In 1979, graffiti artist Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were given a gallery opening in Rome by art dealer Claudio Bruni. For many outside of New York, it was their first encounter with their art form. ...
Both "graffiti" and its occasional singular form "graffito" are from the Italian word graffiato ("scratched"). "Graffiti" is applied in art history to works of art produced by scratching a design into ...
Ancient hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten; the Vedas, a collection of hymns in the tradition of Hinduism; and the Psalms, a collection of songs from Juda ...
Rattles have been used on many occasions. Native American people often use rattles in ceremonial dances. Oftentimes, these rattles are meant to represent something. Each figure or depiction can relate ...
Cicero defined religio as cultus deorum, "the cultivation of the gods." The "cultivation" necessary to maintain a specific deity was that god's cultus, "cult," and required "the knowledge of giving th ...
Main article: OrgiaIn ancient Greek religion, orgia (?ργια, sing. ?ργιον, orgion) were ecstatic rites characteristic of the Greek and Hellenistic mystery religions. Unlike public religion, ...
Tambourines originated in Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia, The Middle East, and India, in which the instrument was mainly used in religious contexts.The word tambourine finds its origins in French tambourin ...
The word cymbal is derived from the Latin cymbalum, which is the latinisation of the Greek word κ?μβαλον (kumbalon), "cymbal", which in turn derives from κ?μβο? (kumbos), "cup".Anatomy T ...
A hydraulis is an early type of pipe organ that operated by converting the dynamic energy of water (Ancient Greek: ?δωρ h?dōr) into air pressure to drive the pipes (Ancient Greek: αυλ?? aul ...
In a general way its construction was similar to that of an ancient Greek theatre, but it was only a quarter of the size and was provided with a roof for acoustic purposes, a characteristic difference ...
Ancient Roman amphitheatres were major public venues, circular or oval in shape, and used for events such as gladiator combats, chariot races, venationes (animal slayings) and executions. About 230 Ro ...
The Vienna horn is a special horn used primarily in Vienna, Austria. Instead of using rotary valves or piston valves, it uses the Pumpenvalve (or Vienna Valve), which is a double-piston operating insi ...
The horn is the third highest sounding instrument group in the brass family, below the cornet and, highest, the trumpet. Horns are mostly tuned in B? or F, or a combination of both. In some tradition ...
The military engineering of Ancient Rome's armed forces was of a scale and frequency far beyond that of any of its contemporaries. Indeed, military engineering was in many ways institutionally endemic ...
At its territorial height, the Roman Empire may have contained between 45 million and 120 million people. Historian Edward Gibbon estimated that the size of the Roman army "most probably formed a stan ...
