Sentences with phrase «through eighteenth centuries»

A major strength of the museum lies in its collection of paintings by European artists from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

During the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, a variety of toy spaniel breeds were very popular in the Courts of Europe.

The background assumptions that had given some plausibility to Christian affirmations about God through the eighteenth century were gone so far as the intelligentsia was concerned.

Down through the eighteenth century, the question of God's reality was assumed to be a metaphysical one.

From the sixteenth through the eighteenth century, philosophy and science developed in close connection.

So long as the culture sustained — as it did on the whole through the eighteenth century — a conception of «general education» for all learned men, prospective ministers were exposed to the same basic training as others.

Release Date: Mar 3, 2009 Genre: Real Time Strategy, Turn - Based Strategy Theme: Historical Rating: T for Teen Game Modes: Single player, multiplayer Series: Total War In Empire Total War players command factions through the eighteenth century Age of Enlightenment as they attempt to conquer the globe.

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The dominant interpretation, derived from Franco - German scholarship of the nineteenth century, emphasized material aspects: political contest and domination in the Near East; the social structures of the Levantine crusader principalities viewed, especially by Francophone scholars, through the lens of modern colonialism; cultural confrontation and exchange through settlement and trade, a topos made familiar by eighteenth - century Enlightenment writers seeking to integrate the Crusades into a narrative of European progress; military adventurism that exposed the mentality of crusaders — heroic, passionate, devout, or misguided according to taste.

Inspired by the success of physics, eighteenth - century thinkers became convinced that the mysteries of nature could be fully grasped through careful research.

Through the shadows of such a ghastly phantasm listen to the words of Joseph Priestly, a clergyman, chemist, and liberal reformer, writing on the glories of modern technology from his vantage of the eighteenth century:

This vigor of a church unhampered by the close even though friendly control by the state has parallels in the enormous spread of Christianity through the Church in the Roman Empire before Constantine, in the vitality of the Church in Western Europe during the Middle Ages, and in the phenomenal expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from churches which were either independent of the state or were less trammeled by it than had been most of the churches of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Dale Van Kley's new book, The Religious Origins of the French Revolution, seeks to revive a sort of Whiggish interpretation of the French Revolution as the struggle for freedom against sacral monarchy, with much of the ideological discourse of the revolutionaries deriving from little expected religious controversies» beginning with the rise and fall of Calvinism in Catholic France, continuing through the struggles over theological Jansenism, and ending in the political struggles of the French high courts of justice, the parlements, with the administrative monarchy of the eighteenth century.

In the eighteenth century the picture that one understands God through love as a feeling state deeply shaped the early Methodist movement through John Wesley's experience of a heart «strangely warmed.»

The ruling house in Eastern Sudan from the tenth through the twelfth century (sixteenth - eighteenth century AD.)

Meanwhile, from early in the eighteenth century, specifically theological training was commonly acquired through study under the supervision of established clergymen, either parish ministers or ministerial professors.

Nor is that to say anything of the Francophone or German republican traditions through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, in which theorists as different as Fichte and Tocqueville can be located, or of the forms (anti--RRB- colonial republicanism took outside the eastern seaboard of North America.

In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century women wore very voluminous dresses so this «bag» was invisibly worn under the garmet and could be reached through a slit in the side of her skirt.

In the early eighteenth century it was Spanish traders en route to Los Angeles who wanted a way that would pass through the unexplored Valley known as the «Jornado de Muerta» or Journey of Death.

A modern - minded but thoroughly researched romp through eighteenth - century society, politics, and same - sex relationships.

As a writer, I wanted to see the cover of the book sport a fully realized airship, an eighteenth - century caravel soaring through the skies.

PUSH NOT THE RIVER is based on the true eighteenth century diary of Anna Maria Berezowska, a Polish countess who lived through the rise and fall of the historic Third of May Constitution.

Like Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli did with his Museum that, already open to the general public in Milan in 1881, is one of the most important museum houses in Europe, a good example of one of the finest 19th century collections: from the fifteenth - century Lombardy maestros (Luini, Boltraffio, Solario) to masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and Cosmè Tura through to eighteenth - century paintings (Guardi and Canaletto) and exceptional collections of decorative arts.

Described by eighteenth - century European Romanticists as the «wildest daughter of Father Rhine», the Ahr River, set in a deep gorge, winds its way through an ever - changing landscape of rolling green hills, rocky promontories, wildflower meadows and stout forests.

: Catalogue of the Exhibition, provides a thorough representation of Russian art from the twelfth century to today — including pieces from the world - class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Fictional or imaginary studios, a popular subject beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, include canvases by James Ensor, Jacek Malczewski, and Diego Rivera; while emphasis on artist's materials can be traced from eighteenth century works by Jean - Baptiste Siméon Chardin; to nineteenth century works by Carl Gustav Carus and Adolph von Menzel; through postwar American artists Jim Dine, Philip Guston, and Jasper Johns.

That was the challenge undertaken this summer by the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where its curatorial team, which includes a trio of experts in eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty - first century art, collaborated to rethink the themes and layouts of the galleries through 1950.

References to Francisco Goya's late eighteenth century print They've Already Got a Seat (from the Los Caprichos series) appear through choices in costuming, notably in the upside - down chair affixed directly to Martins's head, and Joseph Beuys is evoked through the props of a felt blanket, wooden cane, and taxidermied animal.

Originally inspired by an eighteenth - century silk needlepoint by Prudence Punderson entitled The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality (1776 - 83, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford), «Pilgrim» is a cyclical journey which alludes to various aspects of a person's life, presented through the images of women.

The three works selected for Soundtracks are Sphere Packing: Mozart (2014; white polymer, 565 audio channels), Sphere Packing: Wagner (2013; glazed porcelain, 110 audio channels), and Sphere Packing: Cage (2014; plastic, 269 audio channels)-- an abridged walk through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.2 The series as a whole, featuring seventeen composers, constitutes nothing less than a broad history of classical music, with surprising insights in terms of productivity, ranging from seventeen compositions (by Claudio Monteverdi) to 1,128 (by Johann Sebastian Bach).

Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.

I have a predilection for eighteenth - century through Modernist art: Images from this era often get as much love as that felicitous whore Polke.

Since the eighteenth century the hand has been repressed and disciplined through a series of technologies such as the chastity belt, the invention of hysteria, the orgasm as illness, electric shocks and other appliances that prevented the hand to touch one's own body.

Since the eighteenth century the hand has been repressed and disciplined through a series of technologies such as the chastity...

Among the things we see are sculptures by Donatello, Canova, Gérome, Klinger, Rodin, Degas, Magritte, and Hans Bellmer; a fourteenth - century Italian reliquary bust; German religious sculpture from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, and Spanish from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries; an eighteenth - century wax bust of a monk, hair, beard, cowl, and all; and chryselephantine busts from nineteenth - century France.

His canvases are populated with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as Salle's own black - and - white photographs, eighteenth - through twentieth - century French and American painting, 1950s print advertising and how - to - draw manuals.

Previously published work on the Saltillo Sarape has primarily concentrated on those textiles classified as Classic, that is to say, weavings produced from the eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries.

This exhibition explores colonial settlement in Australia through a stunning selection of late eighteenth and nineteenth century works on paper.

A small collection of bitcoin enthusiasts met in New York yesterday to drag the high - tech virtual currency back into the eighteenth century through face - to - face trading.

As rapid manufacturing advances swept through the eighteenth and nineteenth century, every invention was greeted with hostility from labor.