Sentence examples for antiquity well from inspiring English sources

The only earlier works of this nature were from the Hellenistic period of Classical antiquity, well known to Michelangelo through the discovery of the Laocoön group in 1506.

French artist Miguel Chevalier transforms the face of antiquity (well, two of its faces, in fact) in his newest work, Janus 2013.

The ancestors of the modern Finnhorse were important throughout Finnish history, used as work horses and beasts of burden in every aspect of life from antiquity well into the 20th century.

There the conscious intricacies of Mannerist compositions and the eloquent quotations from antiquity were well appreciated; court literature of this period displayed many analogous features.

"I want to show them that painters knew Roman or Greek antiquity very well, and from these texts they created their works.

It was taken for granted in the Greek communities of antiquity, as well as in Rome, that citizens would be formed in accordance with the character and needs of the regime.

Pliny also attributed the work to a collaboration of three artists, which seemed an affront to any concept of the individual genius in antiquity (as well as to this work being wrought from a single stone).

The European half-continent is largely formed by its antiquity, as well by monotheism, which was introduced from the Near East.

Definite descriptions, in contrast, do not appear to be rigid: the definite description 'the last great philosopher of antiquity' might well refer to (or 'denote') Plato in a world where Aristotle dies in infancy.

Cabbage continued to figure in the materia medica of Antiquity as well as at table: in the first century AD Dioscorides mentions two kinds of coleworts with medical uses, the cultivated and the wild, and his opinions continued to be paraphrased in herbals right through the 17th century.

It is still uncertain how many of the museum's priceless gold, silver and copper antiquities, as well as its fabled bronzes and ivories, had been locked away for safekeeping elsewhere before the looting.