obvious to be affecting," and while The New York Times' Brooks Atkinson praised Kaufman and Hart's ambition and the sumptuousness of the physical production, he ultimately dismissed it as "a ponderous show that reaffirms the commonplace."Reed, Edward. "Two Lost Opportunities," The Washington Post 5 Feb. 1939. The Fabulous Invalid closed on December 3, 1938 after 65 performances.

Vermeil, 192–98. He also conducted performances of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde with the Bayreuth company at the Osaka Festival in Japan in 1967, but the lack of adequate rehearsal made it an experience he later said he would rather forget. By contrast, his conducting of the new production (by Václav Kašlík) of Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande at Covent Garden in 1969 was praised for its combination of "delicacy and sumptuousness".

They have a brilliance akin > to life's rosiest products–insects' wings, birds' feathers, shells, petals. > No painting can match the force or delicacy that appears in these subtle > associations of bits of dyed silk. Stitch after stealthy stitch adds up to > the texture of sumptuousness. Even flesh tints are ravishingly reproduced, > and the incalculable artfulness of a needle comes to delightful fruition in > the modeling of a shoulder or a breast.

He joined drummer Roy Haynes' band around 2000, and guitarist Russell Malone's quartet in 2002. Bejerano's first album as leader, Evolution/Revolution, was released in 2007. The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that there was a "classical sumptuousness in his work, though in jazz terms he is most obviously influenced by Chick Corea".Cook, Richard and Morton, Brian (2008) The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin. p. 107.

This enormous mansion, in neo-Gothic style, was completed in time for the visit of Queen Victoria in 1842. No expense was spared on the interior, which was decorated with the utmost sumptuousness. Taymouth Castle is now privately owned and has a fine golf course in its grounds. Plans to restore the Castle to its mid-19th century glory and convert it into a luxury hotel are currently ongoing.

His next film for Paramount, Funny Face (1957), teamed him with Audrey Hepburn and Kay Thompson. Despite the sumptuousness of the production and the good reviews from critics, it failed to make back its cost. Similarly, Astaire's next project – his final musical at MGM, Silk Stockings (1957), in which he co- starred with Cyd Charisse, also lost money at the box office. Afterward, Astaire announced that he was retiring from dancing in film.

Representative of his work in this genre is the extensive collection in the Kolowrat Gallery (Rychnov nad Kněžnou Castle). His hunting pieces drew inspiration from the works of Frans Snyders in their sumptuousness and decorative aspect and from those of Jacobus Victors and Melchior de Hondecoeter in their overall conception and use of the landscape. In the Flemish tradition he created a dramatic effect in his hunting pieces. He continued the late Baroque's use of dramatic composition and lighting.

The frieze depicts a gladiatorial game, which the rich Lucius must have organised on the occasion of his election. The gladiators are depicted in various poses (saluting, preparing, fighting, victorious, and defeated), as if part of a single scene, although in reality the various stages would actually happen sequentially. The goal of the donor must have been to document the sumptuousness of the games, whose cost was proportional to the number of combatants involved. The relief is composed with a careful equilibrium and rhythmic pattern of movement.

The Concerto was recorded by the performers of the premiere, released by Deutsche Grammophon in 2003, coupled with Leonard Bernstein's 1954 Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" for solo violin, string orchestra, harp and percussion, with Mutter and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A reviewer compared the first movements to concertos by Korngold and Prokofiev. Mutter's playing has been described as dancing "through the thorniest passages" and giving "a silky sheen to even the most stratospherically placed notes", while the orchestra plays "with an ideal mixture of sumptuousness and delicacy".

Gauguin also purchased work from Degas in the early to mid-1870s and his own monotyping predilection was probably influenced by Degas' advancements in the medium.Figura, Childs, Foster & Mosier (2014), 26 Paul Gauguin, Arearea no Varua Ino,1894, watercolor monotype on Japan paper, owned originally by Degas, National Gallery of Art Gauguin's Durand-Ruel exhibition in November 1893, which Degas chiefly organized, received mixed reviews. Among the mocking were Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and former friend Pissarro. Degas, however, praised his work, purchasing ' and admiring the exotic sumptuousness of Gauguin's conjured folklore.

Nir Hod began his career in video, works in sculpture but is known for his high realism paintings. Hod studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy and New York's Cooper Union School of Art. His work investigates old notions of hyper- seriousness and personal authenticity. Hod's realistic takes on rakish narcissism examine androgyny, identity, sexual confusion, and excess. As Richard Vine wrote in the catalogue for Hod’s survey exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, “From the beginning of his career, Nir Hod has opposed the ideology that labels sumptuousness an esthetic sin.

At this time, when St Nicholas was still buried in Myra, his cult spread through the west and he was revered as patron of various groups and helper in many matters. This could explain the unusual size and sumptuousness of the chapel. The Jesuit and Bollandist, Daniel Papebroch (1628–1714) saw the original Worms relic of St Nicholas in 1660. He described it as a "finger bone" of the saint, which at that time was stored in the cathedral sacristry, but had previously been displayed in his own chapel.

After the rebuilding of the city by Yaqub's brother, it became the dazzling capital of the Ghaznavids from 994 to 1160, encompassing much of North India, Persia and Central Asia. Many iconoclastic campaigns were launched from Ghazni into India. The Ghaznavids took Islam to India and returned with fabulous riches taken from both prince and temple god. Contemporary visitors and residents at Ghazni write with wonder of the ornateness of the buildings, the great libraries, the sumptuousness of the court ceremonies and of the wealth of precious objects owned by Ghazni's citizens.

Valaikaappu was originally a simple ceremony, mainly limited to the exchange of bangles. But as valaikaappu became more widely practiced, it grew more lavish, and since the 1980s has been celebrated by most, according to anthropologists who have studied the practice, with "magnificence and sumptuousness," with gifts including jewellery, saris, household appliances, mobile phones and gold ornaments. Similar ceremonies are held in other parts of India and in Pakistan, including among Bengali women, Marathi and Konkani women (who call the ceremony Dohale Jevan [डोहाळे जेवण]), Punjabi women (who call it Godh-Bharai), Sindhi women, and Marwari women. .

More complex and difficult to describe is the magnificence and sumptuousness of the ceiling that covers the Throne Room. Its dimensions are very considerable ( in length by 8 in width) and its Artesonado coffered ceiling is supported by thick beams and sleepers decorated with laqueus that at intersections form eight-pointed stars, while generating thirty large and deep square coffins. Inside these coffins are inscribed octagons with a central flower of curly leaf that finish in large hanging pine cones that symbolize fertility and immortality. This ceiling was reflected in the ground, which reproduces the thirty squares with their respective octagons inscribed.

In 1760, they toured Italy together, executing numerous sketches of local scenery. It was in these romantic gardens, with their fountains, grottos, temples and terraces, that Fragonard conceived the dreams which he was subsequently to render in his art. He also learned to admire the masters of the Dutch and Flemish schools (Rubens, Hals, Rembrandt, Ruisdael), imitating their loose and vigorous brushstrokes. Added to this influence was the deep impression made upon his mind by the florid sumptuousness of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works he had an opportunity to study in Venice before he returned to Paris in 1761.

The New York Times music critic Robert Palmer wrote of "his voice, pushing like a Count Basie solo, rich and grainy as a section of saxophones, which dominated the room with the sheer sumptuousness of its sound." In announcing Turner's death, the British music magazine NME, in its December 1985 issue, described him as "the grandfather of rock and roll." Dave Alvin wrote a song about an evening he spent with Turner, entitled "Boss of the Blues", for his 2009 album, Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women. Alvin discussed the song in issue 59 of the Blasters Newsletter.

Saul (1997), p. 340–2. The inspiration for this new sumptuousness and emphasis on dignity came from the courts on the continent, not only the French and Bohemian courts that had been the homes of Richard's two wives, but also the court that his father had maintained while residing in Aquitaine.Saul (1997), pp. 344–54. Richard's approach to kingship was rooted in his strong belief in the royal prerogative, the inspiration of which can be found in his early youth, when his authority was challenged first by the Peasants' Revolts and then by the Lords Appellant.

Exhibition of Arts and Crafts whose creativity was appreciated by the distinguished guests and participants take the centre stage while Anioma cuisine which make most guests journey to our roots for the appreciation of the original natural foods whose taste and sumptuousness our people used to relish. A major feature of the fiesta has always been the huge financial outlay in form of cash prizes winners go home with. First prize is usually N300,000 : 00, second N200,000 :00 and third, N100,000 : 00. There is also the N500,000 : 00 set aside for winner of each categories of dances.

During his studies, Garant developed a particular interest in the clarinet, one of several instruments that he came to master over his life. In 1946, Garant, who displayed a flair for wind instruments, learned saxophone by himself. Exploring many aspects of the music industry, Garant decided to turn to the piano, a sinuous path where he was first under the supervision of one of the founders of the Symphony Orchestra of Sherbrooke, Sylvio Lacharité. Lacharité initiated Garant to the sumptuousness of literature and its inherent link with music, a legacy that greatly influenced his writings and compositions throughout his career.

The classical and royal iconography and sumptuousness of the Paris Psalter, however, strongly point to an imperial patron; while the gloss implies a reader with serious intellectual and spiritual inclinations, such as Constantine VII. Healing of Hezekiah, fol. 466v. The manuscript is written in a minusucule bouletée hand, which closely resembles that of several other Byzantine manuscripts of the same period, including an illuminated gospel book, (Parisinus graecus 70); a Gospel Book (London, British Library Add MS 11 300); a Gospel Book (Venice, Biblioteca Marciana Marcianus graecus I 18); the Acts and Epistles (Oxford, Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Gr. 110); and Basil of Caesarea (Oxford, Corpus Christi 26).

Exterior facade of the Chapel of the Rosario. This type of construction reflects the economic reach of the Church in those years and the ambition and sumptuousness with which its churches were planned and erected. The plan is arranged in the shape of a Latin cross, with short sections and testero. The nave is divided into three sections and its vault is barrel with lunettes in the same way as the sections of the crossing, it has a narrow dome with tholobate and on this some windows and others in the semicircular dome, whose purpose is to give illumination to the sumptuous ciprés just down.

Often in Latin the topic comes first, and then the focus. For example, in the sentence below, the topic is "in the bathhouse" (), which has been previously mentioned, and the sub- topic is the hot-room () (since it can be assumed that all bath-houses have a hot room); the new information is that Cicero has moved the hot room, and the place to which he has moved it: :Cicero, 3.1.2. :"In the bath-house the hot room _I have moved into the other corner of the changing-room_." Similarly, in the following example, the new information is the sumptuousness of the funerals in question: :.

She is thought to have been of aristocratic birth, though from the lower nobility, evidenced from her clothes in this portrait which are fashion but not of the sumptuousness worn by the bride in van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait. The fabrics and colours worn by people of the 15th century were informally regulated by their social position; for example black, an expensive dye, could only be worn by the upper reaches of society. As the widow of a renowned painter, Margaret was afforded a modest pension by the city of Bruges after Jan's death. It is recorded that at least some of this income was invested in lottery.

After retiring from Parliament, Cromwell resided at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, making his will on 17 Feb. 1610. Cromwell requested that no "pomp or sumptuousness" be used at his funeral, "being not willing to have vanities continued for me after my death, whereto I have been too much subject in my lifetime." He died between February 1610 and April 1611, leaving money and property to his wife "who has always been a most loving wife... and hath besides endured many griefs and sorrows for my sake", to his children, subject to their good behaviour and money to the poor of Great Risborough, Norfolk, and to the poor of the parish where he died.

Although the book is written entirely in Polish, it has a bilingual, Latin and Polish, title. Compendium ferculorum and both mean "a collection of dishes", in Latin and Polish, respectively; these are joined by the Polish conjunction albo, "or". The work opens with Czerniecki's dedication to his "most charitable lady and benefactress", Princess née , recalling a famed banquet given to Pope Urban VIII by her father, Prince , during his diplomatic mission to Rome in 1633. Ossoliński's legation was famous for its ostentatious sumptuousness designed to show off the grandeur and prosperity of the Polish- Lithuanian Commonwealth, even to the point of deliberately fitting his mount with loose golden horseshoes, only to lose them while ceremoniously entering the Eternal City.

105-109 and 128-129. Only four years later did the Bureau's postage stamp unit have the opportunity to prove that it was capable of something more than this utilitarian effort, when the Post Office elected to issue a commemorative set in honor of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. The resulting Trans-Mississippi Issue remains one of the most admired of all U. S. Stamp sets, designed in an elaborate and flamboyant visual style surely intended to demonstrate that the Bureau could attain an unimpeachably high level of engraving creativity and craftsmanship. The Bureau aimed at similar sumptuousness in its next commemorative series, the 1901 Pan- American Exposition Issue, and this artistic approach then came to U. S. definitive stamps with the Series of 1902.

Very little is known of Margaret; even her maiden name is lost – contemporary records refer to her mainly as Damoiselle Marguerite. She may have been of aristocratic birth, though from the lower nobility, evidenced from her clothes in the portrait which are fashionable but not of the sumptuousness worn by the bride in the Arnolfini Portrait. Later, as the widow of a renowned painter Margaret was afforded a modest pension by the city of Bruges after Jan's death. At least some of this income was invested in lottery.Van Der Elst (2005), 65 Van Eyck undertook a number of journeys on Philip the Duke of Burgundy's behalf between 1426 and 1429, described in records as "secret" commissions, for which he was paid multiples of his annual salary.

Chapel. Maria Teresa de Borbón y Valabriga, 15th Countess of Chinchón, painted by Francisco de Goya. Unlike the severe layout of the exterior, the interior was notable for its sumptuousness, especially visible in the chapel. The recurrent use of motifs Corinthians, the use of materials such as marble, bronze or stucco and the presence of decorative elements such as garlands, angels, grapes and flowers in the arches, pendentives, cornices and vaults account for the ornamental profusion of this dependence. In the chapel are the pantheons of María Teresa de Borbón and Vallabriga, XV Countess of Chinchón, second daughter of Luis Antonio de Borbón and wife of Manuel Godoy; and María Luisa de Borbón y Vallabriga, duchess consort of San Fernando de Quiroga, among other historical personalities.

While the image of warriors with frilly skirts tucked into their boots may seem impractical to a contemporary audience, modern paratroopers use a similar method to blouse their trousers over their jumpboots.. Lace was commonly worn on military uniforms in the West well into the 19th century, and gold braids and other adornments still serve as markers of high rank in formal military uniforms. Fustanella were very labor-intensive and thus costly, which made them a high status garment that advertised the wealth and importance of the wearer. Western observers of the Greek War of Independence noted the great pride which the klephts and armatoloi took in their fustanella, and how they competed to outdo each other in the sumptuousness of their costume.

In the view of M. K. Lawson, he had at least two of the requisites of a successful medieval king, he was "both ruthless and feared"; had he not died young, the Norman Conquest might not have happened. Ian Howard praises Harthacnut for keeping peace throughout his empire, benefiting trade and merchants, and ensuring a peaceful succession by inviting Edward to his court as his heir. Had he lived longer, Howard believes, his character might have enabled him to become a successful king like his father. Henry of Huntingdon (12th century) claimed that Harthacnut ordered for the dining tables of his court to be "laid four times a day with royal sumptuousness" which O'Brien says is likely a popular myth.

At the end of the year he was replaced by Ippolito Chamaterò, who held the post for the next two years. Scipione Gonzaga was the recipient of a madrigal book of Portinaro's in 1563, in Padua; Gonzaga himself founded an academy in that city, the Accademia degli Eterei, though Portinaro is not known to have been associated with them directly. From 1564 to 1566 or 1568 Portinaro was in Rome, in the service of Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este as music director for his considerable musical establishment – he had a group of 15 singers, with instrumentalists and an organist. Ippolito was a prominent patron of the arts, and brought much of the sumptuousness of the Ferrara Este court with him to the Holy City; he was also a patron of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina around the same time that Portinaro was there.

Although, according to the art historian Walter Bosing, each of these works is rendered in a manner that it is difficult to believe "Bosch intended to condemn what he painted with such visually enchanting forms and colors". Bosing concludes that a medieval mindset was naturally suspicious of material beauty, in any form, and that the sumptuousness of Bosch's description may have been intended to convey a false paradise, teeming with transient beauty.Bosing, 56 In 1947, Wilhelm Fränger argued that the triptych's center panel portrays a joyous world when mankind will experience a rebirth of the innocence enjoyed by Adam and Eve before their fall.Snyder 1977, 100 In his book The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch, Fränger wrote that Bosch was a member of the heretical sect known as the Adamites—who were also known as the Homines intelligentia and Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit.

As Plutarch says: > Veii had been the capital of Etruria, not inferior to Rome, either in number > of arms or multitude of soldiers, so that relying on her wealth and luxury, > and priding herself upon her refinement and sumptuousness, she had engaged > in many honourable contests with the Romans for glory and empire .......... > as the city was furnished with all sorts of weapons, offensive and > defensive, likewise with corn and all manner of provisions, they cheerfully > endured a siege After ten years, in 396 BC, the Romans appointed Camillus as dictator. After defeating both Falerii and Capena at Nepete, Camillus commanded the final strike against Veii. He dug into the soft tuff rock below the walls whilst distracting the Veiians with attacks on the walls and infiltrated the city's drainage system to emerge in the citadel, leading to their defeat. Not interested in surrender but only in Veii's complete destruction, the Romans slaughtered the entire adult male population and made slaves of all the women and children.

As a means of manoeuvring for political as well as court advancement, Villiers commissioned masques in which he was able to promote himself in a leading role. "Command over his body had provided him with the privilege of commanding the moves of a future king". This culminated in connivance by his supporters in licensing Thomas Middleton's notorious play A Game at Chess (1624) as an extension of their anti-Spanish foreign policy. The Duke and Prince Charles are acknowledged as figuring there as The White Duke and The White Knight, while very obvious depictions of the Spanish monarch and his former ambassador in England eventually brought about the play's closure.. Villiers commissioned portraits of himself as "a medium for the cultivation of his personal image". William Larkin's portrait of 1616 records the start of his climb, showing him in the dress of a Knight of the Garter and emphasising the felicity of his stance and sumptuousness of dress. A 1619 portrait by Daniel Mytens the Elder is equally elegant.

In his 1920 book L'Architecture aux Etatis-Unis, French architect Jacques Gréber described it as "a monument of remarkable sumptuousness ... the ensemble is an admirable study of antique architecture stamped with a powerful dignity." Fiske Kimball's 1928 book American Architecture describes it as "an example of the triumph of classical form in America". In the 1920s, a panel of architects named it "one of the three best public buildings" in the United States, along with the Nebraska State Capitol and the Pan American Union Building in Washington, D.C. In 1932, it was ranked as one of the ten top buildings in the country in a poll of federal government architects.House of the Temple , The Supreme Council, 33°, A.A. & S.R. of Freemasonry, S.J., USA website, accessed June 18, 2010 House of the Temple library Confederate general and former Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike was the author of an 1871 book called Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, a book that describes in detail the 33 degrees of Scottish Rite Freemasonry, the stories and teachings associated with each rank, the rituals connected to each rank, and other lodge proceedings.

Soon it was ordered that a new temple be erected, proportionate sumptuousness to the greatness of the colony more, but this new factory encountered so many obstacles for its beginning, with so many difficulties for its continuation, that the old cathedral saw passing in its narrow sumptuous ceremonies of the viceroyalty; and only when the fact that motivated them was of great importance would he prefer another church, like that of San Francisco, to raise in its huge chapel of San José de los Indios the burial mound for the funeral ceremonies of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. Main entrance Seeing that the conclusion of the new church was long, its factory was already beginning, in 1584 it was decided to completely repair the Old Cathedral, which would certainly be little less than ruinous, to celebrate in it the Third Mexican Provincial Council. Back section of cathedral facing República de Guatemala street. The church was a little longer than the front of the new cathedral; its three naves were not 30 meters wide and were covered, the central one with a step-scissors armour, those on the sides with horizontal beams.