Sentences with phrase «mid nineteenth century»

Muybridge took his bulky photographic paraphernalia into the Californian wilderness of the mid nineteenth century and captured, obviously in black and white, hugely emotive pictures, which even viewed now hold a haunting quality.

Indeed, when Auguste Comte (1798 - 1857) promoted his new Religion of Humanity in the mid nineteenth century, he introduced a calendar of 13 months, named after such people as Moses, Aristotle, Caesar, Shakespeare and Descartes.

The Old Port Mill, which forms part of the complex was most likely built by convicts in the mid nineteenth century and commenced operating as a flour mill in 1863.

In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life in a naturalistic manner; however the term is also generally used to describe artworks painted in a realistic almost photographic way

In its specific sense realism refers to a mid nineteenth century artistic movement characterised by subjects painted from everyday life...