Dandolo Family, an ancient Italian family distinguished in the history of Venice. It rose quickly to prominence when expansion from the lagoons to the mainland began. By the 11th century it was rich, and by the 12th (when the branches of San Luca, San Severo, and San Moisè can already be

Enrico Dandolo was the doge of the Republic of Venice from 1192 to 1205, noted for his promotion of the Fourth Crusade, which led to the overthrow of the Greek Byzantine Empire and the aggrandizement of Venice. Dandolo’s father, Vitale, had held important public positions; and during Enrico

coin: Italy and Sicily: The series begun under Giovanni Dandolo continued with the names of the successive doges until the early 19th century.

Vincenzo Dandolo was an Italian chemist and statesman, an innovator in both science and politics. He helped further democratic ideas in Italy, while his writings, especially on agriculture, won him a reputation throughout Europe. Of modest origins, Dandolo, after studying chemistry at the

Dandong, city, southeastern Liaoning sheng (province), northeastern China. Dandong is a prefecture-level municipality (shi), and the territory under its administration includes not only the municipal area but also several counties occupying the entire North Korean border zone of Liaoning. It is

Ray Dandridge was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his career between 1933 and 1955 playing in the Negro leagues and on teams outside the United States. Dandridge was an outstanding defensive third baseman. Although he had little power, he often posted batting averages of

Dorothy Dandridge was an American singer and film actress who was the first black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress. Dandridge’s mother was an entertainer and comedic actress who, after settling in Los Angeles, had some success in radio and, later, television. The young

Dorothy Dandridge was an American singer and film actress who was the first black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress. Dandridge’s mother was an entertainer and comedic actress who, after settling in Los Angeles, had some success in radio and, later, television. The young

Ray Dandridge was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his career between 1933 and 1955 playing in the Negro leagues and on teams outside the United States. Dandridge was an outstanding defensive third baseman. Although he had little power, he often posted batting averages of

Martha Washington was an American first lady (1789–97), the wife of George Washington, first president of the United States and commander in chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolutionary War. She set many of the standards and customs for the proper behavior and treatment of the

Ray Dandridge was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his career between 1933 and 1955 playing in the Negro leagues and on teams outside the United States. Dandridge was an outstanding defensive third baseman. Although he had little power, he often posted batting averages of

Ray Dandridge was an American professional baseball player who spent most of his career between 1933 and 1955 playing in the Negro leagues and on teams outside the United States. Dandridge was an outstanding defensive third baseman. Although he had little power, he often posted batting averages of

dandruff, skin disorder, a form of seborrheic dermatitis (q.v.) that affects the

dandy, term, dating to England in the late 18th century, that describes a man who pays fastidious attention to his appearance and social position. German philosopher Roman Meinhold described dandies in his book Fashion Myths: A Cultural Critique (2013; trans. John Irons) as “masters of the

dengue, acute infectious mosquito-borne fever that is temporarily incapacitating but rarely fatal. Besides fever, the disease is characterized by an extreme pain in and stiffness of the joints (hence the name “breakbone fever”). Complication of dengue fever can give rise to a more severe form,

bicycle: Draisiennes, hobby-horses, and other velocipedes: The first two-wheeled rider-propelled machine for which there is indisputable evidence was the draisienne, invented by Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun of Germany. In 1817 he rode it for 14 km (9 miles), and the following year he exhibited it…

papermaking: Formation of paper sheet by machines: The dandy roll is a light, open-structured unit covered with wire cloth and placed on the wire between suction boxes, resting lightly upon the wire and the surface of the sheet. Its function is to flatten the top surface of the sheet and improve the finish.…

Denmark: Ethnic groups: …almost entirely inhabited by ethnic Danes. Few Faroese or Greenlanders have settled in continental Denmark, despite their status as Danish citizens. A small minority of Germans, on the other hand, has been long established and is substantially assimilated. In the early 21st century, important ethnic minorities in the country included…

Beaver, a small Athabaskan-speaking North American First Nations (Indian) band living in the mountainous riverine areas of northwestern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, Canada. In the early 18th century they were driven westward into that area by the expanding Cree, who, armed with guns,

history of Europe: Rituals, religion, and art: …as was the case at Danebury, in southern England, where an Iron Age hill fort was placed at the location of a Late Bronze Age hoard. Hoards were relatively infrequent during the earliest part of the Bronze Age, when they were found mainly in southeastern Europe, Bavaria, and Austria and…

John Gully: …betting associates were called the Danebury Confederacy.

Danegeld, a tax levied in Anglo-Saxon England to buy off Danish invaders in the reign of Ethelred II (978–1016); it also designates the recurrent gelds, or taxes, collected by the Anglo-Norman kings. The word is not recorded before the Norman Conquest, the usual earlier (Old English) term being

Vordingborg: …favourite meeting place of the Danehof (national assembly), at one of whose meetings the oldest national statute was published (1241). The city was chartered in 1415. In the 14th century Valdemar IV built the curious “Goose Tower,” crowned with a golden (now copper) goose weathercock, on the grounds of his…

St. Paul of the Cross ; canonized 1867; feast day October 19) was an Italian mystic and the founder of the Roman Catholic order of missionary priests known as the Passionists. In 1720 Paul dedicated his life to God and began to experience visions, in the last of which the Virgin Mary (the mother of

Aqhat Epic: The epic records that Danel, a sage and king of the Haranamites, had no son until the god El, in response to Danel’s many prayers and offerings, finally granted him a child, whom Danel named Aqhat. Some time later Danel offered hospitality to the divine craftsman Kothar, who in…

Danelaw, the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century. In the 11th and 12th centuries, it was recognized that all of eastern England between the Rivers Tees and Thames formed a region in which a distinctive form of

Danelaw, the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century. In the 11th and 12th centuries, it was recognized that all of eastern England between the Rivers Tees and Thames formed a region in which a distinctive form of

Danelaw, the northern, central, and eastern region of Anglo-Saxon England colonized by invading Danish armies in the late 9th century. In the 11th and 12th centuries, it was recognized that all of eastern England between the Rivers Tees and Thames formed a region in which a distinctive form of

Greece: Byzantine recovery: …the story of the widow Danelis, a rich landowner whose wealth was almost proverbial in the later 9th century and who may have represented the last in a line of Christianized but semiautonomous Slavic magnates who had dominated the region around Pátrai (Patras) in Achaea. She was a sponsor of…

blue-eyed soul: …New York, New York), and Dino Danelli (b. July 23, 1945, New York). Produced by Phil Spector, “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ ” (1964) and “Unchained Melody” (1965) earned the Righteous Brothers considerable commercial success. The Rascals’ hits “Good Lovin’ ” (1966) and “Groovin’”  (1967) demonstrated promising originality rather than…

Claire Danes is an American actress who is best known for her immersive portrayals of often complex characters, perhaps most notably a bipolar CIA agent in the TV series Homeland (2011–20). Danes was the younger of two children born to Carla (Hall) Danes, who ran a day care center, and Christopher

Claire Danes is an American actress who is best known for her immersive portrayals of often complex characters, perhaps most notably a bipolar CIA agent in the TV series Homeland (2011–20). Danes was the younger of two children born to Carla (Hall) Danes, who ran a day care center, and Christopher

Bulgaria: The Balkan Wars: …he resigned in favour of Stoyan Danev, who reflected Ferdinand’s desire for a military solution. On the night of June 16–17 (June 29–30) Bulgarian forces began the Second Balkan War by launching a surprise assault on Greek and Serbian positions in Macedonia. As the Bulgarian attack was being repulsed, Romanian…

Danewirk, ancient frontier earthwork of ramparts and ditches built by the Danes across the neck of Jutland in order to block Frankish expansion into the area. It ultimately extended to an overall length of about 19 miles (30 km) from just south of the town of Schleswig to the marshes of the river

Danewirk, ancient frontier earthwork of ramparts and ditches built by the Danes across the neck of Jutland in order to block Frankish expansion into the area. It ultimately extended to an overall length of about 19 miles (30 km) from just south of the town of Schleswig to the marshes of the river

Danewirk, ancient frontier earthwork of ramparts and ditches built by the Danes across the neck of Jutland in order to block Frankish expansion into the area. It ultimately extended to an overall length of about 19 miles (30 km) from just south of the town of Schleswig to the marshes of the river

elderberry: Major species and uses: Danewort, or dwarf, elderberry (S. ebulus), widespread in Eurasia and North Africa, is a perennial with annually herbaceous growth to 1 metre (3 feet). Its clusters of black berries were once a source of dye.

Josh Hawley: The makings of a politician: Former Missouri Republican senator John Danforth clearly saw Hawley as a future mainstream leader. In a letter to Hawley, he wrote: “You have the training and the ability to be a leading voice for the constitutional order, not only in Missouri but nationally.”

China: The history of the Zhou (1046–256 bce): …earliest plausible Zhou ancestor was Danfu, the grandfather of Wenwang. Prior to and during the time of Danfu, the Zhou people seem to have migrated to avoid pressure from powerful neighbors, possibly nomadic people to the north. Under the leadership of Danfu, they settled in the valley of the Wei…

Dagomba: …descent group known as the dang, composed of all descendants of a single grandfather or great-grandfather. In the centralized Dagomba state, only the sons of a previous paramount chief, the ya-na, may rise to that office, which is filled in rotation by one of three divisional chiefs.

Truong Chinh was a Vietnamese scholar and statesman, a leading North Vietnamese communist intellectual. While a high school student at Nam Dinh, Truong Chinh became an activist in the anticolonialist movement; he joined Ho Chi Minh’s organization, the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth Association, in

Bollywood: The future of Bollywood: Aamir Khan’s Dangal (2016; “Wrestling Competition”) is Indian cinema’s top-grossing film worldwide, with lifetime earnings of more than 2000 crore rupees ($260 million). However, in recent years Bollywood has been somewhat eclipsed by the South Indian film industry, which has generated record-breaking revenues from films such as…

African literature: English: Tsitsi Dangarembga wrote Nervous Conditions (1988), a story of two Shona girls, Tambudzai and Nyasha, both attempting to find their place in contemporary Zimbabwe. Nyasha has been abroad and wonders about the effect that Westernization has had on her and her family, while Tambudzai is…

dangdut, Indonesian popular music for dancing that combines local music traditions, Indian and Malaysian film musics, and Western rock. The style emerged in Jakarta in the late 1960s and reached the pinnacle of its popularity in the ’70s and ’80s. Dangdut music arose in the mid-20th century from

Pukapuka Atoll, one of the northern Cook Islands, a self-governing state in free association with New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean. A coral formation, it comprises three islets—the main islet of Pukapuka (also called Wale) and the uninhabited Motu Kavata and Motu Koe. Inhabited by Polynesian

My Chemical Romance: On Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys (2010), a concept album about a postapocalyptic society that functioned as a critique of consumerism, the group combined its glam rock tendencies with an upbeat power-pop sound. The album proved to be a commercial disappointment, however,…

John Cale: Solo career: He collaborated with the producer Danger Mouse on a track from his 2012 album Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood, and he has expressed admiration for many rappers, including Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg.

Gary Snyder: …all-new poetry in 20 years, Danger on Peaks, a collection that stays true to his earlier work by bringing nature into the reader’s inner vision. A later collection, This Present Moment, appeared in 2015. A longtime advocate of environmental issues, Snyder argued in Back on the Fire: Essays (2007) that…

Rodney Dangerfield was a popular American comedian known for his wide-eyed, fidgety delivery style and his hapless, self-deprecating demeanor, expressed by his famous lamentation, “I don’t get no respect.” Jacob Cohen’s parents, Dorothy (née Teitelbaum) and Phillip Cohen, were both of European

Thomas Dangerfield was a British informer who falsely accused British Roman Catholics of conspiracy during the panic created by the fictitious Popish Plot of 1678, based on Titus Oates’s allegations that Catholics were plotting to murder King Charles II and take over the government. As a young man,

Bill Hicks: King of the Texas Outlaw comedians: In 1990 he released Dangerous, his first comedy album, to glowing reviews.

Alfred E. Green: …which were two Davis melodramas: Dangerous, which won the actress her first Oscar, and The Girl from 10th Avenue.

Michael Jackson: The King of Pop: Much of Jackson’s next album, Dangerous (1991), was produced by New Jack Swing sensation Teddy Riley. Another huge success in record sales, it solidified Jackson’s dominance of pop music. In 1995 he released HIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I, which featured a combination of hits and new songs, including…

Dangerous Liaisons, novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782 as Les Liaisons dangereuses. The work, also translated as Dangerous Acquaintances, is considered one of the earliest examples of the psychological novel. Laclos’s first novel, Dangerous Liaisons caused an immediate

Anita Loos: … (1919), The Perfect Woman (1920), Dangerous Business (1920), Polly of the Follies (1922), and Learning to Love (1925). They also wrote two books, Breaking Into the Movies (1919) and How to Write Photoplays (1921), and on her own Loos wrote two plays for Broadway, The Whole Town’s Talking (filmed 1926)…

Jane Smiley: A Dangerous Business (2022) is set during the California Gold Rush and follows two prostitutes who, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” hunt for a serial killer. Smiley also wrote The Georges and the Jewels (2009), a young adult novel.

Clara Bow: …Week Ends (1928; now lost), Dangerous Curves (1929), and The Saturday Night Kid (1929).

carriage of goods: Dangerous goods: Dangerous goods are those that, from their nature, are liable to cause damage to persons, to means of transport, or to other goods. In all legal systems, the carriage of dangerous goods has given rise to distinct problems and to the development of…

Dangerous Liaisons, novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, first published in 1782 as Les Liaisons dangereuses. The work, also translated as Dangerous Acquaintances, is considered one of the earliest examples of the psychological novel. Laclos’s first novel, Dangerous Liaisons caused an immediate

Stephen Frears: …Orton, and the American films Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Grifters (1990), for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He subsequently directed the comedies The Snapper (1993) and The Van (1996), both based on novels by Roddy Doyle, and Mary Reilly (1996), a retelling of

Todd McFarlane: …produced animation for the comedy-drama The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002), as well as for several other music videos by prominent artists. In 2022 he created the comic book Patient Number 9, a fictional story about Ozzy Osbourne being trapped in an asylum; the comic accompanied the release of…

Ben Okri: …included Astonishing the Gods (1995); Dangerous Love (1996), about “star-crossed” lovers in postcolonial Nigeria; In Arcadia (2002); Starbook (2007); The Age of Magic (2014); and The Freedom Artist (2019).

David Cronenberg: Later films: A History of Violence and Eastern Promises: …underworld in London, and in A Dangerous Method (2011), an adaptation of a Christopher Hampton play that explores the historical relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The existential thriller Cosmopolis (2012), which Cronenberg scripted from a novel by Don DeLillo, traces a day in the life of a young…

Janet Evanovich: … (2016; with Phoef Sutton) and Dangerous Minds (2017), both of which centre on the crime-solving duo of Riley Moon and Emerson Knight.

Michelle Pfeiffer: …The Age of Innocence (1993), Dangerous Minds (1995), What Lies Beneath (2000), Hairspray (2007), and Dark Shadows (2012). After starring in the crime drama The Family (2013), Pfeiffer took a break from acting, but she returned with a myriad of films in 2017. That year she appeared in The Wizard…

bungee jumping: The Oxford Dangerous Sports Club, inspired by reports of the Pentecost Island divers, made the first Western bungee jumps, and bungee jumping was first offered commercially to the public in New Zealand in 1988.

bullfighting: Bullfighting and the arts: …his last major literary work, The Dangerous Summer (1960), was an account of the rivalry between two great matadors, Dominguín and his brother-in-law, Antonio Ordóñez (who was the son of the bullfighter who inspired the character in The Sun Also Rises). Hemingway’s short story The Capital of the World (1936)…

Lancelot Thomas Hogben: Scientist, science writer, and foe of eugenics: …active for social causes, in Dangerous Thoughts (1939) he wrote of his resistance to the racist (pre-apartheid) policies in South Africa, where he admitted “coloured” students to his classes and home. Hogben’s discomfort with the racism in South Africa led him to accept a position in 1930 at the London…

Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman, 2017 Manchester concert, and Sweetener: For Dangerous Woman (2016), Grande once again worked with well-known artists, such as Lil’ Wayne and Minaj. In May 2017, during her tour in support of the album, a suicide bomber killed more than 20 people at an arena after a concert in Manchester, England. Grande…

Beyoncé: Early solo career and Destiny’s Child reunited: …pen her first solo album, Dangerously in Love (2003). The album debuted to rave reviews, and, aided by the exuberant single “Crazy in Love,” which features rapper Jay-Z, it topped charts around the world. In 2004 Beyoncé won five Grammy Awards, including best contemporary R&B album and best female R&B…

Altun Mountains: The Dangjin Pass, at the eastern end of the range, is traversed by a road that links eastern Xinjiang (via Gansu province), the Qaidam Basin, and the Tibet Autonomous Region (via Qinghai province).

Tanggula Mountains, mountain range in the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China. On the high plateau south of the mountains, there are many large salt lakes. In its eastern part the range forms the boundary between Tibet and Qinghai province. Although many peaks are higher than 19,000 feet

Saul Bellow: Novels and other books: …with his first two novels, Dangling Man (1944), a story in diary form of a man waiting to be inducted into the army, and The Victim (1947), a subtle study of the relationship between a Jew and a Gentile, each of whom becomes the other’s victim. The Adventures of Augie…

preposition: Can you end a sentence with a preposition?: …(a circumstance known as a dangling preposition).

Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who is the founder and CEO of the Dangote Group conglomerate. Dangote, of the Hausa ethnic group, was born to Mariya Sanusi Dantata and Mohammed Dangote. His maternal ancestors were prosperous caravan traders under British colonial rule,

Aliko Dangote is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who is the founder and CEO of the Dangote Group conglomerate. Dangote, of the Hausa ethnic group, was born to Mariya Sanusi Dantata and Mohammed Dangote. His maternal ancestors were prosperous caravan traders under British colonial rule,

Dângrêk Mountains, forested range of hills averaging 1,500–2,000 feet (450–600 m) and dividing Thailand from Cambodia. This east–west-trending range extends from the Mekong River westward for approximately 200 miles (320 km), merging with the highland area near San Kamphaeng, Thailand. Essentially

Dangriga, town, east-central Belize, at the mouth of the 20-mile- (32-km-) long North Stann Creek on the Caribbean coast. It was founded in 1823 by Garifuna refugees from Honduras (descendants of Carib Indians and Africans exiled from British colonies in the eastern Caribbean in the 18th century).

Tangut, people historically living in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu and Shaanxi and the southwestern portion of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. They engaged in irrigated agriculture and pastoralism and—taking advantage of their location at the eastern end

Danh Vo is a Vietnamese-born Danish artist whose experiences—shaped by distance and displacement as well as by his sexual orientation—inspired him to collect and reconfigure cultural fragments into ambiguous narratives that bore witness to his fluid identity in a changing world. In 1979, when Danh

Tannhäuser: …preserved in a popular ballad, Danhauser, traceable to 1515; the origins of the legend itself probably lie in the 13th century. Enticed to the court of Venus, Tannhäuser lives a life of earthly pleasure, but soon, torn by remorse, he makes a pilgrimage to Rome to seek remission of his…

pottery: Tin-glazed ware: …his work on porcelain) and Joseph Philipp Danhofer. Perhaps the finest 18th-century faience was made by the factory at Höchst, near Mainz, which also manufactured porcelain. Decoration was usually in overglaze colours, and landscapes, figure subjects, German flowers, and chinoiseries (European delineations of the Chinese scene with a strong element…

Danian Stage, lowermost and oldest division of Paleocene rocks, representing all rocks deposited worldwide during the Danian Age (66 million to 61.6 million years ago) of the Paleogene Period (66 million to 23 million years ago). The Danian Stage is named for exposures in Denmark, in which great

André Philidor was a musician and composer, an outstanding member of a large and important family of musicians long connected with the French court. The first recorded representatives of the family were Michel Danican (died c. 1659), upon whom the nickname Philidor (the name of a famous Italian

François-André Philidor was a French composer whose operas were successful and widely known in his day and who was a famous and remarkable chess player. The last member of a large and prominent musical family, Philidor was thoroughly trained in music, but at age 18 he turned to chess competition

André Philidor: …representatives of the family were Michel Danican (died c. 1659), upon whom the nickname Philidor (the name of a famous Italian musician) was bestowed by Louis XIII as a complimentary reference to his skill, and André’s father Jean (died 1679), who, like Michel, played various instruments in the Grande Écurie,…

Russia: The northeast: Daniel, Nevsky’s son and the progenitor of all the later Rurikid princes of Moscow, had a long and successful reign (1276–1303), but at his death the principality still embraced little more than the territory of the present Moscow province (an area of 140 miles [225…

Martin Buber: From mysticism to dialogue.: …early mystical period culminated in Daniel (1913), five dialogues on orientation and realization, man’s two basic stances toward the world. Orientation takes the world as a static state of affairs governed by comprehensible laws. It is a receptive, analytical, or systematizing attitude. Realization, on the other hand, is a creative,…

Timothy Hutton: Hutton starred in Sydney Lumet’s Daniel (1983), based on E.L. Doctorow’s 1971 novel The Book of Daniel; played an anthropologist in the science fiction movie Iceman (1984); and costarred with Sean Penn in John Schlesinger’s The Falcon and the Snowman (1985). His turn as a graffiti artist in Turk 182!…

Caedmon manuscript: the poems Genesis, Exodus, Daniel, and Christ and Satan, originally attributed to Caedmon (q.v.) because these subjects correspond roughly to the subjects described in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History as having been rendered by Caedmon into vernacular verse. The whole, called Caedmon’s Paraphrase, was first published in 1655. Later studies make…

biblical literature: Daniel: …collection of popular stories about Daniel, a loyal Jew, and the record of visions granted to him, with the Babylonian Exile of the 6th century bce as their background. The book, however, was written in a later time of national crisis—when the Jews were suffering severe persecution under Antiochus IV…

Judaism: Anti-rabbinic reactions: Under the leadership of Daniel al-Qumisi (c. 850?), a Karaite settlement prospered in the Holy Land, from which it spread as far as northwestern Africa and Christian Spain. A barrage of Karaite treatises presenting new views of scriptural exegesis stimulated renewed study of the Bible and the Hebrew language…

Russia: The northeast: Daniel, Nevsky’s son and the progenitor of all the later Rurikid princes of Moscow, had a long and successful reign (1276–1303), but at his death the principality still embraced little more than the territory of the present Moscow province (an area of 140 miles [225…

Jim Davis: Train, Branded, Death Valley Days, Daniel Boone. and Gunsmoke. It was his gruff characterization of Jock Ewing in the 1978–91 series Dallas, though, that catapulted him to stardom. Davis’s death from cancer in 1981 occurred during the fourth season. Rather than recast the role, the show’s producers had Jock die…

Reading: Local historic landmarks include the Daniel Boone Homestead (where Boone was born in 1734), the Conrad Weiser Homestead (1729), and Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site near Pottstown. An annual folk festival at nearby Kutztown reflects the Pennsylvania Dutch (German) heritage of the area.

Daniel Deronda, novel by George Eliot, published in eight parts in 1876. It is notable for its exposure of Victorian anti-Semitism. The novel builds on the contrast between Mirah Cohen, a poor Jewish girl, and the upper-class Gwendolen Harleth, who marries for money and regrets it. The less

Marva Collins: …system to found the private Daniel Hale Williams Westside Preparatory School. With financial assistance from the government-funded Alternative Schools Network, she began with four students; within a year enrollment had increased to 20 students, most of whom were considered uneducable by the standards of Chicago public schools.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Later years of Gian Lorenzo Bernini: …Rome, he carved two groups, Daniel in the Lions’ Den and Habakkuk and the Angel (1655–61). These works show the beginnings of his late style: elongation of the body, expressive gesture, and simplified yet emphatic emotional expression. The same characteristics are already found in the figures supporting the Throne of…

Daniel Romanovich was the ruler of the principalities of Galicia and Volhynia (now in Poland and Ukraine, respectively), who became one of the most powerful princes in east-central Europe. Son of Prince Roman Mstislavich, Daniel was only four years old when his father, who had united Galicia and