Elisabeth of Bavaria Essays

  • The Anorexic Empress: Elizabeth of Austria

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    Duchess Elizabeth of Bavaria was the wife of 19th century Habsburg ruler, Franz Joseph I. She wed him at the ripe age of 16, and Franz only 23. Franz Joseph was the Emperor of Austria, the King of Hungary and also of Bohemia. Given that her husband was a man of great ruling, she had married herself into a world which attempted to give her a very formal lifestyle, and restrictive by court convention. The Duchess, better known as Sisi, which was her nickname, began to feel at odds with her new life

  • Jan Van Eyck Research Paper

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    Jan van Eyck (Johannes de Eyck) was born sometime before c. 1395 and died somewhere around July 9, 1441. Lots of people consider Eyck one of the best painters in the early 15th century. Eyck was a Netherlandish painter in Bruges and was known to be one of the best Northern European painters. Eyck invented oil painting, and achieved many new techniques. He had two brothers/painters whose names are Hubert van Eyck and Lambert van Eyck. He also has a sister, Margareta van Eyck. Jan Van Eyck married

  • John Philip Sousa

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    born in 1854, the third child of ten. He was born in Washington, D.C. His parents were immigrants. John Antonio Sousa was his dad. He was originally from Spain, even though his parents were Portugese in origin. His mom, Maria Elisabeth Trinkhaus came to America from Bavaria. John was a talented youngster. At the tender age of 6 he was studying music. He learned to play many types of instruments; the violin, piano, cornet, alto horn, flute, baritone. Like his father, who played the trombone in the

  • Biography Of Rene Descartes

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    Music and he interested him into science and math techniques to other fields. Rene began to focus more on math and mechanical problems on 1619. Although he was still focusing on math he wanted to travel to Germany to join the army of Maximilian of Bavaria. He was soon stationed at Ulm and he was inspired by three dreams he had to create a new method of scientific discoveries. Furthermore, during 1619 he invented analytic geometry which was a method of solving geometric problems and algebraic geometrically

  • Franz Lizt Essay

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    He directed a programme of sacred music on March 26, 1863. Then in 1867 he composed a Hungarian coronation for Franz Joseph and Elisabeth of Bavaria. Then after the coronation the Offertory was added and then the Gradual. In 1869, Liszt was invited to Weimar to give Piano lessons. Then Budapest asked him to do t he same. Then he made this three-way journey from Hungary to Weimar, and