About 520 results for ‘Lyre’
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Lyre
The lyre is a stringed musical instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later. The word comes from the Greek "λύρα" (lyra) and the earliest reference to the word is the Mycenaean Greek ru-ra-ta-e, meaning "lyrists", written in Linear B syllabic script. The earliest picture of a lyre with seven strings appears in the famous sarcophagus of Hagia Triada. The sarcophagus was used during the Mycenaean occupation of Crete (1400 BC). The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing. The lyre of classical antiquity was ordinarily played by being strummed with a plectrum, like a guitar or a zither, rather than being plucked, like a harp. The fingers of the free hand silenced the unwanted strings in the chord. The lyre is similar in appearance to a small harp but with distinct differences. The word lyre can either refer specifically to a common folk-instrument, which is a smaller version of the professional kithara and eastern-Aegean barbiton, or lyre can refer generally to all three instruments as a family. In organology, lyres are defined as "yoke lutes", being lutes in which the strings are attached to a yoke which lies in the same plane as the sound-table and consists of two arms and a cross-bar. The term is also used metaphorically to refer to the work or skill of a poet, as in Shelley's "Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is" or Byron's "I wish to tune my quivering lyre,/To deeds of fame, and notes of fire"
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Néréides et orant
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- Field(s):
- Archaeology
- Coptic language
- North Africa
- Textile
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- Date:
- 6th century
- 8th century
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Orphée
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Rome
- Archaeology
- Mosaic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Lyre
- Music
- Orpheus
- Phrygian cap
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- Date:
- 2nd century
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Cortège de buveurs
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Greece
- Archaeology
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Banquet (disambiguation)
- Bed
- Folk dance
- Lyre
- Man
- Music
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- Date:
- 5th century BC
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- Artist(s):
- Douris (vase painter)
Musiciens et gymnastes
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Greece
- Archaeology
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Folk dance
- Gymnastics
- Lyre
- Man
- Music
- Satyr
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- Date:
- 5th century BC
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Satyre et ménade
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- Field(s):
- Ancient Greece
- Archaeology
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Folk dance
- Lyre
- Music
- Satyr
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- Date:
- 6th century BC
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LE BARDE...LA GEOGRAPHIE (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
- Middle Ages
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Amphitrite
- Angel
- Apollo
- Astrological sign
- Astronomy
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Scène de la Nativité
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- Portrayed subject:
- Child
- Child Jesus
- Lyre
- Mary (mother of Jesus)
- Musician
- Shepherd
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- Designation:
- éventail
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- Portrayed subject:
- Lyre
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Designation:
- carnet (ensemble)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Clarinet
- Clarion (instrument)
- Crown (headgear)
- Cymbal
- Drum
- Flower
- …
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- Date:
- 19th century
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LOUIS XIV, MARIE THERESE ET LE DAUPHIN
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bow and arrow
- Child
- Deciduous
- Dukes of Burgundy
- Louis XIV of France
- Lyre
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
HOMERE, HOMME NU ET BARBU, UNE JAMBE LEVEE ET TENANT UNE ...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crus (lower leg)
- Homer
- Lyre
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- Date:
- 19th century
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
FEUILLE DE SEPT CROQUIS
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Caduceus
- Child
- Compass (drafting)
- Kidnapping
- Lyre
- Newt
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
MUSE AILEE JOUANT DE LA LYRE (EUTERPE ?)
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
NATURE MORTE
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crown (headgear)
- Lyre
- Sculpture
- Skull
- Still life
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
FEMME DRAPEE, UNE LYRE A LA MAIN (EUTERPE ?)
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
LA MARSEILLAISE, SOLDAT PORTE-DRAPEAU MARCHANT VERS LA DR...
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Flag
- Lyre
- Man
- Serviceman
- Sitting
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Auguste Rodin
CENTAURE A LA LYRE AU RECTO ; HOMME AUX BRAS LEVES AU VERSO
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Théodore Chassériau
APOLLON ET DAPHNE
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- Artist(s):
- Paul Chenavard
Divina Tragedia
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- Artist(s):
- Jacques-Louis David
LES AMOURS DE PARIS ET D'HELENE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 18th century
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