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'Durer and Italy': A master's impact on Renaissance art
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Roderick Conway Morris
International Herald Tribune
05-19-2007
No artist better fits Thomas Carlyle's definition of genius, as the ''transcendent capacity of taking trouble,'' than Albrecht Durer. The industry of the man was breathtaking, his mastery of detail astonishing, yet everything he did seemed fresh and newly minted.The most intellectual of northern Renaissance artists, but the one who responded most immediately to nature, to the world and the people around him, he was profoundly religious yet supremely open-minded.Durer formed a unique bridge between the arts north and south of the ...
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Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, 2 vols.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...FORTENBAUGH, William W. et al., eds. Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for his Life...ancient world. Under the name "project Theophrastus" and the leadership of William Fortenbaugh...reports for our understand- ing of Theophrastus's thought, its relationship to Aristotle...
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Impressions of Theophrastus Such.
Magazine article from: Criticism
; ...last published work, Impressions of Theophrastus Such, is a minor achievement, but...Accordingly, the title Impressions of Theophrastus Such, refers not only to intellectual...or imitation of the original Greek Theophrastus, who invented the genre of the "character...
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Theophrastus and his world.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9780906014325 Theophrastus and his world. Millett, Paul...supplementary; v.33 PA6304 Theophrastus' Characters written in Athens in...of Cambridge) provides a look at Theophrastus in the context of his life in Athens...
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Theophrastus of Eresus; on weather signs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: SciTech Book News
; 9789004155930 Theophrastus of Eresus; on weather signs. Ed...translation of Greek philosopher Theophrastus' (370-285 BC) De Signis, a...weather signs are, and whether Theophrastus actually wrote it. Textual and...
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Columns: A good idea from... Theophrastus
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...struck the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus (c371-287BC), because he wrote...sprinkling himself from a sacred spring," Theophrastus wrote, "and by chewing leaves of...s recognisably the same type that Theophrastus had in mind. In a sense, it's an...
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Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence, vol. 8, Sources on Rhetoric and Poetics (Texts 666-713 ).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; PA4450 91-33945 90-04-14247-9 Theophrastus of Eresus; sources for his life, writings thought and...505 p. $134.00 No original works by Greek philosopher Theophrastus (370-285 BCE) survive, and his ideas are only preserved...
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Theophrastus of Eresus; sources for his life, writings, thoughts and influence. Commentary v.2: Logic.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9789004152984 Theophrastus of Eresus; sources for his life, writings, thoughts and influence...commentary on the sources for information about Greek philosopher Theophrastus (370-285 BC) published in two volumes in 1992. Here she looks...
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Priscian: On Theophrastus' On Sense-Perception with "Simplicius": On Aristotle's On the Soul 2.5-12.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; PRISCIAN. Priscian: On Theophrastus' On Sense-Perception; with "Simplicius": On Aristotle...the intrinsic value of the works themselves. Of the two, On Theophrastus' On Sense-Perception provides some interesting parallels...
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Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541); essential theoretical writings.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; 9789004157569 Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 1493-1541); essential theoretical writings. Paracelsus. Ed. and trans. by Andrew Weeks. BRILL...
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Tribute to a 16th century iatrochemist. (Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim) (Chemical History)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; ...anniversary of the birth of one of the most extraordinary and outrageous figures in the history of science. His real name was Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, but he called himself Paracelsus. For much of his life he was an outcast who wandered around central...
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