The wealth of its natural resources and its strategic position on the principal maritime route linking Greece and the Aegean with the Levant and Egypt made Cyprus a major prize for the warring Hellenistic rulers.
Numerous large-scale public buildings (temples, gymnasia, theaters, baths, and aqueducts
Few statues from antiquity have survived both in situ and intact, but the evidence suggests an ever-changing and expanding range of contexts for their display.
the late Republic, statues adorned basilicas, sanctuaries and shrines, temples, theaters
I saw the pyramids of Giza for the first time when I was fourteen and became completely enchanted with ancient Egypt.
Khorshid and his magical guitar serenaded us with love and revolution through Cairo theaters
Seventeenth-century explorations of the world seas and subsequent advances in natural history and botanical sciences directly affected the appearance of gardens.
2008.240a,b), shells, and stones imported from all four continents, veritable “theaters
The Neoclassical style arose from first-hand observation and reproduction of antique works.
picturesque landscape views, reproductions of frescoes, and measured drawings of temples, theaters
The Painting: In 1873, the great opera baritone Jean-Baptiste Faure commissioned from Degas a picture depicting ballerinas of the Opera ballet corps at an examination or dance class (Pantazzi 1988)
and staged ballets throughout Europe and served as ballet master at the Imperial theaters
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1883‒Sussex, United Kingdom, 1946
throughout his lifetime, and his stewardship of public arts institutions—from ballets to theaters
The vast expanse of such a garden park with fountains and theaters made maintenance
Unusual vantage points and asymmetrical framing are a consistent theme throughout Degas’s works.
he showed little interest in painting plein-air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters
Showcasing masterworks of brush-inscribed Japanese texts, some serving as independent works of art and others enhanced by decorated papers or by paintings, this exhibition takes a close look at the original gestural movement marked in each work—the applied pressure, speed, and rhythm that are said to reflect the artist’s state of mind.
imaginary, visions of the flashy, exuberant, and hedonistic world of brothels and theaters
