Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.

At the age of nine, Brâncuși left the village to work in the nearest large town.

Over the following 20 years, Brâncuși would make 20-some versions of " Bird in Space " out of marble or bronze.

Constantin Brâncuși (; surname sometimes spelled Brâncuș ; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957 ) was a Romanian-born sculptor who made his career in France.

Considered the pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.

Brâncuși grew up in the village of Hobiţa, Gorj, near Târgu Jiu, close to Romania's Carpathian Mountains, an area known for its rich tradition of folk crafts, particularly woodcarving.

His parents Nicolae and Maria Brâncuși were poor peasants who earned a meager living through back-breaking labor ; from the age of seven, Constantin herded the family's flock of sheep.

When he was 18, Brâncuși created a violin by hand with materials he found around his workplace.

In 1903, Brâncuși traveled to Munich, and from there to Paris.

After leaving Rodin's workshop, Brâncuși began developing the revolutionary style for which he is known.

Worldwide fame in 1933 brought him the commission of building a meditation temple in India for Maharajah of Indore, but when Brâncuși went to India in 1937 to complete the plans and begin construction, the Mahrajah was away and lost interest in the project when he returned.

In 1956 Life magazine reported, " Wearing white pajamas and a yellow gnomelike cap, Brâncuși today hobbles about his studio tenderly caring for and communing with the silent host of fish birds, heads, and endless columns which he created.

Brâncuși was cared for in his later years by a Romanian refugee couple.

It is located in the royal palace and features extensive collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, including works by renowned sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, as well as a prominent international collection assembled by the Romanian royal family.

Masculine proper names designating people form the genitive-dative by placing the article lui before the noun: lui Brâncuși ( of / to Brancusi ); the same applies to feminine names only when they don't have a typically feminine ending: lui Carmen.

His sculpture of her, " Princess X " created a scandal in 1919 when he represented her or caricatured her as a large gleaming bronze phallus.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

His arrival must have occurred during the " dark ages " that followed the destruction of the Mycenaean civilization, and his conflict with Gaia ( Mother Earth ) was represented by the legend of his slaying her daughter the serpent Python.

It was even suggested by Jan Długosz that cymbals which were played in procession before her represented some pagan Lithuanian tradition.

Artemis may have been represented as a supporter of Troy because her brother Apollo was the patron god of the city and she herself was widely worshipped in western Anatolia in historical times.

Rosenthal had been her attorney since 1949, when he represented her in her uncontested divorce action against her second husband, songwriter George W. Weidler.

She is represented by a High Commissioner, appointed by her.

In the metaphysics of the " New Age Prophetess ", Alice Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the " third ray " of " creative intelligence " is represented by the color green.

For young Scarlett, the ideal southern belle is represented by her mother, Ellen O ' Hara.

In the Elsinore churchyard, two " clowns ", typically represented as " gravediggers ," enter to prepare Ophelia's grave, and although the coroner has ruled her death accidental so that she may receive Christian burial, they argue that it was a case of suicide.

Since Brighid represented the light half of the year, and the power that will bring people from the dark season of winter into spring, her presence was very important at this time of year.

* The " New Age Prophetess ", Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical psychological types, the " second ray " of " Love-Wisdom " is represented by the color indigo.

In 1988, Judit and her sisters along with Ildikó Mádl, represented Hungary in the Women's section of the 28th Chess Olympiad in Thessaloniki.

Also in 1990, Judit and her sisters represented Hungary on the Olympic women's team winning the gold medal.

She represented the United States during her foreign trips, which tended to focus on HIV / AIDS and malaria awareness.

Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.

Python, daughter ( or son ) of Gaia was the earth dragon of Delphi represented as a serpent and became the chthonic deity, enemy of Apollo, who slew her and possessed the oracle.

If the court satisfies itself that the defendant fully acknowledges the consequences of the plea agreement, and he / she was represented by the defense council, his / her will is expressed in full compliance with the legislative requirements without deception and coercion, also if there is enough body of doubtless evidence for the conviction and the agreement is reached on legitimate sentence-the court approves the plea agreement and renders guilty judgment.

In the Eleusinian mysteries her return is the symbol of immortality and hence she was frequently represented on sarcophagi.

The cult center of Mycenea dated from the 13th century BC, contained numerous big idols with faces painted in a terrifying mask-like manner, and a fresco represented a priestess or goddess with ears of corn in her hand.

Close stands the House of Frescoes, and the fresco in the main room represented a priestess or goddess with ears of corn in her hand.

The Queen, who was favourable, Margaret Thatcher, who undertook to do everything that our Parliament asked of her, and Jean Wadds, who represented the interests of Canada so well in London ...

Airless and dingy though it was, the attic represented luxury to a slave who had led a wretched life with six brothers and sisters and assorted relatives in a shanty at Bayou St. John.

The hero, who is himself, is represented as a pilgrim in the storied lands of the East, a sort of Faustus type, who, to quote from Professor Book again, `` even in the pleasure gardens of Sardanapalus can not cease from his painful search after the meaning of life.

Oersted's boyhood represented a minimal chance of either attaining greatness or serving his people so well and over so long a span of life.

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

An oracle in hexameter verse represented a pastoral life as his only retreat, but his disciples, perhaps calming his fears by a metaphorical interpretation, compelled him to resume his instructions.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

Jefferson's music is uninhibited and represented the classic sounds of everyday life from a honky-tonk to a country picnic to street corner blues to work in the burgeoning oil fields, a reflection too of his interest in mechanical things.

" 19: 7-8 Christ is represented throughout Revelation as “ the Lamb ,” symbolizing the giving of his life as an atoning sacrifice for the people of the world, just as lambs were sacrificed on the altar for the sins of Israel.

* Spirit represented things not of our everyday life.

Originally, however, the Egyptians believed that only the pharaoh had a ba, and only he could become one with the gods ; dead commoners passed into a dark, bleak realm that represented the opposite of life.

Isaacs however claimed that ' Freud's " hallucinatory wish-fulfilment " and his .." introjection " and " projection " are the basis of the fantasy life '; and how far unconscious fantasy was a genuine development of Freud's ideas, how far it represented the formation of a new psychoanalytic paradigm, is perhaps the key question of the Controversial discussions.

" According to Allmusic, " Moon, with his manic, lunatic side, and his life of excessive drinking, partying, and other indulgences, probably represented the youthful, zany side of rock & roll, as well as its self-destructive side, better than anyone else on the planet.

It was the easy access to fresh water on the island and the rich food source represented by the ocean life sheltered by the reef that made it feasible for the Amerindians to settle this area around 600 BC.

If they led a life in conformance with the precepts of the goddess Ma ' at, who represented truth and right living, the person was welcomed into the kingdom of Osiris.

In the Homeric hymn the ritual is connected with the myth of the agricultural god Triptolemos The high point of the celebration was " an ear of corn cut in silence ", which represented the force of the new life.

Pteranodon species are extremely well represented in the fossil record, allowing for detailed descriptions of their anatomy and analysis of their life history.

In most Zelda games, the player's life meter is represented as a line of hearts.

Occasionally she is represented as a kite flying above the body of Osiris or with the dead Osiris across her lap as she worked her magic to bring him back to life.

The historic version had root in morality lessons, where a player's progression up the board represented a life journey complicated by virtues ( ladders ) and vices ( snakes ).

A more common argument is represented by Reverend John F. MacArthur, who claims that the genetic mutations necessary to produce a tapeworm from an amoeba are as unlikely as a monkey typing Hamlet's soliloquy, and hence the odds against the evolution of all life are impossible to overcome.

The five life zones represented are the Lower Sonoran, Upper Sonoran, Transition, Canadian, and Hudsonian.

Originally, the clock analogy represented the threat of global nuclear war ; however, since 2007 it has also reflected climate-changing technologies and " new developments in the life sciences that could inflict irrevocable harm.

As well, his life was represented in a theatrical dance production by Stephan Mazurek called Egon Schiele, presented in May 1995, for which Rachel's, an American post-rock group, composed a score titled Music for Egon Schiele.

Some hold that the priests were the ones to reveal the visions of the holy night, consisting of a fire that represented the possibility of life after death, and various sacred objects.