The post-war motels, especially in the early 1950s to late 1960s, sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching colorful neon signs which employed themes from popular culture, ranging from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic era iconography.

Though Jerome and Eusebius ( both citing Castor of Rhodes ), and as even late as 1812 John Lemprière euhemeristically asserted that he was the first king of Argos, and Robert Graves that he was a descendant of Iapetus, most modern mythologists understand Inachus as one of the river gods, all sons of Oceanus and Tethys and thus to the Greeks part of the pre-Olympian or " Pelasgian " mythic landscape ; in Greek iconography, Walter Burkert notes, the rivers are represented in the form of a bull with a human head or face.

The god's image and its iconographic elements reflected the wish for millions of years of life or rule ; as such, the figure of Ḥeḥ finds frequent representation in amulets, prestige items and royal iconography from the late Old Kingdom period onwards.

Ouroboros as a halo ( religious iconography ) | halo in a late baroque allegorical painting

Biwa hoshi are referred to in Japanese iconography that dates back to the late Heian period ( 794-1185 C. E .).

Although the iconography in the church is Christian, Stanford was a " late Victorian progressive ", and chose the art less for its religious themes and more for its " humanitarian ethics ".

* Stevenson, Thomas B. Miniature decoration in the Vatican Virgil: a study in late antique iconography.

In 1160 / 61 Hugues de Toucy, Archbishop of Sens, presented to the priory the relic of Saint Loup, brought from the abbey of Sainte-Colombe, to that community's dismay ; the sculpted portail with an iconography comparable to the royal portal at Chartres was doubtless undertaken shortly thereafter, when pilgrimages brought wealth to the community.

There have been numerous attempts to interpret the decoration ( iconography ) of the church's most remarkable part, the old portal in the northern wall.

At Versailles she was incorporated into the Olympian iconography with which Louis XIV, the Apollo-like " Sun King " liked to surround himself.

However, this iconography was not fixed, and many of the gods could be depicted in more than one form.

" The peacock motif was revived in the Renaissance iconography that unified Hera and Juno, and which European painters focused on.

The writer Dean Swinford, ( whose concept of irrealism was described at length in the section " Irrealism in Literature "), wrote that the artist Remedios Varos, in her painting The Juggler, " creates a personal allegorical system which relies on the predetermined symbols of Christian and classical iconography.

As Arab contact with the West expanded, so too did the game and its various permutations, and by the twelfth century, chess was becoming an entertaining diversion among a growing population of Europeans, including some scholars, clergy, the aristocracy, and the merchant classes ; thus, by the thirteenth century, the iconography and symbolism associated with chess would have been accessible and familiar to Alfonso and his literate court culture, who may have had access to the private library, and manuscripts, of Alfonso, including the Libro de juegos.

Another pioneer of collage was Joseph Cornell, whose more intimately scaled works were seen as radical because of both his personal iconography and his use of found objects.

He was also a patron of Nicolas Poussin, commissioning A Dance to the Music of Time from him and dictating its iconography.

At Locri, perhaps uniquely, Persephone was the protector of marriage, a role usually assumed by Hera ; in the iconography of votive plaques at Locri, her abduction and marriage to Hades served as an emblem of the marital state, children at Locri were dedicated to Proserpina, and maidens about to be wed brought their peplos to be blessed.

Dr Jerome Eisenberg has argued in Minerva magazine that the vase was produced in the 16th century AD and not antiquity, because the iconography is incoherent, but this theory has not been widely accepted.

Similar strains of fascination and repulsion convulsed their artists " Nonetheless, nudity and violence are more evident in British paintings set in the ancient world, and " the iconography of the odalisque ... the Oriental sex slave whose image is offered up to the viewer as freely as she herself supposedly was to her master-is almost entirely French in origin ", though taken up with enthusiasm by Italian and other painters.

In the Iliad, the rich iconography of Achilles ' shield, which was fashioned by Hephaestus, is enclosed, as the world itself was believed to be, by Oceanus:

It was common medieval iconography that a perjurer was to die with a weapon through the eye.

This was made clear in the way the iconography of the 1795 revolution was done away with: the epigraph Vrijheid, Gelijkheid, Broederschap ( Liberty, Equality, Fraternity ) which had adorned all official publications, was henceforth removed, and the last Liberty Trees were removed from the town squares.

However, after the siege of Haarlem was lost, the Spanish army restored Roman Catholic iconography.

The glazing of the window was equally as difficult as the tracery for many of the same reason ; therefore, the designers made a decision to cut back on the amount of iconography within the window.

Understanding Mithraism has been made difficult by the near-total lack of written descriptions or scripture ; the teachings must be reconstructed from iconography found in mithraea ( a mithraeum was a cave or underground meeting place that often contained bas reliefs of Mithras, the zodiac and associated symbols ).

The church of Hagia Sophia was built by Justinian I in the middle of the city in the 6th century ( modelled after the larger Hagia Sophia in Constantinople ), and it was there that the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787 to discuss the issues of iconography.

In Mapuche iconography, the morning star or Venus, ( Mapudungun: Wünelfe or the Hispanicized Guñelve ) was represented through the figure of an octagram star or a foliated cross.

For the Greeks, the tympanon was a marker of foreign cults, suitable for rites to Cybele, her close equivalent Rhea, and Dionysus ; but in Greek iconography, only Cybele holds the tympanon herself.

" In paintings such as " The Madonna of Port Lligat " ( first version ) ( 1949 ) and " Corpus Hypercubus " ( 1954 ), Dalí sought to synthesize Christian iconography with images of material disintegration inspired by nuclear physics .< ref > Salvador Dalí Bio, Art on 5th.

In 1435, he executed the Annunciation for the Cavalcanti altar in Santa Croce, inspired by 14th-century iconography, and in 1437 – 1443, he worked in the Old Sacristy of the San Lorenzo in Florence, on two doors and lunettes portraying saints, as well as eight stucco tondoes.

Seax-Wica is a tradition, or denomination, of the neopagan religion of Wicca which is largely inspired by the iconography of the historical Anglo-Saxon paganism, though, unlike Theodism, it is not a reconstruction of the early mediaeval religion itself.

Not only does Roberts ' character draw from 60s era iconography of Bob Dylan, it also contains scenes inspired by the 1967 documentary, Dont Look Back, made about the singer, employing a similar ( although consciously constructed ) cinema verité style.

Although his training was only beginning, Molloy was already sensitive to the religious and folk themes he would illustrate in books and windows and the character he chose to represent the ideal citizen of an independent Ireland was inspired by the iconography of Saint Patrick, the Virgin Mary, and The Pilgrim ’ s Progress, and reflects the explicitly religious language of the Sinn Féin propagandist Robert Lynd.

The Louis XVI style of furniture ( once again already present in the previous reign ) tended toward circles and ovals in chair backs ; chair legs were grooved ; Greek inspired iconography was used as decoration.

His works are often inspired by, and often titled after, Greek Mythology and Native American iconography.

A current modern interpretation is that the Hittite sacral hieratic hunting bag ( kursas ), a rough and shaggy goatskin that has been firmly established in literary texts and iconography by H. G.

In Christian iconography, some works of art depict women with their breasts in their hands or on a platter, signifying that they died as a martyr by having their breasts severed ; one example of this is Saint Agatha of Sicily.

Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.

Air is represented in the Aztec religion by a snake to the Scythians, a yoke to the Hindus and for Greeks as a sword and in Christian iconography as mankind.

Earth is represented in the Aztec religion by a house ; to the Hindus, a lotus ; to the Scythians, a plough ; to the Greeks, a wheel ; and in Christian iconography by a bull.

Sometimes this is shown by adding horns or antlers to the iconography.

Image of the Saviour Acheiropoieta | Not Made by Hand: a traditional Orthodox iconography in the interpretation of Simon Ushakov ( 1658 ).

* Orthodox iconography by Fr.

In Chinese Buddhist iconography, Guanyin is often depicted as meditating or sitting alongside one of the Buddhas and usually accompanied by another bodhisattva.

However in " The Ancient Celts " by Barry Cunliffe, on page 94 of that book, Professor Cunliffe writes ," All these pieces of equipment spears, swords, mail armour, mentioned in the texts, are reflected in the archaeological record and in the surviving iconography, though it is sometimes possible to detect regional variations.

The ambiguities in Hestia's mythology are matched by her indeterminate attributes, character and iconography.

Though not noted as a religious painter, Wilkie made the trip with a Protestant agenda to reform religious painting, as he believed that: " a Martin Luther in painting is as much called for as in theology, to sweep away the abuses by which our divine pursuit is encumbered ", by which he meant traditional Christian iconography.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension in Christian art had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

By the 6th century the iconography of the Ascension had been established and by the 9th century Ascension scenes were being depicted on domes of churches.

Rhea only appears in Greek art from the 4th century BC, when her iconography draws on that of Cybele ; the two are therefore often indistinguishable ; both can be shown on a throne flanked by lions or on a chariot drawn by two lions.