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Artaxerxes I surnamed LONGIMANUS (Gr. , long-handed), from the circumstance that his right hand was longer than his left (Plutarch, Artax. 1), was king of Persia for forty years, B.C. 465-425 [strictly 466-425] (Diod. 11:69; 12:64; Thuc. 4:50). He ascended the throne after his father, Xerxes I, had been murdered by Artabanus, and after he … Continue reading “Artaxerxes I”

ARTAXERXES Great king, the name or title of several kings of Persia.1. It is given in Ezr 4:7-24, to Smerdis the Magian, who usurped the throne after the death of Cambyses, B. C. 522, pretending to be Smerdis, the son of Cyrus, whom Cambyses had put to death. His usurped power was used, at the … Continue reading “Artaxerxes”

Artaud, Pierre Joseph a French prelate, was born in 1706 at Bonieux, in the county of Venaissin. He went to Paris, and there ‘distinguished himself as a preacher; became rector of St. Merry’s, and in 1756 bishop of Canaillon. He died Sept. 5, 1760. He wrote, Panegyrique de St. Louis (1754):-Discours sur les Maliages, on … Continue reading “Artaud, Pierre Joseph”

Artaud (Lat. Artaldus) archbishop of Rheims, was first a Benedictine monk of the abbey of St. Remi at Rheims, and was, in 931 or 932, placed in the archiepiscopal see of that place, in the room of Heribert, son of the count of Vermandois, a child who had occupied the archbishopric from the age of … Continue reading “Artaud (Lat. Artaldus)”

Artabanus (Or Artapanes) a historian, mentioned by Eusebius (Prcep. Evang. 9:18, 23, 27), is the author of , or . From the fragments-which are mentioned by Eusebius, and which treat on the history of Abraham, Joseph, and Moses-we may assume that he was of Jewish origin. (B. P.) Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical … Continue reading “Artabanus (Or Artapanes)”

Artaba (), a dry measure used by the Babylonians (Herod. i, 192), containing seventy-two sextarii according, to Epiphanius (de Ponderib. et Mens.) and Isidore of Seville (lib. 16, Origen); or, according to Dr. Arbuthnot’s tables, one bushel, one gallon, and one pint, allowing, with him, four pecks and six pints to the medimnus, and one … Continue reading “Artaba”

Art, Sacred Art is the embodiment of aesthetic feeling in human productions. The Fine Arts-or the different methods of this embodiment-are classified into two grand divisions: (1) those that reach the soul through the channel of the eye, termed the formative arts (in German, the bildende Kiinste); and (2) those that reach the soul through … Continue reading “Art, Sacred”

art, Passion of Christ in Among the many masters who have represented this subject are: Correggio, Domenichino, Durer, El Greco, Mantegna, Memling, Holbein the Elder, Luini, Perugino, Titian and Veronese. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

Art, Jewish (, maaseh’, work, as elsewhere rendered), Exo 30:25; 2Ch 16:14 (, elsewhere “craft,” “occupation”), Act 17:29; Wis 14:4; Wis 17:7 , “work”), Ecclus. xlix, 1 (, to do, “practise”), Act 19:19. (See Cleghorn, Hist. of Anc. and Mod. Art, Edinb. 1848; Rochette, Lectures on Anc. Art, Lond. 1854; Gugler, Kunst der Hebrder, Landshut, … Continue reading “Art, Jewish”

Art impulse A term to account for the origin of all matter falling under the consideration of aesthetics by describing it as due to non-intellectualistic, psychical urges, thoroughly dynamic in nature, such as desire to imitate, proneness to please, exhibitionism, play, utilization of surplus vital energy, emotional expression, or compensation. — K.F.L. Fuente: The Dictionary … Continue reading “Art impulse”