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Associated with ancient Greece and endlessly represented in classical art, the peplos was a key inspiration for Cruise 2022 on.dior.com/cruise-22 by Maria Grazia Chiuri who chats here with fashion historian and curator Lydia Kamitsis about its architecture, universality, timelessness and how she layered it in the collection with sportswear elements.
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Florence is known as the city with the orange dome created by Brunelleschi, the river with Ponte Vecchio, and the home of Dante Alighieri. Behind these famous sites and the prevalent Renaissance architecture, however, is a completely different layer of Florence; hidden corridors, ancient churches, pop art and rose gardens to name a few of the finds. Click the link to learn more 😍👉 https://bit.ly/2IDSdb5
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【直通天上的高塔】
有些記載在宗教經典中的建築，未必能證實是否真正存在過，但卻是不少藝術家的靈感泉源。《聖經》上記載的巴別塔，就是這樣的一幢建築。根據《舊約》記載，大洪水之後人類只說一種語言，他們着手修建一座「能夠通天」的巨塔，以表揚他們的名聲。上帝看到他們如此驕傲，於是令他們說不同語言，使他們無法溝通，最後塔建不成，人類更被分散到各地去。
這個聖經故事成為了著名荷蘭畫家老彼得(Pieter Bruegel the Elder)的題材。圖中這幅《巴別塔》繪於1568年，細緻入微，反映出畫家對當時城市及其他建築物的參照與觀察，例如畫中整體呈圓柱型的建築和拱廊明顯參考了羅馬鬥獸場。在他的巴別塔世界中，不但看到有港口和船隻，亦有人們在切割石塊，有勞動的人們，亦有迎神的人群，塔頂聳入雲端，畫中有超過1000名人物。作品中，畫家沒有選擇突顯聖經故事的寓意，他感興趣的是整個建築過程與建築本身。他用自己的想像與世界觀描繪出來的巴別塔，成為後世許多人想像巴別塔外觀時的原型。
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Beijing (formerly romanised as Peking) is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the world's third most populous city proper. It is also one of the world's most populous capital cities. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a direct-controlled municipality under the national government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighbouring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.
A city combining both modern and traditional architecture, Beijing is an ever-changing megacity rich in history but also truly modern, exemplified in its extraordinary global influence in politics, business & economy, education, history, culture, language, music, sporting, architecture, civilization, fashion, art, entertainment, innovation and technology. Beijing is the second largest Chinese city by urban population after Shanghai and is the nation's political, cultural, and educational centre. It is home to the headquarters of most of China's largest state-owned companies, and is a major hub for the national highway, expressway, railway, and high-speed rail networks. The Beijing Capital International Airport has been the second busiest in the world by passenger traffic since 2010, and, as of 2016, the city's subway network is the busiest and second longest in the world, after Shanghai's subway system.
The city's history dates back three millennia. As the last of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China, Beijing has been the political centre of the country for much of the past eight centuries. With mountains surrounding the inland city on three sides, in addition to the old inner and outer city walls, Beijing was strategically poised and developed to be the residence of the emperor and thus was the perfect location for the imperial capital. Beijing was the largest city in the world by population for much of the second millennium A.D. The city is renowned for its opulent palaces, temples, parks, gardens, tombs, walls and gates, and its art treasures and universities have made it a centre of culture and art in China. Encyclopædia Britannica notes that "few cities in the world have served for so long as the political headquarters and cultural centre of an area as immense as China." Beijing has seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites – the Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Ming Tombs, Zhoukoudian, as well as parts of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, all popular locations for tourism. siheyuans, the city's traditional housing style, and hutongs, the narrow alleys between siheyuans, are common in urban Beijing and are also major tourist attractions. The city hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics and was chosen to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will make it the first city to ever host both events.
Many of Beijing's 91 universities consistently rank among the best in China, of which Peking University and Tsinghua University are ranked in the top 60 universities in the world. In 2015, 52 companies of the Fortune Global 500 company headquarters were located in Beijing, more than any other city in the world, including state-owned enterprises State Grid, China National Petroleum, and Sinopec Group, ranked 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, respectively. Beijing CBD is quickly becoming the center for Beijing's economic expansion, rapid modernization, and radically changing skyline, with the ongoing or recently completed construction of multiple skyscrapers. Beijing's Zhongguancun area is also known as China's Silicon Valley, China's center of innovation and technology entrepreneurship. According to the 2016 InterNations Expat Insider Survey, Beijing ranked first in Asia in the subcategory "Personal Finance Index," a measure of expats' salaries versus cost of living in the city. Expats live primarily in the east, in urban districts such as Dongcheng and Chaoyang, or in suburban districts such as Shunyi.
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