* *n.* an original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype. Used esp. in psychology and cultural history.
* *n.* a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
* *n.* (Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., that is universally present in individual psyches.
Theodora (circa 500 – 548) was a woman of modest origin, dancer and courtesan, who became Empress of the Byzantine Empire and wife of Justinian. The Emperors Wife Theodoras life is best known from the works of her contemporaries Procopius of Caesarea, and John of Ephesus. An illegitimate daughte
Japanese painter, Ogura Yuki (1895 – 2000) is known in particular for his bijin-ga, his portraits of women. Teacher Mizoguchi Yuki – she will become Ogura Yuki through marriage – was born on March 1, 1895 in Ōtsu in Shiga prefecture, on the island of Honshū in Japan, near Kyoto. She grew up in th
Portrait of Ludwik Węgierski by Marcello Bacciarelli. Louis of Hungary, Louis of Anjou, Louis the Great (1326-1382) - king of Hungary and Poland. He was the son of the first Hungarian ruler of the Anjou dynasty, Karol Robert, and his Polish wife, Elżbieta Łokietkówna. He grew up under the watchf
Nephew of Napoleon Ist , son of Louis Bonaparte, he was the first President of the French Republic, elected on December 10, 1848 by universal male suffrage with 74.2% of the vote, before becoming Emperor of the French from December 2, 1852 to September 4, 1870 under the name of Napoleon III. He gre