But it was Burges's imagination, his scholarship, his architectural and decorative talents, his inventiveness and his sheer high spirits that combined to make Cardiff Castle the " most successful of all the fantasy castles of the nineteenth century.

The sheer volume of book-titles, pictures and objects listed in Musaeum Clausum is testimony to Browne's fertile imagination ; however his major editors, Simon Wilkins in the nineteenth century ( 1834 ) and Sir Geoffrey Keynes in the twentieth ( 1924 ) summarily dismissed it.

Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray ( August 30, 1820, Villiers-le-Bel, Val-d ' Oise – July 30, 1884 ) has been called " the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century " because of his technical innovations in the still new medium of photography, his role as the teacher of other noted photographers, and the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making ".

Whereas in the nineteenth century egotism was still widely regarded as a traditional vice-for Nathaniel Hawthorne egotism was a sort of diseased self-contemplation-Romanticism had already set in motion a countervailing current, what Richard Eldridge described as a kind of “ cultural egotism, substituting the individual imagination for vanishing social tradition ”.

Handsome nineteenth synagogues form the period of Jewish imagination stand in virtually every country where there were Jewish communities.

Following the reforms of the general Marius in the 2nd century BC, the legions took on the second, narrower meaning that is familiar in the popular imagination as close-order citizen heavy infantry.

In the twentieth century, when changing artistic tastes made artists like Bosch more palatable to the European imagination, it was sometimes argued that Bosch ’ s art was inspired by heretical points of view ( e. g., the ideas of the Cathars and putative Adamites ) as well as of obscure hermetic practices.

In the context of England ’ s political atmosphere, Shakespeare ’ s representation of Egypt, as the greater source of poetry and imagination, resists support for 16th century colonial practices.

By the 18th century and the Age of Enlightenment, mention of creativity ( notably in art theory ), linked with the concept of imagination, became more frequent.

This book displayed a vigorous scientific imagination, controlled by a logical sense that rigidly distinguished between fact and hypothesis, and it quickly won wide recognition, both as an admirable digest of the numberless observations made with regard to the development of animals during the quarter of a century preceding its publication, and as a work of original research.

Rabbi Yosef Ibn Caspi ( Spain, early 14th century ) wrote that Abraham's " imagination " led him astray, making him believe that he had been commanded to sacrifice his son.

The arms shown in the Manesse manuscript come from the imagination of a 14th century artist, drawing on the figure of the Red Knight in Parzival, and have no heraldic connection with Wolfram.

The French literary historian Jean-Claude Bonnet calls Télémaque “ the true key to the museum of the eighteenth century imagination .” One of the most popular works of the century, it was an immediate best seller both in France and abroad, going through many editions and translated into every European language and even Latin verse ( first in Berlin in 1743, then in Paris by Étienne Viel ).

These stories are work of imagination and fiction, and they are inspired by incidents and folk stories related to Amaravathi. The stories, along with the pictures drawn by Bapu are considered as one of the best Telugu short story collection of 20th century.

Exhibits of African tribal art also captured the imagination of Parisian artists at the turn of the 20th century.

In the 19th century, folklorists fired the imagination of scholars who would, in decades to come, write descriptive volumes on witches and familiars.

On the other hand, 20th century writer D. H. Lawrence said that there could be not be a more perfect work of the American imagination than The Scarlet Letter.

Alfred Binet demonstrated in the late 19th century that good chess players have superior memory and imagination.

The term antediluvian was used in natural science well into the 19th century and lingered in popular imagination despite increasingly detailed stratigraphy mapping the Earth's past, and was often used for the Pleistocene period, where humans existed alongside now extinct megafauna.

Edward Bellamy ’ s socialist utopia in Looking Backward, which inspired hundreds of socialist clubs in the late 19th century United States and a national political party, was as highly technological as Bellamy ’ s imagination.

In the 19th century, the sensational journalism of W. T. Stead's The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ( 1885 ) about the procuring of underage girls into the brothels of Victorian London provided a stimulus for the erotic imagination.

The poetry in the story of Suibhne is rich and accomplished, and the story itself of the mad and exiled king who composes verse as he travels has held the imagination of poets through to the twentieth century.

In the popular imagination English landscape painting from the 18th century onwards typifies English art, inspired largely from the love of the pastoral and mirroring as it does the development of larger country houses set in a pastoral rural landscape.

The phenomena of the trance condition appealed very strongly to the popular imagination, but scarcely to most men of science of the ninetieth century.

Wilgefortis is a female saint of popular religious imagination whose cult arose in the 14th century.

In the early 18th century, a theory of wit developed by English writers ( particularly John Locke ) held that judgment sees the differences in like things, imagination or fancy sees the likeness in different things, and wit operates properly by employing judgment and fancy to form sound propositions.

In other aspects, Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea, was a mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination.

Roman satyrs were conflated in the popular and poetic imagination with Latin spirits of woodland and with the rustic Greek god Pan.

What is essential to the oratory art ( as the Greek rhetorike ) is the orderly link between common sense and an end commensurate to it — an end that is not imposed upon the imagination from above ( in the manner of the moderns and a certain dogmatic form of Christianity ), but that is drawn out of common sense itself.

Martin Litchfield West gives qualified assent to this view, stating, " contact with oriental cosmology and theology helped to liberate the early Greek philosophers ' imagination ; it certainly gave them many suggestive ideas.

Aposiopesis (; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, " becoming silent ") is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue.

Yet Greek culture and Greek design motifs continued to exert a powerful hold on late Victorian imagination and beyond.

This reflects Blake's theory that the imitation of ancient Greek and Roman art was destructive to the creative imagination, and that Classical sculpture represented a banal naturalism in contrast to Judeo-Christian spiritual art.

It could be said that Helen of Troy may certainly have been the most beautiful woman in the world, but she was never sublime in Greek literature: however Edmund Burke cites the scene of the old men looking at Helen's " terrible " beauty on the ramparts of Troy — he regards it as an instance of the beautiful, but his imagination is captured by its sublimity.

The play is a modern retelling of the ancient Greek Orpheus legend and deals, in the most elemental fashion, with the power of passion, art, and imagination to redeem and revitalize life, giving it new meaning.

A triangle prevailed in the Greek imagination with points at the Pillars, the Tanais and the Red Sea.

Egypt has loomed large in the Western imagination in the Greek and Hebrew traditions.

Tom Eastwood's inspirations included Greek theatre and later in life his musical imagination was fired by Brazilian folklore, history and music.

His writing is bold, sensual, with great imagination and a unique narrative style, and is often studied by Greek students.

While the Greek world preserved the form of its classical literature, the same cannot be said of the classical sense of poetry and imagination.

His Odin ( 1831 ), Thor ( 1842 ), and Balder ( 1842 ), though influenced by Greek art, display considerable power of independent imagination.