Sentences with phrase «book of kings»

The Walters Art Museum made the Middle Ages come alive for visitors with The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible.

Finally, the «Shirin and Khosrow» series deals with the tragic romantic tale of two lovers featured in the Persian Shanameh (Book of Kings), Iran's most important collection of tales and poems.

Her 2012 exhibition, «Book of Kings,» placed 11th - century Persian poetry on black - and - white images of young Arab protesters, creating a long - spanning narrative of identity, creativity and dissent.

Contradicting the militant women who voluntarily sacrifice their lives for religion in Neshat's first series, her 2012 series «The Book of Kings» depict young female activists risking their lives for a call to democracy.

The Home of My Eyes, Museo Correr, Venice, Italy Dreamers, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Shirin Neshat, Es Baluard, Palma, Majorca, Spain 2016 Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey Shirin Neshat, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa 2015 Shirin Neshat: The Home of My Eyes, Yarat Art Center, Baku, Azerbaijan Shirin Neshat: Facing History, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. 2014 Shirin Neshat: Afterwards Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar Shirin Neshat, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul Shirin Neshat, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest Shirin Neshat: Our House is on Fire, Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York 2013 Shirin Neshat: Written on the Body, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid Shirin Neshat, Dirimart, Istanbul The Book of Kings, Faurschou Foundation, Beijing Shirin Neshat, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan 2012 Games of Desire, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore The Book of Kings, Gladstone Gallery, New York The Book of Kings, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris

Among many notable works of art, the Kings and Heroes section will also feature several works from artist Shirin Neshat's 2012 photographic series The Book of Kings, a series of pictures that emphasizes the inherent nationalism of the original text.

The Faurschou Foundation Beijing is honored to present Shirin Neshat's The Book of Kings.

Just as Shahnameh cast the Islamic conquest of Persia as a tragedy, so The Book of Kings commemorates the countless masses of unknown citizens who courageously sacrificed themselves in the name of justice across the Middle East and Arab world.

Curated by Abdellah Karroum, the exhibition will feature Neshat's existing and newly produced works, including the major photographic series, The Book of Kings (2012) as well as a selection of video installations commenting on the historical, cultural and political realities that she has focused on for over 30 years.

Shirin Neshat's solo show The Book of Kings at Faurschou Foundation in Beijing, China features a new body of photography...

The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible used medieval works from the Morgan and The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, to explore ways in which Christian, Muslim, and Jewish cultures used storytelling to define themselves and their values.

Her most recent bodies of work include the photographic series The Book of Kings (2012), The Home of My Eyes (2015), and the trilogy Dreamers, comprised of three video installations: Illusions and Mirrors (2013), Roja (2016), and Sarah (2016).

The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama («The Book of Kings»), is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran.

There is even a dick joke of sorts in the Old Testament, specifically the Book of Kings, in which King Rehoboam, intent on proving himself a harsher ruler than his late father, King Solomon, is advised by his old buddies to declare, «My little finger shall be thicker than my father's loins.»

Terrio started out as an assistant for James Ivory, of Merchant Ivory fame, before winning some acclaim by directing and writing the short «Book Of Kings.»

This is again what the Book of Kings teaches us when it shows us that good and faithful kings were regularly defeated and the glorious monarchs were men like Ahab and Ahaz.

It is time now to look, if briefly, at the form and nature of the book of Kings.

1048), and Firdawsi, the famous author of the Persian epic The Book of Kings.

In the Book of Kings the Lord appeared to the prophet Elijah not in «the great and powerful wind that tore the mountains apart and shattered the rock,» not in the earthquake, not in the fire, but in «a gentle whisper.»

My desire in these meditations on the Second Book of Kings is to call our judgments into question.

In fact, if nothing in the Second Book of Kings had taken place, if none of the decisions of these men had been made, little would have changed.

Whenever a disaster like this occurs, I go back to the Bible, to the First Book of Kings.

See further James A. Montgomery in Montgomery and Gehman, The Book of Kings, in the series The International Critical Commentury (New York: Charles Scribmer's Sons, 1951), p. 305.

In the Book of Kings we read how the prophet Elijah was sure that the «people» had abandoned God and he was the only faithful person left.

Just read the Book of Kings a little more carefully (you actually did that and didn't just get that one from some atheist militant website, did you?)

That's even proof you never actually read the Book of Kings and just pinched that one somewhere, because how a 450 ft diameter basin would be at the porch of Solomon's Palace?

3 James A. Montgomery, «The Books of Kings,» International Critical Commentary (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1952), p. 303.

This is the meaning of certain comments on the monarchs found in our Books of Kings; it is in large part the viewpoint of the Chronicler; it is freely expressed in the chapters added to the prophecies of Ezekiel in which the function of «the prince» is little more than one of leadership in ritual under the priests.

At the end, students can choose to do one of three projects: research the archaeological remains of Solomon's kingdom, listen to and review Mendelssohn's oratorio, or chart the 14 wonders reported about Elijah and the 28 reported of Elisha by the books of Kings.

Not exact matches

King also interrogated the concept of allyship, challenging the «white liberal who is more devoted to «order» than to justice, who prefers tranquility to equality» in his 1967 book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?.

«This masterfully written book highlights three leadership styles, culled from the lives of three kings mentioned in the Bible: Saul, David, and Absalom.

The phrase had been popularized earlier that year in a book by Mervyn King, a former governor of the Bank of England.

Let this book show your kid that while you may be king for a day on Father's Day, all of the weirdo men in your family also deserve some recognition.

Disney has also announced that Favreau is developing a sequel to «The Jungle Book,» and neither the sequel nor «The Lion King» have release dates as of yet.

«Amazon was king of delivering physical books to your house,» says Blau.

Wood also lent her voice to the book, telling a story about a fun night that the she had with Caroline and Albert after they were upset they had been left behind while their parents attended the wedding of King Constantine and Queen Anne - Marie.

We booked an apartment in downtown Seattle (grand total: $ 160 a night), a studio attached to a garage in Columbia Falls, Montana ($ 125 a night) and an amazing - looking king suite in a forested house in the hills of Portland ($ 105 a night).

A King James version of the Bible was prominently displayed, along with some law books.

President Trump gave the Pope a few books by Martin Luther King Jr., while Pope Francis gave Trump a few presents including a selection of his writings.

In his book, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation, Drew Hansen presents a side - by - side comparison of the speech as it was written by King and his team and as it was delivered by King.

About a dozen years ago, mega-best-selling author Stephen King wrote a book about the craft of writing that became an instant bestseller: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.

The book is beating out New England Patriots» quarterback Tom Brady's «The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance,» which comes in at No. 2, as well as two novels from 1986: Margaret Atwood's dystopian classic, «The Handmaid's Tale,» and Stephen King's horror classic, «It: A Novel.»

RBI, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars and is also the parent of Burger King and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, said it earned US$ 395 million attributable to common shareholders or $ 1.59 per diluted share in its most recent quarter.

And to me, a book that illustrates the best of the writing life is Stephen King's «On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft.»

But here's a funny twist: When it comes to actually reading the Good Book, sacrosancticity seekers ignore the newfangled NIV (first issued in 1978) in favour of the King James Version (né 1611).

In his book The Man and His Wonderful Shaving Device — King C. Gillette, biographer Russell B. Adams, Jr. noted, «King C. Gillette had thought he might be remembered as one of history's social and economic reformers.

BOOKS — LOSING CONTROL By Stephen D. King The world is witnessing a massive redistribution of wealth as the West learns it can no longer live beyond its means, says HSBC's group chief economist Stephen D. King, author of...

It helps to be a worldclass economist - historian, to have been a trader and Managing Director of Drexel Burnham Lambert when the firm was the junk bond king of Wall Street, to have lived in Hong Kong for a quarter of a century, and to have a contact book crammed with the home numbers of many of the movers and shakers in the financial world.

read more than one or two fields of study and for crying out f - uc - king loud put down the old book of lies.

There are also countries run by Kings (a form of dictatorship, depending on what political science book you read) that are our allies and doing as well for their people as congress does for ours.