A Great and Terrible Beauty, 2003 fantasy novel by American writer of young adult literature, Libba Bray; first volume in Gemma Doyle Trilogy takes place in 1895, as young title character experiences clairvoyant visions associated with ancient order of powerful women known as "the Order"
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Great Auspicious Beauty, one of Seventeen Tantras of Menngagde, styles of meditation and ritual which arose in India around fifth century; Great Auspicious Beauty is described as "teaching how to establish nature of awareness and how to identify basis of confusion and unmistaken wisdom"
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The Great Beauty, 2013 Italian film (original title La grande bellezza) directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo; nominated for numerous awards, it examines sense of unfulfilled existence which overtakes comfortably living writer/socialite as he wanders through streets of Rome on his 65th birthday
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She was considered a great beauty of her day and photographed by Alexander Bassano (1829–1913), the leading high society portrait photographer in Victorian London.
he secretly married Anastasia Robinson (ca. 1695–1755), a famous dramatic singer (from 1714) of great beauty and sweetness of disposition, daughter of Thomas Robinson (died 1722), a portrait painter; but she was at first unrecognized as his wife, and lived apart from him (regarded merely as his mistress) with her two sisters at Parson's Green.
"One mile up the river from the last point is a small creek of fresh water, issuing from an extensive lagoon clothed with arborescent species of Metrosideros of great beauty. The banks are covered with the most interesting plants, amongst which I observed two species of Calytris, a species of Acacia with a scolopendrous-stem, and several Papilionaceous plants. The Angophoras on the flats are gigantic."
Geom-mu has become a dance of great beauty and is treasured as the South Korea's 12th Important Intangible Cultural Property.
It became allied to the ruling house in 1671 when the great beauty Natalia Naryshkina (daughter of Kirill Poluektovich Naryshkin) married Alexis of Russia, later becoming the mother of Peter the Great.