Sentences with phrase «classical antiquity»

Stuhlbarg plays Perlman, a middle - aged American professor of classical antiquity living with his stylish wife Annella (Amira Casar), in a handsome Italian house with their son, Elio — a remarkable performance from Timothée Chalamet — who is a very talented musician, spending his time transcribing Schoenberg and composing piano variations on JS Bach.

He combines elements from classical antiquity with objects from today's consumer society, focusing on the overwhelming power of nature, American history and contemporary culture.

Staros» fascination with classical antiquities lies both in the charge of the objects themselves, and with how those objects have come to represent an origin story of Western art history.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a distinction familiar in classical antiquity was revived: the dividing line was drawn not between Christianity and other religions, but between popular religion, including Christianity, and a purely rational theism.

Gormley is considered by this work, and others, to have rescued the human figure - a central theme of sculpture since classical antiquity - from its long period of abstention during Abstract Expressionism's popularity.

So it became for Augustine in that watershed of late classical antiquity and the emerging medieval period.

I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless novels, a good many of them from those first - rate producers of the English detective novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.

In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites), which lends explanation to this trend.

New York and Mount Kisco, New York Investment firm Classical antiquities; modern art, especially drawings; Peruvian feathered textiles Top 200 appearance: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

Like Henry Moore, Bacon was influenced by classical antiquity, and the work of Michelangelo and Rodin.

The collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art comprises 27,000 works of art spanning more than 5,000 years of human creativity, including a collection of classical antiquities rivaled in the West only by the J. Paul Getty Museum.

He paints scenes that evoke Classical antiquity or Renaissance Italy, yet his pictures are neither nostalgic fantasies nor manifestoes of cultural conservatism.

It is also the case that modernist art itself often commented on the problem of the iconic — Giorgio de Chirico famously populated his paintings with the rubble of classical antiquity alongside objects from daily life, in landscapes of depopulated piazzas haunted only by shadows.

Today Antinous has more sculptures to his name than almost any other figure from classical antiquity.

As the curators of Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg see it, the loop is omnipresent on all our cultural levels — the self - contained circuit, the endless loop has constantly been founding itself in the midst of fields such as culture, history, alchemy and philosophy since classical antiquity.

The artist analyzes the ongoing adherence to moral, ethical, political and aesthetic parameters that originated in classical antiquity and examines the inherent entropy within these structures.

First, of course, there was the confrontation with the world of Hellenism and late classical antiquity, a confrontation out of which an obscure Jewish sect was transformed into a world religion.

Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) Opened in 1906, Szepmuveszeti Muzeum is organized around six departments: Egyptian, Greek and Roman Classical Antiquities, Sculpture, Old Masters, the Modern Collection, and Prints / Drawings).

Marrinon redeploys nineteenth - century studio practices, and the historical association of plaster casts with the serious study of classical antiquities, in her own whimsical subversion of the genre.

By juxtaposing Mesopotamian cult figures with Classical antiquities and Renaissance paintings, Idol Anxiety examined how objects become idols and offered insight into the sometimes uneasy relationship between people and things.

Either in the Bronze Age, or in Classical Antiquity.

Religious folk often act as if the world would be filled with depravity if religion didn't exist, but the most important moral truths are universal — that's why they are found in the teachings of classical antiquity, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc..

«The theology of every age must be sufficiently strong and free to hear, calmly, attentively, and openly, not only the voices of the Church Fathers, not only the voices of its favorites, not only the voices of classical antiquity, but all the voices of the past in its entirety.

As he acknowledges in the introduction, the present book is a shortened version of four earlier general books on classical antiquity.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

I still maintain that the underlying assumptions of sacrifice as practiced in the primitive cults and in the religions of classical antiquity (including the Old Testament) are incurably mythological.

But this does not mean that they have abandoned the modern world view for that of classical antiquity.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

Even the various European renaissances of classical antiquity have not appreciably changed this.

The Hindu deities Krishna, Vishnu, Kali, and others were worshipped as manifestations of Brahma, the one transcendental God, the Hindu God, much more reverently, however, than was the God of Plotinus, because the Hindu religion presupposes a plurality of worlds as over against the geocentric narrowing of the world picture of classical antiquity.

On Konstan's account, Christians in the early centuries of the Christian era were «profoundly reevaluating the kinds of solidarity that had characterized the social life of classical antiquity.»

It is more like how Renaissance writers placed emphasis on resurrecting the values of classical antiquity.

Collecting area: Classical antiquities; modern art, especially drawings; Peruvian feathered textiles

The strengths of the museum's permanent collection are Medieval art, art of the Americas (largely pre-Columbian), Classical Antiquities and modern and contemporary art.

And in a few rare instances the old - age myth of classical antiquity — the feeling that the crimes and follies of mankind must be accepted with resignation.

The new series, which takes it's title from the Aristotelian concept of pathos, or feeling, is comprised of subtly handcrafted clay masks portraying dramatic expressions that echo the historical tradition of these objects of classical antiquity.

Other strengths in the collection include European medieval art, European and American paintings, Outsider art, classical antiquities, African art and ancient American art.

Her lexicon was derived from an immersion in the history of images from Egypt, classical antiquity, prehistory and contemporary news media.

Spero's lexicon was derived from an immersion in the history of images, notably from Egypt, classical antiquity, pre-history, and contemporary news media.

He paints still lifes of classical antiquities, which are depicted against decorative backgrounds.

Robert Mapplethorpe, an exhibition comprising a selection of dye transfer and gelatin silver prints of the artist's key subjects, includes images of classical antiquity, nudes, self - portraiture and flowers.

And that's to say nothing of Facebook, which once suspended art critic Jerry Saltz after he posted provocative images from the Middle Ages and classical antiquity and banned Los Angeles artist Illma Gore for posting her unflattering portrait of then - candidate Donald Trump with a diminutive penis.