Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

The Bastille's design was highly innovative: it rejected both the 13th-century tradition of more weakly fortified quadrangular castles, and the contemporary fashion set at Vincennes, where tall towers were positioned around a lower wall, overlooked by an even taller keep in the centre.

This was based on the tradition that the wall was the place where Muhammad tethered his miraculous winged steed, Buraq.

Framlingham has no keep, for example-this had been a very popular feature in previous Anglo-Norman castles, but this castle breaks with the tradition, relying on the curtain wall and mural towers instead.

The singing of songs over the wall are still known as " a Gordouli ", and the tradition continues as the students gather to sing following boat club dinners and the bi-weekly fancy dress parties.

He says that the pomerium was a tradition from Etruria, and that the Etruscans consecrated the area by augury which in part had the purpose of preventing houses from being built on the inside of the wall ( although he writes that in his time houses were in fact built against the wall ) and to keep the area on the outer side free from human occupation.

Some defenders of this tradition have responded by citing Jewish history of the wall, that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

The open air temples of Akhenaten to the Aten incorporated the Heliopolitan tradition of employing sun rays in architecture, as well as realistic wall reliefs or friezes.

In keeping with the show's tradition of " breaking the fourth wall ", the last episode ( fittingly titled " Lunar Eclipse ") featured Maddie and David returning from Agnes and Herbert's wedding to find the Blue Moon sets being taken away, and an ABC network executive waiting to tell them that the show had been canceled.

The materials used were pisé ( clay and grit well mixed and rammed down to form a wall ), cob ( a similar mixture of earth of a buttery consistency or marl, chopped straw and perhaps gravel ) and timber framing, typical materials of Normandy ’ s later building tradition.

( A competing tradition claims that the wall was built by Hernando de Soto to defend against the Creek Indians around 1540.

Although the site has been both damaged and looted, around 5000 square metres of wall paintings remained, These murals mostly depict Jataka stories, avadanas, and legends of the Buddha, and are an artistic representation in the tradition of the Theravada school of the Sarvastivadas.

The statues on the Western ( Royal ) Portal at Chartres Cathedral ( c. 1145 ) show an elegant but exaggerated columnar elongation, but those on the south transcept portal, from 1215 – 20, show a more naturalistic style and increasing detachment from the wall behind, and some awareness of the classical tradition.

A new tradition began of articles in alumni newsletters proclaiming, " The north wall is still standing!

In the show, this tradition was preserved by having Ellery Queen break the fourth wall and speak directly to the viewer prior to the commercial break that led into the final act.

The most famous of all doom paintings, The Last Judgment by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel, painted in 1537 to 1541, comes at the end of the tradition, and is unusually sited on the east wall behind the altar.

The Palm's historical materials contend that the caricature tradition began as a twist on the phrase " sing for your meal " where an artist who enjoyed the fare would pay for his meal by drawing a portrait on the wall.

Here at least explains, from the Classical viewpoint, its approximate method with a large amount of traditional rationality for its oeuvre heavily reliant on tradition to make conclusions ' as final decisions ' towards conclusions. Foucault uses a rather unusual method involving oeuvre de la obscure meaning the ' obscure ' is seen as the building block for human rationality functioning as norms which become familiar to people, giving the uninformed their ' view ' and ' truth ' of the world. The uninformed means the uninformed who have no direct access to policy decision making therefore condemning those who work into a continuous comatose ignorance producing this network of power systems creating what Marx called ' labour power ' which recreate and recycle a functioning society ( comparable to a living breathing organism ) and the population of producers who have no monetary resources and ownership of capital wealth ; ownership of mines, banks, transportation equipment and machinery, such as aeroplanes car manufacturers and industry and therefore are confined to the bottom of the hiercharchical pyramid, producing the problematization of a society comparable to Ants or Bees which inform evolutionary biology, for example of human nature. While inaccurate and now known to be scientifically flawed, nevertheless it remains ' true ' from the classical perspective as opposed to the working population who are not uneducated or illiterate a wall which can be pieced.

It is also sometimes known as " Breaking the Fourth Wall ", in reference to the theatrical tradition of playing as if there were no audience, as if a wall existed between them and the actors.

The tower was described in the OS memoirs as " a square tower ... nothing now remains but a portion of the N wall 27ft long & 25ft high-with a very small portion of the E side attached to it ... There is no tradition or local record to throw any light on the origin, history or destruction of this castle ".

In line with Caltech's tradition of wall murals and wall writings, any member may change the house motto by striking the previous motto on a designated motto wall and writing a new one.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

China, Japan and Korea have a strong tradition in painting which is also highly attached to the art of calligraphy and printmaking ( so much that it is commonly seen as painting ).

The term is generally not used in art history in speaking of medieval painting, although the Western tradition was developing in large altarpieces, fresco cycles, and other works, as well as miniatures in illuminated manuscripts.

Murray attempts to claim that various depictions of humans with horns from European and Indian sources, ranging from the paleolithic French cave painting of " The Sorcerer " to the Indic Pashupati to the modern English Dorset Ooser, are evidence for an unbroken, Europe-wide tradition of worship of a singular Horned God.

Of the icon painting tradition that developed in Byzantium, with Constantinople as the chief city, we have only a few icons from the 11th century and none preceding them, in part because of the Iconoclastic reforms during which many were destroyed, and also because of plundering by Venetians in 1204 during the Fourth Crusade, and finally the taking of the city by the Islamic Turks in 1453.

Of particular note is the Flemish infection at Fontainebleau that combined the eroticism of the French style with a precursor of the vanitas tradition that would dominate seventeenth-century Netherlandish and Flemish painting.

The tradition of representing nature as it is became one of the aims of Chinese painting and was a significant influence in Asian art.

The nineteenth century saw such innovations as the Shanghai school and the Lingnan School which used the technical skills of tradition to set the stage for modern painting.

There was also a tradition of Etruscan vase painting.

have a long tradition of painting the front surface of their Sousaphone bells with a variety of images.

It has a rich history and can boast a long tradition of excellence in every aspect of arts, especially when it comes to literature and philosophy, classical music and ballet, architecture and painting, cinema and animation, which all had considerable influence on the world culture.

Although he was initially labelled a Fauve ( wild beast ), by the 1920s he was increasingly hailed as an upholder of the classical tradition in French painting.

Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism.

In contrast, the tradition of ink wash painting, practiced mainly by scholar-officials and especially of landscapes, developed aesthetic values depending on the individual imagination of the artist that are similar to those of the West, but long pre-dated their development there.

However, the oldest known landscape art scene tradition in the classical sense of painting is a work by Zhan Ziqian of the Sui Dynasty ( 581 – 618 ).

Realist tradition gave rise to many trends of contemporary painting, including painting from nature, " severe style " painting and decorative art.

In painting, symbolism can be seen as a revival of some mystical tendencies in the Romantic tradition, and was close to the self-consciously morbid and private decadent movement.

He drew from the highly moralizing Protestant tradition of Dutch genre painting, and the very vigorous satirical traditions of the English broadsheet and other types of popular print.

This tradition is celebrated every year by an annual oil painting by local artist Jan Castle Reed.

It supported Pollock's work on formalistic grounds as simply the best painting of its day and the culmination of an art tradition going back via Cubism and Cézanne to Monet, in which painting became ever ' purer ' and more concentrated in what was ' essential ' to it, the making of marks on a flat surface.