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  • This new concept of istoria, which was to dominate iconographic consid - erations for more than three hundred years (the mean - ing of the term istoria or storia changed of course in that period) was one of the consequences of the Ren - aissance idea of the priority of literature over the visual arts.

    ICONOGRAPHY JAN BIA��OSTOCKI 1968

  • Again, the word istoria (enquiry) bears upon the face of it the stopping (istanai) of the stream; and the word piston (faithful) certainly indicates cessation of motion; then, again, mneme (memory), as any one may see, expresses rest in the soul, and not motion.

    The CRATYLUS Plato 1975

  • Martin Kemp has described Alberti's (h) istoria as roughly equivalent to what later academic theorists would call 'history painting,' that is to say, a human narrative drawn from some significant secular or Christian story.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • 'Ysterograpfo se mia prosopiki politiki istoria' (Postscript to a personal political history).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • 'I istoria ton gynaikon, I istoria ton filon, kai i feministiki istoria: Methodologikes kai theoretikes diadikasies' (The history of women, the history of gender, and feminist history: Methodological and theoretical processes).

    Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

  • The tradition of ut pictura poesis, described in Horace's Art of Poetry, and Aristotle's mimesis historia, the imitation of human events discussed in Poetics, is embedded in Alberti's articulation of istoria.

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • The historical interdependence of linguistic and visual figures, articulated in Horace's Art of Poetry, thrives in Alberti's definition of istoria in De pictura and in Castiglione's self-deprecating description of the Book of the Courtier as a "picture" by a "humble painter" (from the dedicatory letter to Lord Dom Miguel de Silva, bishop of Viseu).

    Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008

  • Ekana tin apofasi na sou leo afto sta ellinika yiati ti glossa mas mitriki kai aftes tis glosses pou mathenoume meta einai ti kentriki ‘fleva’ na katalavanoume tin istoria mas kai ti sxesi pou exoume me to kosmo mas!

    Guest post 2 – growing up in Canada « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • Însă ceea ce pentru unii n-a fost decât material folositor pentru aprinderea focului, pentru alţii a fost o evidenţă importanta despre forma originală a Noului Testament şi istoria copierii şi a transmiterii sale.

    Noi Am Privit Slava Lui (Ioan 1.1-18) James F. McGrath 2009

  • Eu doar nu cred că pentru o secundă că istoria lumii noastre este de oriunde aproape la fel de simplă şi de banal ca ceea ce grupul colectiv de oameni de ştiinţă cred.

    ideonexus.com »2007» February 2007

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