That the depiction was informed of ' cosmic ' or metaphysical connotations is also argued on the basis of the testimony of the hymns of Tamil saints.

This may be due to iconic depiction customs on how saints are depicted.

The Sala de Profundis, or meditation room, contains well-preserved multichromatic murals which depict a large number of saints including a series of martyrs and a depiction of Saint Augustine.

In art, a sacra conversazione () meaning holy / sacred conversation, but usually left in Italian, is a depiction of the Virgin and Child ( the Virgin Mary with the infant Jesus ) amidst a group of saints in a relatively informal grouping, as opposed to the more rigid and hierarchical compositions of earlier periods.

His depiction of how members of the council were elected to the senate, for example, aimed to emphasise the way the electoral system prevented factionalism from occurring, instead making sure that “ public benefits are largely extended among the citizens ” rather than narrowly amongst “ one family ”.

The illustration she used of the Cogul painting leaves out a number of figures, human and animal, and the original is more likely a sequence of superimposed but unrelated illustrations, rather than a depiction of a single scene.

Similarly to its precursor in the visual arts, musical impressionism focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story as in program music.

The assertion that the Cubist depiction of space, mass and volume supports ( rather than contradicts ) the flatness of the canvas was made by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler ( as early as 1920 ,) but it was subject to criticism in the 1950s and 1960s, especially by Clement Greenberg.

Authorized biographer Jeremy Wilson noted that the film has " undoubtedly influenced the perceptions of some subsequent biographers " such as the depiction of the film's Ali as the real Sherif Ali, rather than a composite character, and also the highlighting of the Deraa incident.

* In the original Foundation Trilogy, there is no indication of Trantor being divided among wildly diverse cultures, likewise, the surface is described as covered with towers rather than domes ; its depiction in Prelude to Foundation and Forward the Foundation may be considered another example of retconning.

The film publication Cineaste published a review of The Italian in March 2009, focusing on the film's depiction of the Italian-American immmigrant experience as a Darwinian jungle rather than a promised land paved with gold :" Against Horatio Alger expectations, The Italian is a story of failure suffused with a soft-focused, dappled nostalgia for the old country ... ' From sunny Italy to the New York ghetto ,' read the taglines on Paramount's original one-sheet, contrasting scenes of ' carefree Beppo at home ' in the serene canals of Old Italy with the mean streets of New York where ' to live your baby must have Pasteurized milk.

This rectified the long lasting mistake of using a depiction of the Roman Colosseum rather than a Greek venue.

The Middle Irish text Togail Bruidne Dá Derga ( Recension II ) includes a rather lengthy and colourful depiction of her in the episode of her encounter with King Echu in Brí Léith:

" But the depiction of thousands of sick and dying people seemed rather gruesome for our light-hearted film, and the thought of our crew taking a 600-year round trip just to bring back a snail darter wasn't all that thrilling ," explained Nimoy.

When art critic Franz Roh applied the term magic realism to visual art in 1925, he was designating a style of visual art that brings extreme realism to the depiction of mundane subject matter, revealing an " interior " mystery, rather than imposing external, overtly magical features onto this everyday reality.

Typically, though not entirely, Islamic art has focused on the depiction of patterns and Arabic calligraphy, rather than on figures, because it is feared by many Muslims that the depiction of the human form is idolatry and thereby a sin against God, forbidden in the Qur ' an.

In paper heraldry it is a depiction of the protective cloth covering ( often of linen ) worn by knights from their helmets to stave off the elements, and, secondarily, to decrease the effects of sword-blows against the helmet in battle, from which it is usually shown tattered or cut to shreds ; less often it is shown as an intact drape, principally in those cases where a clergyman uses a helmet and mantling ( to symbolise that, despite the perhaps contradictory presence of the helmet, the clergyman has not been involved in combat ), although this is usually the artist's discretion and done for decorative rather than symbolic reasons.

A depiction of the " Emu in the sky ", which is an Australian Aboriginal constellation consisting of dark clouds rather than of stars.

In this depiction, " Hobgoblin " seems the name of one specific creature rather than that of a whole species, though this point is left deliberately ambiguous.

The term suprematism refers to an art based upon “ the supremacy of pure artistic feeling ” rather than on visual depiction of objects.

A third interpretation is that David represents Donatello's effort to create a unique version of the male nude, to exercise artistic license rather than copy the classical models that had thus far been the sources for the depiction of the male nude in Renaissance art.

Moreover, a performance of the play itself ( rather than a depiction of the generic myth ) appears on fragments of a Greek vase dated ca.

In the Netherlands, the technique of painting in oils rather than tempera, led itself to a form of elaboration that was not dependent upon the application of gold leaf and embossing, but upon the minute depiction of the natural world.

Guph may have gotten his facts muddled, as none of the Nomes had been to Oz at that time, but it portends the depiction of Glinda as the Good Witch of the North rather than the South in the 1939 MGM film ( which is the most widely known version of Oz to date ).

( The play's depiction of its devil is surprisingly restrained ; he is described as " patient, mild, and pitiful ," and is rather a sympathetic character than otherwise.

Randolph Clarke objects that Kane's depiction of free will is not truly libertarian but rather a form of compatibilism.

Under such conditions the pilot is given a graphical depiction of where the aircraft should be and where it should be going rather than the pilot having to mentally integrate altitude, airspeed, heading, energy and longitude and latitude to correctly fly the aircraft.

A 16th-century depiction of Philip IV of France, one of many victims of ill fate who Villani states fell from power and grace due to sin and immorality rather than fortune or circumstance

Laurette Luez played Karamaneh in 1956's The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, but the character owed more to Fah lo Suee than Rohmer's depiction of Karamaneh.

Slate. com said Urban came closer than the other actors to impersonating a character's original depiction.

A depiction of a mandala may be less public than that of a deity.

Soldier of Fortune was praised as being a solid and entertaining shooter, with one of the game's greatest praises being its graphic depiction of gore and violence, which both proponents and detractors consider to be more realistic than most first-person shooter games.

Indonesia adopts a more stylistic approach to the Garuda's depiction as its national symbol, where it depicts a Javanese eagle ( being much larger than a kite ).

She was the first woman to appear on provincial coins in 16 BC and her portrait images can be chronologically identified partially from the progression of her hair designs, which represented more than keeping up with the fashions of the time as her depiction with such contemporary details translated into a political statement of representing the ideal Roman woman.

: Rather than choosing one of the many interpretations offered for Botticelli's depiction of the Birth ( Arrival?

Long's attacks on the utilities industry and corporate privileges were enormously popular, as was his depiction of the wealthy as " parasites " who grabbed more than their fair share of the public wealth while marginalizing the poor.

Popular depiction shows the Leprechaun as being no taller than a small child, with a beard and hat, although they may originally have been perceived as the tallest of the mound-dwellers ( the Tuatha Dé Danann ).

Despite being considerably softer in its approach than its BBC predecessor, the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U. S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence.

More than 100 superbly modeled human and angelic figures, along with animals, accessories, and architectural elements, cover 250 square feet and create a memorable depiction of the Nativity as seen through the eyes of Neapolitan artisans and collectors.

By the end of the 20th century, history writing turned to a more neutral depiction of the Spanish Empire, which acknowledges the positive and negative aspects of colonization without portraying the Spanish Empire as either more or less evil than other colonial empires.

The depiction of Elaine as smarter and more successful than George was occasionally reversed for comic effect: In " The Opposite ", George finds success and happiness doing the opposite of whatever his instincts tell him, while the normally successful Elaine falls on hard times.