The lights illuminated an iconographical painting that covered the ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For WondLa] Reference
Cartari's main purpose, however, is iconographical, and his handbook is illustrated from 1571 onwards. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The Majors get a brief iconographical essay, along with descriptions of 12 sets, and 20 interpretations each. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
We have no common iconographical vocabulary, no symbols we all recognise even if we are doing new or subversive things with them. From Wordnik.com. [University of Chichester, Bishop George Bell lecture] Reference
The history of iconographical attitudes in post - classical times is to a considerable degree a history of accepting or rejecting the classical tradition. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
At the same time French philologist and historian Jean-Yves Carrez-Maratray was studying Greek and Roman textual and iconographical references to the city. From Wordnik.com. [Pelusium: Gateway to Egypt] Reference
It did not feature a "portrayal" of the Prophet, the word they used on their site, nor did it constitute an "insult" by the iconographical values of American culture. From Wordnik.com. [Defending South Park's Mohammad Episode] Reference
He did not substantially subvert or even significantly widen established iconographical boundaries but rather seemed completely absorbed in realizing their fullest expressive potential. From Wordnik.com. [Were Some of Vermeer's Models Pregnant?] Reference
Leroquais, and G. de Jerphanion have built up a solid body of iconographical knowl - edge, on which scholars of the twentieth century were able to erect a modern, comprehensive structure. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
In Western art, the depiction of angels often offers the painter or sculptor a chance to introduce an element of fantasy into pictures that must otherwise adhere to strict iconographical orthodoxy. From Wordnik.com. [Flights of divine fantasy] Reference
As soon as philosophic reflection became self-conscious, the habit of furnishing straightforward mythical representations with allegorical explanations made its appearance in iconographical as in literary criticism. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
On the second level, the function of interpretation is called “iconographical analysis”; its object is the “secondary or conventional subject matter,” constituting the world of images, his - tories, and allegories. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
Most of the furniture throughout the house was Greek, Roman, or Egyptian in inspiration, often with appropriate iconographical details: the dining room sideboard was adorned with appropriate em - blems of Bacchus and Ceres. From Wordnik.com. [NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART] Reference
He drew on liturgical and iconographical themes to sketch a vision of the universe permeated by wisdom, which has deep roots in certain aspects of orthodox theology, although it goes a good way beyond it in many other respects. From Wordnik.com. [Creation, Creativity and Creatureliness: the Wisdom of Finite Existence Study Day organised by the St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality, Oxford] Reference
Artists sought to represent not only the traditional individual virtues, but “virtue in general” (virtus generaliter sumpta), and some complained that the existing iconographical tra - dition offered no models for them to follow. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Pioneering studies by K. Giehlow, F. Saxl, and E. Panofsky enlarged iconographical interests above all to encompass the large field of secular art, whereas they had been mainly limited to religious iconography in the work of preceding generations of scholars. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
Grozier had a Chinese book, an iconographical and technological work, with a great many pictures in it, illustrating all the different processes of paper-making, and he showed us a picture of the workshop with the bamboo stalks lying in a heap in the corner; it was extremely well drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
Also among scholars who considered the function of representation and of communication as a legitimate and important function of art, criticism was expressed, not against the principle of an iconographical or icon - ological investigation, but against overstatements in their application. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
As an endeavor to classify “all portrayable” things, persons, events, and ideas, and to create a consistent method to describe every possible image, van de Waal's system may be considered as one of the important achievements of the “iconographical stage” in the development of art history. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
In this static world of iconographical think - ing little change is noticeable, although Eastern Chris - tian art had its important artistic evolution and often absorbed Western influences, sometimes even in icono - graphic respects (e.g., the influence of German prints on the wall paintings in the Athos monasteries). From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
When the world of ideas and images, created at the moment of the flowering of romanticism, began to be popularized for the use of the large bourgeois masses, the content — ideological and iconographical — of ro - manticism lost its original authenticity and left be - hind not a new system of original images, but a dispo. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
While these works may bear an iconographical resemblance, they veer into different territory with their visible process and natural references. From Wordnik.com. [NewsObserver.com - Home] Reference
The sophisticated and 'learned' iconographical and compositional qualities of the paintings attributed to him are sometimes used as an argument in favour of this supposition. From Wordnik.com. Reference
We all know that you probably weren't going to move to Nigeria, because of your racism, but just in case you were thinking about it, you might want to check out this iconographical mess. From Wordnik.com. [Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com] Reference
In the present case, I should like to insist on the fourth consideration rather than on the other points, iconographical or chronological, and see how far our portrait bears on its face the impress of Giorgione's own spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Giorgione]
Chinese book, an iconographical and technological work, with a great many pictures in it, illustrating all the different processes of paper-making, and he showed us a picture of the workshop with the bamboo stalks lying in a heap in the corner; it was extremely well drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Lost Illusions] Reference
IHS became the accepted iconographical characteristic of St. Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419) and of St. Bernardine of Siena (d. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
“pre-iconographical description.”. From Wordnik.com. [ICONOGRAPHY] Reference
182,000 manuscripts, and 100,000 iconographical pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
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