Sentences with phrase «century since her death»

In the half century since her death, it seemed as if she might be right.

While some of the items on view were purchased by Pierpont Morgan, others have been acquired in the century since his death.

A monumental and revelatory undertaking, this handsome two - volume catalogue raisonné of the prints and paintings of Hercules Segers (1589/90 — 1633/40) gives this exceptional artist the attention he has only sporadically received in the nearly five centuries since his death.

Warhol, an iconic American artist whose reputation has only increased in the quarter - century since his death, is best known for appropriations of images from popular culture — advertisements, mass - media photographs and celebrity portraits — that challenged the conventional definitions and subjects of art.

Not exact matches

The publication of an expanded and revised version of Leslie Farber's The Ways of the Will nearly twenty years after his death and almost a quarter century since the appearance of his last book is an occasion of both interest and pleasure.

Since, however, we have no means of telling whether or not John was put to death at the same time as his brother James (Acts 12:4), it can not be proved that John did not live on until the last decade of the first century.

The crusaders» attack on Islam provided Muslims with a unity of purpose which had evaded them since the death of Muhammad in the seventh century.

The four - plus decades that have passed since his death have convinced me that Piepkorn had a point that deserves careful consideration in the twenty - first - century Church.

As the good news spread, the first - century readers of the Apostle Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians (and most readers since) had an acute sense of what it meant that «the last enemy to be destroyed is death (1 Cor.

The collateral damage, a.k.a., civilian death ratio since the mid 20th century was 10:1 according to the International Red Cross.

But since we resist death, we continue on and on down through the centuries perpetuating the same old cycle of revolution - renewal - ritual, revolution - renewal - ritual, revolution - renewal - ritual... ARGH!

Within half a century after his death he was canonized, the first Pope since the sixteenth century and the second since the thirteenth century to be accorded that recognition.

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

This represents a small but steady increase since the beginning of this century; between 2000 - 2004 death rates from the disease were 7.6 per 100,000 men and 5.0 per 100,000 women.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

More than seven trillion US dollars economic damage and eight million deaths via natural disasters since the start of the 20th century: These figures have been calculated and collected by the risk engineer Dr. James Daniell from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Measles deaths dropped dramatically in the first decade of the 21st century, but progress has stalled since 2007, new estimates show.

In the four centuries since Shakespeare's death (April 23, 1616), his works have been adapted to pretty much every media you can imagine: books, plays, films, radio shows, TV series, board games, and Web series, to name but a few.

And now, since their death, for a century or more, the Loney had been pushing their bones back inland, as if it were proving a point.

Explorer Meriwether Lewis has been stuck in Nowhere since his mysterious death nearly two centuries ago.

The estate has been preserved to the finest detail with rooms kept unchanged since his death for more than a century — with books, furniture, paintings and even some of Tolstoy's clothes.

Agnes Martin (1912 - 2004) at Tate Modern is the first major retrospective exhibition, since her death, of one of the most esteemed artists of the 20th century.

The array of work gives a sense of the collecting habits of the couple, together since 1960 and only separated by their deaths in 2005, who formed close bonds with many of the seminal figures of 20th - century art.

Despite her success, Spartali Stillman's contribution to 19th - century art is barely recognised today, and this exhibition includes examples of her landscapes, portraits and still lifes which have not been displayed since her death.

In Spain, the Prado's major summer exhibition «El Greco and Modern Painting» marks 400 years since the artist's death, and examines how various artists of the 19th and 20th centuries adopted him as a proto - modernist.

The studio of the artist Sidney Nolan — one of the leading figures of 20th - century art, best known for his iconic paintings of Ned Kelly — was recently revealed to the public for the first time since his death in 1992.

It's nearly half a century since American choreographer Yvonne Rainer announced the death of traditional dance values, in her famously radical «No» manifesto of 1965.

Since his death in 1996 at age 38 from AIDS - related complications, Felix Gonzalez - Torres has emerged as one of the most recognized artists of the late - 20th century.

LOS ANGELES — Since his death in 1989, Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946 — 1989) has become recognized as one of the most significant artists of the late 20th century.

Innovative and controversial throughout her life, Wilke is considered the first feminist artist to use vaginal imagery in her work, and her place in 20th century art continues to be established since her death.

Beuys was the last of art's great 20th - century myth - makers, an artist who, since his death in 1986, has attained mythic status.

A century since Egon Schiele's premature death, his nudes still retain the power to shock and startle

However, in the first exhibition selected from the Reves Collection since the death of Wendy Reves in March, the Dallas Museum of Art will presented A Painting in the Palm of Your Hand: 18th - Century Painted Fans from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection.

In the 20 years since his death, Johnson's work has become an increasingly accurate depiction of our fragmented and overstimulated society and includes some of the most recognizable imagery from the twentieth and twenty - first centuries.

In nearly a quarter of a century since then, Hirst has gone on to become one of the most influential artists of his generation and has remained dedicated to exploring the complex relationship between art, love, life and death.

We actually don't have a solid answer on which extremes cause the most deaths, but since we're unlikely to return even to anything like the climate of the mid-20th century it's pretty unwise to recommend that hypothetical fund - chasers start doomsaying about an impending ice age.

In doing so we'll also prevent some 1.5 million premature deaths annually due to improved air quality.Soot Comes Out of the Atmosphere in Weeks, Not Decades Since soot — which in this context comes from older diesel engines and burning other fossil fuels, industrial sources, inefficient biomass cookstoves used in many developing nations — comes out of the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, not decades or centuries like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases, removing the source of pollution is highly effective in both stopping the warming effects as well as improving air quality.

Wabi - sabi — an acceptance of the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death — is nothing new for the Japanese who have been practicing this art since the 15th Century, but for the Western world it couldn't be further away from the never - ending quest for perfection.