Sentences with phrase «of classical antiquity»

On Konstan's account, Christians in the early centuries of the Christian era were «profoundly reevaluating the kinds of solidarity that had characterized the social life 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.

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.

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 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.

The new series, which takes it's title from the Aristotelian concept of pathos, or feeling, is comprised of subtly handcrafted clay masks portraying dramatic expressions that echo the historical tradition of these objects of classical antiquity.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Elsewhere, Xu Zhen's concrete replicas of Greek statuary and Buddhist figures, Eternity (2013 - 14) were shown alongside Rodin's Pierre de Wissant, nu monumental (1886), one of the six burghers of Calais — both artists «who have embraced fragments of classical antiquity to touch on metaphysical concerns», Robb says.

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).

His early stone sculptures make reference to the architecture of classical antiquity and often include archaeological fragments.

It is also the case that modernist art itself often commented on the problem of the iconic — Giorgio de Chirico famously populated his paintings with the rubble of classical antiquity alongside objects from daily life, in landscapes of depopulated piazzas haunted only by shadows.

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.

Classicism Imitation of the art of classical Antiquity.

I still maintain that the underlying assumptions of sacrifice as practiced in the primitive cults and in the religions of classical antiquity (including the Old Testament) are incurably mythological.

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.

He paints still lifes of classical antiquities, which are depicted against decorative backgrounds.

But this does not mean that they have abandoned the modern world view for that of classical antiquity.

Borghese Gallery (Rome) Contains a significant part of the Borghese collection of Classical Antiquities, paintings, and sculptures, assembled by Cardinal Scipione Borghese, the nephew of Pope Paul V (1605 — 1621).

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.