Sentences with phrase «from eighteenth»

Beams from an eighteenth - century New Hampshire barn frame the view from the living room to the backyard.

The rule comes from the eighteenth century, in which copies of documents were typically handwritten by scribes, who could easily make errors.

From the eighteenth century to present, 49 individual burned sites were recorded corresponding to six scar - dated and tree - ring cross-dated fires, i.e. 1750, ca 1850, ca 1900, 1906, ca 1924 and 1943.

Previously published work on the Saltillo Sarape has primarily concentrated on those textiles classified as Classic, that is to say, weavings produced from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.

In each work, a blue mirrored, hand - blown glass gazing ball — a convention from eighteenth century garden design — reflects its surroundings, uniting painting, sculpture, and architecture in order to multiply sensory experience.

The decorative arts collection was substantially augmented by the donation in 1986 of the Faith P. and Charles L. Bybee Collection of American Furniture, comprising American furniture from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the Hoblitzelle Foundation's donation in 1987 of a 550 - piece collection of British silver that features outstanding works by such eighteenth - century silversmiths as Paul Lamerie.

Adelphi Paper Hangings produce the finest quality, block - printed wallpapers available on the market today by using the same methods and materials from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

She writes and lectures widely on the graphic arts from the eighteenth - century to the present, and is the author of the catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of contemporary artist Warrington Colescott.

Once inside, the visitor is faced with a square room whose four large walls are encased in a curtain of brick and cement hanging from the eighteenth - century brick - vaulted dome.

The Helen Chadwick Archive forms a part of the Henry Moore Institute Archive of Sculptors» Papers, which comprises over 260 collections containing a diverse range of material relating to British sculptural practice from the eighteenth century to the present day.

It includes works from the eighteenth century to the present day.

They will be in dialogue withimportant works from eighteenth century Italy, and nineteenth centuryFrance.

From eighteenth century museums to sculpted Greco - Roman warriors and Gothic Cathedrals, Nolan attends to their grandeur and authority in a way that is at once fascinated, resentful and inappropriate.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

The featured characters give a sense of romance and are inspired by religious and mythological sculptures and paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.

He is the author of dozens of books and catalogues and numerous essays on subjects ranging from eighteenth - century drawing to the work of Bob Dylan.

A sense of uncanniness is played out in our recognition of the scenes, taken from the eighteenth century Fragonard series, «Progress of Love,» and here given the Shonibare treatment — headless figures with skin colour of indeterminate origin are clad in the colonial Dutch wax fabrics.

In the artist's words: «Part of the liberating thing about making some of these figures over the porn was to accept the sort of crappy way that I paint compared to somebody from the eighteenth century.

Fictional or imaginary studios, a popular subject beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, include canvases by James Ensor, Jacek Malczewski, and Diego Rivera; while emphasis on artist's materials can be traced from eighteenth century works by Jean - Baptiste Siméon Chardin; to nineteenth century works by Carl Gustav Carus and Adolph von Menzel; through postwar American artists Jim Dine, Philip Guston, and Jasper Johns.

: Catalogue of the Exhibition, provides a thorough representation of Russian art from the twelfth century to today — including pieces from the world - class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

A highly respected art conservator practicing in Roxbury, Connecticut, Yost's experience restoring fine oil paintings from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries has allowed him to translate the techniques of the masters into contemplative landscapes for modern viewers.

This exhibition celebrates a gallery of women, from Britain and America, from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, who may have been represented «in little,» but whose appearances continue to loom large.»

The museum's second - floor galleries feature American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the eighteenth century to the present.

Inspired by gardens and their varying importance from the eighteenth century onward, she distills nature to find the place where it intersects with culture.

For lovers of elegant Neo-classicism, there were incisive portraits by Ingres from the eighteenth century and early nude studies by Degas from the nineteenth century, plus for dessert, a gorgeous, urgently scribbled Seurat of a silhouetted colt, c. 1882 — 1883.

Crossing disciplinary and generational boundaries, it includes works from the eighteenth - century to the present day.

Distributed throughout the hotel's common areas as well as in the rooms, the pieces range from eighteenth and nineteenth - century English furniture, nineteenth - century Turkish kilims, Roman mosaics and sculptures from the second and third - centuries AD to Guinovart etchings, original etchings commissioned by Napoleon in 1812, and fifth to eighth - century Burmese and Indian sculptures.

Still, most historical references to the Setter, at least from the eighteenth century on, place him in Ireland, where he was seen as either a red - or white - coated dog, or a mixture of the two.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThis book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site.

Locke in America will be the first book to tell the extraordinary story of Locke's transatlantic influence from the eighteenth century until today.

The archives contain a wide variety of material dating from the eighteenth.

A recent workshop in Stockholm brought together work as varied as West European attitudes to Eastern Europe from the eighteenth century to 1989, Israeli students» knowledge of the Palestinian areas of the country, the conflicting mental maps of 20th century Lebanon, mental maps of Europe based on quantitative evidence from surveys of European and extra-European students, and comparative work on mental maps in the Baltic and Mediterranean regions.

The transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries was a climax of movements and trends long present but now exploding in the intellectual, religious, political, and economic life of Western Europe.

This whole picture is very different from the eighteenth - and nineteenth - century mechanistic scheme.

Japan's Bach boom does, however, have one baffling aspect: how is it possible that melodies and rhythms from eighteenth - century Germany should please people of an entirely alien culture thousands of miles to the east?

For this reason, Lenin urges the distribution of «militant atheist literature» from the eighteenth century.

But if such people are actually out there, I suppose that reading the works of a life - affirming thinker from the eighteenth century is far from the worst way that they could spend their time.

Constantly annoying, it becomes openly confusing when he leaps from eighteenth - century Bach to modern discussions of Bach to predecessors of Bach back to Bach.

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The Jews, in the phraseology of Doctor Ruppin of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, having changed in the eighteenth century from an Oriental people to an Eastern European, have in the last few generations changed from an Eastern European people to a Western European and an American.

Born from Thomas Robert Malthus» famous late - eighteenth - century Essay on Population, this was the novel view that humanity itself amounted to a kind of scourge or pollution whose pressure on fellow members would lead to catastrophe.

Not «Let us our songs employ,» or «Let all their songs employ,» but men.That's how Isaac Watts wrote it back in the eighteenth century, when he wrote Joy to the World.This line gets changed from «men» to «us» or....

These three basic paradigms of evangelicalism derive then from the period of the Reformation centered in the sixteenth century, the «awakenings» of the eighteenth century, and the fundamentalist / modernist controversies of the last hundred years or so.

The amazing appeal of Chateaubriand derives from his ability to turn the privileging of nature (the great innovation at the end of the eighteenth century) into an argument for sacrality, and to legitimize the spheres of the emotional and the aesthetic as valid replacements for those of the rational and the social.

Just a few miles south of my home, charcoal from local chestnut fired the historic iron forge Catoctin Furnace, a major source of nineteenth - century pig iron for a young nation's Industrial Revolution — and before that, for eighteenth - century cannonballs for our founding political revolution.

Haute couture comes from a time and a place: the late eighteenth century, in the courts of France and England.

It is not sufficient to distinguish capitalism from the pre-capitalist systems that prevailed everywhere until the end of the eighteenth century and still prevail in most of what is called «the third world.»

If we get away from silly notions of a spatial transcendence, in which God is (so to speak) «out there» and which is in effect the God of eighteenth - century Deism, we shall be able to maintain with the Old Testament that God is «the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity,» yet is also near to us, with us, in us, and for us.

But in taking the term «civil religion» from Rousseau's Social Contract I was also bringing in a much more general concept, common in America in the eighteenth century but by no means specifically American.

The fifth period was the third advance, from about A.D. 1500 to about the middle of the eighteenth century.