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- was principally a goddess of fertility and sacred mountains. Temple hymn sources ... Nin ("lady") and Ḫursag ("sacred mountain"). She had ...14 KB (2,349 words) - 04:51, 15 November 2022
- or representation of an object, deity or sacred figure or event. Originally ... traditions of Western European religious art are largely lacking in Russia ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- of figs include the banyans and the sacred fig (Peepul or Bo) tree. areas with fig leaves after the Fall. The sacred fig, Ficus religiosa, is ...16 KB (2,692 words) - 19:39, 26 March 2024
- which encouraged the examination of sacred texts and religious experiences ... of religion." Religious experience, sacred texts, and religious practice ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- years when images of Mary were central to Western art. Madonna, if ... be used exclusively for Italian works of sacred art, but this is often not ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- Included among those fascinated by the art of "primitive" human ... 1,200 tourists per day who came to see the art of Paleolithic man. By 1955 ...13 KB (2,142 words) - 17:47, 25 October 2022
- The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects, that the Ichthys ... *Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art: With Illustrations ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- Sacred singing in Hebrew tradition dates back to songs of Miriam and ... factions within Church hierarchy that felt art in general, and music in particular ...20 KB (3,074 words) - 20:52, 3 November 2022
- " "completion") refers to a sacred geometric device commonly ... In Islam, sacred art is dominated by geometric shapes in which a segment ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- methodology of iconography, principally in art history; for other uses of ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...18 KB (2,613 words) - 15:30, 12 February 2024
- as well as often being depicted in western art. depictions of cherubim in western art. As most English speakers ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- codes. Religious belief, reflected in cave art, also became more sophisticated ... Prehistoric art can only be traced from surviving artifacts. Prehistoric ...14 KB (2,116 words) - 06:20, 18 November 2022
- later returning to her position at Ur sacred temple. Her writings were ... was also the son of a priestess, perhaps a sacred harlot, since he admits not ...10 KB (1,613 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- only initiates knew what the kiste, a sacred chest, and the kalathos, ... Greater Mysteries was the bringing of the sacred objects from Eleusis to the ...18 KB (2,798 words) - 16:07, 13 February 2024
- megalithic cemeteries, temples, and rock art. Those findings show that ... the capital area into many zones. The Sacred Center and the Royal Center ...15 KB (2,224 words) - 19:11, 26 July 2023
- s/mi_m1216/is_4_206/ai_72704345 The Art of the Hula.] Retrieved August ... evidence remains of the genesis of the art form. There is no record of ...19 KB (3,030 words) - 16:15, 9 February 2024
- an ancient temple and cemetery of the sacred Apis bulls. Although originally ... of the Serapeum—the cemetery of the sacred Apis bulls. ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 19:00, 21 August 2023
- be Bach's personal credo with regard to his art. == History == ... in the genre of monody, just as in sacred vocal music it resulted in ...16 KB (2,493 words) - 19:45, 26 March 2024
- in Shiva temples, an image of the sacred bull Nandi fronts the central ... Shiva, with his full might is a landmark in Indian art. ...8 KB (1,190 words) - 17:15, 13 February 2024
- Kendo (剣道 Kendō) is the martial art of Japanese fencing, developed ... taught through the practice of this martial art. Practice always begins and ...17 KB (2,670 words) - 22:07, 3 March 2023
- of Life was depicted in various works of art and literature. It was sometimes ... Good and Evil, often symbolized in European art and literature as an apple tree. ...17 KB (2,857 words) - 16:43, 2 May 2023
- the aesthetics of antique Roman and Greek art, contributed to an accelerated ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- for vocal production and created a novel art which culminated in the bel ... direction. He was also required to compose sacred works and small instrumental ...11 KB (1,723 words) - 21:07, 8 May 2020
- to a shrine where a linga was bathed in sacred water from a mountain spring ... The temples, also dedicated to Shiva, boast sacred springs near by. ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 23:14, 3 May 2023
- of Ramesses and Nefertari with the sacred boats of Amun and Ra-Harakhti ... What is truly surprising is that for the only time in Egyptian art ...14 KB (2,343 words) - 06:55, 14 June 2023
- G. Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. II (London: Lund Humphries ... of all Christian relics. According to Art Curator Neil Macgregor, “From ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- of real living existence, but exists only in art and literature, representing ... Found throughout history, in tales and in art, the sphinx always possesses ...16 KB (2,587 words) - 15:21, 27 April 2023
- including their origin myth. The first sacred buffalo had been created ... and her brother first created the sacred buffalo and then the first ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 03:52, 1 May 2023
- in Carroll's imaginative works. His art thus contributed to the entertainment ... London and educated himself for a career in art, although he became a probationer ...9 KB (1,251 words) - 07:57, 3 August 2022
- of mugwort, ordering them to eat only this sacred food and remain out of the ... Taekwondo, a form of the Korean martial art presents Dangun as the ...11 KB (1,597 words) - 18:13, 24 January 2024
- of Athens. The site of the academy was sacred to Athena and other immortals ... Life of Cimon xiii:7), it contained a sacred grove of olive trees, watered ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 08:02, 24 November 2022
- after which they are buried in certain sacred repositories." ... Book of the Dead. Accessed at [http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/index ...21 KB (3,284 words) - 11:08, 20 September 2023
- Popular Bases of Early Buddhist Patronage: Sacred Monuments, 100 B.C.E. – ... * Dehejia, Vidya. 1997. Indian Art. Phaidon: London. ISBN 0-7148-3496-3 ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
- they are often funny even when performing sacred tasks. The Native American ... as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until ...19 KB (2,802 words) - 16:52, 2 May 2023
- organization symbols, and the eagle is a sacred bird in some cultures, with ... The eagle is a sacred bird in some cultures and the feathers of the ...15 KB (1,992 words) - 01:24, 16 January 2023
- the Sarasvati River, which were held to be sacred. Because of her association ... 039;s connection with science, learning, and art, the products of the human ...16 KB (2,489 words) - 03:27, 23 December 2022
- A dreamcatcher is a sacred Native American object that consists of ... of the Native American Dreamcatcher,] Art History, Bella Online: The ...11 KB (1,727 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- (1857-1935) and the Treasure of the Sacred Well,] Yucatan Adventure ... and the legends concerning the sacred well at Chichen-Itza. Then ...16 KB (2,447 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- Sacred Indian dance drama, such as Krishnattom and Ramanattom, emerged ... a great admirer and promoter of traditional art forms, invited the Zamorin ...22 KB (3,220 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- function remains unknown, possibly a sacred park or priests' boarding ... * Bernet Kempers, August Johan. 1959. Ancient Indonesian Art. Amsterdam: ...15 KB (2,259 words) - 22:14, 30 November 2022
- grand temples, altars, inscriptions, and art objects devoted to her. ... As the goddess of love and fertility, Ishtar was the guardian of sacred ...12 KB (2,015 words) - 03:03, 8 March 2024
- tours of their reservation showing rock art and performing traditional dances. ... protection. These bags were used to hold sacred religious totems, pipes, ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 13:48, 3 May 2023
- some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1,000 ... began in 366 C.E., as places to store scriptures and art. ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- The greater number of Martini's sacred compositions remain unprinted ... * Beckett, Wendy. My favorite things: 75 works of art from around ...6 KB (832 words) - 13:14, 22 May 2024
- impacted the culture, philosophy, music, and art of Karnataka and the rest ... century and sixteenth century, the sacred center of Vijayanagara, the ...13 KB (1,811 words) - 23:13, 26 December 2022
- mark on the international music scene. Most art music in Spain was "imported ... At a time when there was very little serious art music being produced ...10 KB (1,487 words) - 02:58, 6 November 2022
- style of late medieval Central European art into the sixteenth century. ... html Biography] World Gallery of Art.hu. Retrieved January 20, 2009. ...14 KB (2,125 words) - 16:57, 7 November 2022
- may vanquish fate, and practices his healing art in vain. And when he finds ... Chiron taught Asclepius the art of surgery, honing his protegé's ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
- tenth Guru in Sikh tradition, affirmed the sacred text Adi Granth as his successor ... system, Gurmukhi, for writing their sacred literature. Although the ...19 KB (2,945 words) - 06:37, 10 January 2024
- Potala, which is considered to be the sacred abode of the Buddhist deity ... the southern tip of India—a rocky point sacred to the God of Mercy, whom ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 05:51, 30 November 2022
- Boston's "secular spots that are sacred." ... of John Adams. It has special strengths in art and art history (available ...17 KB (2,587 words) - 19:51, 20 November 2023
- This point, known as the Sangam, is a sacred place in Hinduism. According ... called by westerners) is considered to be sacred. It is worshipped by Hindus ...23 KB (3,460 words) - 04:25, 18 April 2024
- was Juno. The cow and peacock are sacred to her. Portrayed as majestic ... Corinth, Tiryns, Perachora, and on the sacred island of Delos. Indeed, ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- Committee on Social Thought, which included art critic Harold Rosenberg, novelist ... being the difference between secular and sacred. Every social position has ...16 KB (2,369 words) - 20:08, 3 May 2023
- of marriage, producing famous manuals on the art of lovemaking such as the ... seen by most pagans as something utterly sacred. The physical act of love ...13 KB (1,988 words) - 00:44, 5 December 2023
- pioneer in the field of women's education and art. ... capable women chose to enter a convent in sacred service to God. There, women ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 22:37, 12 February 2022
- School. While also noted as a composer of sacred music, such as motets, he ... Busnois wrote much sacred and secular music. Of his sacred music, ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 06:42, 31 July 2023
- image was often adopted by emperors as a sacred symbol of power. Thus, the ... 'pig dragon')] National Gallery of Art. The character for "dragon ...21 KB (3,271 words) - 17:03, 10 December 2023
- sexuality, fertility, and sometimes even sacred prostitution. It is likely ... subject of classical, medieval and modern art alike. Roman and Hellenistic ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- including the lute, as well as the art of singing, writing poetry ... there are records of his having composed sacred music, none of it has survived ...6 KB (949 words) - 04:47, 9 April 2024
- The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ... symbolize life and immortality. In Egyptian art, gods were sometimes portrayed ...10 KB (1,631 words) - 06:39, 28 July 2023
- dolls. They continue to perform the sacred ceremonies and traditional ... and ceremonial sashes. Their ceramic art has somewhat fallen by the ...33 KB (5,396 words) - 13:43, 2 February 2024
- of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession ... the heart of Vienna, near a major cathedral, art museums, and of course, cafés ...15 KB (2,101 words) - 21:28, 26 July 2023
- centuries. He was an early advocate of "art for art's sake," ... of fate, [while] good is always the product of an art." ...15 KB (2,281 words) - 01:56, 4 December 2023
- of both "Buddhist religious art" [http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/242 ... “Ajanta,” Exploring India’s Sacred Art: Selected Writings of Stella ...19 KB (2,978 words) - 07:12, 16 June 2023
- As the first Italian art historian, Vasari initiated the genre of ... as simply, The Vite). As the first Italian art historian, he initiated the ...13 KB (1,960 words) - 12:51, 22 May 2024
- aesthetic component of society, including art, rituals, science, ideologies ... *Harris, Marvin. 1966. The Cultural Ecology of India's Sacred ...11 KB (1,566 words) - 08:40, 10 March 2023
- fiction. It has inspired numerous works of art, music, and drama. ... by Assyria. Rather than a work of sacred history, however, it is best ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- alphabet, and at seven took upanayana (the sacred thread) and remained at the ... temple in rubble around it. This old and sacred place is the old Kiskinda ...11 KB (1,714 words) - 21:53, 3 May 2023
- considered to be one of the most remarkable art treasures created by Far Eastern ... located, is the eastern mountain of five sacred mountains believed to protect ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 09:48, 26 January 2023
- works on the subject of Indology. The Sacred Books of the East was a massive ... religious traditions over Christianity. The Art Nouveau and Symbolist designer ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- was also a society that revered the 'sacred female,' a concept that ... a striking resemblance to early Egyptian art in many of its features, has ...13 KB (2,078 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- a Zahiri grammar for use in interpreting sacred texts, which specifically ... as well as the The Ring of the Dove, on the art of love. ...15 KB (2,253 words) - 13:25, 4 February 2023
- Ages, had a decisive influence on European art and literature for centuries ... poems, Medicammina facei (“The Art of Beauty”), Ars amatoria ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- :33. "Tricked by another, | prince, thou art, :And the price of ... 151-173. Accessed online at [http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/poe/poe00.htm ...18 KB (2,858 words) - 16:28, 30 April 2020
- immediately under the title The Temple: Sacred Poems And Private Ejaculations ... or any of the other glorified laurels of art. Herbert's poetry has ...9 KB (1,501 words) - 16:52, 20 May 2024
- or Kasi), considered one of the seven sacred cities within Hindu belief ... and artistic expression. Most notably, the art of the city represents the ...18 KB (2,802 words) - 14:36, 3 May 2023
- informs us that king Vikramaditya had unburdened the sacred earth ... *Boardman, John (1994). The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- of both marital fertility and the sacred law. She is invoked as the ... 30 stades from Phigaleia, and has a cave sacred to Demeter Melaine ["Black ...20 KB (3,054 words) - 09:24, 28 January 2024
- traditional Chinese medicine, music, art, military strategy, and martial ... Five Government Ministers, Five Sacred Mountains of Taoism, Five ...19 KB (2,730 words) - 14:06, 20 May 2023
- the ruins of ancient monasteries, a sacred Bodhi tree, an ancient bathing ... Image:LumbiniFlags.JPG | Flags near the Sacred Pool (Puskarni) ...12 KB (1,788 words) - 02:57, 5 November 2022
- Osiris, god of the dead, passing on his sacred powers to his son, the new ... of both nature and fertility. The sacred cobras depicted on his crown ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 02:55, 24 November 2022
- Brigid also founded a school of art, including metal work and illumination ... in their names the presence of a sacred well ("Tobar" in ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:07, 20 November 2023
- immortal stallions (Iliad v.352). His sacred birds were the barn owl, ... In later Renaissance and Neoclassical works of art, Ares' symbols ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Enlil and the grain goddess Ninlil. His sacred city was Ur, and temples ... of sun and morning star (Venus). In art, his symbols are the crescent ...12 KB (1,952 words) - 08:45, 9 October 2022
- one of the first major training grounds for art dance in the U.S. ... Denishawn aimed to demonstrate that dance could be a serious art while ...12 KB (1,963 words) - 23:52, 21 August 2022
- Basilica di San Francesco, which contains sacred relics of Francis and beautiful ... have made it a fundamental reference for art history in Europe and in the ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- her formal education at the Academy of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, where ... entered the St. Louis Catholic Academy of the Sacred Heart. ...17 KB (2,711 words) - 17:09, 5 October 2022
- Lord Elgin was legally entitled to these art pieces as he obtained them ... and majesty of these wonderful works of art has been under-appreciated ...16 KB (2,366 words) - 16:10, 13 February 2024
- 18th Dynasty. State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich.jpg| ... restin in this place, great of fame, sacred of respect, the shade of ...7 KB (1,124 words) - 02:51, 4 November 2022
- Nepal, and Sikkim). Tibetan art is primarily sacred art, drawing elements from the religions of Buddhism, Hinduism, Bon, and various tribal groups ...39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023
- himself the authority usually reserved to sacred kingship. The poet declares ... * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/hesiod/index.htm Sacred Texts: ...12 KB (1,937 words) - 15:44, 25 January 2023
- Art historian F.S. Tern divided the remains at Champa into seven phases ... * Olsen, Brad. 2004. Sacred Places Around the World: 108 Destinations ...14 KB (2,135 words) - 02:40, 11 March 2023
- greatest masterpieces of classical Greek art—the Parthenon, the Propylaea ... A sizable temple, sacred to "Athena Polias" (Protectress ...17 KB (2,700 words) - 05:39, 15 June 2023
- to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets ... * [http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/index.htm "The Book of ...29 KB (4,679 words) - 07:27, 17 November 2023
- "Initiation recapitulates the sacred history of the world. And ... of which adolescents gain access to the sacred, to knowledge, and to sexuality ...23 KB (3,352 words) - 20:51, 17 June 2022
- Cleary, Transmission of Light: Zen in the Art of Enlightenment by Zen Master ... as unlikely and improbable.Dumoulin, 97.Sacred Texts, [http://www.sacred ...18 KB (2,660 words) - 12:22, 1 August 2022
- d. 829), the defender of the veneration of sacred images; his works include ... Among the monasteries which excelled in the art of copying were the Studium ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- Ujjain numbers among the seven sacred cities of the Hindus, with the ... one of the twelve Jyotirlingams, the sacred abodes of Shiva. A three ...17 KB (2,475 words) - 01:27, 3 May 2023
- Category:Art [[Image:Newspaper rock.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Petroglyphs ... the three different techniques used in Rock art, the prehistoric precursors ...25 KB (3,776 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
