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Passion fruit
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Passion cycle
Passion cycle in art, the depiction of the last events in the life of Jesus. The Passion was a favorite subject of medieval and Renaissance artists and was considered the most ambitious of projects. The scenes depicted generally include the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the washing of his feet,... Read more |
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passion music
passion music choral music whose text depicts events immediately surrounding the crucifixion of Jesus. The earliest passions, composed from the 9th to the 14th cent., were monophonic and employed the actual biblical text of one of the four Evangelists. Polyphonic passions originated in England in... Read more |
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Passions
PASSIONS PASSIONS. In the twenty-fifth of his Letters Concerning the English Nation (1733), Voltaire took on the defense of human nature against the seventeenth-century philosopher Pascal's misanthropic vision, which was centered around the notion of original sin. Intellectual acuity and strong... Read more |
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Passion play
Passion play genre of the miracle play that has survived from the Middle Ages into modern times. Its subject is the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus. Passion plays were first given in Latin. By the 13th cent. they included German verses, and 200 years later the entire play was... Read more |
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Vittore Carpaccio
Vittore Carpaccio , c.1450-1522, Venetian painter, influenced by Gentile and Giovanni Bellini. His delightful narrative paintings reflect the pageantry of 15th-century Venice. They also offer a fanciful view of the Middle East, gained through contemporary drawings. His style is notable for its rich... Read more |
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Tamar
Tamar , in the Bible. 1 Mother of Judah's twin sons Pharez and Zerah. An alternate spelling is Thamar. 2 Daughter of David and Maachah. She was the victim of her half brother Amnon's passion. 3 Daughter of Absalom.... Read more |
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Gust
Gust sudden outburst. See also rack . Examples: gust of fire, 1674; of grace, 1807; of grief, 1715; of hope, 1705; of joy, 1789; of passion, 1783; of pleasure, 1704; of sin, 1639; of smoke, 1811; of sound, 1849; of tears, 1870; of unholy passion, 1852; of temptation, 1681; of water, 1610; of... Read more |
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Andrea del Castagno
Andrea del Castagno , c.1423-1457, major Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. His first recorded painting (1440; now destroyed), effigies of hanged men, enemies to the Florentine regime, brought him fame in spite of its disconcerting subject. Two years later he was in Venice, frescoing the... Read more |
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Julien Benda
Julien Benda , 1867-1956, French novelist and critic. A humanist and rationalist, he led a sustained attack against the romantic philosophy of his time, especially that of Bergson. In The Treason of the Intellectuals (1927, tr. 1928) he accused his contemporary thinkers of abandoning truth and... Read more |
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Celebrate with Portlands handcrafted beverages
...the holidays, or any day, head for Portland, Ore. Portlanders passion for craft extends to beverages, and theres an artisanal...entrepreneur pedaled his cart some 400 miles in Septembers Cycle Oregon tour. Wickers latest micro-lot, Nekisse... |