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  • Christian Dior (January 21, 1905 – October 23, 1957), was one of ... his real aspirations lay with studying Fine Art. In 1928, his father gave ...
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  • In the early church, the Alpha-and-Omega symbol became Christ's ... passed down from the synagogue into the early church through the Book of ...
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  • of a fish, said to have been used by early Christians as a secret symbol ... ===Ichthus as a Christian symbol=== ====Symbolic meaning==== ...
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  • "Art for art's sake" is the usual English rendition ... It was a rejection of the accustomed role of art, since the Counter-Reformation ...
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  • Category:Art [[Image:Chauvethorses.jpg|thumb|right|Drawing of horses ... one of the most significant prehistoric art sites. The cave was first ...
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  • The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art ... symbolize life and immortality. In Egyptian art, gods were sometimes portrayed ...
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  • Christian symbolism is defined as the investing of outward things ... jpg|thumb|right|220px|Baptism in early Christian art.]] ...
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  • methodology of iconography, principally in art history; for other uses of ... Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification ...
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  • He was a follower of Leibniz and Christian Wolff, and gave the term ... unambiguously dominated by the work of Christian Wolff, whose philosophical ...
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  • Christ, and is traditionally used as a Christian symbol. Different types ... teachings of Jesus Christ as well as the Christian Church. In the early years ...
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  • A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... life painting has been part of China's art history as well. In Korea ...
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  • as the greatest Russian painter of the Art Nouveau movement, an art movement ... he went to Venice to study medieval Christian art. It was here that, ...
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  • is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography ... The use of halos in art has been found in diverse religious traditions ...
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  • capital city of Ptolemaic Egypt. This pre-Christian group of Jewish ascetics ... ancient world, and healing was seen as a religious art. ...
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  • times in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Christian Book of Revelation, as ... depictions of cherubim in western art. As most English speakers ...
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  • A relief is a sculptured art work in which figures are either carved ... but there are a few exceptions in Greek art and in the decorative work ...
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  • Apostles before his death, according to Christian tradition. Described in ... The Last Supper is particularly important in Christian tradition as ...
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  • 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. ...
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  • architecture that first appeared in Christian churches around the fifth ... the Influence of Stage Architecture upon the Art of Antioch," The Journal ...
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  • popular religious tools, used within the Christian traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy ... traditions of Western European religious art are largely lacking in Russia ...
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  • Saint Barbara (d. c. 306 C.E.) was a Christian saint and martyr who ... she was often depicted in important works of art. She was invoked against the ...
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  • God") was adopted officially by the Christian Church at the Council of ... Madonna, if used to describe a work of art, rather than a single figure ...
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  • of Peter is an example of popular early Christian apocalyptic literature ... Written by a Christian author in Peter's name during the first ...
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  • style of late medieval Central European art into the sixteenth century. ... html Biography] World Gallery of Art.hu. Retrieved January 20, 2009. ...
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  • novelist, social reformer, pacifist, Christian anarchist, and moral thinker ... a life of personal austerity based on Christian love and an idealized image ...
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  • from December 17, 283 to April 22, 296. Christian tradition makes him a native ... of the Roman church, established a Christian place of worship in their ...
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  • language. Hex signs are a type of folk art that became common in Pennsylvania ... " By contrast, supporters of the folk-art theory point out that the ...
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  • with strong use of harmony) drawn from Christian worship and often featuring ... musical idioms and traditional European Christian hymns, and came to maturity ...
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  • While non-Christian traditions such as Judaism used scrolls, early ... Chinese also later did. As far back as the early second century, there is ...
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  • studio painting to a bona fide and finished art in its own right. His chosen ... 1723. The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for art students at the time. The ...
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  • as an illuminated manuscript, and also in early printing in both blockbook ... Prints and People (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Princeton, 1971, nos.32, 33 ...
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  • an important forerunner in the school of art known as Expressionism. recognizable and iconic images in Modern art. The Scream was one of several ...
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  • a short book of the New Testament in the Christian Bible. Written to the Christian ... any time from the later 50s C.E. to the early second century. ...
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  • influential humanist philosophers of the early Italian Renaissance, an astrologer ... Ficino exhibited an interest in the art of astrology, which aroused ...
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  • E.) was a virgin martyr and saint of the Christian church. Also known as Saint ... other than that she was executed as a Christian at age 12 or 13. Later ...
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  • corpus. It is a principal symbol of the Christian religion, primarily used ... to those who believe. It is a fusion of art and faith, and has been a ...
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  • ) is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries ... by angels. Catherine of Alexandria was a Christian martyr initially sentenced ...
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  • mass, the Orthodox liturgy and other Christian services including the ... attribute the term to Western and Judeo-Christian traditions, music accompanying ...
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  • Romanesque art refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately ... " However, "Romanesque Art" is not a return to classical ...
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  • who rose to positions of influence in Christian European noble houses. ... developed reputations, both among the Christian populace and their fellow ...
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  • Christ. He, thus, reaffirmed the basic Christian faith, while also confronting ... at what was then the new International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan ...
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  • intelligentsia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Like many ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...
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  • Scotland, Britain, and Europe, spreading Christian teachings. It is conjectured ... #039;s fame as a place of learning and Christian mission spread throughout ...
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  • has existed from prehistoric times. Early necromancy likely originated ... a magical amulet, for example. Later Christian writers rejected the idea ...
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  • Saint Alban was the first known Christian martyr of Britain. Shortly ... Alban's career as a Christian was extremely brief, being executed ...
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  • wrote about good governance, and espoused Christian values—he attended a ... in Paris. He erected a building and endowed art schools, spending between ...
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  • gold and silver decoration and the finest art and statuary of the age. It ... Test holes have confirmed the temple site was occupied as early as ...
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  • The parable is one of the clearest expressions of the Christian concepts ... response. The parable speaks to the Christian sense that God is a God ...
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  • important sources of information about the early church. However, a large ... commemorated as a martyr by virtually all Christian traditions that honor saints ...
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  • refers in general to works of a genre of Early Christian literature.Peter ... Haereses, Irenaeus denounced various early Christian groups that used ...
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  • == Early life == Maffeo Barberini was born in 1568 to an important ... Despite an early friendship and encouragement for his teachings, Urban ...
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  • and Barahs." But the fame of these early establishers of Semitic supremacy ... Sin, and bearing a striking resemblance to early Egyptian art in many of its ...
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  • traveled deeper into Asia. From as early as the Roman Empire until ... were the "alien" enemies of the Christian world. European knowledge ...
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  • back to fourth-century Rome and the first Christian emperor Constantine I& ... enacted in the colony of Virginia in the early 1600s, and required attendance ...
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  • the Samaritans respond positively to the Christian message. ... Exile up to the beginning of the Christian Era. The Samaritans, however ...
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  • Expressionism generally refers to a twentieth century art movement ... conduit for previously neglected currents in ancient art. ...
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  • c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... history of mankind according to medieval Christian doctrine. ...
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  • His father Lin ZhiCheng (林至誠) was a Christian minister. His mother was ... he had a number of questions regarding Christian teachings: Jesus was said ...
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  • supposed martyrdom. He is often depicted in art as writing his Gospel under ... a Hebrew name and a Greek name. The later Christian leader Paul (Paulos), was ...
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  • === Early Education === John Toland was born November 30, 1670 in Ardagh ... medical profession, "They learn their Art at the hazard of our lives ...
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  • to the discussion of the symbolism of Christian architecture in La Cathédrale ... ==Parents and early life== Huysmans was born in Paris to a Dutch father ...
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  • century,G. Schiller, Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. II (London: Lund ... was regarded as the most precious of all Christian relics. According to Art ...
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  • such as painting, sculpture or some forms of mimetic art. ... reading. This tradition was inherited by Christian writers, for whom allegorical ...
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  • return to their bodies. In the medieval Christian era, the tomb served as ... Early prehistoric tombs frequently took the shape of small burial ...
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  • the head of the dissenters was a lapsed Christian who had denied the faith ... as the Church of San Marcello al Corso. In art, he is pictured with symbols ...
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  • Maritain's early upbringing and education at the Sorbonne led ... to the truth of the Thomistic doctrine, the early influence of Bergson also ...
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  • into English by Joseph Jacobs in 1892 as The Art of Wordly Wisdom. ... Agudeza y arte de ingenio (Wit and the Art of Inventiveness) (1643) ...
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  • these works lies not only in their inherent art history value, but in the ... Very early printed books were sometimes produced with spaces left ...
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  • and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Christian mystic and the founder ... on depictions of the Nativity of Jesus in art. The Virgin knelt down ...
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  • The Acts of John is a second century collection of Christian-based ... it to fall in the Romance genre set in a Christian context. Two of its tales ...
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  • was a painter, draughtsman, and writer on art, who was born in in Zurich ... He is viewed by some art historians as a prime exponent of Neoclassicism ...
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  • Today Hiroshige is represented in the art museums of Tokyo, London, ... Hiroshige devoted himself full-time to his art. From then until Hokusai& ...
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  • Today, the word is most commonly used in Christian circles to denote the Three ... Magi were three in number. According to Christian tradition, it is generally ...
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  • In Christian eschatology, the Antichrist or Anti-Christ is a powerful ... Antichrist has been built up gradually by Christian theologians and folk-religionists ...
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  • and social policy in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain ... theory of aesthetics emphasized the role of art in self-development, and of ...
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  • traditionally believed to have died as a Christian martyr together with 11 ... According to this account, Ursula, the daughter of a Christian king ...
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  • to Christianity, as the second official Christian state (after Armenia) and ... After Axum became a Christian kingdom, it allied itself with the Byzantium ...
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  • + annum "year") is a view in Christian eschatology named for its ... even in the first three centuries of the Christian era, during which premillennalism ...
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  • :This article is about Gothic art. See also Gothic Architecture Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that spanned the course of ...
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  • s) in terms of humans characteristics. In early polytheistic religions human ... Anthropomorphism is frequently used as a device in art, literature ...
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  • The French court of the troubadour Duke William IX was an early center ... of the First Crusade (1099). It found its early expression in the lyric poems ...
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  • importance in the history of the early church. Most of his papacy ... The famous Christian teacher and scholar Origen wrote to Fabian, as ...
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  • fidei athleta (true Champion of Christian Faith). He was a man of ... Nor was conflict constant. The early seventeenth century under ...
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  • they also burned many valuable works of art. The colonialists were so ... the palace, often for ceremonial use. Much art depicted the Oba in various ...
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  • :This article is about the Christian sacrament of Baptism. For similar ... and Peter.jpg|thumb|right|Baptism in early Christian art: A depiction of the ...
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  • The term Poor Man's Bible refers to various forms of Christian ... Until the invention of the Printing press in 1439, the average Christian ...
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  • that for centuries after his death, Christian authors wrote hundreds ... his parents were part of the growing Christian community in the city, ...
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  • in Literature for his “powerful and vivid art of description and the ability ... library before graduating from high school. Early literary influences included ...
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  • of Thomas (written in east Syria in the early third century, or perhaps ... Some have claimed that the mainstream Christian tradition has mistakenly ...
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  • late medieval realism in the north and the art of the Renaissance in Italy ... == Early life == [[Image:Albrecht-self.jpg|thumb|left|The earliest ...
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  • as an illustrator, muralist, world traveler, art critic, author and close friend ... He was an organizer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ...
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  • compares favorably with the Augustinian Christian view that evil is non-being ... religion was widely persecuted under Christian leaders of the Roman Empire ...
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  • translations; translated Latin works of the early Church Fathers; Anglo-Saxon ... Old English poetry is of two types, the pre-Christian and the Christian ...
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  • preaching, book burning, and destruction of art. He vehemently preached against ... doctrines. Instead, he preached that Christian life involved being good ...
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  • Cathedral and already a prominent Christian figure at home and abroad ... him in the principle of our universal Christian brotherhood, which rises ...
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  • His study of literature, Greek antiquity, art and philosophy gave him a ... of Leipzig, where he studied philology, art and the history of ancient ...
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  • In the early stellar cults of Mesopotamia, there were four "royal ... Watchers to the gods of the four winds. Christian theologians, in their attempts ...
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  • Mars included warfare, which was seen as an art-form itself. ... goddess, although she was not worshiped as early as other Roman deities such ...
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  • been written between the mid-seventh and early ninth centuries. Another ... === Early life === Brigid is traditionally believed to have been born ...
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  • bishops are selected. In virtually all Christian traditions, celibacy is ... outside of marriage in Islamic and Judeo-Christian ethical contexts, and are ...
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  • and disposing of legal matters. In the early Imperial period, palaces ... his palace complex at Trier. Typically, a Christian basilica of the fourth ...
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  • 20, 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, ... developing his ideas about symbolism in art. He then turned to architecture ...
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  • In the early nineteenth century, newspapers lacked photographs; but ... he continued his education by visiting art galleries and reading at the ...
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  • Jew. He was married to a Protestant Christian woman, despite his Hungarian ... a moralistic attack on so-called degenerate art, as well as a polemic against ...
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  • *The union of a god and goddess as expressed in various art forms ... (the salt-water ocean) was inherited by the early Hebrews, who participated ...
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  • whose influence would be pivotal during his early years. In 1879 he traveled ... Sargent received positive critical notice in the early 1880s, for ...
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  • Early Romans built the flourishing municipium Asisium on a series ... have made it a fundamental reference for art history in Europe and in the ...
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  • Saint Sebastian (traditionally died January 20, 287) was a Christian ... Maximian, both of whom were unaware that he was a Christian. ...
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  • The name Cook Islands was first used in the early 1800s on Russian naval charts. ... introduced Christianity to the Cooks in the early 1800s. In the 1970s, the ...
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  • numerous uses in architecture, mathematics, art, religion, and culture. and respect for law and order. The early Christians, believing that ...
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  • The Spirit is said to dwell inside every true Christian, each person ... can also be seen in second-century Christian writings such as the Didache ...
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  • it is far from universal in formative and early music (e.g., Nettl, 1956; ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Music ...
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  • was an influential English writer of the early twentieth century. His prolific ... He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are admired and quoted ...
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  • he not only found a way to live and create art in the country that repressed ... The early years of World War II Trnka spent working with director ...
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  • In 1922, Lao She was baptized at London Christian Church in Gangwashi ... the All-China Federation of Literature and Art and vice-chairman of the Union ...
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  • Degenerate art is the English translation of the German entartete ... Degenerate Art was also the title of an exhibition, mounted by the ...
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  • Although Safed played no role in either Jewish of Christian biblical ... the Mamluk sultan Baybars wiped out the Christian population of Safed and ...
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  • its struggle to be accepted as a recognized art form. During his 60 year photographic ... who eventually became legends of modern art, as well as eventual legends ...
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  • of Elector William II of Hesse. At an early age, he showed an interest ... During these early years, Wöhler took a great interest in the isolation ...
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  • Many early ceramics were hand-built using a simple coiling technique ... Early ceramics built by the coiling technique were often placed on ...
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  • According to the Christian Gospels, Joseph of Arimathea is the person ... well as on July 31. He appears in some early New Testament apocrypha, ...
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  • style having taken inspiration from early works of Andrei Tarkovsky ... beauty and was blessed with having access to art from early age. In 1945, Paradzhanov ...
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  • exhibited high standards of Christian humility and compassion ... became a catechumen—a candidate for Christian baptism. At this time, ...
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  • forms of Manueline, Mannerist and Baroque art in all the countries of Asia ... in Old Goa, the capital of Goa in the early days of Portuguese rule, ...
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  • earth that sustained the lives of the early Egyptians) and his place ... In early Egyptian mythology, Geb was revered as the personification ...
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  • and “here-and-now” psychotherapy, art, the creative will, and neurosis ... theory to the study of legend, myth, art, and other works of creativity ...
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  • a system of metaphysics necessary for a Christian interpretation of the world ... interpretation of objective reality from Christian neoplatonism, in which ...
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  • saint" for those who would use their art to criticize power. Whether ... to openly criticize the court and the Christian church, and his fiercely ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • gnostic who, according to ancient Christian accounts, allegedly asserted ... The figure of Simon appears prominently in the accounts of several ...
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  • " became the basis for all Soviet art and made heroes of previously ... the ethics and ideals of the revolution early on, but who had growing doubts ...
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  • The early history of Nagaland consists of the customs and economic ... of the insurgencies were quelled in the early 1980s. However, violence ...
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  • and Hegel's Doctrine of Religion and Art (1842), were parodies in which ... works make reference to Bruno Bauer as a Christian. Bauer's philosophy ...
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  • to attempt to reconcile Aristotle with Christian doctrine, particularly ... France. Little is known of William’s early life; the date of his birth ...
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  • blanket statement to circumscribe all non-Christian (or, more broadly, non ... and demonize the adherents of non-Christian faiths since the first ...
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  • and his first wife, Maria Barbara Bach. His early works were the epitome of ... reduced from 1742 onward, when Christian Friedrich Schale was appointed ...
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  • Psalms (Greek: Psalmoi) is a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian ... point of continuity in the Judeo-Christian tradition. ==Composition ...
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  • more weight" than Johnson; and Christian thinker and novelist C ... Johnson was the author of the early and authoritative Dictionary of ...
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  • and The Father of All Monks, was an early Christian ascetic, later ... the means by which the remainder of the Christian polity came to know of ...
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  • agreed to act as her agent and her editor. Early in 1861, Jacobs published ... The author appealed mainly to Middle class white Christian women in ...
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  • by the compositional trends of the early twentieth century, his highly ... Commenting on the art of composing, he remarked, "A composition ...
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  • According to Christian legend, the Image of Edessa, known to Orthodox ... today the city's Great Mosque. The Christian tradition is at variance ...
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  • for Western thinkers, and Western and Christian thought for Asian scholars. ... During its early years, the university presidents were chosen by the ...
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  • The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 is devoted to a different set of skills or art related to warfare and how ...
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  • as the Eungje Siju and Sejong Sillok of the early Joseon dynasty. importance of knowledge of weather to the early agricultural peoples of Korea. ...
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