Sentences with phrase «classical history»

Even readers not interested in classical history, though, would find the richly complex characters and situations engaging, as the story could almost take place in the present.

Her works are often constructed on a grand scale; with narratives of destruction and hope, they are in dialogue with classical history paintings.

There are few places in the world which offer classical history and natural beauty in equal measure.

Kauffmann's specialty would be the manly preserve of classical history painting.

The term history painting was introduced in the seventeenth century to describe paintings with subject matter drawn from classical history...

I read mostly non-fiction, particularly classical history, although the history of any country, at any time, I find of interest.

Mundane objects and everyday people took the place of long - established «high art» themes such as classical history and mythology.

YA / Curriculum Support: A vivid portrait for high - school Latin and classical history classes.

In August 1954, the first Swan Hellenic trip took 128 passengers and four classical history experts around the Greek islands onboard the m.s. Miaoulis.

NG: In Handbook in Motion, you mention a story that Nam June Paik narrated to you from Chinese classical history... it involved a king and a master musician.

Simultaneously invoking classical history, poetry, mythology and his own contemporary lived experience, Twombly's visual idiom is distinguished by a remarkable vocabulary of signs and marks and the fusion of word and text.

Posed before a violent tableaux (a picture within the picture that pays homage to the sweeping compositions of classical history painting), the scene appears as a suspended moment in a mysterious narrative.

At Tulane he received a Bachelor of Arts in Classical History and a minor in Biology.

Both works have elements of classical history paintings - their scale and triangular compositions echo famous scenes of Liberty over Battlefields or George Washington crossing the Delaware.

As 19th - century archaeologists came to rely more and more on Egypt's propagandistic texts, they turned away from classical histories.

A longbow brings back images of classical history, but is more difficult to master than the recurve or compound.

Jay Freeman has a master of arts in both classical history and U.S. history and is a reviewer of history books.

He received a Bachelor of Arts in Classical History and a minor in Biology from Tulane.

Don't miss Fans of classical history should visit Minori's very own Villa Romana, a first - century AD patrician mansion built around a huge viridarium or courtyard garden, with fresco fragments and a well - preserved thermal baths complex.

The temples surrounding the area offer a wealth of information regarding the classical history of the Mayan culture.

Whereas the artists of the Renaissance, for example, had been steeped in Classical history, mythology and the Bible, the artists of the modern era had been progressively schooled in the visual imagery of mass culture, which thus formed the chief substance of their own internal image banks.

In Italy, he began to work on a larger scale and distanced himself from his former Expressionist scribbles, moving toward a more literal use of text and numbers, drawing inspiration from poetry, mythology, and classical history.

Throughout his career Cy Twombly explored references from nature, literature, classical history and mythology through poetic, gestural painting and abstracted sculptures.

He references nature, literature, classical history and mythology through poetic, gestural painting and abstracted sculptures.

Her practice has been described as engaging in her own unique form of myth - making, one in which the interweaving of fact with fiction opens up possibilities for another group of symbolic female characterisations, markedly different from those that appear in either classical history or popular culture.

Classical history, legend, and narrative are woven throughout, assigning specific but sometimes mysterious meanings to his constructions.

The exhibition also featured three oil paintings from the later 1820s and 1830s in which Turner continues to explore the motif of the port, now as a setting for narrative scenes drawn from classical history: Regulus (London, Tate Britain); Ancient Italy: Ovid Banished from Rome (private collection); and Ancient Rome: Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus (London, Tate Britain).