He was born in Perpignan, in the province of Roussillon, which at that time belonged to Aragon, and died during a hunt in forests near Foixà by a fall from his horse, like his namesake, cousin, and contemporary, John I of Castile.

The Novgorod cathedral also differs strikingly from its namesake and contemporary in Kiev.

Arbuthnot must not be confused with his contemporary and namesake, the Edinburgh printer, who produced the first edition of George Buchanan's History of Scotland in 1582.

Others, less consciously but quite probably influenced by the trends of the times, experiment with approaches that parallel those of the contemporary poet, painter, and musician.

The contemporary painter tends to depict not the concrete objects of his experience but their essences as revealed in abstractions of their lines, colors, masses, and energies.

Set in contemporary West Berlin ( at the time still enclosed by the Berlin Wall ), Wings of Desire follows two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, as they roam the city, unseen and unheard by its human inhabitants, observing and listening to the diverse thoughts of Berliners: a pregnant woman in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, a painter struggling to find inspiration, a broken man who thinks his girlfriend no longer loves him.

Two major commissions at this period resulted in Poussin's early masterwork, the Barberini Death of Germanicus ( 1628 ), partly inspired by the reliefs of the Meleager sarcophagus, and the commission for St. Peter's that amounted to a public debut, the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus ( 1629, Vatican Pinacoteca ), indebted to designs on the same subject by the contemporary Baroque painter, Pietro da Cortona.

She adds that beginning the assignment was an " extraordinary risk " for Chagall, as he had finally become well known as a leading contemporary painter, but would now end his modernist themes and delve into " an ancient past ".

In his early thirties, he changed course, and by bringing the traditional methods of a history painter to bear on contemporary subject matter, he became a classical painter of modern life.

William Dobson ( 24 February 1611 ( baptised ) – 28 October 1646 ( buried )) was a portraitist and one of the first notable English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as " the most excellent painter that England has yet bred ".

The image was praised by contemporary critics and would found Turner's reputation, both as an oil painter and as a painter of maritime scenes.

An apotheosis of the work has been effected since its creation ; Luca Giordano, a contemporary Italian painter, referred to it as the " theology of painting ", and in the eighteenth century the Englishman Thomas Lawrence cited it as the " philosophy of art ", so decidedly capable of producing its desired effect.

He was our first major painter to accept completely the realities of contemporary urban America, and from them to create powerful, profound art ... In portraiture alone Eakins was the strongest American painter since Copley, with equal substance and power, and added penetration, depth, and subtlety.

The latter is a satire on contemporary follies, such as the masquerades of the Swiss impresario John James Heidegger, the popular Italian opera singers, John Rich's pantomimes at Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the exaggerated popularity of Lord Burlington's protégé, the architect and painter William Kent.

* Rudi Pillen, Belgian contemporary painter.

Established by the Austrian government in 1980, following the painter ’ s death, the Kokoschka Prize is awarded to a contemporary artist every two years.

Blake often refers to the British poet, painter and printmaker William Blake ( 1757 – 1827 ) or to the contemporary figurative artist Blake ( sculptor ).

Marcelle Ferron, ( January 29, 1924 – November 19, 2001 ), a Québécoise painter and stained glass artist, was a major figure in the Quebec contemporary art scene.

Mengs had a well-known rivalry with the contemporary Italian painter Pompeo Batoni.

Albert Namatjira is perhaps Australia's best known Aboriginal painter, with his work forming one of the foundations of contemporary Indigenous Australian art.

Breitner's role as contemporary historical painter was finished.

The Foundation for the Advancement of Art, founded by painter Michael Newberry, has as its stated purpose " to establish innovative representational painting and sculpture as the alternative to postmodern art in the world's leading contemporary art museums.

Although heavily indebted to contemporary masters of manuscript illumination, Campin displayed greater powers of realistic observation than any other painter before him.

* Michele van de Roer, contemporary French artist, painter, designer, and engraver

* Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas ( 1906 – 1994 ), Greek contemporary painter and sculptor

`` There was always and at all times a contemporary music and it expresses the era in which it was created.

A credulousness, a distaste for documentation, an uncritical reliance on contemporary accounts, and a proneness to assume a theory as true before adequate proof was provided were all evidences of his failure to comprehend the use of the scientific method or to evaluate the responsibilities of the historian to his reading public.

most important to Patchen, he was a non-literary hero, and very contemporary.

The fins of a Caddy were sticking out of the garage, while the inside of the house was a comfortable mixture of old and expensive contemporary furniture.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

I went to a retrospective of his work when I was eighteen, and I thought he was a contemporary of Cezanne's ''.

He was inspired by several others ( including Honoré Blanc ), or at least by the contemporary zeitgeist that was building around such ideas.

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

Her second husband, Pere Milà, was a developer who was criticized for his flamboyant lifestyle and ridiculed by the contemporary residents of Barcelona, when they joked about his love of money and opulence, wondering if he was not rather more interested in " the widow ’ s guardiola " ( piggy bank ), than in " Guardiola ’ s widow ".

It was not a Turing complete computer, which distinguishes it from more general machines, like contemporary Konrad Zuse's Z3 ( 1941 ), or later machines like the 1946 ENIAC, 1949 EDVAC, the University of Manchester designs, or Alan Turing's post-War designs at NPL and elsewhere.

" Amazing Grace " was one of many hymns that punctuated fervent sermons, although the contemporary style used a refrain, borrowed from other hymns, that employed simplicity and repetition such as:

In the sense that most modern languages are " algol-like ", it was arguably the most successful of the four high level programming languages with which it was roughly contemporary, Fortran, Lisp, and COBOL.

But Leotychidas was ultimately set aside as illegitimate, contemporary rumors representing him as the son of Alcibiades, and Agesilaus became king around 401 BC, at the age of about forty.

As Sargon extended his conquest from the " Lower Sea " ( Persian Gulf ), to the " Upper Sea " ( Mediterranean ), it was felt that he ruled " the totality of the lands under heaven ", or " from sunrise to sunset ", as contemporary texts put it.

He was an older contemporary and an alleged lover of Sappho, with whom he may have exchanged poems.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

He was a younger contemporary of Phidias and noted for the delicacy and finish of his works, among which a Hephaestus and an Aphrodite " of the Gardens " were conspicuous.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

The casino was a showcase for the Pamphili collection of sculpture, ancient and contemporary, on which Algardi was well able to advise.