"Pantechnicon van A Pantechnicon van, currently usually shortened to pantec, was originally a furniture removal van drawn by horses and used by the British company ""The Pantechnicon"" for delivering and collecting furniture which its customers wished to store. The name is a word largely of British English usage. The word ""Pantechnicon"" is an invented one, formed from the Greek ""pan"" (""all"") and ""techne"" (""art""). It was originally the name of a large establishment in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London, opened around 1830. It combined a picture gallery, a furniture shop, and the sale of carriages, while its southern half was a"
"Gesamtkunstwerk A Gesamtkunstwerk (, translated as ""total work of art"", ""ideal work of art"", ""universal artwork"", ""synthesis of the arts"", ""comprehensive artwork"", ""all-embracing art form"" or ""total artwork"") is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. The term is a German word which has come to be accepted in English as a term in aesthetics. The term was first used by the German writer and philosopher K. F. E. Trahndorff in an essay in 1827. The German opera composer Richard Wagner used the term in two 1849 essays, and"
"vision and philosophy for urban development. Gesamtkunstwerk A Gesamtkunstwerk (, translated as ""total work of art"", ""ideal work of art"", ""universal artwork"", ""synthesis of the arts"", ""comprehensive artwork"", ""all-embracing art form"" or ""total artwork"") is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. The term is a German word which has come to be accepted in English as a term in aesthetics. The term was first used by the German writer and philosopher K. F. E. Trahndorff in an essay in 1827. The German opera composer Richard Wagner used the"
"""technik"" - by contrast to ""techne"" - refuses ""to let earth be an earth."" Techne ""Techne"" is a term, etymologically derived from the Greek word (, ), that is often translated as ""craftsmanship"", ""craft"", or ""art"". Techne is a term in philosophy which resembles ""epistēmē"" in the implication of knowledge of principles, although techne differs in that its intent is making or doing as opposed to disinterested understanding. Martin Heidegger maintains that the concept for the ancients goes together with ""episteme"", particularly citing Plato who used the two terms interchangeably. The idea is that techne and episteme simply mean knowing"
"Techne ""Techne"" is a term, etymologically derived from the Greek word (, ), that is often translated as ""craftsmanship"", ""craft"", or ""art"". Techne is a term in philosophy which resembles ""epistēmē"" in the implication of knowledge of principles, although techne differs in that its intent is making or doing as opposed to disinterested understanding. Martin Heidegger maintains that the concept for the ancients goes together with ""episteme"", particularly citing Plato who used the two terms interchangeably. The idea is that techne and episteme simply mean knowing and ""both words are names for knowledge in the widest sense."" As an activity,"
"Pantheon (religion) A pantheon (from Greek πάνθεον ""pantheon"", literally ""(a temple) of all gods"", ""of or common to all gods"" from πᾶν ""pan-"" ""all"" and θεός ""theos"" ""god"") is the particular set of all gods of any polytheistic religion, mythology, or tradition. A pantheon of gods is a common element of polytheistic societies, although not all polytheists have such a pantheon, and not all pantheons require a polytheistic worldview. The nature of a society's pantheon can be considered a reflection of that society: Some well-known historical polytheistic pantheons include the Sumerian gods and the Egyptian gods, and the classical-attested pantheon"
"less strict sense, much less with the related but very different terms philomath and know-it-all. A pantomath (""pantomathēs"", παντομαθής, meaning ""having learnt all"", from the Greek roots παντ- ""all"", ""every"" and the root μαθ-, meaning ""learning"", ""understanding"") is a person whose astonishingly wide interests and knowledge span the entire range of the arts and sciences. Pantomath is typically used to convey the sense that a great individual has achieved a pinnacle of learning, that an ""automath"" has taken autodidacticism to an endpoint. As an example, the obscure and rare term seems to have been applied to those with an astonishingly"
"Anthropotechnic Anthropotechnic is a term used in art, science and literature to denote something with aspects of both man and machine. In this case, it is claimed that the ""modified"" does not set a limit but instead opens an infinite horizon that is as wide and limitless as human desires. Another conceptualization is that anthropotechnic is a set of rules that we make to tame, teach, and train ourselves. The concept is distinguished from anthropotechnology, which focuses on the study and improvement of working and living conditions. Paintings such as Max Ernst's ""Oedipus Rex"" are early examples of the use"
"the noun 'artist' (Singular: artist; Plural: artists) as follows: The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" defines the older broad meanings of the term ""artist"": The Greek word ""techně"", often translated as ""art,"" implies mastery of any sort of craft. The adjectival Latin form of the word, ""technicus"", became the source of the English words technique, technology, technical. In Greek culture each of the nine Muses oversaw a different field of human creation: No muse was identified with the visual arts of painting and sculpture. In ancient Greece sculptors and painters were held in low regard, somewhere between freemen and slaves, their work"
"Phaneron The phaneron (Greek φανερός [""phaneros""] ""visible, manifest"") is the subject matter of phenomenology, or of what Charles Sanders Peirce later called ""phaneroscopy"". Peirce: ""By the phaneron I mean the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not. If you ask present when, and to whose mind, I reply that I leave these questions unanswered, never having entertained a doubt that those features of the phaneron that I have found in my mind are present at all times and"
"Pyrotechnics Pyrotechnics is the science of using materials capable of undergoing self-contained and self-sustained exothermic chemical reactions for the production of heat, light, gas, smoke and/or sound. Its etymology stems from the Greek words ""pyro"" (""fire"") and ""tekhnikos"" (""made by art""). Pyrotechnics include not only the manufacture of fireworks but items such as safety matches, oxygen candles, explosive bolts and fasteners, components of the automotive airbag and gas pressure blasting in mining, quarrying and demolition. Individuals responsible for the safe storage, handling, and functioning of pyrotechnic devices are referred to as pyrotechnicians. Explosions, flashes, smoke, flames, fireworks or other pyrotechnic"
"to all minds. So far as I have developed this science of phaneroscopy, it is occupied with the formal elements of the phaneron."" Phaneron The phaneron (Greek φανερός [""phaneros""] ""visible, manifest"") is the subject matter of phenomenology, or of what Charles Sanders Peirce later called ""phaneroscopy"". Peirce: ""By the phaneron I mean the collective total of all that is in any way or in any sense present to the mind, quite regardless of whether it corresponds to any real thing or not. If you ask present when, and to whose mind, I reply that I leave these questions unanswered, never"
"Panentheism Panentheism (meaning ""all-in-God"", from the Ancient Greek ""pân"", ""all"", ""en"", ""in"" and ""Theós"", ""God"") is the belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond time and space. The term was coined by the German philosopher Karl Krause in 1828 to distinguish the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) about the relation of God and the universe from the supposed pantheism of Baruch Spinoza. Unlike pantheism, which holds that the divine and the universe are identical, panentheism maintains an ontological distinction between the divine and"
"with divinity. The Pantheon ""thus imbues the modern with the aura of the divine"", and ""models the interplay of ancient and modern forms of fame"". This trend continued into modern times, with the word ""pantheon"" 'of or for the gods' being reflected in the journalistic meme that refers to financial titans as ""Masters of the Universe"". For example: Francis Ford Coppola has been described as a member of ""that revered pantheon of independent movie directors, which broke the standard Hollywood studio mould as the 1960s expired"". Pantheon (religion) A pantheon (from Greek πάνθεον ""pantheon"", literally ""(a temple) of all gods"","
"Tektōn The Ancient Greek noun tektōn (τέκτων) is a common term for an artisan/craftsman, in particular a carpenter, wood-worker, mason, builder or teacher. The term is frequently contrasted with an iron-worker, or smith (χαλκεύς) and the stone-worker or mason (λιθολόγος, λαξευτής). The characteristic Ancient Greek distinction between the general worker or wood-worker and the stonemason and the metal-worker occurs frequently in the Septuagint: The distinction occurs in lists of workmen working on building or repairs to the temple in Jerusalem, for example in the repairs carried out under the priest Jehoiada and ""the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the"
"the word God to describe the unity of all substance. Although the term pantheism was not coined until after his death, Spinoza is regarded as its most celebrated advocate. H. P. Owen claimed that Pantheism is closely related to monism, as pantheists too believe all of reality is one substance, called Universe, God or Nature. Panentheism, a slightly different concept (explained below), however is dualistic. Some of the most famous pantheists are the Stoics, Giordano Bruno and Spinoza. Panentheism (from Greek (pân) ""all""; (en) ""in""; and (theós) ""God""; ""all-in-God"") is a belief system that posits that the divine (be it"
"Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon The Pontifical Academy of Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon is one of the Pontifical Academies under the direction of the Holy See. The complete Italian name of the academy, Pontificia Insigne Accademia di Belle Arti e Letteratura dei Virtuosi al Pantheon, includes the adjective ""insigne"" (illustrious), often omitted in official English translations. The term ""Virtuosi al Pantheon"" (virtuosos of the Pantheon) is also usually left untranslated, but, in any event, should not be taken in the English musical sense of “virtuoso” but rather “artists"
"Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal. Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo"
"School at Rome, 1987. CGP: M. Denoyelle, La céramique grecque de Paestum, la Collection du Musée du Louvre. Louvre Editions, 2011. JPS: N. Eschbach, W. Martini, K. Schauenburg, Bilder der Hoffnung: Jenseitserwartungen auf Prunkgefässen Süditaliens. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Lübeck, 1997 Python (painter) Python (ca. 360-320 BCE) was a Greek vase painter in the city of Poseidonia (modern Paestum) in Campania, Southern Italy, one of the major cities of Magna Graecia in the fourth Century BC. Together with his close collaborator and likely master Asteas, Python is one of only two vase painters from Southern Italy whose names have"
"is a German word meaning 'a total artwork that involves all the parts of the arts and in particular the work of the handmade'. The artists stated: We don't understand why there needs to be such distinctions amongst art, craft and design. Arts and crafts weren't always separated. We are interested in collapsing hierarchies that operate in language and value. We feel that we are making work with similar intuition, care and intent. Upritchard continues to work collaboratively and enlist others in the making of her work, most recently with New Plymouth potter Nicholas Brandon, who was trained by Mirek"
"Python (painter) Python (ca. 360-320 BCE) was a Greek vase painter in the city of Poseidonia (modern Paestum) in Campania, Southern Italy, one of the major cities of Magna Graecia in the fourth Century BC. Together with his close collaborator and likely master Asteas, Python is one of only two vase painters from Southern Italy whose names have survived on extant works. It has even been suggested that the joint workshop of Asteas and Python in Paestum was a family business. (He is not to be confused with the attic vase painter of the early fifth century BC of the"
"is available to everybody, that you can read technique, if you have any background. Technique in and of itself is nothing. But technique in the hands of a strong, creative person, like Voulkos or Dante Marioni, takes on another dimension. Behind this point is another, as expressed by writer and curator William Warmus: ""It might even be argued that Littleton sought long-term to put the artist back in control of the factory, even as he sought to put the furnace into the artist's studio."" For Littleton, the epitome of technique vs. content was to be found in factory-made art glass,"
"finding that traditional batiks from different regions of Java have distinct fractal dimensions, and stimuli to mathematics research, especially Filippo Brunelleschi's theory of perspective, which eventually led to Girard Desargues's projective geometry. A persistent view, based ultimately on the Pythagorean notion of harmony in music, holds that everything was arranged by Number, that God is the geometer of the world, and that therefore the world's geometry is sacred, as seen in artworks such as William Blake's ""The Ancient of Days"". Polykleitos the elder (c.450–420 BC) was a Greek sculptor from the school of Argos, and a contemporary of Phidias. His"
"the Greeks called ""techne"", a term which roughly means ""art"" but has also been translated as ""craft"" or ""craftsmanship"", and the definition of the word also included more scientific disciplines. These nine traditional branches were: In medieval Christian Europe, universities taught a standard set of seven liberal arts, defined by early medieval philosophers such as Boethius and Alcuin of York and as such centered around philosophy. The definitions of these subjects and their practice was heavily based on the educational system of Greece and Rome. These seven arts were themselves split into two categories: At this time, and continuing after"
"that system, an artist or artisan was a skilled maker or practitioner, a work of art was the useful product of skilled work, and the appreciation of the arts was integrally connected with their role in the rest of life. “Art”, in other words, meant approximately the same thing as the Greek word techne, or in English “skill”, a sense that has survived in phrases like “the art of war”, “the art of love”, and “the art of medicine.” Similar ideas have been expressed by Paul Oskar Kristeller, Pierre Bourdieu, and Terry Eagleton (e.g. The Ideology of the Aesthetic), though"
"Mumford's choice of the word ""technics"" throughout his work was deliberate. For Mumford, technology is one part of technics. Using the broader definition of the Greek ""tekhne"", which means not only technology but also art, skill, and dexterity, technics refers to the interplay of social milieu and technological innovation—the ""wishes, habits, ideas, goals"" as well as ""industrial processes"" of a society. As Mumford writes at the beginning of ""Technics and Civilization"", ""other civilizations reached a high degree of technical proficiency without, apparently, being profoundly influenced by the methods and aims of technics."" In ""The Myth of the Machine Vol II:"
"has been copied many times by later architects. The name ""Pantheon"" is from the Ancient Greek ""Pantheion"" (Πάνθειον) meaning ""of, relating to, or common to all the gods"": (pan- / ""παν-"" meaning ""all"" + theion / ""θεῖον""= meaning ""of or sacred to a god""). Cassius Dio, a Roman senator who wrote in Greek, speculated that the name comes either from the statues of many gods placed around this building, or from the resemblance of the dome to the heavens. His uncertainty strongly suggests that ""Pantheon"" (or Pantheum) was merely a nickname, not the formal name of the building. In fact,"
"Kami(God) is also seen as infinitely loving and powerful. People associated with panentheism: Panentheism Panentheism (meaning ""all-in-God"", from the Ancient Greek ""pân"", ""all"", ""en"", ""in"" and ""Theós"", ""God"") is the belief that the divine pervades and interpenetrates every part of the universe and also extends beyond time and space. The term was coined by the German philosopher Karl Krause in 1828 to distinguish the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) and Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775–1854) about the relation of God and the universe from the supposed pantheism of Baruch Spinoza. Unlike pantheism, which holds that the divine and"
"little in translations. He was one of the best Latinists of his age. The ""Timaeus"" of Plato in the Latin version of Chalcidius was known to him as to his contemporaries and predecessors, and probably he had access to translations of the ""Phaedo"" and ""Meno"". Of Aristotle he possessed the whole of the ""Organon"" in Latin; he is, indeed, the first of the medieval writers of note to whom the whole was known. He first coined the term ""theatrum mundi"", a notion that influences the theater several centuries later. In several chapters of the third book of his ""Policraticus"", he"
"arts, including medicine and music. The English aphorism, ""gentlemen don't work with their hands"", is said to have originated in ancient Greece in relation to their cynical view on the arts. Due to this view, it was only fitted for the lower class while the upper class practiced the liberal arts of 'free' men (Dorter 1973). Socrates also compliments techne only when it was used in the context of ""epistēmē"". ""Epistēmē"" sometimes means knowing how to do something in a craft-like way. The craft-like knowledge is called a ""technê"". It is most useful when the knowledge is practically applied, rather"
"elements [of the body], but in the commensurability of the parts, such as that of finger to finger, and of all the fingers to the palm and wrist, and of those to the forearm, and of the forearm to the upper arm, and in fact, of everything to everything else, just as it is written in the Canon of Polyclitus. For having taught us in that work all the proportions of the body, Polyclitus supported his treatise with a work: he made a statue according to the tenets of his treatise, and called the statue, like the work, the 'Canon'."
"Polykleitos Polykleitos was an ancient Greek sculptor in bronze of the 5th century BCE. His Greek name was traditionally Latinized ""Polycletus"", but is also transliterated ""Polycleitus"" (, Classical Greek , ""much-renowned"") and due to iotacism in the transition from Ancient to Modern Greek, ""Polyklitos"" or ""Polyclitus"". He is called ""Sicyonius"" (lit. ""The Sicyonian"", usually translated as ""of Sicyon"") by Latin authors including Pliny the Elder and Cicero, and Ἀργεῖος (lit. ""The Argive"", trans. ""of Argos"") by others like Plato and Pausanias. He is sometimes called the Elder, in cases where it is necessary to distinguish him from his son, who"
"Polyhymnia Polyhymnia (; ; ""the one of many hymns""), also spelt Polymnia (Πολύμνια) was in Greek mythology the Muse of sacred poetry, sacred hymn, dance, and eloquence as well as agriculture and pantomime. Her name comes from the Greek words ""poly"" meaning ""many"" and ""hymnos"", which means ""praise"". She is depicted as very serious, pensive and meditative, and often holding a finger to her mouth, dressed in a long cloak and veil and resting her elbow on a pillar. Polyhymnia is also sometimes credited as being the Muse of geometry and meditation. In Bibliotheca historica, Diodorus Siculus wrote, ""Polyhymnia, because"