Sentences with phrase «historian by background»

Sarah Levitt, a costume historian by background, uses this picture as the starting point through an exploration... Read More

As a historian by background who has written quite a bit on the Great War, it's always nice to see the media cover things that otherwise have been long forgotten outside the ranks of historians and buffs.

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And yet you are guided by the ramblings of five authors from the 1st century CE who basically are regurgitating local myths and embellishments and have no supporting backgrounds as trained historians.

Exploring some of the principal methods by which architectural historians can date historic buildings, from the use of archive documents, old maps and Free sermons search for pastors with sermon illustrations, outlines, Bible series, and church worship media with powerpoint, backgrounds, video

Bonus materials on the 4 - disc Blu - ray / DVD Combo Pack include audio commentary on Smashing the O - Line; Tony Rayns on the Crime and Action Movies, a discussion by the critic and historian on the background to the films, their place within Suzuki's career and the talent involved; trailers; stills gallery; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork; and a 60 - page illustrated collector's book.

Extras: Audio commentary by critic and author Jasper Sharp on «Smashing the 0 - Line»; «Tony Rayns on the Crime and Action Movies» in which the critic and historian discusses the background to the films, their place within Suzuki's career and the talent involved with them; trailers; stills gallery; reversible sleeves featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys; 60 - page illustrated collector's book featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp.

The eleven canvases, deemed landscapes by more categorical historians, are atmospheric and quite literally absorbing; the flat Southern sunlight that infuses the gallery's front room seeps directly into the dense yellow background

Whether it's because art historians have been put off by his urbane and privileged background, or have opted to focus on his famous series of paintings, Elegies to the Spanish Republic, the fact remains that Motherwell's early work and his evolution from surrealist vocabulary to the subdued abstract expression he later embraced has been largely ignored.

I'm a historian by academic background, but with an interested amateur's curiosity about science.