It is curious that at its best, the work of this school of painting -- Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Willem De-Kooning, and the rest -- resembles nothing so much as the passage painting of quite unimpressive painters: the mother-of-pearl shimmer in the background of a Henry McFee, itself a formula derived from Renoir ; ;

In general, except that he did not write juvenile fiction, his work in subject and style closely resembles that of his brother, Jacob Abbott.

His chief work is his Hydrodynamique ( Hydrodynamica ), published in 1738 ; it resembles Joseph Louis Lagrange's Mécanique Analytique in being arranged so that all the results are consequences of a single principle, namely, conservation of energy.

Viollet le Duc always signed his work with a bat, the wing structure of which most resembles the Gothic vault ( see Château de Roquetaillade ).

In Don Procopio Bizet followed the stock devices of Italian opera as typified by Donizetti in Don Pasquale, a work which it closely resembles.

In this work the odometer and the dioptra, an apparatus which resembles the theodolite, are described.

Jetson commutes to work in an aerocar that resembles a flying saucer with a transparent bubble top.

Although Aristotle ’ s work closely resembles what came to be known as the Character, Ethics and Rhetoric contained “ disquisitions ,” not Characters.

While more work on undescribed specimens is required before firm consensus is reached, the discovery of P. spinosa, which strongly resembles modern Chaetognaths, in sediments of a similar age in Chengjiang biota places doubts on its position in the Chaetognath crown group.

He narrates the events from 427 onward as a contemporary witness and the text becomes increasingly full as the years progress until it resembles an organic literary work more than a typical chronicle.

Bartók researched folk melodies, and their influence is felt throughout the work ; for example, the second main theme of the first movement, as played by the 1st oboe, resembles a folk melody, with its narrow range and almost haphazard rhythm.

Oulton's work is essentially abstract though her early work often resembles rocky landscapes.

The content of this work closely resembles the poems of his later days, concerned primarily with the supernatural.

Others believe, because Duccio ’ s painting style so closely resembles art work of Byzantium, that maybe he had actually traveled to Constantinople himself and learned directly from a Byzantine master.

One of the dialogues attributed to Lucian, his avowed imitator, who frequently mentions him, is called Menippus, but since the sub-title (" The Oracle of the Dead ") resembles that of a work ascribed to Menippus by Diogenes Laërtius, it has been suggested that it is imitated from his Necromancy.

Among the Impressionists Sisley has been overshadowed by Monet, although his work most resembles that of Camille Pissarro.

Deep Springs, in some respects, resembles a work college.

The cylinder desk is a desk that resembles a Bureau Mazarin or a writing table equipped with small stacked shelves in front of the user's main work surface, and a revolving cylinder part that comes down to hide and lock up the working papers when the desk is not in use.

In his emphasis on sea power, Thucydides resembles the modern naval theorist Alfred Thayer Mahan, whose influential work The Influence of Sea Power upon History helped set in motion the naval arms race prior to World War I.

The chaos strategy resembles the way that programmers work toward the end of a project, when they have a list of bugs to fix and features to create.

The visual style of Les Triplettes de Belleville closely resembles the earlier work of Nicolas De Crécy's 1994 graphic novel Le Bibendum Céleste.

This work more closely resembles a series of monographs than a connected history.

A key influence on the music of Rachel's is the music of the English composer Michael Nyman, whose music the group's work resembles in both instrumentation and compositional style.

Although organised around the Hilchot of the Rif, it is, in fact, an independent work.

This work traces the Halakha from the Torah text and the Talmud through the Rishonim, with the Hilchot of Alfasi as its starting point.

* Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi finishes writing the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

It is not well known, but the work is actually not a commentary on the Talmud but is rather a commentary on the Rif, and always starts with the text of the Rif ( see Shach quoted in Kellolei HoRif, Rabbeinu Osher, ViTur printed before the Rosh on Shabbos, Klal 2 ).

; 1013 – 1073: Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi ( from Morocco, later Spain ) writes the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.

Rabbi Nissim of Gerona ( the RaN ) compiled a detailed and explicit commentary on this work ; In yeshivot " the Rif and the RaN " are regularly studied as part of the daily Talmudic schedule.

Regarding the access that his work provides, Rabbi Steinsaltz says:

Rabbi Steinsaltz's classic work of Kabbalah, The Thirteen Petalled Rose, was first published in 1980 and now appears in eight languages.

A Polish Kabbalist, writing in about 1630 – 1650, reported the creation of a golem by Rabbi Eliyahu thus: " And I have heard, in a certain and explicit way, from several respectable persons that one man close to our time, whose name is R. Eliyahu, the master of the name, who made a creature out of matter Golem and form tzurah and it performed hard work for him, for a long period, and the name of emet was hanging upon his neck, until he finally removed it for a certain reason, the name from his neck and it turned to dust.

* The work of the Rosh, Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel ( 1250 ?/ 1259 ?– 1328 ), an abstract of the Talmud, concisely stating the final halakhic decision and quoting later authorities, notably Alfasi, Maimonides, and the Tosafists.

This work superseded Rabbi Alfasi's and has been printed with almost every subsequent edition of the Talmud.

Yalkut Yosef, by Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, is a voluminous, widely cited and contemporary work of Halakha, based on the rulings of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.

Based on the same core material as Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael, it followed a second route of commentary and editing, and eventually emerged as a distinct work.

The Sifra work follows the tradition of Rabbi Akiva with additions from the School of Rabbi Ishmael.

A third such work was that of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel ( d. 1327 ).

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz writes that " If the Bible is the cornerstone of Judaism, then the Talmud is the central pillar ... No other work has had a comparable influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life, shaping influence on the theory and practice of Jewish life " and states:

A classical rabbinic work, Avoth de-Rabbi Natan, states: " One time, when Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai was walking in Jerusalem with Rabbi Yehosua, they arrived at where the Temple in Jerusalem now stood in ruins.

Maaseh Hoshev is sometimes mistakenly referred to as Sefer Hamispar ( The Book of Number ), which is an earlier and less sophisticated work by Rabbi Abraham ben Meir Ibn Ezra ( 1090 – 1167 ).

Rabbi Salanter set an example for the Lithuanian Jewish community during the cholera epidemic of 1848, making sure that necessary relief work on Shabbat for Jews was done by Jews ( despite the ordinary prohibition against doing work on Shabbat ), and ordering Jews whose lives were in danger to eat rather than fast on the fast day of Yom Kippur.

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai is accredited with having composed the Kabalistic work The Zohar ( literally " The Shining "-hence the custom of lighting fire to commemorate him ).

The teachings of the maggid are recorded in his published work titled Maggid Meisharim, although Rabbi Chaim Joseph David Azulai notes that only about one fiftieth of the manuscript was ever published, ( see Works ).

Isserles ' student, Rabbi Yehoshua Falk HaKohen published Sefer Me ' irath Enayim ( on Choshen Mishpat, abbreviated as Sema ) several decades after the main work.

The Mishna Berura, the main work of halakha by Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan ( the " Chafetz Chaim ") is a collation of the opinions of later authorities on the Orach Chayim section of the Shulchan Aruch.

Aruch HaShulchan, by Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, is a more analytical work attempting the same task from a different angle, and covering all sections of the Shulchan Aruch.

These include Rabbi Meir Margolius, chief rabbi of Lemberg and later Ostroha, and author of Meir Netivim ( a work of halachic responsa ) and other works ; Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Hakohen, rabbi of Polnoy ; Rabbi Dovid Halperin, rabbi of Ostroha ; Rabbi Israel of Satinov, author of Tiferet Yisrael ; Rabbi Yoseph Heilperin of Slosowitz ; and Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezrich ( AKA the Maggid of Mezritch ) to whose great authority as a Talmudist it was chiefly due that Besht ’ s doctrines ( though in an essentially altered form ) were introduced into learned circles.