Among the ancient Greeks themselves two works of Phidias far outshone all others, the colossal chryselephantine figures of Zeus circa 432 BC on the site where it was erected in the temple of Zeus, at Olympia, Greece, and of Athena Parthenos ( literally, " Athena the Virgin ") a sculpture of the Greek virgin goddess Athena named after an epithet for the goddess herself, and was housed in the Parthenon in Athens.

Britomart figures in Edmund Spenser's knightly epic The Faerie Queene, where she is an allegorical figure of the virgin Knight of Chastity, representing English virtue — in particular, English military power — through a folk etymology that associated Brit -, as in Briton, with Martis, here thought of as " of Mars ", the Roman war god.

Where local cult venerated figures such as the sacrificial virgin Iphigeneia, an archaic local nymphe has been reduced to a mortal figure of legend.

He worked there for eight years starting in 1486, when he furnished the designs of the figures of the virgin, saints and apostles for the choir-stalls, executed in tarsia or inlaid wood work by Bartolomeo Pola, till 1494, when he returned to Milan.

He spent concentrated weeks putting his two figures together: a Mary who would be young and sensitive, yet strong enough to hold her son on her lap ; ;

Aberfoyle has connections to many historical figures such as Rob Roy and Mary, Queen of Scots.

Some medieval legends elaborated upon the lives of Christian figures such as Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.

The Abyssinian maid is derived from many figures in Coleridge's life, including women who Coleridge admired in some way: Charlotte Brent, Catherine Clarkson, Mary Morgan, and Dorothy Wordsworth.

The City Cross ( also known as the Buttercross has been dated to the 15th century, and features 12 statues of the Virgin Mary, saints and various historical figures.

* Saints Days are observed by Lutherans and include the apostles, Virgin Mary and noteworthy figures in the Christian faith.

Highlights of Redgrave's early film career include her first starring role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( for which she earned an Oscar nomination, a Cannes award, a Golden Globe nomination and a BAFTA Film Award nomination ); her portrayal of a cool London swinger in 1966's Blowup ; her spirited portrayal of dancer Isadora Duncan in Isadora ( for which she won a National Society of Film Critics ' Award for Best Actress, a second Prize for the Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival, along with a Golden Globe and Oscar nomination in 1969 ); and various portrayals of historical figures – ranging from Andromache in The Trojan Women, to Mary, Queen of Scots in the film of the same name.

These works included Cantigas d ' escarnio e maldicer and the vast compilation Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Songs to the Virgin Mary "), which was written in Galician-Portuguese and figures among the most important of his works.

Religious figures such as Domingo de Soto, Pius XII, Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Saint John of the Cross have their place within the city urban sculpture, the first work of Ortega and the rest of José María García Moro, sculptor prosperous Segovia who must also be a Monument to the Youth located in the Plaza del Conde de Cheste.

This is said because, being that Christ is one of the three figures of Trinity, Mary would be his daughter, but it is also she who bore him.

Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >

In contrast to the other frescoes in the Chapel, the figures are heavily muscled and appear somewhat tortured — even the Virgin Mary at the center seems to be cowering before God.

No comparably early rood crosses with the side figures of Mary and John seem to survive, though we have large painted wooden crucifixes like the German Gero Cross of ca.

Eight members of Haughey's old cabinet, including such long-standing figures as Ray Burke, Mary O ' Rourke and Gerry Collins, were instantly dismissed.

Nativity scenes exhibit figures representing the infant Jesus, his mother Mary, and Joseph.

UA was incorporated as a joint venture on February 5, 1919, by four of the leading figures in early Hollywood: Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith.

On the left, is Mary with Mary Magdalene and other female figures ; on the right, John the Evangelist, Saint Longinus the soldier, and other male figures.

The Qur ' an is replete with references to earlier religious figures from the Jewish and Christian traditions, and advocates the view that Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Mary and other holy beings were always Muslims, and that Islam is at the core of non-pagan religion.

In the 18th and 19th centuries the devotions grew, both jointly and individually through the efforts of figures such as Saint Louis de Montfort who promoted Catholic Mariology and Saint Catherine Labouré's Miraculous Medal depicting the Heart of Jesus thorn-crowned and the Heart of Mary pierced with a sword.

Adorned with the figures of Christ, Mary, Charlemagne, Pope Leo III and the Twelve Apostles, the shrine contains the four great Aachen relics: St. Mary's cloak, Christ's swaddling clothes, St. John the Baptist's beheading cloth and Christ's loincloth.

In later medieval and Renaissance altarpieces, where the main panel consisted of a scene with large static figures, it was normal to include a predella below with a number of small-scale narrative paintings depicting events from the life of the dedicatee, whether Christ, the Virgin Mary or a saint.

Throughout their climb up the spheres of Tree of Life Sophie / Promethea and Barbara encounter difficulties such as imprisonment by the demon Asmodeus, as well as meeting figures such as Sophie's father Juan ( who died when she was little ), Barbara's guardian angel Boo Boo and Promethea's father, who she has not seen since his murder in 411 A. D.

Though she is usually human, she can also be of any other species, including fictional or folklore | folkloric species ; and even divine figures such as an angel or deity.

* The Annunciate angel and the Virgin Mary, two figures carved in wood by Jacopo della Quercia stand towards the end of the nave.

Both paintings show a grouping of four figures, the Virgin Mary, the Christ Child, the infant John the Baptist and an angel arranged into a triangular composition within the painting and set against a background of rocks, and a distant landscape of mountains and water.

I was allowed to save pastel drawings of exotic and rare birds, and watercolours of farmyards and a pastoral life long gone, but for the figures engaged in sexual congress, face to face, head to toe and doggy style as explicit as any by his old friend Eric Gill, Mrs Dobson would accept no plea that they were beautiful, no argument that they were fired by a quality not to be found in the “ pure essence ” of the torsos that survive, and like a ferociously implacable angel at the Last Judgment, she bent to the business of destruction.

A collection of stone slabs with carvings of three mythical figures, a griffin, a unicorn and an angel is enshrined in a stone structure.

In several modern fictional stories, a character can be marked as especially evil or mischievous by receiving similarly bad advice from both shoulder figures, having a second shoulder devil instead of the angel, or being persuaded by the devil to kick the angel out.

An angel on top of the wagon looks to the sky, praying, whereas none of the other figures see Christ looking down on the world.

For example, he is largely known as a painter of “ ideal figures ,” in which he portrayed women as embodiments of virtue, adorned in flowing white tunics and equipped with feathered angel ’ s wings.

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

Other notable figures associated with the city are Ferdinand I of Aragon, cardinal Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, the mystic John of the Cross, the theologian Gabriel Vázquez, the poet Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita, and Manuel Azaña Díaz, writer and politician, who was President of the Second Spanish Republic between 1933 and 1936.

* In the video game The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery, Grace Nakimura receives a Tarot reading from a minor character, and The High Priestess figures prominently into the reading.

This arcana features notable female mythological figures, such as Mother Harlot, Gabriel, and Skadi.

For further information on influential figures in personalism, see: Emmanuel Mounier, Gabriel Marcel, Denis de Rougemont, Jacques Maritain, Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, Max Scheler, Karol Wojtyla and Martin Luther King, Jr ..

Among sites that claim a relation to these pseudohistorical figures are a house north of Lafayette, Louisiana, which supposedly belonged to Gabriel, and the grave of Emmeline in the Perpetual Adoration Garden & Historic Cemetery in St. Martin de Tours Church Square, on Main Street, St. Martinville ( the site having been determined for its convenience by local boosters about the turn of the 20th century ).

* Red Hook figures prominently in Gabriel Cohen's 2001 crime novel Red Hook, nominated for the Edgar award for Best First Novel.

Abeloos ' figures of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, the Last Supper and the College motto were all incorporated into a much grander piece, the work of local carpenters Rattee & Kett and artist F. R.

These developments are occasionally collectively labeled " postmodern "; more commonly, some key figures ( Samuel Beckett, William S. Burroughs, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar and Gabriel García Márquez ) are cited as significant contributors to the postmodern aesthetic.

Some of the major figures of the " Boom " and practitioners of Magic Realism ( Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar etc.

Linda Hutcheon coined the term " historiographic metafiction " to refer to works that fictionalize actual historical events or figures ; notable examples include The General in His Labyrinth by Gabriel García Márquez ( about Simón Bolívar ), Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes ( about Gustave Flaubert ), Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow ( which features such historical figures as Harry Houdini, Henry Ford, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, Booker T. Washington, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung ), and Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids: The Art of War which makes references to the Lebanese Civil War and various real life political figures.

* Dante Gabriel Rossetti-Bocca Baciata, the first of his portraits of single female figures ( Fanny Cornforth )

A line of action figures created by the toy company Gabriel in 1982 which included Buffalo Bill Cody, Butch Cavendish, George Custer, The Lone Ranger and Tonto.

On the other hand, Buchman was supported by figures such as Cosmo Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Gabriel Marcel.

PRB artists included John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Ford Madox Brown ( never officially a member ), and figures such as Edward Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse were later much influenced by aspects of their ideas, as was the designer William Morris.

Noteworthy figures said to be fans of the film include directors David Lynch and Samuel Fuller ; video game writer and director Suda 51 ; actors Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper ; comedians The Mighty Boosh ; and performers Bob Dylan, Roger Waters, Marilyn Manson, Jarvis Cocker, Peter Gabriel and John Lennon.

Soon seven figures, usually one to a panel, were standard, in order of proximity to Christ in the centre: on the left ( Christ's right ) Mary, the Archangel Michael and Saint Peter, and on the right John the Baptist, the Archangel Gabriel and Saint Paul.