Sentence examples for classical precedents from inspiring English sources

But classical precedents predominate in Kjartansson's art.

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

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.

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.

Conceptually this is a bit of a stretch, for in fact he needs no classical precedents to justify work that is closer in spirit to Marcel Duchamp than to Alexander the Great.

Just as Mies's glass-and-steel museum reworked Classical precedents, Mr. Piano's design invokes Mies's model, though with a sensitivity that makes the muscularity of the 1968 museum look old-fashioned.

It shows what Shakespeare had to learn from Classical precedent as he set about looking for workable models in tragedy.

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.