Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

Influential critics, above all John Ruskin, far from denouncing mediaeval obscurantism, praised the imagination and fantasy exemplified by its Gothic architecture, influencing the Pre-Raphaelites.

An important example of Apulian Romanesque architecture, the church has a simple Romanesque façade with three portals ; in the upper part is a rose window decorated with monstruous and fantasy figures.

Opinions range, however, from most skeptical, viewing the palace as pure fantasy based on 1920s architecture and art deco, to most unquestioning, accepting the final judgements of Arthur Evans as most accurate.

Kresge's idiosyncratic architecture, designed by architects William Turnbull and Charles Moore, is based on a fantasy Italian village which winds up the hillside.

Everritt originally presented models which followed a standard fantasy architecture: straight-sided, " precious " buildings in gingerbread and candy.

Martin's fantasy architecture influenced the Glasstown and Angria of the Bronte juvenilia, where he himself appears as Edward de Lisle of Verdopolis.

His pictures portray mythological, fantastical figures along classical architecture constructions ( often revealing an obsession with death ) creating a strange, fantasy world.

The games visual design takes cues from medieval fantasy and high fantasy and includes Orcs, goblins and trolls, whilst the games in world architecture in human areas is medieval, typically of the romanesque style.

: John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin reinterpreted elements of the Doctor Syn story as his " No Quarter " fantasy sequence in Led Zeppelin's concert film The Song Remains the Same.

In 1993, USA Today included a weekly columnist on fantasy baseball, John Hunt, and he became perhaps the most visible writer in the industry before the rise of the Internet.

Following the work of Robert Bly in the Mythopoetic men's movement, John Rowan proposes the Horned God as a " Wild Man " be used as a fantasy image or ' sub-personality ' helpful to men in humanistic psychology, and escaping from ' narrow societal images of masculinity encompassing deference to women and paraphillia.

* In the fantasy novel Little, Big by John Crowley, the character Theodore Bramble considers " a peculiar geography I can only describe as infundibular ...

Novels such as " Half Life " by Shelley Jackson and " Light " by M. John Harrison have received the James Tiptree, Jr. award for incorporating themes of fantasy and sexuality.

The romance tradition of Arthur is particularly evident and, according to critics, successfully handled in Robert Bresson's Lancelot du Lac ( 1974 ), Eric Rohmer's Perceval le Gallois ( 1978 ) and perhaps John Boorman's fantasy film Excalibur ( 1981 ); it is also the main source of the material utilised in the Arthurian spoof Monty Python and the Holy Grail ( 1975 ).

Baum would work primarily with John R. Neill on his fantasy work beginning in 1904, but Baum met Neill few times ( all before he moved to California ) and often found Neill's art not humorous enough for his liking, and was particularly offended when Neill published The Oz Toy Book: Cut-outs for the Kiddies without authorization.

This is mainly due to a last-minute mix of two different game designs: lead level designer John Romero wanted to make a dark fantasy beat ' em up / RPG hybrid game, while level designers Tim Willits and American McGee wanted to make a more futuristic, Doom-like game.

The broader category of speculative fiction includes science fiction, fantasy, alternate histories ( which may have no particular scientific or futuristic component ), and even literary stories that contain fantastic elements, such as the work of Jorge Luis Borges or John Barth.

Taxi Driver formed part of the delusional fantasy of John Hinckley, Jr. which triggered his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, an act for which he was found not guilty by reason of insanity.

His best-known works include The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems ( 1858 ), The Earthly Paradise ( 1868 – 1870 ), A Dream of John Ball ( 1888 ), the utopian News from Nowhere ( 1890 ), and the fantasy romance The Well at the World's End ( 1896 ).

The spy film genre, which is mainly the subgenre of thriller and action, deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

The subgenre deals with the subject of fictional espionage, either in a realistic way ( such as the adaptations of John Le Carré ) or as a basis for fantasy ( such as James Bond ).

Landscape architect Noakes enters, shortly accompanied by Captain Brice and Lady Croom, who then proceed to discuss the proposed modifications to the gardens, with Thomasina drawing a picture of an imaginary hermit ( in the biblical style of John the Baptist ) onto Mr. Noakes's picture of the garden ( with its fantasy hermitage ) as he sees it in the future.

Following Scarface, she accepted the roles of Isabeau d ' Anjou in Richard Donner's fantasy film Ladyhawke ( 1985 ) opposite Rutger Hauer and Matthew Broderick, Diana in John Landis ' comedy Into the Night ( 1985 ) opposite Jeff Goldblum, Faith Healy in Alan Alda's Sweet Liberty ( 1986 ) opposite Michael Caine, and Brenda Landers in a segment of the 1950s sci-fi parody Amazon Women on the Moon ( 1987 ), all of which, despite achieving only modest commercial success, helped to establish her as an actress.

Postmodern novelists such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon operate with even more freedom, mixing historical characters and settings with invented history and fantasy, as in the novels The Sot-Weed Factor and Mason & Dixon respectively.

Also in 1974, TSR published Warriors of Mars, a miniatures rules book set in the fantasy world of Barsoom originally imagined by Edgar Rice Burroughs in his series of novels about John Carter of Mars, to which Gygax paid homage in the " Preface " of the first edition of D & D.

The setting was somewhat comparable to the Barsoom of the John Carter novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, in that it was a barbaric fantasy world populated by sword-wielding heroes who encountered strange alien beings and technologies.

* John Morressy, science fiction and fantasy writer ; professor of English at Franklin Pierce College

* John Brown, fantasy author

These earlier accounts clearly inspired the popular medieval fantasy The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, which also mentions the Fountain of Youth as located at the foot of a mountain outside Polombe ( modern Kollam ) in India.

It is a fantasy comedy christmas film that was directed by John Pasquin.

Zardoz is a 1974 science fiction / fantasy film written, produced, and directed by John Boorman.

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is a 1988 British adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring John Neville, Sarah Polley, Eric Idle, Jonathan Pryce, Oliver Reed, Uma Thurman and Robin Williams ( credited as Ray D. Tutto ).

* Valyrian Freehold, an ancient civilization in 1996 fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

Martin realized the fantasy in the shown imaginary places in avoidance of overt fantasy elements.

Fans have developed lengthy scientific theories for the seasons, such as a multiple-star system or a planet with special axial tilt, but Martin insists there is a supernatural fantasy explanation instead of a scientific one.

* In the A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novel series by George R. R. Martin, wargs are people who can form a telepathic-empathic bond with animals and sometimes humans.

* George R. R. Martin ( born 1948 ), author and screenwriter of science fiction, horror, and fantasy.

Many of Byron's lyrical stories are soon to be expanded into short stories and graphic novels ( written by Byron and illustrated by fantasy artist Martin Hanford ), and the forthcoming expanded Glossary, which will be an extended version of the glossary previously posted to the band's website, will be the definitive A-Z of all the characters and events of the vast lyrical universe.

There is strong influence of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari on the concept of the 2009 fantasy film The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, by Terry Gilliam as well as on the book Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane on which the eponymous movie by Martin Scorsese is based.

* September 20-George R. R. Martin, fantasy writer

Jemison says she was inspired by Martin Luther King Jr .; to her King's dream was not an elusive fantasy but a call to action.

Zelazny's close friend ( and fellow science fiction / fantasy author ) George R. R. Martin describes in his afterword to Lord of Light how Zelazny once told him that the entire novel sprang from a single pun: the fit hit the Shan.

The band's lyrics, written by vocalist Hansi Kürsch, are inspired by the fiction of fantasy authors such as Stephen King, J. R. R. Tolkien, Michael Moorcock, Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin as well as traditional legends and epics.

George R. R. Martin, American author of epic fantasy novels

Martin, science fiction and fantasy author ( A Song of Ice and Fire )

* Tansy Tea is used to prevent or abort pregnancy in the fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin and The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks, Also known as " moon tea " in the A Song of Ice and Fire series.

A Storm of Swords is the third of seven planned novels in A Song of Ice and Fire, a fantasy series by American author George R. R. Martin.

Her work has been praised by other notable fantasy authors, including George R. R. Martin, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Hand ,< ref >

A Feast for Crows is the fourth of seven planned novels in the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire by American author George R. R. Martin.

Though it is not uncommon for fantasy novels to be ranked on The New York Times Best Seller list, to date the only fantasy novelists whose works have debuted at number one on the list are Robert Jordan in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, and 2009, George R. R. Martin in 2005, and 2011, Neil Gaiman in 2005, Terry Goodkind in 2006, and Patrick Rothfuss in 2011.

Martin the Warrior is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques, published in 1993.

The early 21st century is seeing an increase in prominence of the work of authors such as George R. R. Martin and Joe Abercrombie, whose high fantasy novels ( works set entirely in fantasy worlds ) have been referred to as " low fantasy " because they deemphasize some typical " high fantasy " elements such as magic and non-human races in favor of a more gritty portrayal of human conflict.