Under the influence of Frederick II and Christian IV, both of whom had been inspired by the castles of France, Dutch and Flemish designers were brought to Denmark, initially to improve the country's fortifications, but increasingly to build magnificent royal castles and palaces in the Renaissance style.
In the subsequent decades, despite owning several magnificent homes, she became increasingly reclusive and stayed in a single candlelit room in her Fifth Avenue apartment.
It dispensed almost entirely with the magnificent display and grandeur of staging increasingly required of opera seria and concentrated instead on the more realistic situations of ordinary people who sang, as in serious opera, in recitatives and arias.
Their symbolic versatility befits an exhibition in which nature is, by turns, magnificent, cute and enduring, while also increasingly dangerous and endangered, thanks to the widening scope of human indifference and exploitation.
One problem, the authors reckoned, was that America was failing to take full advantage of the magnificent new technologies of the computing age, such as increasingly sophisticated automation and much-improved robots.
The court and the common people alike rejoiced in Ludovico's magnificent celebrations; the Milanese, however, though enjoying well-being, were increasingly burdened by taxes.
As he goes mano a mano with Roger across Oslo and around the magnificent surrounding countryside, our sympathies gradually shift to his desperate but increasingly resourceful quarry, who attempts to stay alive by understanding his complex position.
However, increasingly, with the accelerating power of technology, as opportunities to create have become manifold and magnificent, so the destructive impacts of change have also grown more widespread, deep rooted and precipitous.
And in a season when so much criticism has been aimed at referees, praise must be reserved for a magnificent performance by Oliver, who remained calm and got the big decisions right in an increasingly frantic environment.
Di Maria's red card was madness, his tug on the shirt of referee Oliver - who gave a magnificent display of officialdom under the extreme pressure of a home crowd and players in an increasingly blind panic - coming after a dive.
