Then wander around the new exhibition, "Splendour and Glory", which opens today and showcases the artistic treasures of the Russian Orthodox church.
They saved their best, most important work for their singles - and here, in all their splendour, are their glory days.
Among the resurrections, two settings of Cecilia's antiphon Cantantibus organis by Marenzio and the totally unknown Daniel Torquet were outshone by the sheer splendour and sonic glory of Cecilia Virgo by Peter Philips.
The Assyrian empire stomps out of the past in all its brutal glory and severe splendour.
For me, William Wordsworth's reflections in 1807 still represent the healthiest way to look back on lost love: "Though nothing can bring back the hour/Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower/We will grieve not, rather find/Strength in what remains behind".
In other words, as William Wordsworth wrote in his poem Splendor In The Grass, which is quoted in the movie, "Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind".
The splendour of the court and the glory of his reign provided models for the later ʿAbbāsid court in Baghdad, and many of the institutions established by Khosrow were maintained in Islāmic times, when Khosrow was hailed as the model pre-Islāmic ruler to be emulated by Muslim princes.
In autumn a circular route will take you through groves of gem-coloured oak, birch and ash, patches of golden yellow field maple interrupted by dashes of rowan-berry redness – a spectacle of ancient splendour, reminiscent of the embroidered, woven glory of the Norman kings.
National wealth also benefited from the new mercantilist policies, but all too often the wealth generated by cities was captured by the state in taxes and then dissipated either in war or by supporting the splendour of court life and the Baroque glory of palaces and churches.
We trace Kabbalah's development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of their glories and splendours, through the unexpected arrival of a book in Spain that appeared to have lain unconcealed for over a thousand years, and on to the mystical city of Safed where souls could be read and the history of heaven was an open book.
