Sentence examples for ancient works from inspiring English sources

Ancient works were made for functional purposes.

In ancient works, particularly in antiquities, the scholar must examine the iconography of a piece.

Mr. Hine was also a translator of ancient works and, for several years, the editor of Poetry magazine.

Free-standing sculptures -- many of them replicas of ancient works or artifacts from primitive societies -- dot the hallways and classrooms.

Like many ancient works of art that survive, it is a Roman copy of a lost Greek sculpture.

They were like transmissions from the distant past, conveying messages across time, and connecting the contemporary viewer to the art impulse at the core of these ancient works.

The goal was not to obscure an ancient work in analysis, but to reveal — in a word, to illuminate.

The name Warring States is derived from an ancient work known as the Zhanguoce ("Intrigues of the Warring States").

The first major ancient work on trigonometry to reach Europe intact after the Dark Ages was the Almagest by Ptolemy (c. ad 100 170).

"One thing the artists are trying to stress by drawing on this emblematic ancient work is the continuity of culture," Mr. Barkoczi said.

Even Michelangelo was said to have gotten into the act, passing off a Cupid he had carved as an ancient work by burying it in the ground to achieve an antique patina.