Search results for "Figure" - New World Encyclopedia
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- and perhaps more than any musical figure of the nineteenth century was responsible for developing the attitude that the conductor was a supreme ...17 KB (2,649 words) - 22:58, 14 May 2020
- quot;broad") on account of his robust figure. Another alternative is that ... and-answer style is more formal: the main figure represents Plato and the ...37 KB (6,078 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- between Pelops and Oinomaos, and the central figure which dominates the work is of Zeus. The western pediment depicts the abduction of the Lapith women ...17 KB (2,779 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- An allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but it may be ... statues of 'Justice': a female figure traditionally holding scales ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- Merezhkovsky was a seminal literary figure in modernist Russia. He helped to introduce Friedrich Nietzsche into Russian thought. His poetry and ...8 KB (1,156 words) - 16:30, 29 January 2024
- Chief Joseph would become a mythical figure in the United States, ... a viable option. He became a mythical figure in the United States, as ...16 KB (2,627 words) - 15:25, 10 December 2023
- cross, (mandalas), or by the quaternity (a figure with four parts). Prominent ... priest, professor, or any other authority figure. It represents insight, wisdom ...28 KB (4,297 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- William Butler Yeats (June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, mystic, and public figure. He is considered among the ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- to deliver pestilence. In this way, the figure of Sebastian can be seen ... these depictions, the saint is seen as a figure of boyish, even effeminate ...18 KB (2,711 words) - 20:50, 17 April 2023
- As a figure in the Norse mythic corpus, Völund belonged to a complex ... for "if Völund had been the divine figure he probably once was, the ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 21:02, 3 May 2023
- Levi became a major literary figure in Italy. The Truce became a set ... survivors. He became in the end a symbolic figure for anti-fascists in Italy. ...16 KB (2,482 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- The former quarters of the Dalai Lama. The figure in the throne represents ... of the Gelug tradition. His central figure is surrounded by lamas from ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an influential figure in the development of modern American anthropology. The first student of Franz Boas and a prolific ...9 KB (1,305 words) - 08:17, 20 July 2023
- named Don Pedro who had been a vital figure in expelling the Moors from ... War, Farragut has been an inspirational figure within navy and military ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 07:56, 28 January 2024
- the raid on Ali's house. She was a leading figure in the community, as Muhammad's biological daugher and mother of his only grandchildren. Abu ...9 KB (1,417 words) - 01:39, 26 March 2024
- Twain was a colorful figure who arrived on the literary scene during ... of Arc, whom he saw as an authentic Christ figure untainted by the hypocrisies ...25 KB (3,843 words) - 02:57, 23 December 2022
- Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 - October 15, 1965) was an American poet and literary critic. A key figure in the development of Modernist American ...9 KB (1,392 words) - 00:34, 8 December 2022
- of depth. The background and object (or figure) planes interpenetrate one ... formal academic art training, such as figure drawing and painting in oil ...22 KB (3,461 words) - 10:56, 11 March 2023
- an important and influential political figure serving in the Senate. He ... offensive" by embracing the "figure of Simon bolivar--first Santander ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- Bobrowski, in Kraków—a more cautious figure than either of his parents ... novels: the introduction of an enigmatic figure who serves as a touchstone ...22 KB (3,429 words) - 21:20, 6 May 2024
