Example sentences of "from [art] [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Those are disturbing trends , with resonances from the darkest period of European history .
2 In Northamptonshire , a sense of continuity existed in a WEA tradition from the earliest period of the Association 's activities .
3 The magazine will continue to cover American painting , drawings , prints , and sculpture from the Colonial period to 1960 , with occasional attention to decorative arts and architecture , and a bit more to photography .
4 The work seems to date from the transitional period between Old Testament Judaism and Christianity .
5 The Bramante building — it was the architect 's first work in Milan — is thought to be from the finest period of the Lombardy Renaissance and is a masterpiece of space and depth , the more so because of Bramante 's superb use of a perspective fresco beyond the High Altar .
6 Even today Ravenna is unique in the quality of its Byzantine work , particularly the mosaics , most of it from the finest period of the fifth and sixth centuries .
7 THE BOMB devastated a part of the City which contains an outstanding series of buildings , dating from the Norman period to the present day .
8 A survey of niello composition , from the Roman period to the twentieth century , has identified the beginnings of a change in composition in the sixth century in Northern Europe when , perhaps for economic reasons , copper as well as silver was added to the crucible with the sulphur .
9 That compares with 41 wins from the equivalent period in 1992 .
10 From the early period of tin mining to the 1940s women were often concentrators of minerals .
11 This project aims to provide historians and librarians with an essential reference tool for the study of London history from the Anglo-Saxon period to the outbreak of the Second World War .
12 The range of courses extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to recent times , and includes Scottish Literature and the literature of the United States and parts of the Commonwealth .
13 All of this was so very different from the earlier period of Hebrew history when the first recorded occasion of a circumcision had as its central active character the woman Zipporah , and it puts in context the biblical passage , written at the time of the exile , with which this essay opened : Jerusalem , allegorized as a female in needy relation to her Lord and depicted as cleansed of her blood by the intervention of a male deity .
14 erm when I was looking at this , this picture of the , of the Brettan Girls , I erm , I was really particularly struck by the bo , the mild head of one of the dancers and the fact that she was rubbing her , her heal , erm and it gave me a voice for , for this poem , I was also drawn by the dismissal , there 's a goose in the painting , there 's four , four geese and one of them is dismissing the , the , the winner outright and erm I found his look very , very interesting and , and I could n't help but compare the lies of these four dancers with those within erm from the later period as the eye that , that , that Gaugin painted later on .
15 From the later period of canal cutting to the early one of railway building there was clearly a link in the inheriting of a core of toughened labourers and foremen who , even if posterity has chosen to present them as the antithesis of skilled , at very least knew what they were doing when it came to tunnels , cuts and embankments .
16 They constructed in this way true arches with radiating voussoirs , but a controversy exists as to whether the European origins here are Etruscan or Roman , as Etruscan examples all date from the later period of the third century B.C. onwards when Roman supremacy over the Etruscans was being established .
17 From the fifth-century period of Persian control between c.450 and 404 there survive leather documents ( G. Driver ( 1957 ) Aramaic Documents of the Fifth Century BC ) which show that much of the best land in Egypt was parcelled out among absentee Persian landlords .
18 But though the machinery of government is developing in this direction , there is insufficient willingness to face the facts , to give up some of the pretences left over from the old period of vigorous , participatory democracy in order to remove the anomalies and rationalize the system .
19 In contrast to this complex and long-established system , which originally derived from the tribal period in early Celtic and Germanic Europe , we find that certain cities and merchants were freed of feudal ties .
20 His 104 items constitute a survey of European painting from the Romanesque period to the Renaissance , including fifty Italian miniatures , twenty-four German , ten Netherlandish , fifteen French , three English , and two Spanish .
21 The picture does not really change if we turn from the Bible to those seals and bronzes from the Persian period with which the Archaeological Museums of Jerusalem have made us familiar .
22 Paradoxically , it dates from the very period in which Tristan was conceived ; in fact the Tristan drama itself was planned and its words written under Schopenhauerian influence — but influence of an ethical , rather than an aesthetic , kind .
23 This exhibition , organised by David Yeomans and accompanied by a short book of the same title , explored the relationship between architectural design and carpentry from the mediaeval period to the present day .
24 Ancient History 1 surveys the whole of Greek and Roman history from the Mycenaean period to the foundation of Constantinople in the fourth century AD .
25 This is thought to have resulted from a prolonged period of subaerial exposure in response to a drop in sea-level prior to the deposition of the Z3 Anhydrite .
26 Shale sections benefit from a long period with 0.25 µm powder , as this gives very slow removal of material without plucking of quartz grains .
27 ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’
28 These measures had resulted from a long period of maturation and fitted into Morrison 's 1944 vision of a ‘ legislative programme of social reconstruction ’ after the war had ended .
29 He had sought and received asylum in the Senegalese embassy in Conakry only a month after his return home from a long period of exile [ see p. 38181 ] .
30 By the last decade of Henry VIlI 's reign , if not before , England was beginning to recover from a long period of population decline .
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