scholarly journals Ben Jonson and the Classical School

PMLA ◽  
1898 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-249
Author(s):  
Felix E. Schelling
Keyword(s):  
Ben Jonson ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Fixed Element ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
Classical Element ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Of Greece

“The words, classical and romantic, although, like many-other critical expressions, sometimes abused by those who have understood them vaguely or too absolutely, yet define two real tendencies in the history of art and literature. The ‘classic’ comes to us out of the cool and quiet of other times, as the measure of what a long experience has shown will at least never displease us. And in the classical literature of Greece and Rome, as in the classics of the last century, the essentially classical element is that quality of order in beauty, which they possess, indeed, to a pre-eminent degree. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty, that constitutes the romantic character in art; and the desire of beauty being a fixed element in every artistic organisation, it is the addition of curiosity to this desire of beauty that constitutes the romantic temper.”

scholarly journals The history of “Exercise Is Medicine” in ancient civilizations

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles M. Tipton
Keyword(s):  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Exercise Prescription ◽  
Surgeon General ◽  
Daily Exercise ◽  
History Of ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
Global Initiative ◽  
Global Influence ◽  
Of Greece

In 2007, the American College of Sports Medicine, with endorsement from the American Medical Association and the Office of the Surgeon General, launched a global initiative to mobilize physicians, healthcare professionals and providers, and educators to promote exercise in their practice or activities to prevent, reduce, manage, or treat diseases that impact health and the quality of life in humans. Emerging from this initiative, termed Exercise Is Medicine, has been an extensively documented position stand by the American College of Sports Medicine that recommended healthy adults perform 150 min of moderate dynamic exercise per week. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the foundation for this global initiative and its exercise prescription for health and disease prevention has roots that began in antiquity more than two millennia ago. Individuals and concepts to remember are that Susruta of India was the first “recorded” physician to prescribe moderate daily exercise, Hippocrates of Greece was the first “recorded” physician to provide a written exercise prescription for a patient suffering from consumption, and the global influence of Galen from Rome combined with his recommendation on the use of exercise for patients in the management of disease prevailed until the 16th century. Historically intertwined with these concepts was exercise being advocated by select physicians to minimize the health problems associated with obesity, diabetes, and inactivity.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
James Uden
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Roman Empire ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Classical World ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
The Impact

The book begins by briefly surveying the origin and history of the word Gothic from the Roman Empire to the first canonical novel of the English Gothic tradition, Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto (1764). It then surveys relevant debates about the classical world and its legacy in eighteenth-century England, including the aftershocks of the French “Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns” and appropriations of classical ideas and images in politics, art, and literature. The Gothic was a “pan-European” phenomenon. Although this book focuses largely on literary works from Britain and America, the allusive connections with Classical literature remind us that the impact of the Gothic was not limited to the English-speaking world.

scholarly journals JAN SOKOL'S APPROACH TO THE RENEWAL OF MONUMENTS WITH AN EMPHASIS ON HIS ACTIVITIES AT PRAGUE CASTLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Šnorbert
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Historic Preservation ◽  
Historical Buildings ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Deep Knowledge ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Preservation And Restoration

This contribution deals with the approach of the architect Jan Sokol to the renovation of monuments within his architectural work. Close attention is paid to the biographical part, as it describes the development of the architect's relation to the history of art and cultural heritage of previous generations. Personalities who influenced him during his studies, but also during architectural practice, are mentioned. It also captures the period when Sokol worked as an employee in a state studio which was focused on the preservation and restoration of monuments. Subsequently, selected buildings and projects designed by this architect in the field of historic preservation are discussed. Of these, the most emphasized are the projects which were created for the area of Prague Castle. To understand these projects, the preserved texts, plans and ideas of the author are used. Unfortunately, many of the discussed projects were not implemented, but they are very valuable in their thought form. And this is one of the reasons why this article iss written, it tries to show the quality of Sokol's projects. Furthermore, the purpose is to point out the personality of the architect, who has not been fully appreciated yet, nevertheless he has inspired several of his students and other architects. In conclusion, it is pointed out that the Sokol's discussed approach was based on a deep knowledge of the construction of the historical buildings and history of art, and that led him to approach to these buildings with a certain humbleness. It is further stated that the architect Jan Sokol was a generally gifted author with an overlap into fields areas.

West of Eden: A History of Art and Literature of Yosemite

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Michael P. Cohen ◽  
David Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Art And Literature ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Centring The Periphery: Local Identity in the Music of Theodore Antoniou and other Twentieth-Century Greek Composers

2014 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-34
Author(s):  
Michalis Andronikou ◽  
Friedemann Sallis
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Fair Treatment ◽  
Gyorgy Ligeti ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Of Greece

This study addresses aspects of local identity in the music of Theodore Antoniou and other Greek contemporary composers. It highlights misapprehensions and obsolete conceptions of historiography and aesthetics embedded in the use of terms such ascentreandperipheryorhigh-andlow-browstyles of music, respectively. An overview of the history of art music in Greece is attempted, for a better understanding of these issues in that context. The parallel reference to significant Western contemporary composers such as György Ligeti, Luigi Nono, and Mauricio Kagel supports the primary argument of the essay, which seeks fair treatment for all places that find themselves peripheral to a given centre. The case of Greece—one of the cradles of Western culture—is a unique example of a problematic approach typical of Western historiographies with regard “centres” and “peripheries” that needs to be corrected.

scholarly journals Archaeology in Greece, 1892

1893 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
E. A. Gardner
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
French School ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Exact Position ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chief Interest ◽  
A Site ◽  
Of Greece ◽  
Made In

The chief interest of the excavations that have taken place in 1892 is associated, directly or indirectly, with Delphi. The French School, under M. Homolle's direction, has now actually begun systematic work upon the site, which will probably continue for many years, and which is certain to yield results of the highest importance. Indirectly, also, the charm of Delphi has led to discoveries of the most valuable kind during the past season. The American School had, owing to the indefatigable exertions of Dr. Waldstein, raised a large sum of money with a view to the excavation of the site; and when the French School succeeded after all in establishing its claim to Delphi, the Americans turned their energies and their resources into another channel; their excavations at the Heraeum near Argos have realized the expectations that so promising a site could not fail to raise. One head, in particular, is a most valuable addition to the known monuments of the very finest period of Greek sculpture, whatever may be the ultimate decision of experts as to its exact position in the history of art.I will, as before, begin my description of the year's excavation with Athens and Attica, and then go on to speak of what has been done both by the Government Department of Antiquities, the Greek Archaeological Society, and the Foreign Schools, in various parts of Greece. Finally, I will describe the progress made in the arrangement, cleaning, and cataloguing of antiquities in the Museums of Athens.

Characterizing peer-judged answer quality on academic Q&A sites

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Li ◽  
Daqing He ◽  
Chengzhi Zhang ◽  
Li Geng ◽  
Ke Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Question ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Answer Quality ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Academic social (question and answer) Q&A sites are now utilised by millions of scholars and researchers for seeking and sharing discipline-specific information. However, little is known about the factors that can affect their votes on the quality of an answer, nor how the discipline might influence these factors. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach Using 1,021 answers collected over three disciplines (library and information services, history of art, and astrophysics) in ResearchGate, statistical analysis is performed to identify the characteristics of high-quality academic answers, and comparisons were made across the three disciplines. In particular, two major categories of characteristics of the answer provider and answer content were extracted and examined. Findings The results reveal that high-quality answers on academic social Q&A sites tend to possess two characteristics: first, they are provided by scholars with higher academic reputations (e.g. more followers, etc.); and second, they provide objective information (e.g. longer answer with fewer subjective opinions). However, the impact of these factors varies across disciplines, e.g., objectivity is more favourable in physics than in other disciplines. Originality/value The study is envisioned to help academic Q&A sites to select and recommend high-quality answers across different disciplines, especially in a cold-start scenario where the answer has not received enough judgements from peers.

scholarly journals Sted, landskab, rum

2018 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Dan Ringgaard
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Prose Poems ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Place Theory ◽  
Art And Literature ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Era

The article discusses matters concerning place by way of three prose poems byDanish writer Louis Jensen. The readings understand place by way of the neighbouring concepts of landscape and space. They set out from a phenomenological understanding of place, presenting basic insights of this approach (especially using the works of Edward S. Casey) and proceeds by way of the challenges given by the prose poems to a critique of phenomenological place theory. The critique points out that it tends to marginalize historic and semiotic aspects of place and questions its insistence on continuity between experience and knowledge. Instead the article suggests that a global sense of place involves discontinuity between place and space, and further more it is argued that the idea in Casey that place has been overruled by space in the modern era, might by correct from the point of view of philosophy, but it is not in accordance with the history of art and literature.

Concealment, Revelation, And Gender: The Veil Of Moses in The Bible And in Christian Art

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-273
Author(s):  
Brian Britt
Keyword(s):  
Divine Revelation ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Christian Art ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Presence And Absence ◽  
The Veil ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Artistic Tradition

AbstractMoses's wearing of a veil (Exod 34:25-39) remains a puzzling and relatively obscure biblical episode. This article interprets Moses's veil as a sign of divine communication and prophecy. Through analysis of the passage, commentary, and images from the history of art, I trace the legacy of the veil as a symbol of the problem of divine revelation itself. For written commentary and artistic tradition, I argue that the veil is concealed, repressed, and transformed in order to ease an anxiety about the veil that is also an anxiety about the text. Christian interpreters (following 2 Cor 3:7-18) associate the veil with Jewish blindness to the gospel. In artistic tradition, the veil of Moses is often linked to the allegorical female Synagogue, who wears a blindfold. The veil, which originally enables Moses to act as a prophet, is thus concealed by religious polemic and linked to the Christian feminization of Jewishness. At the same time, the ambiguity and uncanniness of the veil images evoke the mysterious quality of Exodus 34:29-35. The veil of Moses may thus be seen as a meta-text that alternates between presence and absence, concealment and revelation.

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