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...usually means the visual arts (comprising both [[fine art]], [[decorative art]], and [[crafts]]). The arts encompasses [[visual arts]], [[performing arts The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of six ancient civilizations:

...usually means the visual arts (comprising both [[fine art]], [[decorative art]], and [[crafts]]). The arts encompasses [[visual arts]], [[performing arts The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of six ancient civilizations:

...l or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some [[work of art|art object]]. Performing arts include [[acrobatics]], [[busking]], [[comedy]], ...[[Theatrical property|prop]]s. Dance was often referred to as a ''plastic art'' during the [[Modern dance]] era.

The great traditions in [[art]] have a foundation in the art of one of the ancient civilizations: ...eauty and anatomically correct proportions. [[Roman Empire|Ancient Roman]] art depicted gods as idealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing

...eserved in Justinian's codes became the basis of legal practice in the ''[[Byzantine Empire]]'' and&mdash;later&mdash;in continental [[Europe]]. ...tems, like ''[[stare decisis]]'', ''culpa in contrahendo''<ref>In Germany, Art. 311 BGB</ref> or ''[[pacta sunt servanda]]''.

The [[art]] of translation is as old as written [[literature]]. Parts of the Sumerian ...uch as Gregory Rabassa in If This Be Treason, argue that translation is an art – a teachable one. Other translators, mostly technical, commercial, and l

...h thinkers. This tendency was no less marked in the Islamic, the Christian Byzantine and the Latin-Christian schools of thought. ...ece and [[Judaism]], which he sought to fuse and harmonize by means of the art of allegory that he had learned as much from Jewish [[exegesis]] as from th

...generally come to identify a collection of [[writing|text]]s or [[works of art]], which in Western culture are mainly [[prose]], both [[fiction]] and [[no ...the [[Corpus Juris Civilis]] during the reign of [[Justinian I]] of the [[Byzantine Empire]] has a reputation as significant literature. The founding documents

...rrent only in Modern Greek. There is a single attestation of μονόθεον in a Byzantine hymn (''Canones Junii'' 20.6.43; A. Acconcia Longo and G. Schirò, ''Analec ...ly acknowledges the existence of other ''Ahura''s "Lords", as in "thou who art the mightiest Ahura and the Wise (''Mazda'') One" (''Yasna'' 33.11). In add

...dorus]] and [[Longus]] et al.). The ancient Greek romance was revived by [[Byzantine novel]]ists of the twelfth century. All these traditions were rediscovered ...ileged works — those which rivalled ancient verse epics to be discussed as art, which played with the traditions of prose fiction (they opened an internal

...hat express the intersection of realms can be of other forms as well. In [[Byzantine]] churches, to walk from the entrance toward the altar is to move from the ...st on the cross but the human form more generally. In the symbolism of the Byzantine church, the [[nave]] represented the human [[body]], the chancel the [[soul

[[Image:SamuelByzantineProphet.jpg|right|frame|<center>Samuel, the Byzantine Prophet</center>]] * "[[Nabis (art)|Les Nabis]]" (the "prophets") an avant-garde group of late 19th century Fr