Sentence examples for classical precedent from inspiring English sources

Yes, a good case can be made that the contrast between exterior rawness and interior refinement reiterates the classical precedent of relating architecture to landscape.

Citing American history and classical precedent, two men with 66 years in the Senate between them neatly framed the differences that have arisen in Washington and the nation.

The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis (The Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity), written in a style that owes little to classical precedent, is a distinctive early example of the genre.

Shakespeare was seen as an untutored poet of nature who was, as John Milton memorably put it, apt to "warble his native wood-notes wild," and who lacked the art — and knowledge of classical precedent — to shape his fancy.

Such a lighthearted approach developed into a series of architectural details, some so subtle that it took a practiced eye to notice that they were not strictly from classical precedent.

The Royal Mews (1732), the treasury buildings, Whitehall (1734 36), and the Horse Guards Building in Whitehall (1750 58; completed after Kent's death) are all part of Burlington's grand intention of rectifying the sorry state of England's architecture by adhering more closely to classical precedent.

But classical precedents predominate in Kjartansson's art.

Classical precedents were lacking: it disparaged epic swagger, and democratised the haughty seriousness of tragedy.

By the 1930s, once museums could afford real antiquities and art schools had lost interest in classical precedents, the casts ended up in warehouses or even dumped in ponds.

For all Ruskin, or anyone else, could have known from looking at nineteenth-century British painting and sculpture — which, in this respect, took classical precedents as unalterable law — the mature female pudendum was baby-bottom smooth.

He went to Italy and studied the work of Andrea Palladio at first hand, and his detail and proportion followed classical precedents far more closely than any that had gone before.