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- of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (fifth century C.E ... culture was a powerful influence in the Roman Empire, which carried a version ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- She worked to instill appreciation of art and inspire creativity in ... Her aunt, Eliza Allen Starr, a devout Roman Catholic convert and a writer ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- including Brandenburg within the Holy Roman Empire and Ducal Prussia ... Leopold I, archduke of Austria and Holy Roman emperor, was convinced by ...6 KB (831 words) - 00:44, 8 October 2022
- Romanesque art refers to the art of Western Europe from approximately ... While emphasizing the dependence on "Roman art," the label ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 04:56, 16 December 2022
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... she was not worshiped as early as other Roman deities such as Jupiter and Juno. ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, ... a divine ancestor of the entire race of Roman people. In addition, the ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- of the Virgin Mary, the mother of Jesus. In Roman Catholicism, the prayer forms ... of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women" ( ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- and finally a prominent city of the Roman Empire. The ancient city ... a Punic city, and eventually one of the Roman Empire's most important ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- Roman Witold Ingarden (February 5, 1893 - June 14, 1970), a Polish ... particularly on the ontology of the work of art and the status of aesthetic ...16 KB (2,359 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- Collingwood was also a serious archaeologist and an authority on Roman ... spent his summers directing excavations of Roman sites in the north of England ...17 KB (2,548 words) - 02:20, 16 December 2022
- insight into the world of classic Greek and Roman intellectualism. ... to him in the works of other Greek and Roman writers, and deductions made ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 04:12, 24 November 2022
- creating a harmony and cooperation within an art form which communicated to ... of music in Florence. They felt contemporary art was inferior to classical ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
- who promoted the revival of ancient Roman classics and the traditions ... classical questions and celebrated ancient Roman rites and festivals. In 1468 ...9 KB (1,365 words) - 21:15, 4 October 2022
- in an area which was still heavily Roman Catholic. Later he moved ... Hassler's sacred music is both for the Roman Catholic church ...4 KB (660 words) - 01:17, 19 January 2024
- Flaccus (34 – 62 C.E.), was an ancient Roman poet and satirist of Etruscan ... 4, 34 C.E., into a noble family. He was a Roman Eques (knight) and heir to ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 00:44, 24 November 2022
- – Tomis, now Constanta, 17 C.E.) was a Roman poet known to the English ... poems, Medicammina facei (“The Art of Beauty”), Ars amatoria ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 06:01, 18 November 2022
- A still life is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, ... of ancient Egyptian tombs, as they were in Roman frescoes. Though not a main ...11 KB (1,581 words) - 18:01, 21 October 2022
- having reorganized and re-invigorated the Roman church after a period of ... Marcellus' relics are under the altar of the Roman Church of ...10 KB (1,623 words) - 04:04, 26 November 2022
- is a ring of light used in religious art, sculpture, and iconography ... ==In Greco-Roman art== [[Image:Apollo1.JPG|thumb|250px|right|Apollo ...19 KB (3,001 words) - 23:21, 3 August 2023
- dates from a period of peace with the Roman state, this report is generally ... prominent and wealthy members of the Roman church, established a Christian ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- Manson & Woods, the oldest fine-art auctioneers in the world. ... by James Christie. Gaining friends in the art world that included Sir Joshua ...9 KB (1,246 words) - 21:11, 10 December 2023
- Alban is one of three martyrs remembered from Roman Britain. ... had visited Rome. He is often represented in art as carrying his severed head ...10 KB (1,607 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- In the Roman Empire, following military victory, Roman soldiers would ... be held in taverns and coffeehouses to sell art. Such auctions were held daily ...16 KB (2,512 words) - 05:57, 10 January 2023
- Ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying") is the name of two related ... In medieval Europe, art played a very important role in educating ...9 KB (1,473 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2023
- of war. The Romans equated Mars, the Roman god of war (whom they had ... literature, images from Greek and Roman art. * [http://www.greek-gods ...9 KB (1,454 words) - 06:23, 12 August 2023
- Pompeii is a ruined city of Roman Empire near modern Naples in the ... city's inhabitants, suggested by erotic art discovered there, has led ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- his reign, most of Armenia was lost to the Roman Empire and Emperor Marcus ... was strong enough to continue to resist Roman hegemony. Persia was the ...12 KB (1,906 words) - 01:04, 1 January 2022
- have made it a fundamental reference for art history in Europe and in the ... on Mount Subasio. Remains from these Roman times can still be found ...13 KB (1,967 words) - 05:01, 18 August 2023
- the nineteenth century. His work regarding Roman history is still of fundamental ... diploma in 1837, graduating as a doctor of Roman law. As he could not afford ...16 KB (2,291 words) - 17:56, 30 April 2023
- in the world, with three million works of art (not all on display at once), ... and one of the oldest art galleries and museums of human history and ...11 KB (1,594 words) - 14:53, 12 February 2022
- was a prevalent theme in Spanish Baroque art, which was devoted to the ... of this connection exists. Longing to study art in Italy, he made his way ...11 KB (1,669 words) - 06:44, 28 February 2023
- the Virgin Mary, commemorated by name in the Roman Missal. ... Saint Agnes was a member of the Roman nobility born c. 291 and raised ...11 KB (1,796 words) - 06:46, 16 June 2023
- alleged crime of treason/sedition to the Roman Empire. However, when Pilate ... public because they were persecuted by the Roman Empire. As a result, certain ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- Robusti was invited by both Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576 ... and were not welcome in the public world of art production and sale, Marietta ...11 KB (1,724 words) - 15:54, 6 November 2022
- The Roman Martyrology says he preached in India and Greater Armenia ... legend that he is often represented in art as having been flayed and ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- The futurists explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture ... to attract publicity by repudiating static art of the past. The likes of ...11 KB (1,537 words) - 07:23, 15 April 2024
- of the major slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third ... uprising, with Spartacus defeating local Roman armies in three sharp engagements ...13 KB (1,968 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- 23, 1878 – May 15, 1935) was a painter and art theoretician, pioneer of geometric ... Catholics, and he was baptized in the Roman Catholic Church. His father ...11 KB (1,476 words) - 17:18, 5 October 2022
- 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 ...15 KB (2,307 words) - 03:37, 8 December 2022
- and statesman, founder of the earliest Roman Catholic missions in India ... As a member of a Roman Catholic religious order which at that time ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- historian, and teacher. Born in Apamea, a Roman city in Syria, he settled ... 135 B.C.E. to a Greek family in Apamea, a Roman city on the river Orontes ...16 KB (2,426 words) - 05:44, 30 November 2022
- as the Temple of Diana, the equivalent Roman goddess to Artemis. The temple ... Most of the physical description and art within the Temple of Artemis ...16 KB (2,567 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- they included Russian émigrés such as Roman Jakobson, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ... In 1920, Roman Jakobson moved from Moscow to Prague to continue his ...16 KB (2,265 words) - 22:11, 30 November 2022
- of calligraphic practice would be: "the art of giving form to signs in ... inscriptions and hand lettering to fine art pieces where the artistic ...19 KB (2,750 words) - 18:29, 25 November 2023
- in antiquity, or before the end of the Roman Empire. It usually refers ... Pre-Socratics, Hellenistic philosophy, and Roman philosophy. Ancient philosophy ...16 KB (2,127 words) - 19:43, 26 July 2023
- furniture is considered a form of decorative art and can be the product of ... of Herculaneum and Pompeii introduced Roman furniture, preserved in the ...10 KB (1,622 words) - 07:22, 15 April 2024
- in a tower and then denounced her to the Roman authorities when she became ... she was often depicted in important works of art. She was invoked against the ...12 KB (1,877 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- over 20,000 inhabitants in the Holy Roman Empire. [[Image:Magdeburger ... of Magdeburg against the troops of the Holy Roman Empire. The Empire's ...14 KB (2,050 words) - 04:57, 5 November 2022
- director to the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, and was an influential ... he composed unique four-voiced lieder or art songs filed with unrequited ...6 KB (899 words) - 02:39, 5 November 2022
- in her hair, and this was due to Athena (Roman Minerva) cursing her. Medusa ... the world, having been portrayed in works of art as well as popular media over ...11 KB (1,834 words) - 04:53, 26 December 2022
- 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
- , trace Durtal/Huysmans' conversion to Roman Catholicism. En Route depicts ... Huysmans was also known for his art criticism: L'Art moderne ...9 KB (1,248 words) - 03:25, 6 August 2022
- Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 B.C.E. - 55 B.C.E.) was a Roman poet ... De Rerum Natura was an important influence on Virgil and later Roman ...13 KB (2,021 words) - 02:28, 5 November 2022
- Linear A, but numerous examples of their art have been uncovered, preserved ... and sports, and, as is clear from their art work, revered nature. The ...13 KB (2,102 words) - 03:56, 4 March 2023
- wrestling was a popular form of martial art in which points were awarded ... Ptolemy III of Egypt were both depicted in art as victorious wrestlers. After ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- calls never came back alive. However, later Roman authors expanded on the idea ... In early Greek art the Sirens were represented as birds with large ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- Ficino exhibited an interest in the art of astrology, which aroused ... theology, Ficino included his theory of art and the significance of imagery ...12 KB (1,803 words) - 16:15, 6 November 2022
- Societies of Christians in Hellenistic Greece and Roman Greece, prior ... III, xi). However, it can be inferred from Roman monumental sources such as ...11 KB (1,707 words) - 21:21, 7 September 2023
- the schism between the two corresponding Roman congregations of these leaders ... According the Liber Pontificalis, Fabian was a Roman by birth, and ...11 KB (1,652 words) - 09:39, 24 November 2022
- controlled from Alexandria, and became Roman territory in 96 B.C.E. when ... In 74 B.C.E. Cyrene was created a Roman province; but, whereas under ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- as the Volto Santo or Holy Face, is a Roman Catholic relic, which, according ... of Veronica became a central icon in the Roman Catholic Church, which attracted ...20 KB (3,228 words) - 14:45, 3 May 2023
- years when images of Mary were central to Western art. Madonna, if used to describe a work of art, rather than a single figure ...21 KB (3,389 words) - 04:56, 5 November 2022
- is the first document indicating that the Roman church intervened in the ... Clement I is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass. He is commemorated ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 09:27, 24 November 2022
- (September 18, 53 – August 9, 117) was Roman Emperor who reigned from ... Trajan maintained good relations with the Roman Senate, and is known for ...18 KB (2,716 words) - 00:38, 2 May 2023
- to those who believe. It is a fusion of art and faith, and has been a ... sculpture, metalwork, and other material art forms. It is often the principal ...15 KB (2,416 words) - 06:30, 11 January 2024
- as the first century C.E.B. Caron, 1993, A Roman Figure-Engraved Glass Bowl ... was used to reproduce other forms of art; for example, paintings. Engravings ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- love for humanity. Depicted in Christian art as a heart shining with divine ... Devotion towards the Sacred Heart is predominantly found in the Roman ...16 KB (2,644 words) - 18:34, 22 December 2022
- Donne was born in 1572 and raised in a Roman Catholic family. His ... from either institution because, as a Roman Catholic, he was unable to ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 06:32, 8 April 2024
- mining industry, agriculture and ceramic art working. They Dacians also ... and as Dacus (plural Daci) and Getae in Roman documents; also as Dagae ...22 KB (3,335 words) - 07:37, 12 January 2024
- directly to the Synthetist style of Modern Art, while his expression of the ... Gauguin became increasingly focused on his art, associating with such Parisian ...13 KB (1,899 words) - 17:04, 21 November 2022
- in Constantinople. On his accession to the Roman Imperial throne in 527, as ... *Bury, J. B. History of the Later Roman Empire. New York: Dover, 1963. ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- 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
- giving birth to the intricate system of Roman catacombs. Christian churches ... Early Roman tombs were constructed as symbols of a heavenly home; ...18 KB (2,713 words) - 03:55, 1 May 2023
- ) in Paris, France, is one of the oldest, largest, and most famous ... The Louvre houses 35,000 works of art displayed in eight curatorial ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- of pagan symbols for use in Christian art and customs. Many Christian ... the earliest times. It can be seen in such Roman monuments as the Capella ...18 KB (2,807 words) - 21:08, 10 December 2023
- Caiaphas (Greek Καϊάφας) was the Roman-appointed Jewish high ... probably due to his skill in pleasing his Roman overlords while maintaining ...15 KB (2,468 words) - 18:17, 25 November 2023
- Anthropomorphism is frequently used as a device in art, literature ... Anthropomorphic gods are depicted in ancient art found at archaeological ...17 KB (2,392 words) - 06:18, 31 July 2023
- dollars. Getty was also an avid collector of art and antiquities, and his collection ... rare watches, furniture, and Greek and Roman art. In his collection were ...17 KB (2,774 words) - 08:23, 13 March 2024
- (Academy of Cinema, Art and Techniques), which was founded in 1975 ... for the awards. The Academy of Cinema, Art and Techniques decided that ...15 KB (2,316 words) - 23:59, 3 December 2023
- after the English Restoration. A convert to Roman Catholicism, he was a favorite ... and, after an adolescent conversion to Roman Catholicism, was taken to ...28 KB (4,229 words) - 02:57, 2 May 2024
- himself more and more to music for the Roman liturgy. He published his ... Byrd's life is interesting because of his Roman Catholic Church ...10 KB (1,651 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- preaching, book burning, and destruction of art. He vehemently preached against ... Ecclesiae displayed his contempt of the Roman Curia by terming it "a ...11 KB (1,636 words) - 15:15, 15 December 2022
- windows are outstanding examples of how an art form was used to illustrate ... there in the third century after the Roman Emperor Constantine I was ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 19:58, 20 November 2023
- ==Greek and Roman art== [[Image:Photograph of the New Roman Gallery ... The Met's collection of Greek and Roman art contains more than 30,000 ...38 KB (5,761 words) - 16:50, 24 October 2023
- to Orthodox Christianity from the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire in 988 ... very much like that of Catholic religious art of the time. The Stroganov ...14 KB (2,018 words) - 20:09, 26 July 2023
- and proliferating the aesthetics of antique Roman and Greek art, contributed ... features of early Renaissance European art music (in the Middle Ages ...15 KB (2,190 words) - 04:00, 8 December 2022
- Vico's (1668-1744) works on art and history; Croce purchased ... and began to formulate his theories on art, history, and aesthetics, ...15 KB (2,246 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- deeper into Asia. From as early as the Roman Empire until at least the ... divided administration of the Roman Empire under Diocletian. ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- Cod. Vat. lat. 3867), also known as the Roman Vergil, is a fifth century ... It has heavy Greco-Roman influences and is rendered in grisaille. ...18 KB (2,595 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- During his career, Diderot moved from Roman Catholicism to deism, atheism ... knowledge, challenged the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and of the ...21 KB (3,274 words) - 09:45, 29 January 2024
- Egypt remained independent, but three Roman legions were left to protect ... is surprising considering the wealth of Roman propaganda against her, which ...20 KB (3,144 words) - 22:04, 7 January 2024
- In the year 1569, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II purchased the Katterburg ... was seen as a Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) and remodeled in accordance ...11 KB (1,678 words) - 17:21, 25 January 2023
- discrepancies, comparative law uses the art of estimation by comparison ... where legal science got formulated according to Roman Law) ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 08:07, 14 January 2023
- 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
- Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379-395. Reuniting ... the official state religion of the Roman Empire. However, Theodosius ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- He maintained peace with the Holy Roman Empire during the first three ... brother-in-law of the future Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor. Giselle arrived ...19 KB (3,077 words) - 20:02, 9 February 2023
- of several unnamed virgins of Cologne by Roman authorities was combined ... (twelfth century), according to which the Roman Emperor Maximian, having ...11 KB (1,674 words) - 00:54, 23 December 2022
- supposed martyrdom. He is often depicted in art as writing his Gospel under ... Matthew is recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox ...15 KB (2,288 words) - 00:47, 23 December 2022
- Tuscany's name comes from its pre-Roman inhabitants, the Etruscans ... achievements in the areas of literature, art, and architecture. Tuscany ...19 KB (2,716 words) - 00:35, 3 May 2023
- as one of the earliest champions of "Art for art's sake," ... Voyage en Espagne (1843), Trésors d’Art de la Russie (1858), and ...18 KB (2,759 words) - 18:21, 30 April 2023
