Sentence examples for antique tradition from inspiring English sources
The antique tradition of illusionistic naturalism continued in painting in Rome through the early Christian period; but toward 600 it weakened, and figures became flat and insubstantial.
From a distance it looks as if Mr. de los Reyes is in engaged in an eccentric revival of some antique tradition.
Floor mosaics in the cathedral complex at Aquileia demonstrate that the church before and immediately after Constantine's edict of tolerance of the Christian faith in 313 ce adhered to the late antique tradition of placing religious pictures in pavements.
While Romantic and Freudian overtones reverberate, the paintings also evoke the antique tradition of the vanitas -- the still-life that allegorizes the futility of material attachments in a world where no one escapes death.
Mears draws a parallel distinction in fashion, between designers choosing to work within the antique tradition of drapery as well as the use of uncut lengths of fabric, and others who chose instead to pursue the science of tailoring.
A mint julep on Kentucky Derby Day is one ofthose antique traditions, like plum pudding on Christmas, that promise more in the way of soul satisfaction than they usually deliver.
Classical Sculpture Collages Shatter Antique Traditions.
The Arabic philosophers (falâsifa) were heirs to the late-antique tradition of understanding the works of Aristotle in Neoplatonic terms.
Probably his best known effort in recent years has been "Beowulf," in which Mr. Bagby sang parts of the epic story in Old English to his own harp accompaniment, in what he proposed as a modern reincarnation of the antique bardic tradition.
Some works in distinctively Western modes call to mind early Giacometti, Miró and Picasso; some blend Modernist and antique Japanese traditions; and some are experiments in Japanese utilitarian craft.
In designing an ultramodern building for a modernising China, he has no intention of drawing on that country's antique design traditions, but on its young industrial crafts, technologies and engineering processes.
