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.

A. MacCulloch compares Ogma's epithet grianainech ( sun-face ) with Lucian's description of the " smiling face " of Ogmios, and suggests Ogma's position as champion of the Tuatha Dé Danann may derive " from the primitive custom of rousing the warriors ' emotions by eloquent speeches before a battle ", although this is hardly supported by the texts.

" 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.

" Sandro Botticelli's panel of Calumny of Apelles was painted in conscious striving to equal the painting in Lucian's ekphrasis.

At the climax of Lucian's Necyomantia, Tiresias in Hades is asked " what is the best way of life?

In Lucian's satiric dialogue Assembly of the Gods ( ca 165 CE ) it is Momus who is the secretary when the gods stage a city meeting as if at Athens, to decide what to do about newly-arrived outsiders and metics, the target of the satire being the recent development of complete enfranchisement of unworthy outsiders ( Lucian himself being of Syrian origin ).

1450 ) which drew upon Lucian's example ; as with his model — though some readers, with Eugenio Garin, detect in it some of Alberti's own streak of bitterness — the end use of the cynicism in the satire is to amuse.

The biographer calls her a " low-born girl-friend ", but she is probably closer to Lucian's " woman of perfect beauty ", more beautiful than any of Phidias and Praxiteles ' statues.

The first recorded account showing a courier running from Marathon to Athens to announce victory is from within Lucian's prose on the first use of the word Joy as a greeting in A Slip of the tongue in Greeting.

There is debate over the authorship of some works, transmitted under Lucian's name, such as De Dea Syria (" On the Syrian goddess "), the Amores and the Ass.

Book five was not published until nine years after Rabelais's death and includes much material that is clearly borrowed ( such as from Lucian's True History and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ) or of lesser quality than the previous books.

Given that Lucian's understanding of Christian traditions has significant gaps and errors, his writing is unlikely to have been influenced by Christians themselves, and he may provide an independent statement about the crucifixion of Jesus.

" The crazy thing is so spectacularly original that even though alerted by my advance notice you are still going to be more surprised by Scarecrow than by anything else you have ever read in your life, even if you are ninety-five and have spent every free moment fiendishly consuming all of the most fantastic symbolist, futurist, cubist, surrealist, expressionist, anarchist, dadaist, existentialist, creationist, ultraist, vanguardist, magical realist, modernist, postmodernist and every other-ist compositions that you could lay your hands on, plus the farthest-out non-ist compositions as well, including Lucian's True Story, Rabelais ' Adventures of Gargantua and Pantagruel and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Bobok.

Lucian's theological position is a matter of contention.

Associated with Lucian's name is also the Creed of the Dedication passed at the Council of Antioch in 341.

The earliest is Lucian's True History, in the 2nd century AD ( and thus well before Defoe's book )

It mentions a London inn called The Seven Stars that did not exist before 1602, yet it contains elements that are in Shakespeare's play but not in Plutarch or in Lucian's dialogue, Timon the Misanthrope, the other major accepted source for Shakespeare's play.

( Arius was a student of Lucian's private academy in Antioch.

As a means of understanding the world through speculation and storytelling, science fiction has antecedents back to mythology, though precursors to science fiction as literature can be seen in Lucian's True History in the 2nd century, some of the Arabian Nights tales, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter in the 10th century and Ibn al-Nafis ' Theologus Autodidactus in the 13th century.

The fame of Lucian's works in the 18th century, as well as the generally well-known tradition of Greco-Roman heroic homoeroticism, made it natural for theatre audiences of that period to have recognized an intense, romantic, if not positively homoerotic quality, to the relationship between Orestes and Pylades.

Orestes was seized by a mania for fear of the barbarians ; Pylades tended to him, acting, as described in Lucian's Amores " not only like a lover but like a father.

The fame of Lucian's works in the 18th century, as well as the generally well-known tradition of Greco-Roman heroic homoeroticism, made it natural for theatre audiences of that period to have recognized an intense, romantic, if not positively homoerotic quality, to the relationship between Orestes and Pylades.

Panthea read Lucian's first draft, and criticized him for flattery.

Few details of Lucian's life can be verified with any degree of accuracy.

Lucian's practice was to travel about, giving amusing discourses and witty lectures improvised on the spot, somewhat as a rhapsode had done in declaiming poetry at an earlier period.

He also translated Horace's Satires ( 1786 ), Lucian's Works ( 1788 – 1789 ), Cicero's Letters ( 1808 ff.

In his True History, Lucian lists it as a possible birthplace along with the island of Khios and the city of Smyrna, though Lucian's Homer claims to be from Babylon.

He also drew upon Plutarch's Lives, and perhaps Lucian's Dialogues and a lost comedy on the subject of Timon, allusions to which survive from 1584.

Kraven has secretly planned to kill the vampire elder, Amelia, and her companions, with Lucian's help.

In a description of a painting in Neapolis, the Greek rhetorician Philostratus the Elder describes them as sisters and wives of the male centaurs who live on Mount Pelion with their children.

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.

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.

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.

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.