| Thomas Becket | Until | ’s fame overshadowed Dunstan's, he was the favourite saint of the English ... |
| Parthenon Marbles | She was a strong advocate for the return to Athens of the | , which were removed from the Parthenon, and are now displayed in the Brit ... |
| adventus | ... stantine at the seventh milestone from the city in the style of an imperial | . Justinian II was in Nicaea at the time and urged the pontiff to meet him ... |
| Moses | ... utionary nature of the Halacha point to a famous story in the Talmud, where | is miraculously transported to the House of Study of Rabbi Akiva and is cl ... |
| Death of Sardanapalus | ... rs, and those to come in the final days. Other works, including Delacroix's | included larger figures, and these often drew heavily on earlier artists, ... |
| famous painting | ... e history of the Revolution. In 1817, Congress commissioned John Trumbull's | of the signers, which was exhibited to large crowds before being installed ... |
| Albert Einstein Memorial | ... the Old Post Office Pavilion, the National Theatre, Ford's Theatre, and the | to the north; the National Postal Museum and Union Station to the northeas ... |
| Madonna dei Tramonti | ... ons which appeared to be independent iconic aggregations. Lorenzetti's 1330 | also reflects the ongoing influence of Giotto on his Marian art, midway th ... |
| Trajan's Column | ... cia (and largely financed from that campaign's loot)—consisting of a forum, | , and Trajan's Market still stands in Rome today. He was also a prolific b ... |
| Julia Morgan | ... orthern California, called Wyntoon. Wyntoon was designed by famed architect | , who also designed Hearst Castle |
| The Voyage of Life | ... e of Life Childhood 1842.jpg|Thomas Cole, Childhood, one of the 4 scenes in | , 184 |
| Thomas Becket | ... 935. This one, Murder in the Cathedral, concerning the death of the martyr, | , was more under Eliot's control. After this, he worked on commercial play ... |
| Moses | ... ce their rulings) was created alongside the line of High Priests created by | through Aaron. Later still, the Prophet Samuel re-instituted the line of k ... |
| Object to Be Destroyed | ... . Works from this period include a metronome with an eye, originally titled | . Another important work from this part of Man Ray's life is the Violon d' ... |
| Edmund the Martyr | ... e region again came under attack, this time from Danes who killed the king, | . In the centuries before the Norman Conquest the wetlands of the east of ... |
| Madaba Map | ... w to be an important centre. It appears on a fragment of the 6th century AD | |
| Adele Bloch-Bauer II | ... al battle against Austria (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann). Portrait of | was sold at auction in November 2006 for $88 million, the third-highest pr ... |
| Pompeii | ... of Northumberland and their interest in archaeology, includes frescoes from | , relics from Ancient Egypt and Romano-British objects. Constable's Tower ... |
| The Nightmare | File:John Henry Fuseli - The Nightmare.JPG|Henry Fuseli, 1781, | , a classical artist whose themes often anticipate the Romanti |
| Edwin Lutyens | ... from Calcutta to Delhi, following which a team of British architects led by | designed a new political and administrative area, known as New Delhi, to h ... |
| The Sick Child | File:TheSickChild-by-EdvardMunch-FourthVersion.jpg| | (1885-87). Tate Gallery, London |
| Jan van Eyck | ... c. 1435–40. The setting is derived from the Madonna of Chancellor Rolin by | Image:The Magdalen Reading Rogier.jpg|The Magdalen Reading, one of three s ... |
| The Golden Bough | ... doo dolls are an example. This dichotomy was proposed by Sir James Frazer's | |
| De Saisset Museum | ... en to visitors every day; the Mission museum is located in the university's | |
| illuminator | Scaliger's father, Benedetto Bordone, was a miniaturist and | . Scaliger himself was known in his youth by the family name Bordone, but ... |
| Spiral Jetty | ... ng the most famous of spiral-inspired art is Robert Smithson's earthwork, " | ", at the Great Salt Lake in Utah. The spiral theme is also present in Dav ... |
| John Ruskin | ... ntinue to sketch throughout his life, inspired, as an adult, by the work of | and the Pre-Raphaelites. Hopkins became a skilled draughtsman and found th ... |
| The Sick Child | ... ective helped move him to a new view of his art. He wrote that his painting | (1886), based on his sister's death, was his first "soul painting", his fi ... |
| Die Fahne Hoch! | ... of black paint were separated by very thin pinstripes of unpainted canvas. | (1959) is one such painting. It takes its name ("The Raised Banner" in Eng ... |
| King David | ... uel as being one of The Three, a distinct group of warriors associated with | ; scholars believe that the same individual is meant, and that the passage ... |
| William Hazlitt | ... inal group of radicals, though they were supported by the critic and writer | and others |
| Madonna of Chancellor Rolin | ... Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, c. 1435–40. The setting is derived from the | by Jan van Eyc |
| Eleanor cross | ... he Esplanade. It was designed by Herbert Palmer somewhat in the style of an | . It is of Clipsham stone and stands tall. It was unveiled on 1 January 19 ... |
| writing system | ... al advances were made there. For example, the Maya civilization developed a | , built huge pyramids, had a complex calendar, and developed the concept o ... |
| Chicago Pile-1 | ... cularly known for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, | , and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear ... |
| Moses | ... nting the Sabbath. It is also said to symbolize the burning bush as seen by | on Mount Horeb |
| The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living | It is a controversial event, mainly for the exhibits, such as " | ", a shark in formaldehyde by Damien Hirst and "My Bed", a dishevelled bed ... |
| Art Deco | ... b Hope in 1945, the statuette itself was a miniaturized Oscar, depicting an | image of a knight holding a crusader's sword and standing on a reel of fil ... |
| Noh | ... m Anderson's Japanese prints donated to the British Museum, performances of | plays in London, and the success of Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta The Mi ... |
| Lindy Hop | ... placed under the umbrella "ballroom dance" include Nightclub Dances such as | , West Coast Swing, Nightclub Two Step, Hustle, Salsa, and Merengue |
| William Hazlitt | ... ne "Or blind Orion hungry for the morn", thought to be inspired by Poussin. | may have introduced Keats to the painting—he later wrote the essay "On Lan ... |
| Raphael Cartoons | ... Triumphs of Caesar housed in the Lower Orangery. The palace once housed the | now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their former home, the Cartoon ... |
| Florence Cathedral | ... elleschi, Leone Alberti, Andrea Palladio, and Bramante. Their works include | , St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (to ... |
| Arts Council England | ... McGregor Random Dance in collaboration with Sadler's Wells Theatre and the | |
| Elgin Marbles | ... South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the | from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and of calls fo ... |
| William Morris | ... a utopia was Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward. Another socialist utopia is | ' News from Nowhere, written partially in response to the top-down (bureau ... |
| Feast of the Black Nazarene | Manila is the host of some notable cultural events. The | , held every 9 January, draws millions of devotees. Each district has its ... |
| Fountain | ... ns between everyday objects and art, similarly to Duchamp in pieces such as | . Fluxus art was often presented in "events", which Fluxus member George B ... |
| Parthenon sculptures | ... 1 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen offered funds to build a gallery for the | . Designed by the American architect John Russell Pope, it was completed i ... |
| Moses | ... ined much unchanged since the wooden figurines (of Saint Peter, Saint Paul, | and Aaron) were placed on the front pews and the carved ceiling was instal ... |
| David | ... idetes attacked Jerusalem. According to Josephus, John Hyrcanus opened King | 's sepulchre and removed three thousand talents which he paid as tribute t ... |
| Duomo | File:Firenze.Duomo.Hawkwood.JPG|Sir John Hawkwood (fresco in the | , Florence |
| Florentine Boar by Tacca | The town has a bronze statue, a copy of the | , which is also a fountain. As water gushes continually from the pig's mou ... |
| Maya script | The Chinese, Cuneiform, and | s are largely syllabic in nature, although based on logograms. They are th ... |
| Bonampak | ... courts are conspicuously absent at some major sites, including Teotihuacan, | , and Tortuguero, although ballgame iconography has been found there |
| Saint Alban | ... last great Viking raid of that age. It is suggested that he stole relics of | from Ely, which he deposited in St. Alban's Priory which he had founded in ... |
| Coalbrookdale by Night | File:Philipp Jakob Loutherbourg d. J. 002.jpg|Philip James de Loutherbourg, | , 1801, a key location of the English Industrial Revolutio |
| Sun Dance | During the | , which is practiced by many Plains Indian tribes, the eagle is represente ... |
| Saint Remigius | ... anoint and sanctify Clovis at his coronation, perhaps brought by a dove to | . Another variation says a lily appeared at Clovis' baptismal ceremony as ... |
| Dendera zodiac | Horoscopic astrology first appeared in Ptolemaic Egypt. The | , a relief dating to ca. 50 BC, is the first known depiction of the classi ... |
| three paintings | In 1894, Klimt was commissioned to create | to decorate the ceiling of the Great Hall in the University of Vienna. Not ... |
| Lindy Hop | ... opular dance venue from the late 1920s to the 1950s and many dances such as | became famous here. It was known downtown as the "Home of Happy Feet" but ... |
| Triumphs of Caesar | ... rt to Early Georgian period. The single most important works are Mantegna's | housed in the Lower Orangery. The palace once housed the Raphael Cartoons ... |
| Trajan's Column | ... usticated vermiculation (resembling tufa) were all derived from the base of | . The short sections of crenellated wall with ball finials which extend ou ... |
| David | ... up of the United kingdom of Israel (1020 to about 930 BC), created by Saul, | and Solomon, which was a union of the twelve Israelite tribes. After the n ... |
| Philip the Good | ... chiermonnikoog in writing dates from October 1440, in a document written by | |
| Evangelical Press Association | ... d Contemporary Christian Music magazine (for which he won an award from the | ) |
| Ulysses S. Grant Memorial | ... SW to 3rd Street NW and SW, removing Union Square (the area containing the | and the Capitol Reflecting Pool) from NPS jurisdiction |
| Black Bottom dance | ... the same name recorded in December of 1927, which ostensibly refers to the | of the time |
| Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi | ... ro Lorenzetti and Simone Martini worked shoulder to shoulder at Assisi. The | includes a number of artistic works. Simone Martini's 1317 fresco there re ... |
| Jan van Eyck | Image:Van Eyck - Arnolfini Portrait.jpg|The Arnolfini Portrait, | , 143 |
| Greek art | ... stess of the 6th century BC, said to have been tutor to PythagorasGeneral:* | *List of traditional Greek place name |
| Peter Paul Rubens | ... ntings at the Louvre. Among her favorite painters were Nicholas Poussin and | , but she also copied the paintings of Paulus Potter, Porbus, Louis Léopol ... |
| Kathak | In Indian classical music, during Tabla or Pakhawaj solo performances and | dance accompaniments, a conceptually similar melodic pattern known as the ... |
| Beata Beatrix | ... e idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as | |
| Et in Arcadia ego | Themes of tragedy and death are prevalent in Poussin's work. | , a subject he painted twice (second version is seen at right), exemplifie ... |
| Manet | ... ionally-recognized collection of Impressionist paintings by such masters as | , Monet, Whistler, Degas and Cassatt. It is also the sight of the annual S ... |
| John Ruskin | ... ex compositions of Quattrocento Italian and Flemish art. The eminent critic | later wrote |
| Thomas Becket | ... ortsmouth's first real church was built in 1181, when a chapel dedicated to | was erected by Augustinian monks; it was run by the monks of Southwick Pri ... |
| The Voyage of Life | ... e natural world. Thomas Cole's paintings tend towards allegory, explicit in | series painted in the early 1840s, showing the stages of life set amidst a ... |
| Lindy Hop | In Europe, Latin Swing dances include Argentine Tango, Mambo, | , Swing Boogie (sometimes also known as Nostalgic Boogie), and Disco Fox. ... |
| Melencolia I | A famous allegorical engraving by Albrecht Dürer is entitled | . This engraving portrays melancholia as the state of waiting for inspirat ... |
| Raft of the Medusa | Théodore Géricault's | (c. 1820), was a social commentary on a current event, unprecedented at th ... |
| art deco | ... r with a proscenium and full grid system. The Stockton Empire Theater is an | movie theater that has been revitalized as a venue for live music |
| Parthenon | ... ic endeavour. She is the virgin patron of Athens. The Athenians founded the | on the Acropolis of her namesake city, Athens (Athena Parthenos), in her h ... |
| the Arts | ... has also produced notable people in many other walks of life, particularly | . Famous past names associated with the City include |
| Moses | ... n. Abraham taught science to the Egyptians , who in turn taught the Greeks. | set up a senatorial priestly aristocracy, which, like that of Rome, resist ... |
| William Morris | ... generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably | and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists a ... |
| The Raising of the Cross | Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_068.jpg| | , Peter Paul Rubens, 1610–1 |
| Fountain | ... as art, not from the intrinsic qualities of the work itself. Thus, because | was exhibited, it was a sculpture |
| Thomas Becket | File:Canterbury Cathedral 012 window showing leading and support.JPG| | window from Canterbury showing the pot metal and painted glass, lead H-sec ... |
| performing art | ... gimmick matches" in the jargon of the business, can be found in the form of | that is professional wrestling |
| workshop | ... fore narrowing it down to 12. Castle-Hughes impressed Caro in the resulting | and was cast as Pai |
| Archaic | ... s, appropriately called the Greek Dark Ages, but by 800 BC the landscape of | and Classical Greece was discernible |
| Basilica of Saint Francis | ... st-classical period to use this technique was the Isaac Master in the Upper | in Assisi. A person who creates fresco is called a frescoist |
| The Scream | File:The Scream.jpg| | . 1893. Oil, tempera, and pastel on cardboard. Nasjonalgalleriet, Osl |
| Puberty | ... ding houses. Munch portrayed women either as frail, innocent sufferers (see | and Love and Pain) or as the cause of great longing, jealousy and despair ... |
| Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I | ... 901), although the works most popularly associated with this period are the | (1907) and The Kiss (1907–1908). Klimt travelled little but trips to Venic ... |
| Goya's peasant before the firing squad | ... spair, with hands palm outstretched outwards and downwards in the manner of | . |
| Moses | ... ter moved to Egypt. The remaining four books of the Torah tell the story of | , who lived hundreds of years after the patriarchs. He leads the Children ... |
| Moses | ... e 40-day period of repentance is also analogous to the 40 days during which | repented and fasted in response to the making of the Golden calf. (Jews to ... |
| The Charging Chasseur | ... olitical message. Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) had his first success with | , a heroic military figure derived from Rubens, at the Paris Salon of 1812 ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... centered around the attempt by Baldwin to build a church dedicated to Saint | , just outside of the town of Canterbury. The plan was to staff the church ... |
| Vietnam Women's Memorial | ... currently consists of three separate parts: the Three Soldiers statue, the | , and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, which is the best-known part of ... |
| Trajan's Column | ... Selinus. He was deified by the Senate and his ashes were laid to rest under | . He was succeeded by his adopted son Hadrian |
| Noh | ... to revive the classical heroic mask from ancient Greek theatre and Japanese | theatre in some of his plays, such as The Great God Brown and Lazarus Laug ... |
| Bambuco Bridge | ... arhead the regeneration of the North-East. The River Tyne had the temporary | in 2008 for ten days; it was not made for walking, road or cycling, but wa ... |
| adventus | ... gs and their soldiers were fed to the beasts of Trier's amphitheater in the | (arrival) celebrations that followed |
| Et in Arcadia ego | ... he name of the band was reportedly inspired by the Nicolas Poussin painting | (also known as "The Arcadian Shepherds") |
| Liberty Leading the People | File:Eugène Delacroix - La liberté guidant le peuple.jpg|Eugène Delacroix, | 183 |
| Friday salon | ... e leaders of the political, financial and literary worlds of Paris, and her | became as greatly frequented as the Mondays of Mme Geoffrin, or the Tuesda ... |
| Moses | ... rgin birth, the miracles of Jesus Christ, and the parting of the Red Sea by | , are not believable. For example, Randi refers to the Virgin Mary as bein ... |
| The Blue Boy | Image:Thomas Gainsborough 008.jpg| | , Thomas Gainsborough, 177 |
| Guernica | In the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso's | (1937) used arresting cubist techniques and stark monochromatic oils, to d ... |
| Statue of Liberty | ... derland, the Manchester International Convention Centre and the base of the | |
| colossal statue of Nero | The name Colosseum has long been believed to be derived from a | nearby (the statue of Nero was named after the Colossus of Rhodes). This s ... |
| J. M. W. Turner | The Turner Prize, named after the painter | , is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of ... |
| Trajan's Column | ... by the gifted architect Apollodorus of Damascus. Notable structures include | , Trajan's Forum, Trajan's Bridge, Alcántara Bridge, the road and canal ar ... |
| Pompeii | ... ose at the magnificent Villa dei Misteri (1st century B.C.) in the ruins of | , and others at Herculaneum, were completed in buon fresco |
| Calumny of Apelles | ... f Athens and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — The Birth of Venus and | — on his works |
| The Triumph of Death | ... Cardsharps" by Caravaggio (the backgammon board is in the lower left) and " | " by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (the backgammon board is in the lower right) ... |
| Arthur Hughes | ... pen timbers. Seven artists were recruited, among them Valentine Prinsep and | , and the work was hastily begun. The frescoes, done too soon and too fast ... |
| La Lecture | Image:La Lecture (Fantin-Latour).jpg| | , 1877, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyo |
| Peter Paul Rubens | Image:Peter_Paul_Rubens_068.jpg|The Raising of the Cross, | , 1610–1 |
| percussion | ... doubling contrabassoon), 4 horns in F, 3 trumpets in C, 3 trombones, tuba, | (8 players), timpani, piano, harp and strings |
| William Morris | ... , prosperous once more, left him indifferent. (Böll seemed to be a pupil of | – he made known that he would have preferred Cologne cathedral unfinished, ... |
| The Night Watch | ... e, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The paintings owned by that city, such as | by Rembrandt, became part of the collection |
| John Ruskin | ... married Joan Ruskin Agnew, a cousin of the Victorian art and social critic | . The Severns had another child, Henry, who died as an infant in a crib ac ... |
| Buddhas of Bamyan | ... dhist culture did exist as reminders of the past. The two massive sandstone | , thirty-five and fifty-three meters high overlooked the ancient route thr ... |
| My Bed | Greatest attention was given to Tracey Emin's exhibit | , which was a double bed in a dishevelled state with stained sheets, surro ... |
| John Ruskin | ... different from most modern forms, taking influence from William Cobbett and | , who combined elements of radicalism, challenging the establishment posit ... |
| Edward Hopper | ... and Raoul Dufy; in America the major exponents included Charles Burchfield, | , Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, and John Marin, 80% of whose total out ... |
| Moses | ... ted over time and are no longer the original divine revelations as given to | , Jesus, and other prophets, which Muslims believe were all prophets of Is ... |
| Infant Jesus of Prague | ... no written historical accounts proving that Teresa of Avila ever owned the | statue, a pious legend recounts a tale when Avila once allegedly owned the ... |
| George Mason Memorial | ... anklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the | , the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Bureau of Engraving ... |
| action sequences | ... the Crane Iron Pentalogy, by wuxia novelist Wang Dulu. The martial arts and | were choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping |
| A Vision of Fiammetta | Image:A Vision of Fiammetta by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.jpg| | (1878), one of Rossetti's last paintings, now in the collection of Andrew ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... standing difficulty involving the Church, which culminated in the murder of | , the Archbishop of Canterbury. The problem for the King was that the Chur ... |
| Vendôme Column | ... was fully committed to internationalism, and in the name of brotherhood the | , celebrating the victories of Napoleon I, and considered by the Commune t ... |
| Beethoven Frieze | In 1902, Klimt finished the | for the 14th Vienna Secessionist exhibition, which was intended to be a ce ... |
| Three Soldiers statue | ... orial complex. The memorial currently consists of three separate parts: the | , the Vietnam Women's Memorial, and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, wh ... |
| Apollo of Veii | ... r its statuary including a statue of Tiberius (now in the Vatican), and the | (now in the National Etruscan Museum). The city never recovered its wealth ... |
| David | ... ctional persons. Among those still available are his letters to Jesus, King | , Figaro the Barber, Empress Maria Theresa and Pinocchio. Others 'written ... |
| The temptation of St. Anthony | File:Fantin Latour The Temptation of St Anthony.jpg| | |
| Tomb of the Diver | ... na Graecia, a tomb containing frescoes dating back to 470 BC, the so called | was discovered on June 1968. These frescoes depict scenes of the life and ... |
| Confluence Project | ... rian land bridge was built over the Lewis and Clark Highway, as part of the | , in 2007. It connects the site with the Columbia River |
| The Raft of the Medusa | File:Theodore Gericault Raft of the Medusa-1.jpg|Théodore Géricault, | , 181 |
| William Morris | ... rspersed with songs—may be following the model of The Icelandic Journals by | , an important literary influence on Tolkien |
| Water Lilies | Image:Monet_Water_Lilies_1916.jpg| | , Claude Monet, 191 |
| J. M. W. Turner | ... if they had to make do with Wales as a setting. Caspar David Friedrich and | were born less than a year apart in 1774 and 1775 respectively and were to ... |
| Augustus Caesar | File:Statue-Augustus.jpg|Emperor | in a martial pose (1st century |
| Sock hop | ... especially suited to reviving the jitterbug dancing of the big-band era. " | s", gym dances, and home basement dance parties became the rage, and Ameri ... |
| The School of Athens | ... f the composition of them. Raphael may have portrayed himself as Apelles in | and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — The Birth of Venus and Calumny ... |
| Chicago Pile-1 | ... 940. The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — | , a massive "atomic pile" of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went c ... |
| Charioteer of Delphi | The | is another ancient relic that has withstood the centuries. It is one of th ... |
| Art Deco | ... titute exteriors were shot in Rustic Canyon with the interiors filmed in an | house designed in 1931 by MGM art director Cedric Gibbons for his wife, Do ... |
| David | ... d as a giant Philistine warrior, he is famous for his combat with the young | , the future king of Israel. The fight between them is described in the He ... |
| Moses | ... who, along with his brother Dathan, joined Korah in the conspiracy against | and Aaron. He and all the conspirators, with their families and possession ... |
| The Raft of the Medusa | ... alon of 1812 in the years of the Empire, but his next major completed work, | of 1821, remains the greatest achievement of the Romantic history painting ... |
| Parthenon | ... rom 1799 to 1803 removed the large collection of marble sculptures from the | , on the Acropolis in Athens and transferred them to the UK. In 1816 these ... |
| Moses | ... received poor reviews. Also in 2004, Kilmer returned to the theatre to play | in a Los Angeles musical production of , produced by BCBG founder Max Azri ... |
| Rijksmuseum Research Library | The | is part of the Rijksmuseum, and is the best and the largest public art his ... |
| pottery | ... le from quarries. It is locally well known for its grapes, figs, limestone, | workshops and glassblowing factories, and is the location of the major dai ... |
| Parthenon | ... 87. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the | , are the objects of intense controversy and of calls for restitution to t ... |
| J. M. W. Turner | The Romantic seascape painters | and Ivan Aivazovsky created some of the most lasting impressions of the su ... |
| David | ... liath appears in chapter 2 of the Qur'an (II: 247-252), in the narrative of | and Saul's battle against the Philistines. Goliath's mention in the Qur'an ... |
| Peter Paul Rubens | ... aintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641), Giacomo Cavedone (1577–1660), | (1573–1640), Rembrandt van Ryn (1606–69), Salvator Rosa (1615–1673), Pier ... |
| Statue of Liberty | ... ter life in the United States, a role acknowledged by the dedication of the | on October 28, 1886, a gift from the people of France. The new European im ... |
| Moses | ... int. In 1998, he lent his voice to the animated film The Prince of Egypt as | , before starring in the independent film Joe the King (1999) and playing ... |
| Spirit of the American Doughboy | Swanton Memorial Park is home to one of E. M. Viquesney's " | " statues. The sculpture was one of several donated as a gift by France to ... |
| Édouard Manet | ... 20), was a social commentary on a current event, unprecedented at the time. | 's Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe (1863), was considered scandalous not because o ... |
| Noh | ... ased significantly on ceremony and ritual, with influence from the Japanese | theatre (Stockhausen, Conen, and Hennlich 1989, 282), as well as Judeo-Chr ... |
| J. M. W. Turner | ... ioned by Leopold I of Belgium in 1826. The latter picture likely influenced | 's major work, The View of Orvieto. One of his most remarkably inventive w ... |
| Athena Promachos | ... . The metalwork of weapons also fell under her patronage. She led battles ( | or the warrior maiden Athena Parthenos) as the disciplined, strategic side ... |
| Salisbury Cathedral | ... lter's executors. Elias is traditionally credited as being the architect of | after Walter's death. Another scholar employed by Walter was Peter of Bloi ... |
| The Third of May 1808 | ... ayo, by Francisco de Goya, from Prado thin black margin.jpg|Francisco Goya, | , 181 |
| The Gate of Calais | ... roduces Monsters (in an about the UK Independence Party); William Hogarth's | about the ban on UK meat exports following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth dis ... |
| Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus | ... hout wings, as for example the angel in the Sacrifice of Isaac scene in the | |
| Ronnie Wood | ... ond, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Paul Butterfield, | and Van Morrison. However, Scorsese's commitments to other projects delaye ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... ian Pontigny Abbey in France which had been the refuge of his predecessors, | and Stephen Langton |
| Thomas Gainsborough | ... nal art". Among the many significant watercolor artists of this period were | , John Robert Cozens, Francis Towne, Michael Angelo Rooker, William Pars, ... |
| Edward Hopper | ... Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt, Francisco Goya, Whistler, Otto Dix, James Ensor, | , Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Cy Twombly, Lucas van Leyden, Carlos Alva ... |
| Greek works | ... ient times, judging from the names Fenni and Phinnoi in classical Roman and | |
| William Morris | ... MacNeice – Andrew Marvell – John Masefield – Alice Meynell – Harold Monro – | – Edwin Muir – Henry Newbolt – Alfred Noyes – Wilfred Owen – Thomas Love P ... |
| David | gained by the Ammonites over the king of Bashan. After | ha |
| New York media market | Union City is located within the | , with most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery. Until its ... |
| Art Deco | ... he current, continuingly expanded, 1960 terminal replaces the original 1940 | terminal; it has recently undergone further major upgrades and expansions ... |
| Art Deco | ... a park on the land about the monument. Known for its intricate carvings and | style, the monument includes references to different modes of transportati ... |
| Infant Jesus of Prague | ... lites today administer the pilgrim Church of Our Lady Victorious, where the | is currently enshrined |
| salon | ... he occupied himself with literature, but Madame Necker pined for her Paris | and died soon after. He continued to live on at Coppet, under the care of ... |
| Athena Parthenos | ... het Athena Ergane as the patron of craftsmen and artisans. With the epithet | ("virgin") she was especially worshipped in the festivals of the Panathena ... |
| Spoliarium | ... ilot science high school of the Philippines; the National Museum, where the | of Juan Luna is housed; the Metropolitan Museum of Manila, the premier mus ... |
| Federal Art Project | ... rk, shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York with other artists of the | , was the first Mexican American artist to receive national recognition |
| The Barque of Dante | Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) made his first Salon hits with | (1822), The Massacre at Chios (1824) and Death of Sardanapalus (1827). The ... |
| Bonampak | ... he ruins of Piedras Negras, its major rival. Yaxchilan is from the ruins of | . The site lies in Ocosingo Municipality in the state of Chiapas, on the M ... |
| Discophoros | ... ell-known ancient Greek statues and Roman copies such as the Discobolus and | |
| Philip the Good | ... ken – to Italy and Spain, and he received commissions from, amongst others, | , Netherlandish nobility and foreign princes. By the latter half of the fi ... |
| Thomas Eakins | In January 2007 the University sold | ' painting The Gross Clinic, which depicts a surgery that took place at th ... |
| Kelmscott House | ... ressed by the recently formed Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at | , the home of William Morris. He was also among the founders of The Scienc ... |
| Mona Lisa | ... has stated:" Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's | and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most painti ... |
| Parthenon Marbles | ... order to promote Greece. She strongly advocated the return to Athens of the | , that were removed from Parthenon and other buildings on the Acropolis of ... |
| Danaë | Image:Gustav Klimt 010.jpg| | by Gustav Klimt, painted 1907. Private Collection, Vienn |
| David | ... do boats were virtually invisible. The Davids were named after the story of | and Goliath. The CSS Midge and CSS St. Patrick were David-class torpedo bo ... |
| Parthenon | ... hus known as Athena Parthenos, "Virgin Athena". Her most famous temple, the | , on the Acropolis in Athens takes its name from this title. It is not mer ... |
| Calumny of Apelles | ... Apelles, known through Lucian's description." Sandro Botticelli's panel of | was painted in conscious striving to equal the painting in Lucian's ekphra ... |
| The Ninth Wave | File:Aivazovsky, Ivan - The Ninth Wave.jpg|Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850, " | ", State Russian Museum, St. Petersbur |
| Thomas Eakins | ... r late-19th-century American exponents of the medium included Thomas Moran, | , John LaFarge, John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, and, preeminently, Win ... |
| Colossus of Nero | ... a aqueduct was extended to supply water to the area and the gigantic bronze | was set up nearby at the entrance to the Domus Aurea |
| Black Bottom | ... ften won dance competitions with her performances of the Charleston and the | . Her strategy worked, and MGM cast her in the film where she first made a ... |
| Whistler's Mother | In summing up the painting's impact author Martha Tedeschi has stated:" | , Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's ... |
| David | ... ng it the final book of the Jewish bible). Chronicles largely parallels the | ic narratives in the Books of Samuel and the Books of Kings. In the Roman ... |
| Bonampak | ... nant power of the Usumacinta River area. It dominated such smaller sites as | , and had a long rivalry with Piedras Negras and at least for a time with ... |
| The Fighting Temeraire | ... f the Liberal Democrats might seriously threaten Labour - J. M. W. Turner's | , in which a chirpy Charles Kennedy as tug-boat towed a grotesque and dila ... |
| Fountain | ... he said it was a work of art. He referred to his work as "Readymades". The | , was a urinal signed with the pseudonym R. Mutt, that shocked the art wor ... |
| Green Corn Ceremony | ... itional Native religion, which is expressed through the stomp dance and the | . Indigenous peoples have practiced Green Corn ceremonies for centuries. C ... |
| Art Deco | ... el, designed in collaboration with the harpist Carlos Salzedo. It is in the | style, incorporating bold red and white lines on the soundboard to create ... |
| The Gross Clinic | In January 2007 the University sold Thomas Eakins' painting | , which depicts a surgery that took place at the school, for $68 million, ... |
| replica of Phidias' statue | ... s known as the Athens of the South. In 1990, a gilded 41 feet (12.5 m) tall | of Athena Parthenos was added. The state seal of California features an im ... |
| Discobolus | ... f a number of well-known ancient Greek statues and Roman copies such as the | and Discophoros |
| American Gothic | ... ting's impact author Martha Tedeschi has stated:" Whistler's Mother, Wood's | , Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all ach ... |
| Colossi of Memnon | ... ange of monuments in Upper Egypt and Nubia, including Karnak, Luxor temple, | , Esna, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, and others |
| Maiwand Lion | ... the County of Berkshire and an image of Reading's most famous landmark, the | |
| Baba Gurdit Singh | ... consisting of the representatives of other units. The idea was supported by | |
| South Australian Film Corporation | ... ool. Prime Minister Gough Whitlam continued to support Australian film. The | was established in 1972 to promote and produce films, while the was create ... |
| Rebetiko | ... revue, operettas and nocturnes that were dominating Athens' theater scene. | , initially a music associated with the lower classes, later (and especial ... |
| Woodblock printing | ... and also saw much interplay between the styles of calligraphy and painting. | became important in Japan after the 17th century |
| Melisande (Stokes) | File:Marianne Stokes Melisande.jpg|Marianne Stokes, | , Tempera on canvas, 1895–189 |
| Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture | ... ich the morceaux de réception submitted by artists seeking admission to the | during the 17th and 18th centuries, the series The Life of Saint Bruno by ... |
| cameo | ... and various other government figures. In the 1990s he became a semi-regular | turn on the Channel 4 improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? and in 2 ... |
| Colossal bust of Ramesses II | ... chases from Henry Salt, British Consul General in Egypt, beginning with the | in 1818, laid the foundations of the collection of Egyptian Monumental Scu ... |
| Chalk Cliffs on Rügen | ... ns. The steep and sweeping vista was the subject of the well-known painting | by the 19th-century German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich |
| Luxor Temple | ... d sphinxes connecting the Precinct of Mut, the Precinct of Amun-Re, and the | |
| Boy With a Pipe | ... by Ronald Lauder for a reported US $135 million, surpassing Picasso's 1905 | (sold May 5, 2004 for $104 million), as the highest reported price ever pa ... |
| Statue of Liberty | ... a suspected saboteur (Cummings) and a real saboteur (Norman Lloyd) atop the | . That year he also directed Have You Heard?, a photographic dramatisation ... |
| Athena Parthenos | Athena never had a consort or lover and is thus known as | , "Virgin Athena". Her most famous temple, the Parthenon, on the Acropolis ... |
| David | ... ble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero | , a favoured subject in the art of Florence. Originally commissioned as on ... |
| bronze | Tradition suggests that rubbing the toe of the | "Waterboy" statue located in the Main Building atrium can result in receiv ... |
| Parthenon | ... cated the return to Athens of the Parthenon Marbles, that were removed from | and other buildings on the Acropolis of Athens by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl o ... |
| Moses | ... cribe the same God. De ente et uno, has explanations of several passages in | , Plato and Aristotle |
| Art Deco | ... ost famous was the Midland Hotel in Morecambe, which had been rebuilt as an | landmark, as had the Queens Hotel in Leeds. While most were open all year ... |
| Florence Cathedral | ... the Baptistery of St. John the Baptist (Battistero di San Giovanni) and the | (Santa Maria del Fiore). The cart is connected by a rope to the interior o ... |
| Death of Sardanapalus | ... alon hits with The Barque of Dante (1822), The Massacre at Chios (1824) and | (1827). The second was a scene from the Greek War of Independence, complet ... |
| William Morris | ... ip Webb designed Red House for the artist, reforming designer and socialist | on the western edge of the heath, in the hamlet of Upton — before Upton be ... |
| King David | ... ownfall, since that title was only to be held by descendants of the line of | . The Hasmonean bureaucracy was filled with men with Greek names, and the ... |
| Jade Buddha temple | ... Mountain) scenic area as well as numerous lakes. Of particular note is the | (Yufo yuan). This large Buddhist temple complex of 22,104 square metres, h ... |
| adventus | Constantine entered Rome on 29 October. He staged a grand | in the city, and was met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body was fish ... |
| Jan van Eyck | ... icular Vasari, credited northern European painters of the 15th century, and | in particular, with the "invention" of painting with oil media on wood pan ... |
| Art Deco | ... Robinson. who was responsible for several public buildings in classical and | styles, including 55 other cinemas. The Regal is the most important surviv ... |
| John Ruskin | After passing his 11-plus school examination, McTell attended the | Grammar School. He hated his time there, and despite being a very bright p ... |
| John Ruskin | ... er compared the poem with socialist ideas from the works of Thomas Carlyle, | , and the Fabians |
| Trajan's Column | ... eft multiple enduring landmarks such as Trajan's Forum, Trajan's Market and | . Early in his reign, he annexed the Nabataean kingdom, creating the provi ... |
| David | ... was the son of Rehoboam, the grandson of Solomon and the great-grandson of | . The Chronicler refers to him as Abijah (; ; ) |
| Florence Cathedral | ... statues of prophets to be positioned along the roofline of the east end of | , the statue was instead placed in a public square, outside the Palazzo de ... |
| David | ... he Galleria dell' Accademia houses a Michelangelo collection, including the | . It has a collection of Russian icons and works by various artists and pa ... |
| Fountain of Neptune | ... t the heart of the city, in Piazza della Signoria, is Bartolomeo Ammanati's | (1563–1565), which is a masterpiece of marble sculpture at the terminus of ... |
| Jan van Eyck | ... reign princes. By the latter half of the fifteenth-century, he had eclipsed | in popularity. However his fame lasted only until the 17th century, and la ... |
| William Morris | His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired | and Edward Burne-Jones. Neither Burne-Jones nor Morris knew Rossetti perso ... |
| van Eyck, Jan | ... denbroucke, Frank (cyclist) - Van der Rest, Leon - van Rysselberghe, Théo - | - Van Genechten Packaging - Van Hoegaerden, Victor - Van Rompuy, Herman - ... |
| Beata Beatrix | Image:Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Beata Beatrix, 1864-1870.jpg| | (1864–1870), Tate Britain (model: Elizabeth Siddal |
| Henri Matisse | ... graphed many of his artist friends, including Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, | , Alberto Giacometti, and several of the prominent writers of his time, su ... |
| The Birth of Venus | ... Apelles in The School of Athens and Sandro Botticelli based two paintings — | and Calumny of Apelles — on his works |
| mambo | ... the 1930s and '50s. The most popular styles included the conga, rumba, and | . In the '50s Perez Prado made the cha-cha-cha famous, and the rise of Afr ... |
| Infant Jesus of Prague | ... e the Divino Nino of Bogota. Mother Angelica is also a known devotee of the | statue |
| David | ... byword or collective name for the oppressors of the Israelite nation before | . Muslim tradition sees the battle with the Philistines as a prefiguration ... |
| The Massacre at Chios | ... roix (1798–1863) made his first Salon hits with The Barque of Dante (1822), | (1824) and Death of Sardanapalus (1827). The second was a scene from the G ... |
| Venus de' Medici | ... strategic deployment of statues, including those of a Borghese gladiator, a | , a wolf (used to inspire nostalgic memories of the legendary founders of ... |
| Dr. Seuss Memorial | ... 160,000 residents. The Quadrangle includes five museums located around the | sculpture garden—featuring, in particular, two world-class art museums and ... |
| Moses | Young had a variety of nicknames, among the most popular being "American | ," (alternatively the "Modern Moses" or the "Mormon Moses") because, like ... |
| embossed | ... and-painted. At Hideaway Island, Vanuatu, the Underwater Post Office has an | postmark |
| David | ... s. Abraham's Well and the tombs of Abner ben Ner (the commander of Saul and | 's army), Ruth and Jesse are also located in the city |
| Walter Godfrey | ... in his commemoration and reconstructed there by the conservation architect, | . Today after further rebuilding in the 1990s it stands out as a white sto ... |
| Mount Rushmore | ... timber became increasingly important to the area. With the establishment of | in the 1940s, Custer State Park, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, the Bla ... |
| National Statuary Hall Collection | a marble statue in the | at the United States Capitol, donated by the State of Utah in 1950; and a ... |
| Irezumi | ... y by Mukōda Kuniko, "Koi-san". The koi is also an often recurring symbol in | , the Japanese art of traditional tattooing |
| Annunciation in Washington | ... ver a dalmatic, especially Gabriel in Annunciation scenes - for example the | by Jan van Eyck |
| Art Deco | ... kyscrapers were completed in Manhattan during the 1930s, including numerous | masterpieces that are still part of the city's skyline today, most notably ... |
| Moses | ... tral part of the curricula of Waldorf schools, in particular the history of | and the establishment of the Land of Israel. A number of early anthroposop ... |
| Moses | ... rew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to | and describes the construction of the menorah as follows |
| Cathedral of Pamplona | ... the order Ramiro, García, Gonzalo, then Ferdinand. Three documents from the | list them in this way, as well as four from the monastery of San Juan de l ... |
| Parthenon | ... s lost gold and ivory statue of her, 36 m tall, the Athena Parthenos in the | . Athena also often is depicted with an owl sitting on one of her shoulder ... |
| William Morris | ... ious materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. | opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills w ... |
| Harpy Tomb | ... re Lycian fleet in the Battle of Salamis, but he may be commemorated by the | . In this view, he was the KUB of the first coin legends, dated to the win ... |
| Jacques Daret | ... time. In general the close stylistical link between the documented works of | , and the paintings attributed to Robert Campin and van der Weyden, are th ... |
| art salon | ... dge Luhan, a wealthy heiress from Buffalo, New York who had run a prominent | in Florence, Italy, and Manhattan, New York, before settling in Taos in 19 ... |
| Jenny Holzer | ... of artifacts that are conceptual in nature. One example being the signs of | which use the devices of art to convey specific messages, such as "Protect ... |
| Mourning Athena | The | is a relief sculpture that dates around 460 BC and portrays a weary Athena ... |
| David | ... e the outcome in single combat, but Saul and all the Israelites are afraid. | , bringing food for his elder brothers, hears that Saul has promised to re ... |
| Aldhelm | ... omposition of a large of vernacular religious poetry. In contrast to Saints | and Dunstan, Cædmon’s poetry is said to have been exclusively religious. B ... |
| Aldhelm | ... sser was familiar with Virgil's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, | 's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni ("Life of Charlemagne") ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... efore Anthelm himself died on 26 June 1178. He was named in honour of Saint | |
| Liberty Leading the People | ... ds in North Africa, painting colourful scenes of mounted Arab warriors. His | (1830) remains, with the Medusa, one of the best known works of French Rom ... |
| Colossus of Rhodes | ... om a colossal statue of Nero nearby (the statue of Nero was named after the | ). This statue was later remodeled by Nero's successors into the likeness ... |
| embossed | ... ss commonly, postage stamps are made of materials other than paper, such as | foil (sometimes of gold). Switzerland made a stamp that contained a bit of ... |
| The Surrender of Breda | ... contains numerous references to the works of Diego Velázquez, specifically | , a Spanish painter who had died 300 years earlier, and who influenced bot ... |
| The Sick Child | ... ration in life and death. These themes find expression in paintings such as | (1885), (1893–94), (1894), and The Bridge. The latter shows limp figures w ... |
| Parthenon Frieze | ... f the cornice. A frieze can be found on many Greek and Roman buildings, the | being the most famous, and perhaps the most elaborate |
| statue of President McKinley | ... The Plaza has a green lawn, extensive flower plantings, and at its center a | . The Plaza is surrounded by stores, bars, coffee shops, restaurants, and ... |
| Parthenon | ... es, renaissance, and neo-classical architecture. A prominent example is the | , where it served as a palette for intricate sculptural detail. This was d ... |
| Philip the Good | ... inal manuscript. This copy remained in the royal library and then passed to | , Duke of Burgundy, before reaching Brussels, where it was lost. It was re ... |
| Stone Mountain | ... the Olympic Ring, a circle from the center of Atlanta. Others were held at | , about outside of the city. To broaden ticket sales, other events, such a ... |
| John Ruskin | ... primarily concerned with ideas of truth and beauty. The aesthetic theorist | , who championed what he saw as the naturalism of J. M. W. Turner, saw art ... |
| J. M. W. Turner | File:Turner-The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons.jpg| | , The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835), Philadelphia Muse ... |
| William Robinson | ... ore they became hotels, include Gravetye Manor, the home of garden designer | , and Cliveden, designed by Charles Barry with a rose garden by Geoffrey J ... |
| Kelmscott Manor | ... nt, poetry, and life". In 1869, Morris and Rossetti rented a country house, | at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, as a summer home, but it soon became a retreat ... |
| Groucho Club | ... y run a story (which they did not retract), saying of his membership of the | "Victor Lewis-Smith sits in a corner and gets into fights" (28 November 19 ... |
| Sir Edwin Lutyens | ... hese included the plaster Cenotaph, designed by the noted British architect | , for the Allied Victory parade in London, and it was so successful that i ... |
| Cardsharps | ... Steen, Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel and others). Some surviving artworks are " | " by Caravaggio (the backgammon board is in the lower left) and "The Trium ... |
| Archaic period | ... he move towards a rational understanding of nature began at least since the | in Greece (650 BCE – 480 BCE) with the Pre-Socratic philosophers. The phil ... |
| Rogier van der Weyden | ... Paul Rubens, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael, Johannes Vermeer, and | . There are also works of Hans Holbein in the collection in the Mauritshui ... |
| New Vogue | ... R also included the Soviet Ballroom dances, or Soviet Programme. Australian | is danced both competitively and socially. In competition there are 15 rec ... |
| Black Nazarene | ... apo area is home to the famous Quiapo Church and Plaza Miranda, home to the | . It also has the largest Filipino Muslim community outside of the souther ... |
| paintings | The term has been used in André Malraux’s novel (1933) and René Magritte’s | 1933 & 1935, both titled La Condition Humaine, Hannah Arendt’s book (1958) ... |
| three paintings | ... s, to narrate different or succeeding stories. His best known works are the | representing the battle of San Romano (for a long time these were wrongly ... |
| Art Deco | ... the Siuslaw riverfront. The Port of Siuslaw marina is to the east, and the | 1936 Siuslaw River Bridge is to the west. The boardwalk promenade was buil ... |
| New York media market | Bayonne is located within the | , with most of its daily papers available for sale or delivery. Local, cou ... |
| Jan van Eyck | ... riel in Annunciation scenes - for example the Annunciation in Washington by | |
| ancient Greek art | ... have contributed to the visual, literary and performing arts. In the West, | was influential in shaping the Roman and later the modern western artistic ... |
| Portrait of Philip de Croÿ | Image:Rogiercroy.jpg| | , c 146 |
| Jacques Daret | ... 'Rogelet de le Pasture' entered the workshop of Robert Campin together with | . Records show that de le Pasture was already established as a painter. On ... |
| Henri Matisse | In 1906 he moved to Paris and became friends with | , Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, then in 1915 he was painted by his friend ... |
| painting | ... tural refinement in China, such as the belief that calligraphy and literati | were higher forms of art than dancing or drama |
| La Délivrance | ... g just released an arrow. Located on East Finchley tube station. The statue | depicts a naked women holding a sword, it stands at the approach to Finchl ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... a verse drama by T. S. Eliot that portrays the assassination of Archbishop | in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170, first performed in 1935. Eliot drew heavi ... |
| Parthenon | ... the return to Athens of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the | , and are now displayed in the British Museum |
| Virgin of Paris | ... arrying the flower in her right hand, just as she is shown in that church's | statue (with lily), and in the centre of the stained glass rose window (wi ... |
| George Herbert | ... reville – Heath – Reginald Heber – Felicia Dorothea Hemans – W. E. Henley – | – Ralph Hodgson – Thomas Hood – Teresa Hooley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – A. ... |
| Portrait of a Young Woman | Image:Rogier van der Weyden 029.jpg| | , c. 143 |
| Santa Maria del Fiore | ... ifferent churches and religious buildings in Florence. The Cathedral is the | . It is the fourth largest church in Europe, its length being and its heig ... |
| Parthenon | ... lis reports that when Christians removed the statue of the Goddess from the | , a beautiful woman appeared in a dream to Proclus, a devotee of Athena, a ... |
| percussion | The triangle is an idiophone type of musical instrument in the | family. It is a bar of metal, usually steel but sometimes other metals lik ... |
| Will Wright | As The Sims became a steady success, | began to focus on Spore. After the spinoff of The Sims studio, it was Maxi ... |
| David | ... contrast to the Muslim position Christians do not credit all the Psalms to | (Daud), indeed a common view is that only half of the psalms were created ... |
| Chicago Pile-1 | ... go and began studies that led to the construction of the first nuclear pile | |
| David | ... en each of the family lines that had descended from those appointed by king | . Luke states that during the week when it was the duty of his family line ... |
| John Ruskin | ... ch were called later the third and fourth "Mycenaean"; but these, bought by | , and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they de ... |
| Salisbury Cathedral | ... he was appointed vicar of the parish of Calne in Wiltshire and treasurer of | . He held this position for eleven years, during which time he also engage ... |
| Thomas Becket | ... ally was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Later, following the murder of Saint | in 1170, Becket's name was added to the dedication. A modern icon panel by ... |
| artwork | ... m French, is a painting method. A watercolor is the medium or the resulting | in which the paints are made of pigments suspended in a water-soluble vehi ... |
| Luxor Temple | ... the walls of the Cachette Court, the start of the processional route to the | |
| William Morris | ... ntury parish church of St Mary the Virgin has some interesting glass by the | company |
| American culture | ... eign visitors, and many American spectators claim it had nothing to do with | |
| enamels | ... ng pigments that include cobalt and copper or over the glaze using coloured | . Like many earlier wares, modern porcelains are often biscuit-fired at ar ... |
| Moses | ... ancient lampstand made of gold and used in the portable sanctuary set up by | in the wilderness and later in the Temple in Jerusalem. Fresh olive oil of ... |
| Moses | ... nerally agree that the Pentateuch (Torah or Tawrat) is the original work of | (Musa) but has been modified in translation, transliteration or transcript ... |
| Discobolus | ... s. It is an ancient sport, as evidenced by the 5th century BC Myron statue, | . Although not part of the modern pentathlon, it was one of the events of ... |
| David | ... abylonian Exile. Many of the psalms in the book of Psalms are attributed to | ; King Solomon is believed to have written Song of Songs in his youth, Pro ... |
| Hustle | ... e Nightclub Dances such as Lindy Hop, West Coast Swing, Nightclub Two Step, | , Salsa, and Merengue |
| John Ruskin | ... ater gave Wilde his sense of almost flippant devotion to art, though it was | who gave him a purpose for it. Ruskin despaired at the self-validating aes ... |
| Peter Paul Rubens | ... ife of Saint Bruno by Eustache Le Sueur and the Life of Marie de Médicis by | were placed on display. The museum, which included the sculptures in the g ... |
| Dallas Museum of Art | File:Juan Gris - Guitar and Pipe.jpg|Guitar and Pipe, 1913, | Image:Juan Gris - Glass of Beer and Playing Cards.jpg|Glass of Beer and Pl ... |
| John Ruskin | ... sing philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and | . After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and so ... |
| Antoine, bastard of Burgundy | Image:Antoine de Bourgogne.jpg|Portrait of | , c 146 |
| Sistine Chapel ceiling | ... nity, in the frescos of the Sistine Chapel. Five sibyls were painted on the | by Michelangelo; the Delphic Sibyl, Libyan Sibyl, Persian Sibyl, Cumaean S ... |
| Moses | The Torah, or "Instruction", is also known as the "Five Books" of | , thus Chumash from Hebrew meaning "fivesome", and Pentateuch from Greek m ... |
| Art Deco | ... he claim due to faulty fire detection systems. The Embassy Theatre, a large | building designed by David Evelyn Nye, also opened on Broadway in 1937. Ny ... |
| Trajan's Column | ... acia's gold mines. The victory has been commemorated by the construction of | , which depicts in stone carved basreliefs the Dacian Wars' most important ... |
| Athena Parthenos | ... icted in Phidias's famous lost gold and ivory statue of her, 36 m tall, the | in the Parthenon. Athena also often is depicted with an owl sitting on one ... |
| Portrait of Francesco d'Este | Image:Rogier van der Weyden 024.jpg| | , c 146 |
| William Morris | ... Fabian Society and free lectures delivered at Kelmscott House, the home of | . He was also among the founders of The Science School Journal, a school m ... |