Sentences with phrase «from classical antiquity»

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Unfortunately, most of the frescos from Classical Antiquity have perished.

Today Antinous has more sculptures to his name than almost any other figure from classical antiquity.

In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines photographic portraiture with line drawings taken from classical antiquity to question notions -LSB-...]

The Warburg Institute, University of London: Publication of the international conference Plaster Casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present, Rune Frederiksen and Eckart Marchand - # 3,000

In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines photographic portraiture with line drawings taken from classical antiquity to question notions of beauty.

In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites), which lends explanation to this trend.

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I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless novels, a good many of them from those first - rate producers of the English detective novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.

Stung by the criticism that he offered an interpretation of Christianity as an interpretation of religion, he moved from The Essence of Christianity to The Essence of Religion and, later, to his Theogony According to the Sources of Classical, Hebraic, and Christian Antiquity (1857).

Participants in this retreat will take up philosophical, theological, and literary texts from antiquity and the classical Christian and Jewish traditions to explore the nature of love and friendship as well as their relation to transcendence, faith, beauty, marriage, and reason.

Munthe was a collector of classical artifacts, so the whole villa is tastefully decorated by objects from the antiquity, some of which were found right on site during the construction of the villa.

Stuhlbarg plays Perlman, a middle - aged American professor of classical antiquity living with his stylish wife Annella (Amira Casar), in a handsome Italian house with their son, Elio — a remarkable performance from Timothée Chalamet — who is a very talented musician, spending his time transcribing Schoenberg and composing piano variations on JS Bach.

The American School of Classical Studies in Athens has been the preeminent center for the study of the Greek world from antiquity to the present since it was founded in 1881.»

Her lexicon was derived from an immersion in the history of images from Egypt, classical antiquity, prehistory and contemporary news media.

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

Boasting almost 200 objects, many on view in the U.S. for the first time, «Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World» looks at connections between ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, from the Bronze Age to late antiquity.

It also features smaller collections of art from prehistory, the Ancient - Americas and Classical Antiquity.

Featuring varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our booth examines the legacy of classical sculpture in Marie and Orensanz» work, and looks at how both artists draw on a tradition of fragmentation that comes from the display of broken statues from antiquity.

Derived from the figure and mythic narratives, Hadzi's sculpture references antiquity and classical artifacts — abstracted anatomical forms, columnar and other architectural elements, helmets, weaponry and body armor function as visual metaphors for ancient cultures.

As a consequence, during the interwar period, the balance and force of classical forms engendered a fusion of modernity and antiquity, turning away from the two - dimensional abstract spaces and fragmentation of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, and other avant - garde movements of the early 20th century.

These works represent a tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa, and the Americas and the greatest European and North American masters.

Although it dates back to the medieval performances of court minstrels and travelling troubadours (if not to the oratorical performances of Classical Antiquity), modern Performance Art owes its existence to the activities of avant - garde movements such as Futurism (c.1909 - 14), Dada (1916 - 24), Surrealist Automatism (1924 - 40), Nouveau Realisme (early 1960s), Fluxus (1960s), Neo-Dada (1960s), Body Art (from 1960) and Feminist Art (1970 onwards).

Gormley is considered by this work, and others, to have rescued the human figure - a central theme of sculpture since classical antiquity - from its long period of abstention during Abstract Expressionism's popularity.

He studied the classical antiquities, sketching from sculptures at the Hermitage on a visit to St Petersburg in 1911.

In Ballerinas (2010 — 14) from the Antiquity series, Koons depicts figurines of dancers, derived from decorative porcelain, at the imposing scale of classical sculpture.

For his first solo exhibition, Sean O'Connor remixes classical motifs from antiquity, contemporary «bro - mo» culture, and Victorian wallpaper for step - and - repeat patterns of sporty hot dudes.

Classical antiquities from Egypt, Greece and Rome, plus sculptures, ink and wash paintings, bronzes, ceramics, and works of decorative art from China, Korea, Japan, India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, and Thailand, are also represented.

After leading the hunt for objects looted from the Iraq Museum, Manhattan assistant district attorney Matthew Bogdanos — classical scholar, Marine Corps Reserves colonel, and middleweight boxer — is setting up New York's first task force on the illegal antiquities trade Kelly Devine Thomas