Hals seems, from the evidence of extant works, to have begun his career with sober portraits and with group portraits of members of the local guilds and military societies.
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Until recently he was also identified as the author of a number of extant works on medicine.
This mechanical arrangement, by indirectly recognizing the poet's metrical virtuosity and proposing three kinds of composition, justly calls attention to a versatility disproportionate to the slim size of the extant work.
Some scholars believe that the author of the oldest extant work of literature in Tamil (3rd century BCE), Tolkāppiyam, was a Jain.
The opening lines of the Iliad, the oldest extant work of Western poetry, refer with pointed revulsion to the possibility that the bodies of the warriors who died at Troy could become the "delicate pickings of birds and dogs"; indeed you might say that getting the dead buried — even the reviled, enemy dead — is the principle object of the epic's grand narrative arc.
All of Okura's extant work is contained in the 8th-century anthology Man'yō-shū.
We start with a thorough investigation of user requirements, extant work, and relevant IS design theories to inform our system design choices, among which we identified that "virtual advisor identity" (VAI) needs further research.
His contributions to the development of the understanding of reason and argument in classical India are found in three of his extant works.
Studies of his extant works suggest that he was more interested in medieval optics than in the rational perspective system of Alberti and Brunelleschi.
