Central to this synthesis were common assumptions and institutional frames of reference, including the religious norms found in Christianity, scientific norms found in classical physics, as well as the idea that the depiction of external reality from an objective standpoint was not only possible but desirable.

50 BC, is the first known depiction of the classical zodiac of twelve signs.

The best-known of the classical Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's set of six symphonic poems Má vlast (" My Motherland ") is called Vltava ( or The Moldau ), and is a musical depiction of the river's course through Bohemia.

A third interpretation is that David represents Donatello's effort to create a unique version of the male nude, to exercise artistic license rather than copy the classical models that had thus far been the sources for the depiction of the male nude in Renaissance art.

Rather than merely using the visual examples of works such as those by Pheidias, the iconic sculptor of classical Athens, whose free standing and frieze statuary represent the acme of the classical depiction of the human form in larger-than life bronze or marble, Sicard used literary sources to explain the symbology behind the form.

Lorenzetti ’ s interest in classical antiquity can be seen in Maestà, particularly in the depiction of Charity.

Géricault's compositional structure and depiction of the figures are classical, but the contrasting turbulence of the subject represents a significant change in artistic direction and creates an important bridge between Neoclassical and Romantic styles.

The statue then broke into pieces that floated away, and from within it emerged a smaller kouros statue from the Archaic Period of Greek sculpture, which in turn broke apart to reveal the depiction of man in a sculpture of the classical period, symbolizing the dawn of individuality and extolling human scale, one of the principal themes of the 2004 Olympics.

This is the oldest known depiction of this scene, of which there is no mention in classical literature.

Other Langham family monuments are: Mrs. Mary Langham, d. 1773, in the chancel with a classical urn by Moore ; Sir James, d. 1795, with a long inscription and standing female figure beside an urn ; Lady Langham, d. 1807, with a figure of Faith standing by Bacon Junior ; Marianne, d. 1809, the memorial made in 1810, a simple a draped urn, by Bacon Junior ; Lady Langham, d. 1810, with number of columns and a depiction of the rock of Golgotha ; Sir William, d. 1812, a free-standing monument in the nave of Coade stone, by Bacon Junior.

The unheroic nature of modern dress was seen as a major obstacle in the depiction of contemporary scenes, and the Scottish gentleman-artist and art dealer Gavin Hamilton preferred classical scenes as well as painting some based on his Eastern travels, where his European figures by-passed the problem by wearing Arab dress.

The globe shows a depiction of the night sky as seen from outside the outermost celestial sphere, with low reliefs depicting 41 ( some sources say 42 ) of the 48 classical Greek constellations distinguished by Ptolemy, including ; Aries the ram, Cygnus the swan and Hercules the hero.

** Referring to other Renaissance and classical tropes in the depiction of these people and deities, such as

Foucault took Xenophon's depiction of the relationship between Ischomachus and his wife as a classical expression of the ancient Greek ideology of power, according to which a man's control of his emotions was externally reflected in his control of his wife, his slaves, and his political subordinates.

His Irish was the dialect of Connemara-indeed, he is often accused of an unnecessarily dialectal usage in grammar and orthography even in contexts where realistic depiction of Connemara dialect was not called for-but he was happy to cannibalise other dialects, classical literature and even Scots Gaelic for the sake of linguistic and stylistic enrichment of his own writings.

This series of prints containing images of social roles, allegorical figures, and classical deities begins with " Misero ", a depiction of a beggar leaning on a staff.

This was connected to a devout religiosity that declared depiction of living things in art an immoral rivalry to Allah's creation.

Most people did not consider the depiction of a Brillo Box or a store-bought urinal to be art until Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp ( respectively ) placed them in the context of art ( i. e., the art gallery ), which then provided the association of these objects with the associations that define art.

Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world — it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art.

Resurrection of Christ by Noel Coypel, 1700, using a Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art | hovering depiction of Jesus.

Cerberus featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although the depiction and background surrounding Cerberus often differed across various works by different authors of the era.

The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as having three heads.

Cerberus ' depiction in ancient art is not as definitive as in literature ; the poets and linguists of ancient Greece and Rome mostly agreed on the physical appearance ( with the notable exception in Hesiod's Theogony in which he had 50 heads ).

Tin Machine IIs arrival was marked by a widely publicised and ill-timed conflict over the cover art: after production had begun, the new record label, Victory, deemed the depiction of four ancient nude Kouroi statues, judged by Bowie to be " in exquisite taste ", " a show of wrong, obscene images ", requiring air-brushing and patching to render the figures sexless.

Therefore, Euclid's depiction in works of art is the product of the artist's imagination.

Abstract artists, taking as their examples the impressionists, as well as Paul Cézanne and Edvard Munch, began with the assumption that color and shape, not the depiction of the natural world, formed the essential characteristics of art.

However, these artists also believed that by rejecting the depiction of material objects they helped art move from a materialist to a spiritualist phase of development.

* Marine art, the depiction of the sea in art

Resurrection of Christ by Noel Coypel, 1700, using a Resurrection of Jesus in Christian art | hovering depiction of Jesus.

Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body, with the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished art works.

This new kind of depiction revolutionized the way objects could be visualized in painting and art.

Orientalism is a term used by art historians, literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Middle Eastern, and East Asian cultures ( Eastern cultures ) by American and European writers, designers and artists.

The usual depiction of the spiral unicorn horn in art, derives from these.

The thicket's special status is indicated by its frequent depiction in Egyptian art ; for most events in Egyptian mythology, the backdrop is minimally described or illustrated.

Studying of superficial anatomy is the basis for depiction of human body in classic art.

While mostly known and often quoted for being the oldest colour depiction of the city of Stockholm, Vädersolstavlan ( Swedish ; " The Sundog Painting ", literally " The Weather Sun Painting ") is arguably also one of the oldest known depictions of a sun dog.

It is a popular conception by the public that his tuberculosis was first discovered when he fainted during the Ikedaya Affair, mostly due to the depiction appearing in a famous work chronicling the Shinsengumi as well as a number of period dramas based upon it.

However, if in Cabral's works developed poetic technique mostly serves the depiction of objective reality, in Vinícius it serves the depiction of a deeply felt and highly subjective mood-above all, of sexual love.

The rebuilding plans were mostly the work of Ernst Stahl, who closely followed Merian's depiction and used other historical models where the engraving gave no information.

While mostly used in dialogue, eye dialect may appear in the narrative depiction of altered spelling made by a character ( such as in a letter or diary entry ), generally used to more overtly depict characters who are poorly educated or semi-literate.

Although the story is mostly a serious, insightful depiction of the subject, humor ( mostly subtle ) is present in the writing.

Even though the conception of dog has evolved since Descartes ' perception and depiction of animals as just " mechanical beings ", toward the modern recognition of a more complex nature as argued by the animal rights theory, there is a mostly Western conceptual difference between animals and humans, hence an established hierarchy that means dogs are still considered in some human societies as food, disposable, caged, experimental subjects or used in military warfare such as the mine-dogs ( hundminen ).

Constructed in 1980, the plaza is mostly composed of stone, inlaid with a depiction of parts of Pierre ( Peter ) Charles L ' Enfant's plan for the City of Washington.

His first exhibition consisted mostly of large-format acrylic paintings of imaginary seals and stamps ; he would retain the flatness and limited color range of these works, but would move into the depiction of bodies and cartoon characters, the latter of which led him to be grouped with Pop Art as the 1960s progressed.