For artistic beauty and style Gerhard had little perception ; his interest was largely antiquarian, and it is characteristic of him that he was attracted by the Etruscan art, generally of little interest to the artist.

At the end of the Dada episode, Janco also took his growing interest in primitivism to the level of academia: in his 1918 speech at the Zurich Institute, he declared that African, Etruscan, Byzantine and Romanesque arts were more genuine and " spiritual " than the Renaissance and its derivatives, while also issuing special praise for the modern spirituality of Derain, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse ; his lecture rated all Cubists above all Impressionists.

It is of interest not only for recreation and sport, but as a location of antiquities going back as early as the Bronze Age.

Glob, it was " he, more than anyone else, helped to arouse the wide interest in Danish antiquities " such as the bog bodies.

His early interest in the history and antiquities of the Scottish Highlands bore its first fruit in 1837, when he published The Highlanders of Scotland, their Origin, History and Antiquities.

Also as a scholar, Arbuthnot took up an interest in antiquities and published Tables of Grecian, Roman, and Jewish measures, weights and coins ; reduced to the English standard in 1705, 1707, 1709, and, expanded with a preface ( which indicated that his second son, Charles, was born in 1705 ), in 1727 and 1747.

Schömann's main interest was in the constitutional and religious antiquities of Greece.

Mitsotakis's main interest outside politics is Cretan antiquities.

Ralph M. Williams, on John ’ s state of mind upon returning to Aberglasney, writes, “ It is here that we first begin to know something of his personality and see for the first time the conflict in him between the dreamy romantic and the practical man of business that runs through his life .” Having grown up in the archaic monastic buildings of Aberglasney it was not surprising that Dyer had developed an interest in antiquities and his love with nature, as fostered in his 1716 Pindaric ode version of Grongar Hill.

The mission statement of the Trust is: " To protect, preserve and enhance for the benefit of the public the landscape, antiquities, flora, fauna, natural beauty and scientific interest of the island of Steep Holm in the County of North Somerset and to advance the education of the public in the natural sciences.

His interest in the antiquities of Roman law is apparent, and for this reason his work is most valuable to the historian of early institutions.

As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of Rome, in which he took a particular interest in the city's antiquities.

Near the end of the 14th century, Roman statues were unearthed in Italy, intensifying the populace ’ s interest in antiquities, and leading to a sharp increase in the value of these objects.

In 1534 he moved to Rome, where he developed his interest in antiquities, and was named superintendent to the ancient monuments by the Popes Pius IV and Paul IV.

His broader modern interest for historians centers on his collection of classical sculpture and other antiquities, which formed one of the prominent museums of Rome ( Roma nihil possidet magnificentius, nihil admirabilius one guidebook remarked: " Rome possesses nothing more magnificent, nor to be more admired ") and the Greek and Latin library, dispersed after his death, that brought scholars and humanists, not invariably good Catholics, to his palazzo in the Campo Marzio — the Campus Martius of Antiquity — and his suburban villa, on the site of the gardens of Sallust, on the flank of the Quirinal Hill.

Golan also has a keen interest in archeology and antiquities.

These cousins had had an interest in Kilkenny antiquities from their youngest days, when they had rambled as far afield as Kilfane church to see the famous tomb sculpture of Cantwell Fada.

The Society ’ s foundation was no doubt influenced by the general revival of interest in ancient Irish antiquities and history which the Ordnance Survey had sparked off.

At the British Museum, and as director of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an appointment he received in 1858, he made himself the leading authority in England on medieval antiquities of all descriptions, upon porcelain, glass, artefacts of anthropological interest, and works of art later than the Classical period.

His interest in the language begun there and continued at St. Patrick's College Maynooth, where from his entrance in 1882 he devoted himself to the study of the Irish language, antiquities, and history.

During this time he gained an interest in antiquities.

Sir Joseph seems very early in life to have manifested an interest in antiquities, which received at once the recognition of the learned, although for many years he was merely collecting information and published nothing.

A mysterious interest appears to be attached to it, and now that so many precautions have been resorted to, and so much difficulty attends its inspection, the crowd is enormously enhanced, and the policemen at either end of the covered entrance have much trouble in restraining the struggling and impatient multitude.

* Francesco Petrarca ( often considered the first man of the Renaissance ) first visits Rome, to wander its mysterious ruins with an eye for aesthetic as well as for history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation.

The fate of the mysterious prisoner – and the extent of apparent precautions his jailers took – created much interest and many legends.

*" Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

He is a school teacher made to chemically analyze a " green powder " of uncertain origin by his students, and, upon lighting the powder on fire, is violently launched into a mysterious parallel dimension next to ours where mute " Watchers of the Living ", obviously deceased souls or alternate versions of existing people in our world, take keen interest in us.

They do so in such a way that nature fuses with their state of spirit and it is melancholic, tetric, mysterious, dark ... as opposed to the neoclassicals, who barely showed interest in the landscape.

The entire series is actively narrated by Snicket, who makes numerous references to his mysterious, deceased love interest, Beatrice.

In the film, Scott was Joan Crawford's somewhat sleazy love interest, whose mysterious murder formed the basis of the plot.

Meanwhile, Fagin is visited by the mysterious Monks ( Ralph Truman ), who has a strong interest in Oliver.

She was a romantic interest to Hurley and was very mysterious showing up in flashbacks.

But no one visited the island to check the story until official interest was sparked in the early 1910s by stories from Dutch sailors based in Flores about a mysterious creature.

Frank begins to tease the traveller, Morris, pretending to assume an interest in the mysterious box.

Among many other examinees, Gon continuously encounters Hisoka, a mysterious and deadly conjurer who takes an interest in Gon.

In the discipline of linguistics, ideophones have long been overlooked or treated as mysterious words ( Voeltz and Kilian-Hatz 2001: 2 ), though a recent surge of interest in sound symbolism, iconicity and linguistic diversity has brought them renewed attention ( Imai et al.

: A mysterious black-winged Windragon who seems to be the one in true control of DWC ( he bullies and intimidates the President of the company constantly ) and has an interest in Shiron as he is very similar to him.

Fort also briefly touched on UFOs again in this book, and wrote extensively on a number of other topics which he felt can be explained by teleportation: cryptozoology ( including the Jersey Devil and various out of place animals ), animal mutilations and attacks on people, strange swarming of insects, the appearance of various strange people from nowhere ( the famous cases of Princess Caraboo and Kaspar Hauser ), and the mysterious disappearances of others ( including the diplomat Benjamin Bathurst, and vessels such as the Mary Celeste, Carroll A. Deering, and USS Cyclops, presaging later interest in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon ).

The film was directed by Robert Mulligan, and starred Gary Grimes as Hermie, Jerry Houser as his best friend Oscy, Oliver Conant as their nerdy young friend Benjie, Jennifer O ' Neill as Hermie's mysterious love interest, and Katherine Allentuck and Christopher Norris as a pair of girls whom Hermie and Oscy attempt to seduce.

A mysterious ship docks directly outside their shack, and as she looks out to the open sea, Giuliana confides to Corrado, " I can't look at the sea for long or I lose interest in what's happening on land.

The brief and mysterious life and death of Erik Johan Stagnelius have given a romantic interest to all that is connected with his name.

Despite Longabaugh and Parker's fame, by the mid-20th century, it was the mysterious vanishing of Place that sparked the most interest, which continues to the present day.

During an archeological dig, Cartman discovers a mysterious stone triangle, which he promptly throws away without interest.

Official Stargate sources advertised Vala as a " scheming, unscrupulous, thieving con artist ", " feisty " and " occasionally fickle ", with a " mysterious agenda " and a seemingly " amorous interest in Dr. Daniel Jackson ".