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The first pictorial representation of the familiar memento mori theme that was popularized in 16th-century Venice, now made more concrete and vivid by the inscription, is Guercino's version, painted between 1618 and 1622 ( in the Galleria Nazionale d ' Arte Antica, Rome ), in which the inscription gains force from the prominent presence of a skull in the foreground, beneath which the words are carved.
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It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.
Paul Cézanne, who participated in the first and third Impressionist exhibitions, developed a highly individual vision emphasising pictorial structure, and he is more often called a post-Impressionist.
In 1850, for example, Blackie and Son in Glasgow published the first general dictionary of English that relied heavily upon pictorial illustrations integrated with the text.
When geologist Henry De la Beche painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, he based it largely on fossils Anning had found, and sold prints of it for her benefit.
( In addition to everyday postmarks there are postmarks indicating the first day of issue of a particular stamp and pictorial cancellations commemorating local events, anniversaries, and the like and slogan postmarks which advertise an event or pass information to the public.
* The Jean Paul Museum in the former residence of Richard Wagner's daughter, Eva Chamberlain, with autographs, first editions of works, portraits and other pictorial material
This tiling method took the empire by storm in the late first century and the second century and in the Roman home joined the well known mural in decorating floors, walls, and grottoes in geometric and pictorial designs.
There will usually be a first day of issue postmark, frequently a pictorial cancellation, indicating the city and date where the item was first issued, and " first day of issue " is often used to refer to this postmark.
# The first type, and the type most often associated with Chinese writing, are pictograms, which are pictorial representations of the morpheme represented, e. g. 山 for " mountain ".
John Gardner identifies the first pictorial representation of a dory to a 1497 painting by Albrecht Dürer.
The first appearance of real pubic hair in Playboy actually occurred in August 1969 in a pictorial featuring dancer / actress Paula Kelly.
* Hermann Lungkwitz ( 1813 – 1891 ) Romantic landscape artist and photographer, noted for first pictorial records of the Texas Hill Country.
A further development took place during the ninth century ( according to pictorial representations, at first outside of Rome where ancient traditions were not maintained so strictly ): the band, which had hitherto been kept in place by the pins, was sewn Y-shaped, without, however, being cut.
In 1850, for example, Blackie and Son in Glasgow published the first general dictionary of English that relied heavily upon pictorial illustrations integrated with the text.
Hillenbrand suggests that the medieval Islamic texts called Maqamat, copied and illustrated by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti were some of the earliest " coffee table books .< nowiki >"</ nowiki > They were among the first texts to hold up a mirror to daily life in Islamic art, portraying humorous stories and showing little to no inheritance of pictorial tradition.
This is the first common use of the term " pictorial " referring to photography in the context of a certain stylistic element-chiaroscuro ‒ an Italian term used by painters and art historians that refers to the use of dramatic lighting and shading to convey an expressive mood.
Adolf Fassbender, a 20th century photographer who continued to make pictorial photographs well into the 1960s, believed that pictorialism is eternal because it is based upon beauty first.
In 1907 Carter organized Canada's first major exhibition of pictorial photography at Montreal's Art Association.
The dragon motif was first combined with the already standardised Passio Georgii in Vincent of Beauvais ' encyclopedic Speculum Historiale, and then Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend ( ca 1260 ) guaranteed its popularity in the later Middle Ages as a literary and pictorial subject.
The first pictorial, non-portrait stamps were issued in 1925, a set of five showing views of Iceland.
The idea of building a tall structure came to Nasser-ol-Din Shah before his first European and from pictorial images of European buildings.
In the same year, Denmark's first pictorial stamp was a 5-kroner issue depicting the Copenhagen General Post Office.
first and representation
It was the collage that made the terms of this dilemma clear: the representational could be restored and preserved only on the flat and literal surface now that illusion and representation had become, for the first time, mutually exclusive alternatives.
Although Dürer made no innovations in these areas, he is notable as the first Northern European to treat matters of visual representation in a scientific way, and with understanding of Euclidean principles.
It elects one Member of Parliament ( MP ) by the first past the post system of election, and is part of the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects six MEPs using the d ' Hondt method of party-list proportional representation.
It depicts a young woman crossing herself as she kneels, and marks the first step toward abstracted, non-literal representation, and shows his drive to depict " not the outer form but the idea, the essence of things.
For the first time since 1912, the territory has direct representation.
In fact, like so many film effects that distort the representation of reality, anamorphosis was first used exclusively in comic contexts.
This view was further elaborated by Belidor ( representation of rough surfaces with spherical asperities, 1737 ) and Leonhard Euler ( 1750 ) who derived the angle of repose of a weight on an inclined plane and first distinguished between static and kinetic friction ..
A graphical representation of the Arecibo message – Humanity's first attempt to use radio waves to actively communicate its existence to alien civilizations
It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji " that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching ; thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two.
* ISO 3166-3, Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, defines codes for country names which have been deleted from ISO 3166-1 since its first publication in 1974.
Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation ; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Northern Ireland party having become a region of the Irish party in the previous year.
As a reaction to their exclusion from political representation, the Kikuyu people, the most subject to pressure by the settlers, founded in 1921 Kenya's first African political protest movement, the Young Kikuyu Association, led by Harry Thuku.
Similar sorts of decisions have to be made with all the representation technologies, because each of them supplies only a first order guess about how to see the world: they offer a way of seeing but don't indicate how to instantiate that view.
At each layer, even the first ( e. g., selecting rules or frames ), the choices being made are about representation, not data structures.
The concrete definition given above is easy to work with, but has some minor problems: to use it we first need to represent a Lie group as a group of matrices, but not all Lie groups can be represented in this way, and it is not obvious that the Lie algebra is independent of the representation we use.
The first cracks in the system, even though they were merely symbolic, were the 1970s reforms to the electoral system and the composition of the Congress of the Union which for the first time incorporated proportional representation seats allowing opposition parties to obtain seats, though limited in number, in the Chamber of Deputies.
Subsequent changes included the creation of the Federal Electoral Institute in the 1990s and the inclusion of proportional representation and first minority seats in the Senate.
A party-list proportional representation system was first devised and described in 1878 by Victor D ' Hondt of Belgium.
" The seal of Jaazaniah carries the insignia of a rooster from the ruins of the biblical Judean kingdom at Mizpah, with the inscription of " belonging to Jaazaniah, servant to the king "., the first known representation of the chicken in Palestine, and from II Kings 25: 23, we know of one Jaazaniah the Maschathit, who was an official under Gedalish at Mizpah.
In 1924 a new constitution was put in place, introducing elected representation ( 3 out of 22 members ) for the first time.
In response, SETI advocates note, among other things, that the Drake Equation was never a hypothesis, and so never intended to be testable, nor to be " solved "; it was merely a clever representation of the agenda for the world's first scientific SETI meeting in 1961, and it serves as a tool in formulating testable hypotheses.
These algorithms first convert the SMILES to an internal representation of the molecular structure and do not simply manipulate strings as is sometimes thought.
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