Sentences with phrase «early modern european»

Holdings of eighteenth and nineteenth century and early modern European and American art were enriched by the donation in 1982 of thirty - eight Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and contemporary American paintings and sculptures from the collection of Algur H. Meadows and his wife, Elizabeth.

Commemorating one of the earliest documented moments of cross-cultural exchange between Japan and the West, this exhibition will unveil a new series by revered photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto while also juxtaposing his monumental black - and - white photographs of early modern European art and architecture with traditional Japanese artworks.

Her areas of ongoing research include all aspects of ancient Greek culture, the witchcraze era of early modern European history, and a particular and highly focused aspect of Nazi Germany.

For instance, maps drawn with north at the top are the result of an early modern European phenomenon.

(He was a facinating guy who made a significant contribution to early modern European history, which I studied once upon a time.)

I studied transitions in early modern European history — the Protestant reformation being one of the main ones.

No one would doubt that before the privatization of religion, which is the chief sign of secularization, religion pervaded the entire world of early modern Europeans and there were religious roots to everything as there were nonreligious entanglements in everything deemed religious.

Not exact matches

The institutions and values of the modern world that the Anglo - Americans mastered so quickly emerged from changes at the end of the Middle Ages that came earlier to continental Europe than they did to Britain, and although the Anglo - Americans successfully resolved the conflicts set in motion by the upheavals of the Protestant Reformation, the European changes provided the political and theological resources for the Anglo - American solutions.

Medieval and early modern Europe developed forms of federated empire, and the European Union is a postmodern covenant of nations, albeit one distorted by its adherence to liberalism.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

For Gregory, a professor of early modern history at Notre Dame, we are where we are in 2012 because of the specific actions, choices, and consequences of the sixteenth - century European conflict among Christians.

In the above passage, political sociologist Charles Tilly was writing not about modern - day Afghanistan, but about early European states where functional governments took centuries to emerge.

«The morphology of the skull indicates that it is that of a modern human of African origin, bearing characteristics of early European Upper Palaeolithic populations.

The boy's DNA showed he descended from a mating between early Asians and proto - Europeans, and that he is related to modern South Americans.

For years, the favored recipe for making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years ago.

Surprisingly, says Thomas, none of the early Europeans had the gene mutation associated with lactose tolerance in modern - day Europeans.

This week, an international research team led by palaeogeneticists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) published a study in the journal Science showing that the earliest farmers from the Zagros mountains in Iran, i.e., the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent, are neither the main ancestors of Europe's first farmers nor of modern - day Europeans.

These ancient indigenous inhabitants, many of them ancestors to the modern Tsimshian, were a seafaring people who first encountered Europeans in the early 1700s.

«Early farmers from across Europe, and to some extent modern - day Europeans, can trace their DNA to early farmers living in the Aegean, whereas people living in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and India share considerably more long chunks of DNA with early farmers in Early farmers from across Europe, and to some extent modern - day Europeans, can trace their DNA to early farmers living in the Aegean, whereas people living in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and India share considerably more long chunks of DNA with early farmers in early farmers living in the Aegean, whereas people living in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and India share considerably more long chunks of DNA with early farmers in early farmers in Iran.

It contrasted Europe with the linked cultures and civilizations of the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and remote Far East, which early - modern Europeans saw as the East.

As such, they are either a demonstration of independent invention by Neandertals or an indication that modern humans started influencing European Neandertals much earlier than previously believed.

It is similar in shape to recent African skulls as well as to European skulls from the Upper Paleolithic period, but different from most other early anatomically modern humans in the Levant.

Doubts on the authenticity of the available sequences have so far hampered genetic comparisons between anatomically archaic (Neandertal) and early modern (Cro - Magnoid) Europeans.

As a consequence, the possibility has been raised that admixture did occur, but the early Europeans of modern anatomy were not too different genetically from Neandertals, or else that most Neandertal haplotypes were lost through a process of lineage sorting, i.e. by genetic drift [5].

Perhaps the earliest lineal predecessor of the modern Marine Corps was the creation and evolution of marines dating back to the European naval That's what Marine Maj. Mark Thompson declared the first time we met.

Perhaps the earliest lineal predecessor of the modern Marine Corps was the creation and evolution of marines dating back to the European naval

Bunny Lake Is Missing (Twilight Time, Blu - ray)-- In the late 1950s and early 1960s, no American director melded classic Hollywood style and cool modern European elegance better than producer / director Otto Preminger.

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The earliest extant poem in a modern European language, «Beowulf» is an epic that reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood, victory, and death.

From the partners behind Dead or Alive and the iconic modern Ninja Gaiden trilogy, Nioh graced the PS4 earlier this year as a direct challenger towards Bloodborne as one of the console's most difficult exclusive titles; hints of Bloodborne and Dark Souls influence are less than subtle in the challenging hack - and - slasher from Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja, but rather than opt for medieval and gothic mythology, Nioh thrusts players into a world stirred with European, feudal Japanese and demonic motifs.

NEW YORK — Several works in the 19th - century European paintings sales garnered strong prices at a typically quiet auction - market period that stretches from the end of the major, early, May New York auctions to the start of the London Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions each June.

Distinct from the ways that early twentieth - century European avant - garde film advanced narratives of «failed vision» and «enlightenment» within the transformation of modern life, this conversation reconsiders the aesthetics of abstraction and experimentation that are beholden to an ethics of contingency and fragmentation within contemporary culture.

The exhibition combines a chronological display with a thematic approach, structured in a series of major chapters in the artist's career, with emphasis on two key moments: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres - García participated in various European early modern avant - garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic / Constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction.

This exhibition brings together works by early European modern masters such as Max Bill, Josef Albers and Victor Vasarely along with later proponents of Concretism in South America including Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Clark and the lesser know figures, Judith Lauand, Lothar Charoux and Geraldo de Barros.

What's more, no museum in the vicinity of Boston has the depth to be able to put this work convincingly in a wider context - teasing out connections not just with earlier strains of modern art, both American and European, but with the full gamut of contemporary productions.

During that trip, a slew of Old Master and early Modern paintings in European museums made a strong impression on the young artist.

«Indian modern artists have fought to create their own brand of Modernism far removed from it's early European influences.

His scholarly interests range broadly across the field of modern art from the early 19th century to the present, with an emphasis on French painting and post-war American and European art.

By the early 1940s the main movements in modern art, expressionism, cubism, abstraction, surrealism, and dada were represented in New York: Marcel Duchamp, Fernand Léger, Piet Mondrian, Jacques Lipchitz, André Masson, Max Ernst, André Breton, were just a few of the exiled Europeans who arrived in New York.

It will be presented by 25 high - contrast black and white photographs, which are from editorial images of the 90's for VOGUE, HARPER»S BAZAAR, INTERVIEW and many other international magazines, to his personal work inspired by modern dance, landscapes, early German and East European cinema and photography.

The Department of Medieval through Modern European Painting and Sculpture is the largest of the Art Institute's 11 curatorial groups, with a collection that includes the museum's renowned holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works; modern European masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky; and earlier paintings by such artists as El Greco, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, and Giovanni Battista TiModern European Painting and Sculpture is the largest of the Art Institute's 11 curatorial groups, with a collection that includes the museum's renowned holdings of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works; modern European masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky; and earlier paintings by such artists as El Greco, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, and Giovanni Battista Timodern European masters such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Vasily Kandinsky; and earlier paintings by such artists as El Greco, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

The modern gallery features European, American, and Latin American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts dating from the 1880s to the early 1960s.

Where an early generation of artists had portrayed the romantic lure of the American Southwest during the nineteenth - century using European Academic painting traditions to represent the environment and inhabitants of the region as exotic, Modern artists took a very different approach.

Several works in the 19th - century European paintings sales garnered strong prices at a typically quiet auction - market period that stretches from the end of the major, early, May New York auctions to the start of the London Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auctions each June.

The European paintings collection spans several centuries, with examples from the Middle Ages and Renaissance through the early modern era, including several Impressionist works, such as Van Gogh's Irises, seen here

Under a single roof, its collection offers a virtually complete survey of seven hundred years of European art from the early fourteenth century to the present, with focuses on the Renaissance, the Baroque, early Modern art and much more.

European artworks from the medieval to the early modern period comprise one of the Museum's most substantial holdings, with particular strengths in medieval sculpture, early Italian Renaissance panel painting, and 17th - century Dutch and Italian painting.

With Kurt Schwitters as an early reference, Twombly is affected by European modern art as an ideal of uncompromising self - expression, and a feel for the poetry in the most humble substances.

Chaos and Classicism: Art if France, Italy, Germany, and Spain, 1918 — 1936 is organized by New York University Professor of Modern Art Kenneth E. Silver, a renowned authority on European art between the wars, assisted by Helen Hsu, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, with Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th - and Early - 20th - Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, as curatorial adviser.

He absorbed both the wealth of Modern European painting — from van Gogh to Klee, from Delacroix to Matisse — and oriental influences, which he observed in Morocco in the early 1970s.