Sentence examples for antiquity old from inspiring English sources

He took old stories - tales from antiquity, old wives tales, ghosts stories, centuries-old revenge plots - and revamped them with the bawdy humor, topical allusions, and trappings of his own time.

In addition to his booth, he has rented a 130-foot barge on the Seine next to the Musée d'Orsay to exhibit antiquities, old masters and antiques that won't fit into the Carrousel du Louvre.

"I will be buying medieval art and antiquities, old books and old master paintings.

Car Show and Vintage Baseball Games: Richfield, Wis., Sunday The Richfield Historical Society hosts a trifecta of antiquity this weekend: old cars, old buildings and old baseball.

And while the prices seem astonishing compared to where they were 10 years ago, they're modest compared to what you have to pay for a top-notch piece of antiquity or old master drawing.

Sturdy sales of antiquities and Old Masters follow, along with a small "Contemporary Curated" offering on June 12, which draws from two private collections of contemporary art.

This year as always visitors can see a vast array of every collecting category, from classical antiquities and old master paintings to Fabergé clocks and 19th-century silver-gilt knives.

Yet visitors are still able to see a vast selection of what the market has to offer in nearly every collecting category from classical antiquities and old master paintings to contemporary art textiles, Oriental ceramics and 18th-century furniture.

To be a bombshell in 2013 is to be an antiquity, an old-world relic, like movie palaces or fountain pens or the muscle cars of the 1970s or the pinball machines in the basement.

The fair includes all collecting categories, including textiles and antiquities, jewelry, old-master paintings and manuscripts.

Waterfield says archaeologists like to emphasize that antiquities looting is as old as antiquities themselves.