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The painting depicts a personification of Patience.The semi-nude female figure, her arms held tight across her body perhaps in modesty or "huddling" [2] and "shivering" [3] in the cold, gazes down watching as a water clock slowly erodes a stone inscribed with the Latin DIVTVRNA TOLERANTIA or "abiding patience", which is likely to be a reference to Cicero's De Inventione.
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Gaman (我慢) is a Japanese term of Zen Buddhist origin which means "enduring the seemingly unbearable with patience and dignity". [1] [2] The term is generally translated as "perseverance", "patience", or "tolerance". [3]
"The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.” — William Hazlitt Related: ... to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature." — Paulo Coelho
1881 Programme for Patience. Patience; or, Bunthorne's Bride, is a comic opera in two acts with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.The opera is a satire on the aesthetic movement of the 1870s and '80s in England and, more broadly, on fads, superficiality, vanity, hypocrisy and pretentiousness; it also satirises romantic love, rural simplicity and military bluster.
Her Secret Is Patience net wind simulation. The netting is 38 ft off the ground and 100 ft. tall and the three support poles are 102 ft, 125 ft. and 145 ft. tall. [4] The netting is designed to show the movements of the wind. Its shape reflects Arizona's enormous cumulus clouds. At night, the colors gradually change with the seasons adding cool ...
Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.
Krauss was born to Matthew M. Epstein and Bertha Luber [3] in Washington, D.C., and grew up in the area, visiting art museums with her father. [4] After graduating from Wellesley College in 1962, she attended Harvard University, [5] whose Department of Fine Arts (now Department of History of Art and Architecture) had a strong tradition of the intensive analysis of actual art objects under the ...