Sentence examples for ancient themes from inspiring English sources

They circle ancient themes and conventions.

Moreau was a figurative painter who created scenes based on legendary or ancient themes.

Ancient themes were preferred, and rarely was there an effort to improve or adapt.

Then, on June 7, the house holds "The Connoisseur's Eye," essentially a sale of European furnishings and bibelots from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many, like a fetching marble figure of Venus, inspired by ancient themes.

"There's still a lot of rhetoric about modernism and throwing away the past that we use in art history and popular culture," says Govan. "But so much of Picasso's career is looking at classical art and ancient themes.

Using ancient themes but also adapting to the Victorian tastes of outside buyers, they turned out purses, pincushions, picture frames, jewelry, sport and smoking caps and sold them at Niagara Falls and other sites near Iroquois communities.

Another dance on an ancient theme, this time the fall of Troy.

A dominant ancient theme in theories of learning has been that of association.

Carson's singular gift for resuscitating the ancient theme of desire is complicated by a postmodern habit of pastiche and fragmentation.

Like Kitty's death, Burt's dread and his family's disintegration, Anna underscores Mr. Wodicka's suitably ancient theme: memento mori.

Though observed as a Buddhist festival, Bon is not exclusively so and reflects the ancient theme of close continuity in Japanese religious life between the living and the dead.