Sentences with phrase «fifteenth century padua»

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 the fifteenth century, as intellectuals began to reconsider our planet's shape and position in the Universe, the word «Earth» first came to be used in reference to the planetary body we know it as today and the term considered comparable to Mars, Venus, Saturn, and the other spheres of space.

By the fifteenth century, glazed tile stoves were already spreading through the Baltic countries.

So - called «industrial water mills» had been used in Antiquity and were widely adopted in Europe by the fifteenth century, but «industrial windmills» appeared only in the 1600s in the Netherlands, a country that took wind power to the extreme.

Yet in spite of the vast majority of the human race being Lee's inferiors, it is not possible to compare fifteenth century life with twenty - first century life in NW Europe.

Life could be pretty tough in the fifteenth century.

max are you referring to the hohe tauern mine established in the middle of the fifteenth century and overwhelmed by 20 metres of ice in 1570.

appears to be the worst since at least the middle of the fifteenth century.

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

[6] However, the admittance to the use of photographs in Photorealism was met with intense criticism when the movement began to gain momentum in the late 1960s, [7] despite the fact that visual devices had been used since the fifteenth century to aid artists with their work.

ROBILANT+VOENA deal in fine art from the fifteenth century to the twenty first, encompassing Old Masters and nineteenth century painting, classic modern, Italian post-war and contemporary art.

The Frick Collection has one of the most important American collections of sculptures, which is presented in the exhibition with several other top pieces, including Francesco Laurana's moving portrait bust of Beatrice van Aragon, and the bronze Hercules of Antico, both from the 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.

The exterior middle panel of Jan van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece includes a view through a window: We glimpse what the city of Ghent looked like in the fifteenth century.

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.

Derived from the acclaimed Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, this fascinating compendium celebrates the long, rich history of graphic design, from the first sample of movable type and the Nuremberg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to the cutting - edge magazines, posters, and ephemera of today.

This charming book traces the varied styles and purposes of natural history illustration since the fifteenth century.

Inspired by the Sienese painters from the thirteenth to fifteenth century, Geers interweaves the razor mesh with traditional iconography and abstract forms.

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

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.

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

Another show, «Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses,» boasts of a granite head from the fifteenth century B.C.E..

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

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.

After escaping, he then relives the memories of another ancestor named Ezio who lived in Italy during the late fifteenth century.

The Mayan site of Iximché was originally used as a Kaqchikel capital during the fifteenth century.

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

The Hundred Years War, a conflict between England and France for control of the French throne which raged from 1337 until 1453 posed a threat to many provincial French towns; the construction of stout defensive walls protected Martel and the town became prosperous again in the fifteenth century.

Since the Gelgel dynasty of the fifteenth century it has been regarded as a central, holy temple for the entire island.

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

It has been a unified country (properly the Kingdom of Spain) since the fifteenth century.

The largest Franciscan church in the world, the beautiful Basilica di Santa Croce was consecrated in the fifteenth century and is notable both for its superb artworks and for housing funerary monuments to Italian luminaries including Dante, Galileo, Rossini, Michelangelo and Machiavelli.

Biblioteca Malatesiana was the first public library in Europe and it remains perfectly intact as it was when it was built in the fifteenth century in spite of wars, fires and the occupation of Napoleon!

Many of the original glazed tiles have been replaced over time, and the Great Mosque in Herat was given its present form during the closing years of the fifteenth century.

A Moorish stronghold until the fifteenth century, there is a peculiar collision of styles here: Moorish domes and mosque - like structures mingle with gothic and baroque turrets giving Granada an almost theme - park - like quality.

The Spinone Italiano is an exceptional gun dog that dates back to the fifteenth century.

In the fifteenth century, the Kuvasz was kept in the court of King Matthias, who claimed to trust only his Kuvasz dogs and not people.

In the fifteenth century, the artist of the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries becomes intrigued by the weaver's blind daughter.

Joseph Hamon was one of the Sephardic Jews who landed upon the shores of Turkey in the late fifteenth century.

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.

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.

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

What the printing press was to reading and mass literacy in the fifteenth century, he decided, video games are to math literacy in the twenty - first century.

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.

The city of Angkor Wat was the capital of the Khmer kingdom from the ninth to the fifteenth century.

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».

To celebrate the completion of the Victoria Tower in 1860, some 150 years ago, these parliamentary authors have produced a selection of documents, artefacts and photos from the fifteenth century to the present day.

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

Representatives The Council of Experts, consisting of the representatives of the people,... The constitution, which consists of twelve chapters, and 175 articles, is completed in accordance with the aforementioned motives and objectives, at the dawn of the fifteenth century, after the migration of the Noble Prophet (Peace and blessing be upon him and his family) the founder of the liberating ideology of Islam.

Chris Skidmore, a Cabinet Office Minister, is a well - respected historian of the fifteenth century and has now brought together the archival and archaeological research into Richard III Brother, Protector, King (Weidenfeld & Nicolson).