Word: grecos
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...protector of Greek culture, which still held sway throughout the eastern Mediterranean and beyond: an imposing statue of Hadrian in military regalia shows him trampling a barbarian - powerful imagery in the Greek portion of the empire, which had been traumatized by rebellion. His breastplate further emphasizes the Greco-Roman union, displaying the Greek goddess Athena standing upon a she-wolf that was a symbol of Rome...
...There hasn’t really been anyone specializing in scientific thought in Ancient Greece and the Greco-Roman world so far [at Harvard],” he said. “If there’s any room for growth in the classics, a pretty traditional field, it’s in disciplines on the edges...
...lavish fiestas and foreign wars. The King and the Duke shared a mutual devotion to art that ushered in a dynamic period in Spanish painting, now featured in an outstanding new exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The exhibit, “El Greco to Velázquez,” will run through July 27, 2008. It showcases dozens of works from the 23 years of the reign of Philip III, a period that was bookended on either side by the careers of renowned Spanish painters El Greco and Diego Velázquez...
...Greco brought with him the practice of making portraits of ordinary people, not just royals, nobles and high churchmen. He was one of the first European painters to probe psychology--although he wouldn't have called it that--in his portraits, and when he turned to devotional subjects, he treated those as portraits too. His Saint James is not the picture of a remote celestial being but of a man, even a contemporary...
...greatest painters in history, would take note. Born in 1599, he started his career painting bodgons, kitchen scenes, like the meticulously detailed An Old Woman Cooking Eggs. This was the homey territory that Dutch painters worked in all the time but where the high-minded El Greco didn't venture. (You can't imagine any of El Greco's crackling holy men doing anything in a kitchen but frightening the cooks.) Like Caravaggio, Velzquez would also use ordinary people as models for figures from the Bible. When he paints The Immaculate Conception, you can tell just by looking...