Sentences with phrase «with classical antiquities»

By juxtaposing Mesopotamian cult figures with Classical antiquities and Renaissance paintings, Idol Anxiety examined how objects become idols and offered insight into the sometimes uneasy relationship between people and things.

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.

An insatiable traveler and an artist with a deep fascination with light, topography, and local traditions, as well as with classical antiquity, Turner brought an innovative approach to the depiction of both modern and ancient ports.

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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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites), which lends explanation to this trend.

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.

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.

This black and white video fuses classical antiquity with pop culture, combining wordplay - rich poetry, mythological characters, and contemporary environments.

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.

Morton reviews works from Gérôme's entire career - the early «Néo - Grec» paintings with references to classical antiquity, historical scenes, Orientalist genre paintings, and his late focus on sculpture - to make the case for his spectacular art.

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.

In his work, Young Women and Young Men of Canada, Jones combines photographic portraiture with line drawings taken from classical antiquity to question notions -LSB-...]

Features African culture, Classical Antiquity and German Expressionism, along with modern art in the Ahmanson Building.

The Frans Hals Museum joins the Summer Series Exhibition with a small presentation about classical muses: the singing goddesses who were called upon by artists in antiquity.

The Classical Now, a major exhibition pairing the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities, opens at King's College London on 2 MaClassical Now, a major exhibition pairing the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities, opens at King's College London on 2 Maclassical Greek and Roman antiquities, opens at King's College London on 2 March 2018.

The Classical Now, a major exhibition pairing the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities, is presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de MouginClassical Now, a major exhibition pairing the work of modern and contemporary artists with classical Greek and Roman antiquities, is presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de Mouginclassical Greek and Roman antiquities, is presented in partnership with the award - winning Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM).

His idiom combined «low» art methods (graffiti - like pencil / crayon doodlings; all - over painting technique) with «high» art references to Classical Antiquity (reminiscent of Arte Povera), the Italian Renaissance and French Neoclassicism.

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.

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