Search results for "Art in Ancient Greece" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Mimesis (μίμησις from μιμεîσθαι) in its simplest context ... In Plato's metaphysics, permanent and immutable Ideas have the ...16 KB (2,476 words) - 11:06, 10 March 2023
- 250px|The effigial monument to John Gower in Southwark Cathedral, Surrey]] space or burial chamber. The term is used in a broad sense to encompass ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge in England, Goethe was not only a gifted ... men committed suicide from unrequited love in imitation of the novel's ...29 KB (4,522 words) - 07:15, 5 April 2024
- In Greek mythology, Atlas (Eng. /'æt ləs/ Gk. Ἄτλας) ... The Twelve Olympians, led by Zeus, overthrew the Titans in the Titanomachy ...15 KB (2,163 words) - 16:42, 23 July 2020
- which ruled Egypt until the Roman conquest in 30 C.E. In 305/304 B.C.E. he ... Ptolemy I's legacy lived on in the dynasty he founded and in ...22 KB (3,249 words) - 23:34, 2 December 2022
- :This article is about Gothic art. See also Gothic Architecture Gothic art was a Medieval art movement that spanned the course of ...29 KB (4,407 words) - 15:08, 30 December 2022
- abacist, slides counters by hand on rods or in grooves. It was in use centuries ... the use of the abacus continues to be taught in technologically advanced countries ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 07:14, 13 June 2023
- The word oratory refers to the art of eloquent speech. An orator is ... The term Orator is recorded in English since around 1374, meaning ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 10:41, 11 March 2023
- ) was a woman rhetorician and philosopher in ancient Greece, famous ... Aspasia appears in the philosophical writings of Xenophon, Aeschines ...30 KB (4,572 words) - 04:50, 18 August 2023
- object selected for special recognition as art. Every culture since the beginning ... used to create sculpture are unparalleled in the art world. ...27 KB (4,032 words) - 17:31, 25 January 2023
- Christian Church at the Council of Ephesus in 431, after some initial resistance ... Madonna, if used to describe a work of art, rather than a single figure ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- nekromantía) is a form of divination in which the practitioner seeks ... === Ancient necromancy === The act of necromancy was widespread in ...13 KB (1,977 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- In the Olympian pantheon of classical Greek Mythology, Hera was the ... worn by several of the Great Goddesses. In her hand, Hera may bear the ...19 KB (3,127 words) - 09:47, 22 January 2024
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870 and opened in 1872 ... The Museum's collection ranges from ancient to contemporary with ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- of new materials are important ways in which unique cultural expressions ... [[File:Pieter Brueghel the Elder - The Dutch Proverbs - Google Art ...24 KB (3,693 words) - 06:15, 1 April 2024
- agoreuein, "to speak in public") is a symbolic ... The allegory is one of the most popular narrative forms in literature ...16 KB (2,444 words) - 18:26, 21 July 2023
- not they are closer to nymphs or sprites in both demeanor and appearance. ... German Nichus, which became nickes or niches in Middle High German before finally ...14 KB (2,167 words) - 09:56, 11 March 2023
- were a pre-Hellenic Bronze Age civilization in Crete in the Aegean Sea, flourishing ... "Caphtor" and "Kaptara" in the Mari archives, both evidently ...35 KB (5,383 words) - 18:52, 9 November 2022
- and Portland Place, London. His interest in the Classical legacy started ... Adam was born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland, the second son of William ...10 KB (1,385 words) - 03:09, 15 December 2022
- ; also known as a nimbus, glory, or gloriole) is a ring of light used ... The use of halos in art has been found in diverse religious traditions ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
