Sentence examples for antiquity without from inspiring English sources

When dealing with themes borrowed from antiquity without feeling constrained to be punctiliously naturalistic, the same Bouchardon looked back to models from the French past.

A set of variations on the venerable "Folías de Espagna" chord progression, it evokes antiquity without relying on pastiche or quotation.

David was born in the year when new excavations at the ash-buried ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum were beginning to encourage a stylistic return to antiquity (without being, as was long supposed, a principal cause of that return).

Excavation began in the 18th century, when all memory of the existence of Herculaneum had been lost for centuries and the only available reports of it were those that had come down through the authors of antiquity, without any information as to the exact position of the ancient city.

Mastic oil, the essential oil of mastic gum, a natural resin obtained from Pistacia lentiscus variation chia has been extensively used in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries as food/beverages flavouring additive and traditional medicine since antiquity without any reported toxicity.

For collectors, the solution is simple: don't buy antiquities without completing due diligence.

American museums, in the aggregate — we've just done a poll — have bought, on average per year, about $150,000 worth of antiquities without provenance.

The date is significant because most American museums will no longer purchase antiquities without proof that they left their countries before 1970, the date of a United Nations covenant aimed at protecting cultural heritage items from looters and disreputable buyers.

Acquiring antiquities without documented provenance risks the refusal of source countries to lend objects and a boycott by the very scholars and archaeologists with whom the museum collaborates on the study and exhibition of its collections.

So far this year, at sales in New York, London and Paris, antiquities without a clear provenance -- found in a known spot in a legitimate excavation -- did not fill the catalogues to the same extent as in years gone by.

Maurizio Fiorilli, the lawyer for the Italian state who negotiated the restitution agreements with American museums, described Ms. True as "a contradictory figure" who bought antiquities "without carrying out the proper due diligence," even as she tried to raise the museum's acquisition standards.