Search results for "Roman art" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
