|
Parnassus, Mount
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Parnassus, Mount a mountain in central Greece, just north of Delphi. Held to...regarded as a symbol of poetry. Parnassian means of or belonging to Mount Parnassus as the source of literary (especially poetic) inspiration. The name...
|
|
Parnassian
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Parnassian of or belonging to Parnassus, poetic XVII; epithet of school of French poetry ( les Parnassiens ) XIX. f. L. Parnassus — Gr. Parnassós Parnassus, mountain anciently sacred to the Muses. See -IAN .
|
|
|
gradation
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
...pp. (used sb.) of graduārī take a degree; see -ATE2 , -ATE3 , gradus short for Gradus ad Parnassum (steps to Parnassus), L. title of a dictionary of L. prosody used as an aid to versification. XVIII.
|
|
|
Delphic
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
Delphic pert. to Delphi on the slope of Mt. Parnassus in Greece and the oracle of Apollo there; obscure and ambiguous. XVI. See -IC .
|
|
quadro riportato
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...It was a Neo-Classical reaction against Baroque quadratura and trompe l'œil work, and a good example is the Parnassus (1761) at the Villa Albani, Rome, by Anton Raffael Mengs (1728–79). Bibliography Chilvers Osborne &...
|
|
Becher, Johann Joachim
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...influential jurist and imperial councillor Ludwig von H ö rnigk, on 13 June 1662. In the same year Becher published his Parnassus medicinalis illustratis , and in 1663 he was appointed professor of medicine at Mainz and physician to the elector. Nevertheless...
|
|
Prophecy
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary
...Cumaean sibyl to discover future, leads Aeneas to Hades. [Gk. Lit.: Aeneid ] Delphi ancient oracular center near Mt. Parnassus. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 74; Jobes, 428] Dodona oldest oracle of Zeus in Greece. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 83] Ezekiel...
|
|
Albani, Cardinal Alessandro
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...sumptuous villa he had built in Rome (now the villa Torlonia); the decoration included Mengs's famous ceiling painting Parnassus (1761), one of the key works of Neoclassicism . Winckelmann was Albani's friend and protégé.
|
|
|
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...artists and architects, notably the painter Anton Raffael Mengs (1728–79—whose ceiling fresco , Parnassus , in the Villa Albani, Rome (1761), was one of the key works of Neo-Classicism), Schinkel , and von Klenze . Bibliography...
|
|
Richter, Sviatoslav
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
...large and loyal following. SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY: Richter Rediscovered (RCA, 2001); Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s (Parnassus, 2002). BIBLIOGRAPHY: B. Monsaingeon, Richter: Notebooks and Conversations (Princeton, NJ, 2002). douglas mclennan
|
