It is instead a story of mutual accommodation and resistance, a tension that happened to foster an extraordinary artistic flowering.
The ascendance of the Qidan clan in the ninth century A.D. produced an artistic flowering in these northern lands.
One can say that it was a time of both a tremendous artistic flowering and a dangerous political divisiveness that we are still attempting to understand today.
Most of the display, though, is presented in a loosely chronological manner, starting with early Italian religious painting and leading to the Renaissance and the artistic flowering in northern Europe.
According to Britain's Guardian Newspaper, "Tijuana is in the middle of an artistic flowering in which artists are re-examining the city's hybrid binational culture."
As a young woman, she witnessed at first hand the artistic flowering stimulated by his patronage.
A Hungarian-born photographer who was as fascinated by the Parisian nether world as Miller was, Brassai constructs a portrait of the writer and his artistic flowering during the 1930's.
The Fujiwara presided over a period of cultural and artistic flowering at the imperial court and among the aristocracy.
The truth is that the era's artistic flowering took place amid opposition that makes our culture wars look like the Pepsi Challenge.
The 1920's and 30's saw an artistic and literary flowering in Harlem and an outpouring of social criticism examining the position of blacks in American society.