Sentences with phrase «early fifteenth centuries»

A skillful and conscientious historian, he looks back on the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in order to document a failure of theological method.

In the early fifteenth century the Catholics mistook static ecclesiastic forms for the content of their faith.

The Met has done the same with the Belles Heures de Jean, Duc de Berry, from the early fifteenth century.

Norse colonies which had settled in a formerly warmer Greenland starved and vanished by the early fifteenth century as crops failed and livestock froze.

Not exact matches

And it was in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric fiction, in the three greatest Italian romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.

More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

Church structures and teachings of the fifteenth century were not workable or sustainable in the early sixteenth century.

But as early as the fifth century, it was an important «Nestorian centre», and by the eighth century, continuing until the fifteenth century, had its own metropolitan.

The earliest parliamentary documents kept in the tower date from the very end of the fifteenth century.

First inspired by the printed book in the late fifteenth century, early printed series frequently depicted narrative subjects drawn from literary sources.

The Courtauld Gallery has an expansive collection of over 24,000 prints dating back as early as the fifteenth century, so as you might expect, the comparatively minuscule selection of gems shown here in the Bruegel to Freud exhibition are some of the most exquisite prints in existence today.

This intimate exhibition presented paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper and books from fifteenth - to early nineteenth - century Europe, drawn from the museum's collection and supplemented by loans from important public and private collections.

Rooted in a fascination with fifteenth century Venetian and early Flemish painting, and inflected by the formal restraint and reduced palette of Minimalism, Simpson has developed a distinctive, darkly comedic artistic vocabulary with which to create works that move beyond their subject matter to question the nature of painting itself.

At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth - century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders.

It is effective, emotional and unlike any of the Early Netherlandish paintings of the fifteenth century.

Among the earliest works were a rare compositional sketch by the fifteenth - century Florentine master Fra Filippo Lippi, an exquisite red - chalk figure study by Michelangelo, and sheets by Annibale Carracci, Domenichino, Pietro da Cortona, and both Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo.

Low maximum sea ice extent also occurred over periods of some decades (e.g., mid-seventeenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, early fifteenth and late thirteenth centuries), with absolute values in some cases as low as the twentieth century ones, but these periods were in no case as persistent as in the twentieth century. . .