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  2. Kerygma - Wikipedia

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    Kerygma (from Ancient Greek: κήρυγμα, kḗrygma) is a Greek word used in the New Testament for "proclamation" (see Luke 4:18-19, Romans 10:14, Gospel of Matthew 3:1). It is related to the Greek verb κηρύσσω ( kērússō ), literally meaning "to cry or proclaim as a herald" and being used in the sense of "to proclaim, announce ...

  3. Hierarchy of genres - Wikipedia

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    The novel took a long time to establish a firm place in the hierarchy, doing so only as belief in any systematic hierarchy of forms expired in the 19th century. In music, lyrical settings of words were accorded a higher status than merely instrumental works, at least until the Baroque period, and opera retained a superior status for much longer ...

  4. History of art - Wikipedia

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    The major survivals of Buddhist art begin in the period after the Mauryans, within North India Kushan art, the Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara and finally the "classic" period of Gupta art. Additionally, there was the Andhra school which appeared before the Gandhara school and which was based in South India. [82]

  5. Islamic art - Wikipedia

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    Referring to characteristic traditions across a wide range of lands, periods, and genres, Islamic art is a concept used first by Western art historians in the late 19th century. [2] Public Islamic art is traditionally non- representational , except for the widespread use of plant forms, usually in varieties of the spiralling arabesque .

  6. Medieval art - Wikipedia

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    Migration Period art describes the art of the "barbarian" Germanic and Eastern-European peoples who were on the move, and then settling within the former Roman Empire, during the Migration Period from about 300-700; the blanket term covers a wide range of ethnic or regional styles including early Anglo-Saxon art, Visigothic art, Viking art, and ...

  7. Ancient art - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek art has survived most successfully in the forms of sculpture and architecture, as well as in such minor arts as coin design, pottery, and gem engraving. The most prestigious form of Ancient Greek painting was panel painting , now known only from literary descriptions; they perished rapidly after the 4th century AD when they were ...

  8. Art of ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The last period of the New Kingdom demonstrates a return to traditional Egyptian form and style, but the culture is not purely a reversion to the past. The art of the Ramesside period demonstrates the integration of canonized Egypt forms with modern innovations and materials.

  9. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    An English-language modernist group founded in 1914 that poetry based on description rather than theme, and on the motto, "the natural object is always the adequate symbol" [94] Ezra Pound, H.D., Richard Aldington: Dada: Touted by its proponents as anti-art, the Dada avant-garde focused on going against artistic norms and conventions [95]