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Mittarakis' style is commonly known as "naive art," a term that describes contemporary works that are painted in a folk manner. Mittarakis, the daughter of Greek immigrants, lost both her parents by the time she was 10 years old. She took up painting during her teenage years while living in an orphanage. For years the artist supported herself and two daughters by selling tropical , scenes at Rio street fairs. Her vibrant works -- which have been called "painted poetry" -- eventually attracted the attention of European critics...
Higbie's interests include oral literature,Greek archaeology and epigraphy, linguistics andancient history, Sens said...
Professor of Law Martha L. Minow; Professor of Surgery Emeritus Joseph E. Murray; Gurney Professor of English Literature Derek A. Pearsall; Professor or English and American Literature Elaine Scarry; Professor of Greek and Latin Charles P. Segal; and John A. Wood, in the Geology Department...
...Cincinnati journalist in 1886 about a Harnett called The Old Violin, that a special guard "has been detailed to stand beside the picture and suppress any attempts to take down the fiddle and the bow." To some, Harnett suggested a classical parallel. He was the American Zeuxis, the Greek painter (none of whose works survive) who was said to be so good at trompe l'oeil that birds flew down to peck the grapes in one of his still lifes, thus proving that he could bamboozle not only men but Nature herself. People loved Harnett's work because they felt...
There are three senior and two junior womenprofessors in the department, but none are in thephilology program. Philology is the word-basedanalysis of classical Greek and Latin literature...