Example sentences of "at [art] court of the " in BNC.

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1 If the local standing of bishops could often overflow into effective influence at the court of the emperor or the king and give him influence with them and their officials , the bishop was primarily a leader of the local community : the Christian people of the town and the surrounding countryside .
2 He was a gifted musician , and in 1756 , the year of Mozart 's birth , was a violinist in the private orchestra at the court of the ruling Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg , Siegmund Christoph , Count of Schrattenbach .
3 To an extent , therefore , and inevitably , the presence of the names of the First Empire at the Court of the Second seemed to underline the fact of continuity between the two regimes .
4 Also a singular evocation of Franz Mesmer and the young Mozart playing their glass harmonica at the court of the Archduke in Vienna , full of sounds and strange airs , excellently conceived and embodied .
5 The traditional style of Roman portrait was revived at the court of the emperor Vespasian ( AD 69–79 ) , a man of modest Italian origin who rose to power through command of an army following a year of civil war .
6 Representatives of the Phoenix King arrived at the court of the Emperor of Cathay .
7 When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins .
8 On that occasion the energetic opposition to Henry I 's accession put up by Constance of Arles and her sons created a serious crisis , in the course of which Henry was driven to take refuge at the court of the duke of Normandy .
9 Tuscany is where Italian cooking was born — at the court of the ruling Medici family .
10 624 ( see above , p. 41 ) , he did not do so at the court of the king of the eastern Angles but at that of the still-powerful Eadbald , king of Kent , whom he seems to have continued to treat with considerable respect .
11 He also wrote at the court of the patriarch of Aquileia , and approached the Emperor Frederick II with a series of poems in about 1236 .
12 He spent the next five years in exile at the court of the Scottish king , Malcolm ( recte Edgar , q.v. ) , and with an unnamed Welsh bishop .
13 Le Queux reached the height of his popularity in the 1920s , during which he wrote on Landru , the multiple murderer in France , Rasputin , the sinister influence at the court of the tsar of Russia , and a number of other books including Things I Know about Kings , Celebrities and Crooks ( 1923 ) , Hidden Hands ( 1925 ) , Blackmailed ( 1927 ) , and The Chameleon ( 1927 ) .
14 1700 ) , one of a family of three celebrated trumpeters at the court of the late Stuart and early Hanoverian sovereigns .
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