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  • as one of the earliest champions of "Art for art's sake," ... Voyage en Espagne (1843), Trésors d’Art de la Russie (1858), and ...
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  • Ricimero rè de’ Goti, presented in the Roman Teatro Argentina in January ... is a year-long commemoration which the Roman Catholic Church holds every ...
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  • As the favorite medium for Greek and Roman sculptors and architects ... human achievements. Marble sculpture is the art of creating three-dimensional ...
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  • and recounts the noble deeds of Greek and Roman soldiers, legislators, orators ... Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius. His parents ...
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  • its central place in the history of the Roman Empire, Rome has a significant ... * Brilliant, Richard. Roman Art, An American's View. Roma: Di ...
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  • 54 B.C.E.) was one of the most influential Roman poets of the first century ... attention throughout the history of the Roman empire into the Middle Ages ...
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  • would be Athenian culture, with its love of art and learning and preference ... * Montagu, John Drogo. Battles of the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Chronological ...
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  • as a deist and a pantheist. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he converted to ... Junius Toland." He was raised a Roman Catholic. After having converted ...
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  • The Roman emperor Theodosius I closed the sanctuaries by decree in ... == The Mysteries in art == There are many paintings and pieces of pottery ...
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  • others were the main way that Raphael's art was known until the twentieth ... *Madonna and Child (1503) Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena ...
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  • or dead body that often is decorated with art, inscriptions, and carvings ... inset sculptures, seen frequently in Roman, and later, Catholic sarcophagi ...
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  • associated with the trend of the Nouveau Roman, a type of 1950s French novel ... theorist as well as writer of the nouveau roman, published a series of essays ...
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  • by European scholars of many Greek and Roman texts. Its focus was on human ... and moral philosophy, based on classical Roman and Greek texts. Many humanists ...
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  • In Roman Catholicism, the Seven Deadly Sins, also known as the capital ... as well as their particular ranking. The Roman Catholic Church differentiates ...
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  • became popular as it connected to Greek and Roman times. Influenced by the ... her portraits now hang in all the leading art museums of the world including ...
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  • popular Greek religion. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus, the ... linked to celestial deities. Uranus' Roman equivalent Caelus is based ...
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  • the model was to be classical Greek and Roman art, seen by Hitler as an art ... out, is that Hitler "saw Greek and Roman art as uncontaminated by Jewish ...
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  • year 38 B.C.E., and granted the status of a Roman colony in 50 C.E. From 260 ... center of medieval pilgrimage. Three great Roman Catholic scholars and theologians ...
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  • Hindu-based culture. Jain, Buddhist, Greco-Roman, Christian, and Islamic influences ... stands at the cross-roads of Indian art history. Ravi Varma’s contribution ...
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  • the Latin (Decimus Iunius) Iuvenalis, was a Roman poet active in the late first ... gives the author's tria nomina (full Roman name) as Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis ...
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