Ancient Greek atomists like Leucippus, Democritus and Epicurus prefigure later materialists. In fact, their descriptions are prophecies that prefigure the beauty of the youth. The painting's bold brushstrokes prefigure the epic black abstraction of his breakthrough style. Voloshinov's work can also be seen to prefigure many of the concerns of poststructuralism. These four prophets prefigure the four Apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. However, his greatest praise is reserved for Plato, whose apophatic views of God prefigure Christianity. Evolutionary tactics aim to prefigure what an anarchist society would be like. Its chord patterns, melodies, and flugelhorn and string-heavy arrangements prefigure O'Rourke's future pop releases. They prefigure the simpler style that Holbein favoured in the later part of his career. His later paintings prefigure the imaginative landscapes of Hercules Segers. Also, they prefigure a lot of the horrors of the 20th century. Murdoch usually dismisses them as absurd, but they often prefigure real successful products. However, the meeting of major powers did prefigure later 20th-century attempts at international cooperation. Lorenzetti's command of spatial perspective is thought to prefigure the Italian Renaissance. These hedges use a metal armature, to prefigure the mature hedge.