Word: pastorale
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Giorgione appeals more to modern taste because his imagery was more mysterious and poetic, and the idea that painting should mimic the effects of lyric or pastoral poetry, ut pictura poesis, was a favorite 16th century dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through...
When you look at a Watteau fete champetre, an Impressionist boating party or certain Matisses, you are seeing the long-range results of Titian's and Giorgione's invention of the pastoral mode in art: the landscape of pleasure, the earthly paradise derived from Latin literature, with its shepherds, gallants...
Ryan's lament can serve as the one-sentence epitaph for major-league baseball: it's not the way it was growing up. Slowly but surely, this most memory-laden of sports, this pastoral isle in a world of flux, is being ripped from its traditional foundations. Watching his World...
Much of the intensity of Clinton's spiritual life remains enclosed within his family and, occasionally, a small circle of believers. He prays with Chelsea at her bedtime on the nights when he is home, and on past occasions when he and Hillary could not get to church, the family...
A number of ethical, religious and theological controversies demanding resolution occupy center state. Some of the more compelling issues include the admission of homosexuals to the armed forces, euthanasia and that hardy perennial, abortion. Another is that of the ordainment of women in the Catholic Church. In the ardently debated...