The reign of Süleyman I the Magnificent marked the peak of Ottoman grandeur, but signs of weakness signaled the beginning of a slow but steady decline.
Begun in 1266, the great pulpit that Nicolò Pisano and his assistants created for Siena's magnificent Duomo marked a new phase in Italian sculpture, reviving the skills of ancient Roman sculpture and introducing a vibrant new naturalism in a city dominated by Gothic art and architecture.
By that point, he said he felt as if he had forgotten enough about his old painting life to begin to see something "magnificent about these marks".
The smaller frames in the right of each panel are the magnificent of rectangulars marked in leaf and root.
With its script by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk, Fuqua's Magnificent Seven (which also marks the final music score by the late composer James Horner, written shortly before he passed away two summers ago) preserves the essence and broad narrative strokes of the earlier film.
The new film marks a magnificent,Wagnerian-style finale, full of sound and fury, and with an unexpected emotional kick.
Tries from Fetuli Talanoa and Fonua (again) ensured there would be no grand comeback from the Dragons before Sneyd marked a magnificent individual display with a try of his own before converting Frank Pritchard's solo effort late on.
The shine was unavoidably taken off it because of the circumstances of the Russian Grand Prix in the aftermath of Jules Bianchi's awful accident in Japan, but Lewis Hamilton's ninth win of the season, and the constructors' championship that it secured, marks a magnificent achievement by Mercedes.
Although marked by magnificent festivities, at the time they took place the alliances were not seen as politically important, not even by the Imperial ambassador Jehan de Scheyfye, who was the most suspicious observer.
It's anticipation, too, of course: Having had a taste, I know I want more, because my relationship with Trico and the magnificent monster's oddly marked human companion has only just begun to bloom.
The present magnificent show, curated by Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, marks the triumphal culmination of this process of revelation, stimulated and underpinned by decades of research.
