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In the latter painting on silk ( image and description provided in the link ), bald-headed Buddhist Luohan are depicted in a practical setting of washing clothes by a river.
His less practical and more metaphysical Idea del tempio della pittura (" The ideal temple of painting ", Milan, 1590 ) offers a description along the lines of the " four temperaments " theory of the human nature and personality, containing the explanations of the role of individuality in judgment and artistic invention.
* Illustration and description of Severini's painting.
He believed that colour could be used in a painting as something autonomous, apart from the visual description of an object or other form.
De la Beche had been inspired to create the painting by a vivid description of the food chain of the Lias by William Buckland that was based on analysis of coprolites.
Like Debussy, Ravel categorically refused this description of “ impressionist ” which he believed was reserved exclusively for painting.
A description of an ancient painting by Philostratus ( Imagines ii.
Another picture in the same collection appears to be a replica of his painting of the " Allegory of Calumny ", as suggested by Lucian's description of a celebrated work by Apelles ; the satire in the original painting, directed against some of his courtier enemies, was the immediate cause of Zuccari's temporary exile from Rome.
According to the catalogue description from the 2010 sale of the painting at Sotheby's, seven nudes were exhibited in the 1917 show.
Francesco Sansovino described such a procession in minute detail in 1581, and his verbal description is confirmed and complemented by Cesare Vecellio's 1586 painting of a ducal procession in the Piazza San Marco.
Lucian's description of the painting is the main source of visual representation of Ogmios.
Each painting will depict a specific event, person or military group with an in-depth description of what the painting represents.
The Vatican's written description of the diorama said, " The scene for this year's Nativity recalls the painting style of the Flemish School of the 1500s.
" In the Renaissance the exemplar of the poetic painting which was invariably cited whenever the art-poetry question was discussed was the Calumny of Apelles, known through Lucian's description.
Coming on the heels of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the novel, widely studied in American schools, includes an elaborate description of incestuous rape and explores the conventions of beauty established by a historically racist society, painting a portrait of a self-immolating black family in search of beauty in whiteness.
More concerned with psychology than description, he labelled the work " more the expression of feeling than painting ".
MacDonald-Wright and Russell developed Synchromism around this time, seeking to free painting from a literal description of the world, and believing that painting was a practice akin to music.
The size of the work and its description can be used to identify earlier references to the painting.
One example of Pope's style and satire shows in his description of sinking in painting.
In Ibsen's 1888 work The Lady from the Sea, the first act begins with the description of a painting of a mermaid dying on the shore and is followed by a description of a sculpture that depicts a woman having a nightmare of an ex-lover returning to her.

description and Greek
The word Christ ( or similar spellings ) appears in English and most European language, owing to the Greek usage of Christós ( transcribed in Latin as Christus ) in the New Testament as a description for Jesus.
It concerns itself primarily with a morphological description of Greek, lacking any treatment of syntax.
Greek fire continued to be mentioned during the 12th century, and Anna Komnene gives a vivid description of its use in a naval battle against the Pisans in 1099.
* Rinascimento virtuale a project for the census, description, study and digital reproduction of Greek palimpsests
The most extensive account of the Isis-Osiris story known today is Plutarch's Greek description written in the 1st century CE, usually known under its Latin title De Iside et Osiride.
Artiodactyla comes from ( Greek: ἄρτιος ( ártios ), " even ", and δάκτυλος ( dáktylos ), " finger / toe "), so the name " even-toed " is a translation of the description.
Echion (), also known as Aetion, was a celebrated Greek painter spoken of by Lucian, who gives a description of one of his pictures, representing the marriage of Alexander and Roxana.
* Mycogen — As Asimov explains in Prelude to Foundation, their name is formed from the Greek stems myco-( meaning ' yeast ' or other types of fungi ) and-gen ( meaning ' maker ' or ' producer '), which matches the description of the Mycogen as specialized in breeding and exporting yeast, or " microfood ," to other portions of Trantor.
It has been suggested that the land called Thule by the Greek merchant Pytheas ( 4th century BC ) was actually Iceland, although it seems highly unlikely considering Pytheas ' description of it as an agricultural country with plenty of milk, honey, and fruit ( possibly the Faroe or Shetland islands ).
" Another view notes that on the Behistun Inscription, " Cyaxares " is a family name, and thus considers the description as literal, viewing Astyages as an intermediate ruler wrongly placed in the family line in the Greek sources.
' Whereas Christians ( who have learned that their eternal life consists in knowing the only true God, who is over all, and Jesus Christ, whom He has sent ; and who have learned also that all the gods of the heathen are greedy demons, which flit around sacrifices and blood, and other sacrificial accompaniments, in order to deceive those who have not taken refuge with the God who is over all, but that the divine and holy angels of God are of a different nature and will from all the demons on earth, and that they are known to those exceedingly few persons who have carefully and intelligently investigated these matters ) will not endure a comparison to be made between them and Apollo or Zeus, or any being worshipped with odour and blood and sacrifices ; some of them, so acting from their extreme simplicity, not being able to give a reason for their conduct, but sincerely observing the precepts which they have received ; others, again, for reasons not to be lightly regarded, nay, even of a profound description, and ( as a Greek would say ) drawn from the inner nature of things ; and amongst the latter of these God is a frequent subject of conversation, and those who are honoured by God, through His only-begotten Word, with participation in His divinity, and therefore also in His name.
They were used without a fingerboard, no Greek description or representation having ever been met with that can be construed as referring to one.
Miyazaki read a description of Nausicaa in a Japanese translation of Bernard Evslin's anthology of Greek mythology, which portrayed her as a lover of nature.
These circumstances are secondary to the fact of Ixion's primordial act of murder ; it could be accounted for quite differently: in the Greek Anthology ( iii. 12 ), among a collection of inscriptions from a temple in Cyzicus is an epigrammatic description of Ixion slaying Phorbas and Polymelos, who had slain his mother, Megara, the " great one ".
It is unclear from Pliny's description whether both Greek statues had originally represented the same Greek deity.
Subsequently, the city is often cited by other Latin or Greek authors, in rare cases providing an overall description of the city or detailing its cults, as do Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, who pay particular attention to the city's worship of Apis.
This is the same description used by the early Greek philosopher Anaximander for the sun before any spherical ideas emerged.
Apart from his description of the battle itself, when later discussing the subject of Roman Legion versus Greek Phalanx, Polybius says that "... against Hannibal, the defeats they suffered had nothing to do with weapons or formations " because " Hannibal himself ... discarded the equipment with which he had started out ( and ) armed his troops with Roman weapons ".
An early description of a hydrometer appears in a letter from Synesius of Cyrene to the Greek scholar Hypatia of Alexandria.
Hydrocephalus was described more clearly by the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates in the 4th century BC, while a more accurate description was later given by the Roman physician Galen in the 2nd century AD.
The opening pages of the Symposium are considered the best description in any ancient Greek source of the ramifications of an oral tradition. Plato has set up a multitude of layers between the original symposium and his written narrative: he heard it fourth-hand ( if we are to identify him with Apollodorus's friend ), so it comes to us fifth-hand.
The Greek physician Heraklas produced the earliest known written description of a string figure in his first century monograph on surgical knots and slings.
A description of suttee appears in a Greek account of the Punjab written in the first century BCE by historian Diodorus Siculus.

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