Sentence examples for ancient scene from inspiring English sources

Except for a few modern intrusions like safety glasses or the occasional cigarette dangling from a worker's lips -- this is actually France in 2002, after all -- it is an ancient scene lifted from the pages of an illuminated manuscript.

Alas, there is no musical representation of the alphorn superimposed on an ancient scene in "Apollo Among the Shepherds," a painting by Joseph Anton Koch, a 19th-century Tyrolean artist.

This allowed him to reimagine the ancient scene with four Chinese ink illustrations and four collage works.

In a way, choosing a famous ancient scene is the perfect subject to explore technology that brings art into the future.

He always experienced these ancient scenes anew.

Perhaps Mahler was recalling such ancient scenes when he acted out ultimate terror on the stage of the Vienna opera, or perhaps he had an inkling of what was to come.

In this paper we investigate the problem of automatically generating drawings of ancient scenes by ontologies extracted from these domains.

So, in that sense, new-ish technology helped to make an ancient campaign scene dangerous – a perfect scene from The Thick Of It, except for the bizarrely expletive-free speech of a real PM in private – and meant that television was responsible for the two defining images of the 2010 race.

Jones's richly informative history recounts how the rivalry between two of the most celebrated artists in Florence became a direct competition in 1504, when Michelangelo was commissioned to paint an ancient battle scene on a wall of the Palazzo Vecchio — in the same room where Leonardo da Vinci had already been commissioned to paint a scene from another great Florentine conflict.

They depicted ancient battle scenes and at first glance appeared to be genuine.

Perhaps this book's greatest strength is Mr Flannery's ability to bring ancient, inanimate scenes to life.