According to Islam, human works of art are inherently flawed compared to the work of God ; thus, it is believed by many that attempting to realistically depict the form of an animal or person is insolence to God.

In his later works, Altdorfer moved more towards mannerism and began to depict the human form to the conformity of the Italian model, as well as dominate the picture with frank colors.

Many works of art depict Saint Anthony meeting with this centaur and satyr.

In Christian iconography, some works of art depict women with their breasts in their hands or on a platter, signifying that they died as a martyr by having their breasts severed ; one example of this is Saint Agatha of Sicily.

Almost all works of art depict the three goddesses nude and bare-breasted, but covering their genitals, although some bolder artists show their female parts.

Popular works that depict John beyond the Robin Hood legends, such as James Goldman's play and later film, The Lion in Winter, set in 1183, commonly present him as an " effete weakling ", in this instance contrasted with the more masculine Henry II.

The works include Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini's Calvarys, which reflect realism and detail " meant to depict the significant events of a greater spiritual world ".

In these " Ceci n ' est pas " works, Magritte points out that no matter how naturalistically we depict an object, we never do catch the item itself.

Reliefs from his reign, and subsequent reigns, depict siege towers in use with a number of other siege works, including ramps and battering rams.

Some classical works depict young satyrs being tended to by older, sober satyrs, while there are also some representations of child satyrs taking part in Bacchanalian / Dionysian rituals ( including drinking alcohol, playing musical instruments, and dancing ).

Some works depict female satyrs with their children ; others describe the child satyrs as playing an active role in the events, including one instance of a painting by Jean Raoux ( 1677 – 1735 ).

Many of his works depict sin and human moral failings.

Vases and other works of relief sculpture, from the 4th, 5th and 6th centuries BC, depict Triptolemus holding an ear of corn, sitting on a winged throne or chariot, surrounded by Persephone and Demeter with pine torches.

Some writings and works of art promoting a political, nationalist or revolutionary cause use an anachronism to depict an institution or custom as being more ancient than it actually is.

After befriending Marcel Duchamp, who was interested in showing movement in static paintings, his works began to depict movement of the figures.

A superb draftsman, he is especially identified with the subject of dance, and over half of his works depict dancers.

Both works depict the relative scale of the Universe according to an order of magnitude ( or logarithmic scale ) based on a factor of ten, first expanding out from the Earth until the entire universe is surveyed, then reducing inward until a single atom and its quarks are observed.

( Many artistic works, such as advertisements and cartoons, depict kindly " papa bears " when this is the exact opposite of reality.

Their opponents depict them as a cartel who wield and abuse monopoly power over the market for access to works of authorship.

He was Master of Farnham Art School from 1889 to 1927 and many of his works depict landscapes of the Farnham area.

" A specific aspect of this focus on experience is sexual experimentation — Călinescu notes that Eliade's fiction works tend to depict a male figure " possessing all practicable women in given family ".

These works examine the capacity of language to depict reality ; they include the experimental novels The Visit ( Besøget, 1963 ) and Additions ( Tilføjelser, 1967 ), the " unnovel " Pictures of Lust ( Lystbilleder, 1964 ), and the collection of short stories Eight Times Orphan ( Otte gange orphan, 1965 ).

Though his pieces sometimes include landscapes or figures of Mexican history and mythology, these elements often appear as mere accessories to the story of a revolutionary hero or heroes ( several works depict the revolutionary " masses ", such as the mural at Chapultepec ).

Her works, especially Middlemarch 1871-2 ), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail combined with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict.

The glazing method also works exceptionally well in watercolor portraiture, allowing the artist to depict complex flesh tones effectively.

The rationalistic method pursued by the new school of Maimonists ( including Levi ben Abraham ben Chayyim of Villefranche, near the town of Perpignan, and Jacob Anatolio ) especially provoked his indignation ; for the sermons preached and the works published by them seemed to resolve the entire Scriptures into allegory and threatened to undermine the Jewish faith and the observance of the Law and tradition.

Though he quotes Saadia Gaon's works frequently, he belongs not to the rationalistic school of the Mu ' tazili that Saadia followed but, like his somewhat younger contemporary Solomon ibn Gabirol ( 1021 – 1070 ), is an adherent of Neoplatonic mysticism.

bar-Hiyya's philosophical works, are (" Meditation of the Soul "), an ethical work written from a rationalistic religious viewpoint, and an apologetic epistle addressed to Judah ben Barzilai al-Barzeloni.

It is thought that Saadia closely followed the rules of the Mutazilites-the rationalistic dogmatists of Islam-in the structure of the work, as well as, in part, basing his thesis and arguments on their works.

Although Wang's rationalistic philosophy and criticism of so-called New Text Confucianism were largely ignored during his lifetime, the prominent official and later scholar Cai Yong ( 132 – 192 ) wrote of his admiration for Wang's written works.

He was a rationalist, conveying the works of Maimonides and his approach to rationalistic Judaism.

The outlook and values of this time and place ( in his own words, " The Bible Belt ") had a definite influence on his fiction, especially his later works, as he drew heavily upon his childhood in establishing the setting and cultural atmosphere in works like Time Enough for Love and To Sail Beyond the Sunset.

Heidegger's later works, after the Second World War, seem to many commentators ( e. g. William J. Richardson ) to at least reflect a shift of focus, if not indeed a major change in his philosophical outlook.

Their works and outlook deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.

An internationalist outlook of permanent revolution is found in the works of Karl Marx.

Today, the works in the genre of lives of the saints represent a valuable historical source and reflection of different social ideas, world outlook and aesthetic concepts of the past.

The book of laws, the Manusmriti, and the treatise on statecraft the Arthashastra were among the influential works of this era which reflect the outlook and understanding of the world at the time.

Marshall, Morgan, and Scott published her works on subjects related to her prophetic outlook, which took its character from John Darby's perspectives.

His library reflected his intellectual outlook, including works on English history, law, numismatics, chorography, alchemy, astrology, astronomy, and botany.

It can be seen that this had a serious impact on his outlook and literary works.

He, in accordance with his more pacifist outlook, works only as a bookkeeper for the Shinsengumi.

The maxim of liberal conservatism, according to scholar Andrew Vincent, is " economics is prior to politics ", while others emphasize elements such as the openness of historical progress and a suspicion of tyrannical majorities behind the hailing of individual liberties and traditional virtues by authors such as Tocqueville and Burke and as the basis of current liberal conservatism as seen both in the works of Raymond Aron and Michael Oakeshott and the ideological outlook of right-of-center parties.

In his chief work, The Temple In Man ( 1949 ), he proposes, and argues in great detail, for an interpretation of the Egyptian outlook rooted in numerology and sacred geometry ; in several of his other works, he makes a corresponding case for the metaphysical richness of various mathematical concepts.

For 14th century works and authors that are still medieval in outlook ( practically all non Italians ) see Medieval Latin

As the titles of some of his works indicate, much of Davidson's verse is religious and spiritual in outlook and subject matter.

The use of the printing press ( aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors ; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon ), the development of humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery ( through the wars in Italy and through Henry II ’ s marriage with Catherine de ' Medici ) of the cultivated refinement of the Italian courts ( Baldassare Castiglione ’ s book The Courtier was also particularly important in this respect ) would profoundly modify the French literary landscape and the mental outlook ( or “ mentalité ”) of the period.

He claimed to be influenced by the works of Byron, Emerson and Carlyle ; his wife's Christianity also greatly influenced his outlook.