Sentences with phrase «of classical antiquities»

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.

Galleria Borghese Rome The Borghese Villa gallery holds a significant part of the Borghese collection of Classical Antiquities, paintings, and sculptures, founded by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (1605 — 1621).

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.

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..

«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.

Unlike the pagan religions of classical antiquity, e.g. ancient Egypt and the Far East, Christianity does not seek to explain the physical phenomena of the material world as a dramatic struggle between warring gods and goddesses, i.e. μυθος (myth).

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 this does not mean that they have abandoned the modern world view for that 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.

Even the various European renaissances of classical antiquity have not appreciably changed this.

The Hindu deities Krishna, Vishnu, Kali, and others were worshipped as manifestations of Brahma, the one transcendental God, the Hindu God, much more reverently, however, than was the God of Plotinus, because the Hindu religion presupposes a plurality of worlds as over against the geocentric narrowing of the world picture of classical antiquity.

It is more like how Renaissance writers placed emphasis on resurrecting the values of classical antiquity.

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.

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.

Robert Mapplethorpe, an exhibition comprising a selection of dye transfer and gelatin silver prints of the artist's key subjects, includes images of classical antiquity, nudes, self - portraiture and flowers.

JC: Do you nonetheless see your current exhibition as part of a recent half - ironic embrace of classical antiquity?

Focusing on the artistic innovations of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, this exhibition makes apparent why contemporaries could celebrate a rebirth or Renaissance of the art of classical antiquity.

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 collecting.

Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles This art museum and educational centre is devoted to the study of the civilization, visual arts and culture of Classical Antiquity.

Although it dates back to the medieval performances of court minstrels and travelling troubadours (if not to the oratorical performances of Classical Antiquity), modern Performance Art owes its existence to the activities of avant - garde movements such as Futurism (c.1909 - 14), Dada (1916 - 24), Surrealist Automatism (1924 - 40), Nouveau Realisme (early 1960s), Fluxus (1960s), Neo-Dada (1960s), Body Art (from 1960) and Feminist Art (1970 onwards).

The narrative of An Answer, begins with myths of classical antiquity, moves towards Renaissance intellectual history, modernity, and, ends finally, with an apocalyptic time beyond our time where that dripping paint has become the form of trees and archways.

After primitive forms of cave painting, figurine sculptures and other types of ancient art, there occured the golden era of Greek art and other schools of Classical Antiquity.

Michelangelo epitomizes the timeless nobility of Classical Antiquity, whereas Rodin's works are unmistakably modern, with a dramatic, expressive naturalism.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

I have found time and disposition, for example, to occupy myself much more than formerly with universal Geistesgeschichte; on two journeys to Italy to let classical antiquity speak to me as it had never done before; to gain a new relationship with Goethe, among others; to read countless novels, a good many of them from those first - rate producers of the English detective novel: to become a very bad but very passionate horseman, and soon.

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.

First, of course, there was the confrontation with the world of Hellenism and late classical antiquity, a confrontation out of which an obscure Jewish sect was transformed into a world religion.

Stung by the criticism that he offered an interpretation of Christianity as an interpretation of religion, he moved from The Essence of Christianity to The Essence of Religion and, later, to his Theogony According to the Sources of Classical, Hebraic, and Christian Antiquity (1857).

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.

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.

Munthe was a collector of classical artifacts, so the whole villa is tastefully decorated by objects from the antiquity, some of which were found right on site during the construction of the villa.

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.

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.»

The strengths of the museum's permanent collection are Medieval art, art of the Americas (largely pre-Columbian), Classical Antiquities and modern and contemporary art.

Like Henry Moore, Bacon was influenced by classical antiquity, and the work of Michelangelo and Rodin.

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.

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.

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.

The Warburg Institute, University of London: Publication of the international conference Plaster Casts: Making, Collecting and Displaying from Classical Antiquity to the Present, Rune Frederiksen and Eckart Marchand - # 3,000

It also features smaller collections of art from prehistory, the Ancient - Americas and Classical Antiquity.

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.

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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.

As a consequence, during the interwar period, the balance and force of classical forms engendered a fusion of modernity and antiquity, turning away from the two - dimensional abstract spaces and fragmentation of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, and other avant - garde movements of the early 20th century.