War is traditionally depicted as tactics, moves on a chessboard, the collision of brute power and military technology.
The masks may represent the characters the way they are traditionally depicted, or they might reinvent the characters with an African flavor.
Another Spinney painting, titled "In My Dreams I Can Fly," shows Big Bird — who is traditionally depicted as flightless — with his wings spread as he soars high above the countryside.
There is a long tradition in art, going back at least to the time of Petrarch, of a poet being crowned with a wreath of laurel, and such scholars as St. Jerome and St. Thomas Aquinas are traditionally depicted beside such a burning lamp" (Charles Scribner III, unpublished memo dated 2 June 1994).
Two aspects of the Last Supper have been traditionally depicted in Christian art: Christ's revelation to his Apostles that one of them will betray him and their reaction to this announcement, and the institution of the sacrament of the Eucharist with the communion of the Apostles.
In China the Daoist deity Lei Gong is traditionally depicted as surrounded by numerous drums on which he creates thunder, and in Japan thundering drums were even automated by attaching a number of them to the outer circumference of a wheel that, when revolved, caused them to rattle an early application of the rattle drum principle.
King Shaka - who founded the Zulu kingdom and was famous for his military tactics - is traditionally depicted bearing arms.
The mylohyoid muscle is traditionally depicted as a continuous muscular sling formed from two halves that join at the fibrous median raphe.
They are traditionally depicted as ancient chthonic deities preoccupied with avenging patricide and matricide by hunting down and killing violent criminals.
Although they take their name from a dog-like Chinese demon (Tiangou), the tengu were originally thought to take the forms of birds of prey, and they are traditionally depicted with both human and avian characteristics.
