Sentences with phrase «fifteenth century»

Not long after viewing an exhibition of fifteenth century woodcuts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frankenthaler found herself in front of Tyler's tree.

He graduated in modern literature at the University of Milan with a thesis on the Medieval and Modern Art History about painting in fifteenth century in Lombardia.

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.

I am a huge fancier of historical novels, so when I began Passion Blue, set in late fifteenth century Italy, I expected to like it.

From fifteenth century China at the British Museum to Raqs Media Collective's new exhibition at Frith Street Gallery.

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

In fifteenth century Italian and Dutch painting, the window was often rendered as a device to clarify reality, make discoveries, and gain knowledge.

More important is the fact that Christian theology in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries created a context in which the modern natural sciences took root.

The Christians in China, for example, were persecuted in the ninth and fifteenth centuries because Christianity was considered to be a «foreign» religion.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries even that «Christendom» was further reduced by fresh advances of Islam and by internal corruption.

The colourful clash between David Cameron and Chris Bryant continued today, when the shadow immigration secretary said the prime minister was acting like an «agitated fifteenth century pope».

For instance, during both the relatively warm twelfth century, and the relatively cold fifteenth century, drought was observed to be most widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.

Voronins dating of Mikhails chapel to the early fifteenth century therefore.

Most recently, I've returned to my YA roots with Passion Blue and Color Song, a pair of historical novels set in fifteenth century Padua and Venice, about a talented girl's struggle to become a painter in defiance of the rigid social conventions of her time.

Villa Ulivi is a beautiful, impressive and luxurious fifteenth century Florentine Villa located close to Florence historic centre.

Best described as «fifteenth century Battlefield,» War Of The Roses may not top the charts in terms of visual presentation, but its gameplay offerings are second to none thanks to its impeccable hit detection mechanics and 64 - player matches.

Quin is an artist whose sensitivity and responsiveness to nature give his work a timelessness worthy of its subject, evoking fifteenth century Italian paintings with a contemporary imagination.»

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.

In the early fifteenth century certain artists in Italy began to make progress towards a greater realism.

The history of Trinidad and Tobago dates since its discovery in the late fifteenth century by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

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

The first to try to tame traditional behaviors were the rulers of cities in the fifteenth century, who imposed fines and expulsions for violence to promote an environment more amenable to business.

The RCC is trying to recreate a fifteenth century church in the twenty - first century.

The manuscript in which they were found is relatively late, fifteenth century, but Augustine scholars are certain they are genuine.

Many religious and political writers of the fifteenth century had been aware of the weaknesses of the medieval church and the society in which it was embedded.

What struck Ortega as he compared the Renaissance of the fifteenth century to our own time was «simplification in the face of desperation, in the face of feeling lost in an excessive richness of life.»

Shifting its capital to Constantinople, the Roman Empire would resist in the East until the fifteenth century, although it was pushed further and further to the margins.

During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries a movement set in for popularizing the Scriptures.

Mazower begins in the fifteenth century and ends in the twentieth, when Greek sovereignty, a forced population exchange with Turkey, and Nazi deportation of the city's Jews rendered Salonica once again uniformly Greek.

Indeed, by the beginning of the fifteenth century, «the only safe place in Europe to be a Jew was in the lands of the pope».

Stained glass is used to illustrate the Nativity, and the Ascension is shown in an alabaster panel made in Nottingham in the fifteenth century.

A series of Popes sat on the throne of Peter the scandal of whose lives was not offset, as was that of some of the most infamous of the Pontiffs of the fifteenth century, by the outward splendor of their court.

From the late fifteenth century the theologians of the Church began to reflect upon the «new things» in the social order of their times, in this case the emergence of the modern business economy — trade, commerce, credit, banking and industry.

The colonial expansion of Europe beginning in the fifteenth century changed that.

All of us have had our patterns of work, of relationship, of faith, dramatically altered by a tumultuous communications revolution similar in its impact to the introduction of printing in the fifteenth century.

The fifteenth century Gujarati bhakta Narsi Mehta writes.

The Nuzi (or Nuzu) texts, discovered in an Assyrian town of that name, are largely concerned with business matters of the fifteenth century, and contain some significant parallels to episodes recorded in Genesis.

In all of this, Christianity was and is central as Le Goff acknowledged, even pointing out that it was Pope Pius II in the fifteenth century who first possessed a clear idea of Europe as a single entity.

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

A church which once exercised ecclesiastical authority over more of the earth than any other church in the world, lay in ruin by the end of the fifteenth century.