But he was `` afraid of the future -- he would in fact welcome a way back to social integration, a functional art of some kind ''.

In fact, I can only say this seems to me to follow from a wide, continuous, and properly guided exposure to literary art.

The fact that Sloan was an extrovert, concerned primarily with what he saw, adds greatly to the value of his art as a human chronicle.

The reason for this may have been Ahmed's religious objection to figurative art or the fact that the complex organ served as a daily reminder of the waxing influence and power of the West.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

It is this reluctance which was felt by the Rijksmuseum to reattribute works to other painters ( Abraham van Calraet does not even appear in a Museum catalogue until 1926, and even then he is not given his own entry ) which shows how important it is to art historians that painters are accurately connected to their works — and this is continuously necessary for those of Aelbert Cuyp, as Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter may not in fact be Dordrecht ’ s most famous painter.

Another element supporting this fact is that Paris has the highest density of cinemas in the world, measured by the number of movie theaters per inhabitant, and that in most " downtown Paris " movie theaters, foreign movies which would be secluded to " art houses " cinemas in other places are shown alongside " mainstream " works.

According to many art researchers, particularly in the Netherlands and in Los Angeles, that type of public art is, in fact an effective tool of social emancipation or in the achievement of a political goal.

Riding the coattails of Dino De Laurentiis ' big-budget King Kong remake, The poster art showed Godzilla and Megalon battling on top of the World Trade Center, despite the fact that no scenes were set in New York City.

In fact, the period for exercise or gymnastics was equal to the time spent on art and music combined.

Not to mention any sign of apologies for the suffering of the murdered people ", " avoids mentioning the reasons for expulsions " and called the document " example of German art of crowding out the truth (...) The fact that the charter completely ignores the reasons for the expulsions deprives it of any value ".

There is some question as to whether advanced mathematical skills or talent are in fact necessary for fields such as history, English, philosophy, or art.

Psychologist Erich Fromm maintained in his book " The art of loving " that love is not merely a feeling but is also actions, and that in fact, the " feeling " of love is superficial in comparison to ones commitment to love via a series of loving actions over time.

As a matter of fact, the style received harsh criticism, and was seen by some to be superficial and of poor taste, especially when compared to neoclassicism ; despite this, it has been praised for its aesthetic qualities, and since the mid-19th century, the term has been accepted by art historians.

In addition, upon inspection of the many examples of Arabesque art, some would argue that there is in fact a third mode, the mode of Arabic calligraphy.

The fact that the 1912 exhibition had been curated to show the successive stages through which Cubism had transited, and that Du " Cubisme " had been published for the occasion, indicates the artists ' intention of making their work comprehensible to a wide audience ( art critics, art collectors, art dealers and the general public ).

But the mention of Watteau should also alert us to the fact that Pierrot, along with his fellow Commedia masks, was beginning to be " poeticized " in this century — that he was beginning to be the subject, not only of poignant folksong (" Au clair de la lune ", sometimes attributed to Lully ), but also of the more ambitious art of Claude Gillot ( Master André's Tomb 1717 ), of Gillot's students Watteau ( Italian Actors 1719 ) and Nicolas Lancret ( Italian Actors near a Fountain 1719 ), of Jean-Baptiste Oudry ( Italian Actors in a Park 1725 ), and of Jean-Honoré Fragonard ( A Boy as Pierrot ).

Most art historians assume that it has the ethnic meaning of " Greek-speaking slave " or " Greek-speaking free laborer ," in fact!

In fact, it became so popular and so incessantly appropriated and reproduced by Western artists, that the Western World's fascination and preoccupation with Japanese art coined the new term, Japonism or Japonisme.

This is due to the fact that wing tsun ( wing chun ) is a formless martial art and do not use fixed and committed techniques, instead wing tsun chi sao reflexes and principles allows it to adapt itself to the ground fighting as well.

The possible reasons for her breasts not being emphasized in the most formal statues were debated among some early Egyptologists, who failed to understand the ritual religious symbolism, to take into account the fact that many women and goddesses portrayed in ancient Egyptian art often lack delineation of breasts, and that the physical aspect of the gender of pharaohs was never stressed in the art.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

Subsequent later historians accepted Myers ' speculation as fact, creating a narrative of events in 5th century Britain with various degrees of elaborate detail.

In fact, modern historians use AUC much more frequently than the Romans themselves did.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

This conquest never happened, but some historians believe that the crossing referred to was in fact a small-scale exploratory or punitive expedition to Ireland.

Currently, historians believed that Gunzelin and Bolesław I are in fact cousins or brothers-in-law.

Other historians doubt the authenticity of this document and point out that the claims in it were patently false — there were in fact thousands of living Vendean prisoners, the revolt had been far from crushed, and the Convention had explicitly decreed that women, children and unarmed men were to be treated humanely.

Based on his accurate description of towns, cities and islands, as well as correctly naming various official titles, archaeologist Sir William Ramsay wrote that " Luke is a historian of the first rank ; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy ... should be placed along with the very greatest of historians.

Biblical scholar F. F. Bruce has said " the evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no one dreams of questioning ... It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament records than have many theologians.

However, some authors and historians would argue Benjamin Franklin was in fact a spy.

According to biographer McFeely, historians overwhelmingly agree that his intemperance at the time was a fact, though there are no eyewitness reports extant.

Because there are no accounts of the custom in Great Britain prior to the 17th century, some historians and folklorists have theorised that it was not an ancient British custom but was in fact imported into Britain from continental Europe in the early modern period, possibly from Flanders in Belgium, where the tradition thrived in this period.

" This, and the fact that the voyages " were contrary to the rules stipulated in the Huangming zuxun, Ancestral Injunctions of the August Ming ," the royal founding documents laid down by the Hongwu Emperor, account for the Ming " neglect " of Zheng He in official accounts and the scant records of the voyages available for later historians.

After almost seven years of childless union, the Duke of Wroclaw obtain the annulment of his marriage under the grounds of sterility, although this fact is disputed by modern historians.

In fact, some historians believe that the psychological stress of slavery may also have played a part in the massive number of native deaths while in servitude.

Although it has been often interpreted by historians as the struggle between two rival French right-wing families ( the Bonapartists, represented by Chirac, and the Orleanists, represented by VGE ), both figures in fact were members of the Liberal, Orleanist tradition, according to historian Alain-Gérard Slama.

In fact, historians have estimated that some form of typewriter was invented 52 times as thinkers tried to come up with a workable design.

This is the interpretation offered by William himself in the Historia, and it was taken as fact by later historians.

Only in 1037 the young prince returned to Poland in order to recover his rights over the throne ; apparently Richeza also returned with him, although this fact is disputed among historians.

Though William's complicity in the lynching has never been proved ( and some 19th-century Dutch historians have made an effort to disprove that he was an accessory before the fact ) he thwarted attempts to prosecute the ringleaders, and even rewarded some, like Hendrik Verhoeff, with money, and others, like Johan van Banchem and Johan Kievit, with high offices.

This is deduced by historians from the fact that Athanaric would later lead the Thervingi in battle against the Huns in 376.

This may be explained by the fact that the ages-old ideological struggle between the monarchically oriented Orangist party and its successive opponents of a more " republican " bent ( going back to at least the conflict between Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and Prince Maurice ), of which the Patriots were only the latest incarnation, was being refought in the standard works of 19th-century Dutch historians like Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer, who saw plenty to despise in the " popular-sovereignty " philosophy of the Patriot radicals.

Both Sun Wu and Sun Bin were referred to as Sun Tzu in classical Chinese writings, and some historians believed that Sun Wu was in fact Sun Bin until Sun Bin's own treatise was discovered in 1972.