Sentences with phrase «mostly nineteenth»

It is widely recognized today that we are in transition from a mostly nineteenth - century model of the church to something new.

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Revisiting a mostly forgotten German «manualist» theologian of the nineteenth century seems a most unlikely turn, and yet it is one that Lindbeck's most famous student, Bruce Marshall, has recommended, and others such as Reinhard Hütter, Michael Root, and myself have taken it up as well.

There are currently 18 MCU films, with this week's Avengers: Infinity War (2018) marking the nineteenth entry in the series, and the most amazing feat Marvel Studios has pulled off is the fact there isn't a terrible one in the bunch (though Thor: The Dark World [2013] is close, but it's mostly just bad).

Ah, January is upon us: The wind is howling, the thermometer is plummeting, and we are greeted by the nineteenth consecutive edition of Quality Counts, Education Week's compilation of mostly useful data, analysis, rankings and commentaries.

The first drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in the collection, Chronos Devouring his Child (Fig. 4), was purchased in 1934 from A. Everett «Chick» Austin, Jr., director of the Wadsworth Athenaeum at Hartford and a fellow Harvard graduate student with Professor of Art Agnes Rindge; Austin evidently bought the sheet from the Savile Gallery in London.21 The brown ink and wash drawing with traces of black chalk is a variation of a work in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is related to a drawing in The Pierpont Morgan Library that is very close in concept to a portion of the ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici in Milan.22 Other gifts of drawings came in the 1930s, mostly contemporary American art, as well as nineteenth - century sketchbooks by Sanford Robinson Gifford, which complemented the four paintings by this Hudson River School painter that were already in the Magoon collection.

But in spite of these alleged connections — which are, in any case, largely superficial when not altogether wrongheaded — Turner has never featured in the game of theorizing nineteenth - century art, a game even now still played mostly with the same short deck: Courbet, Manet, Cezanne, and a few others.

The impressive collection includes works by one of the most successful artists of the nineteenth century, landscape painter Edward Mitchell Bannister (1828 - 1901); a suite of photographs by Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van der Zee (1886 - 1983); silkscreen prints by Romare Bearden (1911 - 1988); and Carborundum Mezzotints by Dox Thrash (1893 - 1965), an artist mostly associated with the Works Progress Administration period who invented the carborundum technique.