10 sentences with 'arts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word arts and other words derived from it.
• « The main disciplines, dating back to Roman times, were divided between the liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric and logic (called the trivium) and what might now be described as a set of more 'technical' disciplines: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy and music (the quadrivium) - this division was the first version of an 'arts and sciences' curriculum. »
• « The Renaissance lasted from around 1300 - 1500. It ended in the early 16th century in the sense that its centre in northern Italy declined in economic importance and the pace of change and progress in the arts and learning slowed, but in a very real sense the Renaissance never really ended - its innovations and advances had already spread across much of Europe, and although Italy itself lost its prominence, patterns that began in Italy continued elsewhere. »
• « In 1434 royal power was in the hands of the Medici family, which controlled the city government (the Signoria) and patronised the arts. »
• « This innovation spread rapidly and completely revolutionised the visual arts, resulting in much more realistic drawings and paintings. »
• « Modernism in the arts refers to a specific period beginning around 1900 and developing into the 1920s. It expressed a set of common attitudes and assumptions that centred on the rejection of established authority. »
• « However, modernism was not limited to literature and the visual arts. Some composers and musicians in the early decades of the 20th century sought to shatter musical traditions, challenging the expectations of their listeners by altering the very scales, notes and tempos that Western audiences were accustomed to hearing. »
• « Faced with a terrible economic crisis of the war years, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin launched the New Economic Policy, which allowed for a limited exchange of goods and food on the market, even as the state supported a renaissance of arts and literature. »