Sentences with phrase «stone carving in»

Following on from his recent exhibition, A blow - by - blow account of stone carving in Oxford, Sean Lynch will lead a walking tour starting at The Hugh Lane.

Sean Lynch: A blow - by - blow account of stone carving in Oxford

A blow - by - blow account of stone carving in Oxford is an installation by Sean Lynch exploring the work of nineteenth century stone carvers John and James O'Shea, whose naturalistic renditions of animals and plants are still visible in locations in Dublin and Oxford.

A blow - by - blow account of stone carving in Oxford is curated by Michael Dempsey and Logan Sisley in collaboration with Paul Luckraft, Modern Art Oxford, where the project will be presented in early 2014.

From an artisan working class tradition, the O'Sheas completed a series of notable stone carvings in 1850s Dublin before relocating to Oxford to work on the new Museum of Natural History.

Ancient stone carvings in modern - day Turkey appear to depict a comet strike that caused a period of climate change.

Stone carvings in what is now Turkey appear to depict a comet crashing at the same time Earth rolled into a 1,000 - year cooling period known as Younger - Dryas, a study in the journal Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry found.

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But before you ladle out the eggnog, remember this is your last chance to take action before your 2010 tax liability is carved in stone.

It's carved in stone, literally, at the company's headquarters building in Raleigh, North Carolina.

You get a sense that this isn't your typical agency following marketing plans originally carved in stone tablets.

Leases, vendor contracts, bank loans — entrepreneurs are finding that in this economy, nothing is carved in stone.

Long ago, on the forecourt of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, the Seven Sages were said to have carved two words into a stone: Know Thyself.

And yes, it depictions are renowned in statues, paintings, carvings and stone work.

Other key exhibits include medieval stone carvings, chess pieces and gold coins which tell the story of the rise and dramatic fall of the first Cistercian abbey in the north of England.

A stereotype is a type or image that is unchangeable, as though carved in stone (from the Greek stereos, meaning solid).

And it's the most famous surname in Italy, carved in stone across the front of St Peter's, built in the reign of a Pope from the Borghese family.

They had learned to write in hieroglyphic form, and there existed at the time of the conquest a vast body of writing, as well as stone carvings, but it was almost entirely destroyed.

Faith is not immutable, not carved in stone.

Interesting, then, that the Tall Halaf site near the southern border of Turkey in Syria features among its relics a stone tablet in which is carved the picture of a camel with a rider atop.

@end religion So are you also saying that Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and Persians never believed in any gods, because it was written down / carved into stone by others?

He just lives in 2000 year old words where he talked through burning bushes, parts seas, carves stone tablets with commandments on them, creates mules with wings that people can fly to heaven, feeds thousands with one fish and one loaf of bread.

Two dates carved in stone above his grave tell us he was seventeen, not how this soldier died, nor whether he was brave or terrified, or both.

Jonathan Ned Katz, a historian of sexuality on the radical left who has previously taught at both Yale and New York University, nicely captures the contemporary queer - theory consensus in The Invention of Heterosexuality, where he explains, «I speak of heterosexuality's historical invention to contest head - on our usual assumption of an eternal heterosexuality, to suggest the unstable, relative, and historical status of an idea and a sexuality we usually assume were carved long ago in stone.»

That future is not carved in stone.

The Babylonians did not, like the Egyptians, have at hand durable material in the form of stone upon which to carve their inscriptions.

The artist or engineer does not simply respond or record, but creates; yet to be successful that creation must respect «the grain in the stone» from which a statue is carved or the malleability of steel from which a bridge is built, the acoustic environment of the concert ball or the natural environment of a highway right - of - way.

The monuments consist of five carved stone crosses (known as St. Thomas crosses), which have been discovered in South India, the first at St. Thomas Mount near Madras and others at Kottayam and some other places in Kerala.

The reason the Mayan calendar ends in 2012 is because they ran out out of room on the stone that their calendar was carved into, period.

Our future is not set in concrete or carved in stone.

The tortilla - making method begins by cooking whole corn kernels in lime and water for up to 10 hours and then using hand - carved lava stones to grind the cooked corn into fresh masa.

However, the other three starting positions, shooting guard, small forward and power forward, seem to be carved in stone as well.

the draft charts are not carved in stone..

From color exploration and pentatonic flute in Grade 1 to stone carving and stained glass making in Grade 11, the fine and practical arts play a vital and vibrant role in the curriculum and the community and are required throughout a student's time at the school.

When she moved from daycare to pre-school, the friends she had been collecting, whose names were carved into the stone of her daily routine, passing every milestone — from diaper to pull - up, trike to scooter, tummy - time to time - ins were unceremoniously replaced with new ones.

A parenting plan should not be carved in stone.

Although it is true that this is not what the research currently says, nothing is carved in stone.

Visitors can talk with volunteers about activities such as giving tours to schoolchildren and other visitors; making floral arrangements and gardening; touring new exhibits; learning the opportunities for dressing up in costume to demonstrate 19th Century exhibits; or plying a hobby such as blacksmithing, printing or stone carving.

«It's not carved in stone.

They were carved from local stone, designed to be seen under the brilliantly sharp Attic light — not to be displayed in a gloomy gallery in London.

The party's election campaign vice chair was asked about the move to carve Labour promises in stone as she appeared on 5Live.

According to The Observer, the 8ft 6in - high limestone structure is intended to underline Ed's commitment to keep his promises by having them literally «carved in stone» and visible from the offices inside No 10.

There were some mis - steps - his unveiling of a stone with six pledges carved in attracted mockery, even from sympathetic newspapers.

Considering its small area, La Corona's population center contains a surprising amount of writing on carved stones, said epigrapher Simon Martin of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.

Working in the murk of a river in Florida, the team found stone tools dating back 14,550 years that could have been used to carve up ancient elephant - like beasts called mastodons, whose remains have been recovered from the same site.

It is now clear that Omar Khan Massoudi, director of Kabul» sNational Museum, and a few other Afghans risked their lives to protect the artifacts from the Taliban, who were intent on destroying images — and who, in 2001, succeeded in blowing up the famed Bamiyan Buddhas, towering stone sculptures carved into the mountainside by monks about 1,500 years ago.

The village church where Strickland is buried has images of turkeys depicted in stained - glass windows, a carved lectern and even stone sculptures on the walls.

High officials in the palace possessed finely carved stone cylinders that they rolled over gobs of clay to seal doors, containers and documents [see illustration on next page].

Headless human and animal symbols carved into stone in Turkey tell the story of a devastating comet impact that triggered a mini ice age more than 13,000 years ago

Based on results like these, Begley holds out hope that our emotional lives and personalities, far from being carved in stone by our genes and early experiences, will prove as sculptable through mental training as our bodies are through physical training.

The theoretical view of the structure of the atom nucleus is not carved in stone.