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red-figure vase painting red-figure vase painting
red-figure vase painting. One of the two major divisions of Greek vase painting, the other being Black-figure. In the red-figure technique, the background was painted black, leaving the figures in the unpainted red colour of the pottery. Details of the figure could thus be added with a brush rather... Read more
Alfred Drury Alfred Drury
Drury, Alfred (1856–1944). British sculptor, mainly of portraits and monuments, but also of the kind of literary or symbolic figures typical of the New Sculpture. His work includes a good deal of public sculpture in London, including decorative figures in stone on the facade of the Victoria... Read more
topology topology
topology branch of mathematics , formerly known as analysis situs, that studies patterns of geometric figures involving position and relative position without regard to size. Topology is sometimes referred to popularly as "rubber-sheet geometry" because a figure can be changed to that of an... Read more
laudanum laudanum
laudanum , tincture, or alcoholic solution, of opium , first compounded by Paracelsus in the 16th cent. Not then known to be addictive, the preparation was widely used up through the 19th cent. to treat a variety of disorders. Many literary and artistic figures, including Coleridge, Poe,... Read more
Sihon Sihon
Sihon , in the Bible, king of the Amorites, who attacked Israel. He became a figure for the mighty fallen.... Read more
figure figure
figure in music, short melodic or rhythmic pattern, the smallest grouping of notes that will produce a single distinct impression. In this sense figure is synonymous with motive . In music before the 18th cent., a figure had an additional meaning of symbolic significance; it was an illustration in... Read more
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New Figuration. A very broad term for a general revival of figurative painting in the 1960s following a period when abstraction (particularly Abstract Expressionism) had been the dominant mode of avant-garde art in Europe and the USA. The term is said to have been first used by the French critic... Read more
Achilles Painter Achilles Painter
Achilles Painter. Greek vase painter, active in Athens in the mid-5th century bc, named after a red-figure amphora decorated with a figure of Achilles (Vatican Mus.). He was a contemporary of Phidias and his paintings have some of the nobility associated with the great sculptor's work. His... Read more
academy figure academy figure
academy figure. A careful painting or drawing (usually about half life-size) from the nude human figure made as an exercise, typically in an art school or academy. The figure is usually depicted in a heroic pose, and there is a tradition of suitable postures that goes back to the Carracci. Two... Read more

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Star still rises to the ocean
Newspaper article from: Scotland on Sunday (Edinburgh, Scotland) ...the other end of the building. Figures walk to and fro, greet each other...manifest in popular culture. Her literary sources included Dusty Answer...It was the name the astronomer Tycho Brahe gave to mysteriously bright but...
An earthbound pursuit of celestial truths.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...among them such notables as Kepler, Tycho Brahe and Galileo. At heart it's nothing...personal drama behind some scientific or literary breakthrough. The progenitor of...detail: "Second, [Ptolemy] had to figure out a way to make the epicycle move...

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