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  • The industry's scientific consultancy, Ceram, has just recruited seven new scientists to laboratories that started their life as the British Ceramic Research Association, opened in 1951 by a government that was keen to celebrate and protect the country's industrial future and therefore entered grandly through a neo-Greek portico.

    Fire returns to the Potteries' heart Ian Jack 2010

  • The Dahesh exhibition displays representations from all of Lecomte du Nouÿ's main themes, including portraiture, travel, history, the neo-Greek tradition, religion, and the Orient.

    The Artistic Vision of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ 2004

  • About the same time and in the same locality the small islands off the coast of Asia Minor, appeared the earliest collection of neo-Greek love songs, known as the "Rhodian Love-Songs".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • It has resolutely held aloof from mythology, academic allegory, historical painting, and from the neo-Greek elements of Classicism as well as from the German and Spanish elements of Romanticism.

    The French Impressionists (1860-1900) Camille Mauclair 1908

  • The second stage in the history of Chemistry -- the birth of Alchemy in the Western World -- occurred when the Egyptian practical receipts, the neo-Greek philosophies, and the Chinese dreams of an "elixir vitae" were fused into one by the Arab and Syriac writers.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

  • Mythology, allegory, historic themes, the neo-Greek and the academic are under the ban -- above all, the so-called "grand style."

    Promenades of an Impressionist James Huneker 1890

  • Italian corruption of 'Monemvasia' ([Greek: _monae embasia_] -- a single entrance), the neo-Greek name for the Minoa promontory or island connected by a bridge with the Laconian Coast.

    To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • It will celebrate the £300,000 revamp of the neo-Greek temple on Calton

    WN.com - Articles related to RM30mil heritage park to employ latest audio-visual technology 2009

  • Beautiful mantles of decorated marble ” neo-Greek designs of fading blacks and palest greens.

    Writing a Novel Hardwick, Elizabeth 1973

  • Lin_ [38] refers to them as "gude neighbours"; the Gaels [39] term a fairy "a woman of peace"; and Professor Child points out the same fact in relation to the neo-Greek nereids. [

    The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

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