Sentences with phrase «in classical antiquity»

The artist analyzes the ongoing adherence to moral, ethical, political and aesthetic parameters that originated in classical antiquity and examines the inherent entropy within these structures.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, a distinction familiar in classical antiquity was revived: the dividing line was drawn not between Christianity and other religions, but between popular religion, including Christianity, and a purely rational theism.

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Religious folk often act as if the world would be filled with depravity if religion didn't exist, but the most important moral truths are universal — that's why they are found in the teachings of classical antiquity, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc..

His seminar on Tertullian was my introduction to serious historical research — one came away with a sense of having been in the room with that fiery Latin teacher and having glimpsed the whole oikoumené of classical and Christian antiquity.

Nevertheless, it was also the «sole medium of intellectual life» and could become again, incidentally to the process and quite unintentionally, a way of access to the heritage of pre-Christian Roman culture and classical Latin literature (Erich Auerbach, Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages [Pantheon.

Classical sculpture's formal qualities, like their religious origins in Greek antiquity, are little understood today.

«The theology of every age must be sufficiently strong and free to hear, calmly, attentively, and openly, not only the voices of the Church Fathers, not only the voices of its favorites, not only the voices of classical antiquity, but all the voices of the past in its entirety.

As he acknowledges in the introduction, the present book is a shortened version of four earlier general books on classical antiquity.

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.

The problem, he says, is that the New Testament presents the events of our redemption in terms of the mythical world view of classical antiquity.

But just as the Constantinian Church preserved and transformed the best of the dying civilization of classical antiquity, and planted the seeds of what became the great urban culture of the high Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, so a post-Constantinian and ecumenical Church might preserve and transform the best features of the corrupted civilization of modernity in service to the next great culture of humanist sacramental urbanism.

If friendship was among the «first things» of life in the classical world, its place changed significantly as Christian belief transformed the world of late antiquity.

Konstan's account of friendship — which is historically, philologically, and philosophically informed — begins with Homeric Greece, proceeds through the classical and Hellenistic periods, discusses Roman views, and ends with some of the fourth — century church fathers in the world of late antiquity.

Across northern Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State (IS) group devastated antiquities during its reign of terror starting in 2014, pulverizing classical statues such as those of Palmyra in Syria and bulldozing a 3000 - year - old ziggurat at Iraq's Nimrud.

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.»

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.

And in a few rare instances the old - age myth of classical antiquity — the feeling that the crimes and follies of mankind must be accepted with resignation.

Marrinon redeploys nineteenth - century studio practices, and the historical association of plaster casts with the serious study of classical antiquities, in her own whimsical subversion of the genre.

Other strengths in the collection include European medieval art, European and American paintings, Outsider art, classical antiquities, African art and ancient American art.

Architect John Soane RA championed the study of the classical in his own teaching as well as his personal collection of antiquities.

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

Staros» fascination with classical antiquities lies both in the charge of the objects themselves, and with how those objects have come to represent an origin story of Western art history.

Always interested in the work of ancient peoples, Mr. Emmerich mounted insightful exhibitions of pre-Columbian art and classical antiquities.

In his first solo show, De Vliegher sourced prominent European museum collections to build out his own Treasury in the gallery space, lining porcelain plates of classical antiquity to speak to ritual, cultural anthropology, and notions of contemporary collectinIn his first solo show, De Vliegher sourced prominent European museum collections to build out his own Treasury in the gallery space, lining porcelain plates of classical antiquity to speak to ritual, cultural anthropology, and notions of contemporary collectinin the gallery space, lining porcelain plates of classical antiquity to speak to ritual, cultural anthropology, and notions of contemporary collecting.

Organised in collaboration with Rupert Wace Ancient Art, «CLASSICITY «will re-represent classical art through the lens of contemporary responses (by artists including Edward Allington, Rachel Kneebone, Sarah Lucas and Alexandre Singh), inviting us to see antiquities not as museum artefacts but as seductive, emotive and provocative works of art in their own right.

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.

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.

Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Kiev Also known as the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art, and formerly ranked the third most important museum in the Soviet Union after the Hermitage in St Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the museum's permanent collection (begun 1919) includes Egyptian and Classical antiquities, Byzantine art and icons, Italian Maiolica pottery, Meissen porcelain, Persian Ceramics and Bronze sculpture, Chinese paintings and Chinese pottery, as well as European paintings, sculptures, and etchings.

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-...]

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.

Features African culture, Classical Antiquity and German Expressionism, along with modern art in the Ahmanson Building.

The Frans Hals Museum joins the Summer Series Exhibition with a small presentation about classical muses: the singing goddesses who were called upon by artists in antiquity.

The Classical Now, a major exhibition pairing the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities, is presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de MouginClassical Now, a major exhibition pairing the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities, is presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de Mouginclassical Greek and Roman antiquities, is presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM).

The collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art comprises 27,000 works of art spanning more than 5,000 years of human creativity, including a collection of classical antiquities rivaled in the West only by the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) Opened in 1906, Szepmuveszeti Muzeum is organized around six departments: Egyptian, Greek and Roman Classical Antiquities, Sculpture, Old Masters, the Modern Collection, and Prints / Drawings).

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

As the curators of Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg see it, the loop is omnipresent on all our cultural levels — the self - contained circuit, the endless loop has constantly been founding itself in the midst of fields such as culture, history, alchemy and philosophy since classical antiquity.

Antiquity Revived: Neoclassical Art in the Eighteenth Century examines early efforts of stylistic reform, how the renewal of classical taste found its roots in ancient sources, and how artists in a variety of disciplines forged an imaginative, classical style that satisfied the needs of their own age.

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

In the Black Odyssey series, Bearden establishes an artistic bridge between Homer's poem — arguably the definitive work of classical mythology — and African - American culture by depicting Homeric characters as black players on the timeless stage of antiquity.

Together they demonstrate the era's distinctive approach to composition and subject matter, informed by principles of rationalism, respect for the art of classical antiquity, and by a belief in a natural world governed by divine order.