The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

The remains of Altdorfer's surviving work comprises 55 panels, 120 drawings, 125 woodcuts, 78 engravings, 36 etchings, 24 paintings on parchment, and fragments from a mural for the bathhouse of the Kaiserhof in Regensburg.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Albrecht Altdorfer's painting the Adoration of the Magi ( made ca.

If the raw population figures are crucially relevant, then it is idle to think of liberation, as idle as to suppose that Poland might liberate Russia.

and, though he repeated, over and over again, the spectacular figures of industrial and agricultural production in 1980, the `` ordinary '' people in Russia are still a little uncertain as to how `` communism '' is really going to work in practice, especially in respect of food.

When more than two figures are separated by subtraction symbols the subtraction must be carried out from the left to right if the result is to be correct.

For me, these will belong more completely to their surroundings if they are conceived in this early stage, though I freely admit that I do not hesitate to add or eliminate figures on the full sheet when it serves my final purpose.

Its figures are a half inch high and very easy to read, even into tenth gallons.

For specialized types of displays, such as large three-dimensional units reproducing a product, package, human or animal figures, etc., reinforced plastics and rotationally molded vinyl plastisols are other materials frequently used.

Poster Products Inc., Chicago, Ill.: a changeable copy and display sign which consists of an extruded impact styrene background in choice of colors, onto which are mounted snap-in letters, figures, or words screened on acetate or other types of sheet stock.

The figures in the next-to-last column are derived with the assumption of 50 per cent shielding by the Earth ; ;

These extrapolated fluxes are about an order of magnitude less than the values from the satellite data and the figures in Whipple's table.

In most discussions of this phenomenon, the figures are substantially inflated.

Starting from other value premises than Fromm's, some analysts might conclude that the percentages really tell us very little at all, while others might even conclude that the figures are remarkably low.

The prevailing view in the industry was summed up in 1912 by a group of auto makers who told a Senate committee: `` The exceedingly unsatisfactory and uselessly expensive conditions, including delays surrounding legal disputes, particularly in patent litigation, are items of industrial burden which must be written large in figures of many millions of dollars of industrial waste ''.

These figures indicate that we are losing almost as many as we are receiving into membership.

Moreover, her central figures are so busily fulfilling their multitudinous assignments that none emerges as an arresting individual in his own right or as a provocative symbol of mankind's ills.

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He recorded in his journal: " Fair figures one by one are fading from sight.

There are similarities and differences between such figures in reports about Basilides ' teaching, ancient Gnostic texts, the larger Greco-Roman magical traditions, and modern magical and esoteric writings.

Having due regard to the magic papyri, in which many of the unintelligible names of the Abrasax-stones reappear, besides directions for making and using gems with similar figures and formulas for magical purposes, it can scarcely be doubted that many of these stones are pagan amulets and instruments of magic.

A number of theories have been proposed to explain the two figures, and there are occasional references to them in popular culture.

The reported output from global aquaculture operations would supply one half of the fish and shellfish that is directly consumed by humans ; however, there are issues about the reliability of the reported figures.

However, in Bernini's tomb, the vigorous upraised arm and posture of the pope is counterbalanced by an active drama below, wherein the figures of Charity and Justice are either distracted by putti or lost in contemplation, while skeletal Death actively writes the epitaph.

As a consequence there are four chimney-pieces by Algardi in the Royal Palace of Aranjuez, and in the gardens, the figures on the fountain of Neptune are also by him.

( There are two typographic styles for rendering European numerals, known as lining figures and text figures ).

Films following this route invariably included female figures in light, skimpy draperies, and indeed sometimes wearing nothing at all, doing " expressive " dances or striking plastic poses in sylvan settings.

But insofar as it represents a moral position – and the Coens ' relative styling of their figures invariably does – it's an elitist one, elevating salt-of-the-earth types like Bridges and Goodman ... over everyone else in the movie.

In her book Noël Coward ( 1987 ), Frances Gray says that Brief Encounter is, after the major comedies, the one work of Coward's that almost everybody knows and has probably seen ; it has featured frequently on television and its viewing figures are invariably high.

Although claim and counter-claim are invariably difficult to reconcile, figures released for an official publication, Crónica de la subversión en la Argentina ( Buenos Aires: Ediciones Depalma ) at least give an indication of the kind of guerrilla activity undertaken, with claims the rural guerrillas occupied 52 towns, robbed 166 banks and took US $ 76 million in ransoms for the kidnappings of 185 people.

The subjects are explicit sexual escapades usually featuring well known newspaper comic strip characters, movie stars, and ( rarely ) political figures, invariably used without respect for either copyright or libel law and without permission.

Windschuttle challenges the idea that mass killings were commonplace, arguing that the colonial settlers of Australia did not commit widespread massacres against Indigenous Australians ; he drastically reduces the figures for the Tasmanian Aboriginal death toll, and writes that Aborigines referred to by both Reynolds and Ryan as resistance figures, included ‘ black bushrangers ’ and others engaged in acts normally regarded as ' criminality '; arguing that the evidence clearly shows that attacks by Aborigines on settlers were almost invariably directed at acquiring goods, such as flour, sugar, tea and tobacco, and that claims by orthodox historians that this was a form of guerrilla warfare against British settlement aren't supported by credible evidence.

Paul Robert Magocsi states that Jewish chroniclers of the 17th century " provide invariably inflated figures with respect to the loss of life among the Jewish population of Ukraine.

These treatises invariably begin with an introduction designed to impress the importance and high Islamic credibility of the science, often by an appeal to ' ilmic authority figures of the past ( as in the story of ' Alī and the Kufan preacher ).

This method of origami design was developed by Robert Lang, Meguro Toshiyuki and others, and allows for the creation of extremely complex multi-limbed models such as many-legged centipedes, human figures with a full complement of fingers and toes, and the like.

M. L. West has suggested how Hesiod filled out the complement of Titans from the core group — adding three figures from the archaic tradition of Delphi, Koios, Phoibe, whose name Apollo assumed with the oracle, and Themis.

These magnificent rooms, once furnished to complement the ducal court of the Gonzaga family, saw many of the most illustrious figures of their era entertained such as the Emperor Charles V, who, when visiting in 1530, elevated his host Federico II of Gonzaga from Marquess to Duke of Mantua.

The fully detailed and articulated Bob and Doug action figures are sold separately with a complement of extras, voice chips with signature sound phrases and half a diorama that assembles into a complete custom backdrop ( with plenty o ' suds ) when the figures are put together.

The castle was user-friendly, possessing many settings and functions suitable for the 5 " action figures it was built to complement.

So, in the last couple of years, abstract expressionism has tended toward romantic suggestion -- indications of landscape or living figures.

He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.

Aflaq and al-Arsuzi were key figures in the establishment of the Arab Ba ’ ath ( Renaissance ) Party, and the former was for long its chief ideologist, combining elements of Marxist thought with a nationalism to a considerable extent reminiscent of nineteenth-century European romantic nationalism.

Traditionally, basses in operas had been cast as authority figures such as a king or high priest ; but with the advent of the more fluid baritone voice, the roles allotted by composers to lower male voices expanded in the direction of trusted companions or even romantic leads — normally the province of tenors.

Ronald Inden, a historian of India and University of Chicago professor, criticized Mircea Eliade, alongside other intellectual figures ( Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell among them ), for encouraging a " romantic view " of Hinduism.

Though Hölderlin's hymnic style – dependent as it is on a genuine belief in the divinity – creates a deeply personal fusion of Greek mythic figures and romantic nature mysticism, which can appear both strange and enticing, his shorter and sometimes more fragmentary poems have exerted wide influence too on later German poets, from Georg Trakl onwards.

In his afterword to The Goblins of Labyrinth, Froud wrote that Jareth references " the romantic figures of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and a brooding Rochester from Jane Eyre " and the Scarlet Pimpernel.

The wholesome and romantic coupling of " Frankie and Annette " in summer movies such as Beach Party and Beach Blanket Bingo became iconic figures in American films during that era.

The name of the historical Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon figures prominently in Geoffrey of Monmouth's romantic account of the Historia Regum Britanniae ().

For Kenneth Clark, The Raft of the Medusa " remains the chief example of romantic pathos expressed through the nude ; and that obsession with death, which drove Géricault to frequent mortuary chambers and places of public execution, gives truth to his figures of the dead and the dying.

She is both one of Babylon 5's key religious figures and its key romantic heroine.

The salons attracted countless outstanding nineteenth century figures including the romantic painter Francesco Hayez, composer Giuseppe Verdi and naturalist writers Giovanni Verga, Bruno Sperani and Matilde Serao.

Sharpers were romantic figures in the eighteenth-century, valued as imaginative figures for their perceived social independence and ability to create new social networks of gangs.

Although the " Big Six " male poets remain the principal figures in English romantic literature, some of the best-regarded poets of the time were in fact women.

It contains reminiscences of central figures of the English romantic movement: including Coleridge, Charles Lamb, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and others.

The New World is a 2005 romantic historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, a historical adventure depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith and Pocahontas.

And, certainly, she is one of the figures in the volume who best exemplifies the " romantic " qualities of Wordsworth's first mature lyrics.

The figures of the monks celebrating mass are taken in this subject as a substantive part of the architectural effect, and this is the case with all Granet's works, even with those in which the figure subject would seem to assert its importance, and its historical or romantic interest.

There Southerners were portrayed as noble, heroic figures, living in a romantic and conservative society, who tragically succumbed to an unstoppable, destructive force.

Hurst was one of three grown orphans caught up in a mission to one-up various criminal figures ; Ward-Lealand played romantic interest to one of the other orphans.

At her urging, Arthur figures out that her feet do not touch the ground, leading him to suspect that she also can fly, and to a romantic tryst on the wing of a Heathrow-bound airplane.

One of the most romantic figures in Philippine history and the youngest general in the Revolutionary Army, Gregorio del Pilar was born in San Jose, Bulacan on November 14, 1875.

He figures prominently in the romantic poem, the Miragaia, which tells the apocryphal story of Ramiro bedding Ortega, the daughter of a local Arab lord.