Word: ancient
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...Burns' course offerings reflect his interests in ancient and Renaissance architecture. He carries a typical teaching load at the school, supervising one full-year survey course and two half-year seminars on subjects such as Mesopotamian structures and ancient Greek and Roman buildings, as well as seminars on Renaissance and Baroque architechure, which is Burns' own specialty...
...17th century the classical world was the locus of ideal beauty, but how did a Frenchman enter it? A writer could read Vergil without leaving Paris, but a painter had to go to Rome. There, ancient sculpture and architecture abounded; from them, antiquity could be reimagined. It was the strength of the reimagining, not just its archaeological correctness, that counted. Poussin's main regular job during his Roman years was drawing records of ancient sculpture for a rich antiquary and scholar named Cassiano dal Pozzo. This gave him excellent access to collections, and the time to develop the repertoire...
...work on inscriptions and ancient coins led to Frye's recent publication of The History of Ancient Iran...
...Frye, an ancient historian, does have views on Middle Eastern problems of today...
Because information about the ancient Middle East is so limited, Frye says that he must rely on ancient pottery, tools, spears, and even coins to gain information about Persia and Central Asia...