Example sentences of "during [art] seventeenth " in BNC.

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1 In the case of the work of the Mexican Alberto Gironella , the reason would seem to be precisely because of his insistent concentration on art of a very different category — that of Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , particularly court portraiture .
2 No miller was allowed to buy or sell grain or flour except surplus toll corn until after the reign of Elizabeth I and although the influence of the soke began to wane during the seventeenth century , toll-in-kind was not replaced by a monetary charge until an act of 1796 .
3 He came from an ancient Corvedale family , branches of which were in the forefront of Shropshire life during the seventeenth century — Francis 's nephew was a Member for Wenlock in Charles I 's parliament .
4 During the seventeenth century , Grove House was linked by a line avenue of trees to another Manor House , Sutton Court .
5 Built during the seventeenth century , our new home was reputed to have been the birthplace of one of Northumberland 's most famous sons : Nicholas Ridley , Bishop of London .
6 Large numbers of Dutch cattle were imported during the seventeenth century to improve the fattening and milking abilities of some of the Welsh cattle .
7 Other spellings — Kyese , Keise , Keese — are known to have been recorded in the shires of Gloucester , Worcester and Hereford during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , but today only the style Keyse is found in that area , and Kease appears nowhere except in the author 's own ancestral bloodline .
8 As shown by Valerie Fildes , in Breasts , Bottles and Babies ( 1988 ) , during the seventeenth century Puritan theologians in particular devoted sermons and popular tracts to the evils of non-breastfeeding mothers , and they were joined by philosophers and physicians ; but this had little discernible effect on the wealthy .
9 The charter was for the buying and selling of horses , and during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the feast was largely attended by gypsies engaged in horse dealing .
10 During the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries the skeleton was a recurring motif in funerary art , appearing not only on trade cards and invitations but also on monuments ; its symbolism was profound .
11 In the Middle East there was a tradition of religious pluralism and the new faiths of Judaism and Zoroastrianism and — later — Christianity and Islam coexisted in relative harmony ; in India during the seventeenth century , some Muslims and Hindus pooled their ideas and attempted to find a common vision : Sikhism was born of this attempt .
12 He might have been more at home in some of the radical Protestant sects that began to appear in England and — later — in America during the seventeenth century .
13 With peasant income actually in decline during the seventeenth century , the domestic market grew painfully slowly .
14 During the seventeenth century , it is true , there were growth points in the economy .
15 Although revenue tripled in real terms during the seventeenth century the budget was not brought into balance .
16 The relation of patron to artist is examined , as are the stylistic influences that shaped Mughal art : the Persian heritage , the discovery of western art , the elegance and aestheticism of the Mughal court , the painters of ascetics and the India of the mystics , the development of realistic portraiture during the seventeenth century and the discovery of chiaroscuro .
17 It has certainly been claimed that values associated with ascetic Protestantism provided new motivation for scientific inquiry , particularly in Holland and England during the seventeenth century .
18 The concept of a separation of science from religion during the seventeenth century implies that during preceding centuries there had been a fusion .
19 It is also true that , during the seventeenth century , the domains of science and theology were differentiated in new and challenging ways .
20 I have argued in this chapter that conventional references to such a separation during the seventeenth century are defective in two respects .
21 And they imply divorce when what was achieved during the seventeenth century was a differentiation often conducted on theological grounds .
22 Underlying Leavis 's reformed discourse on English is the sense that a major cultural transformation during the seventeenth century is at the root of the subsequent debasing modernizing process .
23 A summary of the main argument is provided in a slim volume by Deetz ( 1977 ) who compares changes in pottery , gravestone design , and house construction , with asides on music and eating patterns , during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ( see also Glassie 1975 ; Leone 1984 ) .
24 As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories .
25 One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water .
26 The development of the brilliant cut supposedly under the patronage of Cardinal Mazarin during the seventeenth century intensified the effect of diamonds , but entailed a greater loss .
27 In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 .
28 This view first became popular during and as a consequence of the Scientific Revolution that took place mainly during the seventeenth century and that was brought about by such great pioneering scientists as Galileo and Newton .
29 A host of other falsifications were accumulated during the seventeenth century .
30 Conspiracy as a crime was developed by the Star Chamber during the seventeenth century and , when taken over by the common law courts , came to be regarded by them as not only a crime but also as capable of giving rise to civil liability provided damage resulted to the plaintiff .
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