Sentences with phrase «16th century painting»

As such, his trademark BMW Art Car design includes trompe l'oeil images of Bronzino's 16th century painting «Portrait of Young Man» and Ingres's» Odalisque.»

16th century painting on the ceiling visible in the hall and special feature in bedroom.

Bright second floor apartment right in the heart of the Old Town with spacious living area, 16th century painted ceiling and fantastic roof terrace.

Laurent Grasso's own work, such as the series of what appear to be 16th century paintings and drawings, Studies Into the Past, uses the conceptual notion of shifting temporalities and multiple temporalities existing simultaneously to create a surreal suspension in time.

At the apex, where the two walls nearly meet, hung two silkscreened photographic reproductions of 16th century paintings by Flemish artist Otto van Veen (1556 - 1629) titled «The Persian Women «and «Amazons and Scythians (The Creation oft he Sauromats ``.

Other remarkable works include the installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall; Peripeteia (2012), a fictional drama on the lives of individuals in two 16th century paintings by Albrecht Dürer, and Mnemosyne (2010), which tells the story of migrants in the UK, questioning the idea of Britain as a promised land, where financial worry and casual racism can instead be real threats.

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A formal request to paint a home must be submitted to local officials who decides which colors may be used according to a 16th - century coloring system.

Musée des beaux arts Located in the historic Place de Miremont square, the fine - arts and archeology museum houses a collection of artifacts from Vienne's Roman past, as well as paintings from the 16th to early 20th centuries.

By the 16th century, paintings of the nourishing breast of the Virgin and Mary Magdalene's penitent breasts were only two among many contexts in which breasts were seen in art.

It is deeply ironic that the Reformation should have been accompanied by the virtually prophetic painting of the North, and yet the iconoclastic tendency implicit in the very motto Sola Scriptura would close out the era of great Protestant painting before the middle of the 16th century.

A new analysis of European paintings shows that meat and bread were among the most commonly depicted foods in paintings of meals from the 16th century.

This colorful floral was inspired by 16th - century hand - painted ceramic tiles from the town of Iznik in Turkey.

An apocalyptic 16th - century Bruegel painting hangs on the wall (forgive this one on - the - nose piece of production design) pointing to deadly sins, but the movie, loaded with dream sequences and nail - biting exchanges, is far more complex than a mere morality play.

As the viewer regards two separate paintings by 16th century Dutch painter Pieter Aertsen, titled The Vegetable Seller (1576) and A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms (1551) respectively, each cut to a different fragment of the paintings» surfaces raises questions: what do the artworks depict; what is placed in their foregrounds; what is relegated to the background; and, ultimately, what meanings can be excavated from the artworks» layers and represented objects?

The Papillon became really popular when Tiziano Vicelli painted them in the 16th century, as a result of which many other renowned painters began to include the Papillon dog in their works.

Prints and paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries show dogs of similar type to today's English Springer Spaniel, some with docked tails.

The breed became popular in Southern Europe during the Middle Ages and by the 16th Century many were depicted in Italian paintings and sculpture.

Six Senses Douro Valley supports Museu de Lamego, the historic Portuguese museum established in 1917, finance the restoration of a 16th - century painting titled, «Quo Vadis,» for a public exhibition.

A rare painting by a 16th century Dutch master was recently discovered hidden for decades in a storeroom in Iowa.

Take a stroll in the elegant arcaded courtyard and admire the 16th - century antiques and paintings decorating the halls before a special dinner with opera singers in the vaulted dining room.

In the heart of the Inca city, Aranwa Cusco Boutique Hotel is the essence of luxury and comfort built in a colonial mansion of the 16th century, displaying several paintings of the Cuzco school, colonial sculptures, and carvings that transport guests to a time of brilliant extravagance.

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Today the building is open as a museum featuring stunning tapestries and paintings from the 16th century, and is well worth a visit.

The hotel is in a perfect location for cultural visits to the Iberian village of Montbarbat and the Roman SoldiersTomb, the 16th century Church (with Catalan paintings of that period), and St. Joan's Tower (10 - 11th century AD), situated on the hill which separates Fanals beach from Lloret's beach.

Stephen the Great was a religious and cultural man, and it was his influence that gave rise to a school of native painters who have bequeathed some true masterpieces of the fresco technique found on the 16th and 17th - century painted monasteries of Bucovina.

Developed by Climax Studios in collaboration with Ubisoft Montreal, Assassin's Creed Chronicles brings the thrill of being a Master Assassin to 2.5 D. Brought to life by fusing the essence of Chinese 16th - century traditional brush strokes with more contemporary impressionistic styles, Shao Jun's adventure will immerse players in a living painting as they traverse undetected across China's historical landmarks.

The exhibition brings together a selection of nine paintings on monochrome stone (slate and white marble) by Italian painters such as Sebastiano del Piombo, Titian, Daniele da Volterra and Leandro Bassano, which reflect the consolidation of a new approach to artistic techniques that emerged in the early decades of the 16th century.

Drawing from the symbolism attached to skulls and their emblematic links to the inevitability of death, Life is Only One makes allusions to Dutch memento mori paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries and incites emotions of pain, loneliness, helplessness and despair.

Employing his standard materials — paint and the flyers and advertisements he finds displayed around his South Central Los Angeles neighborhood — his latest body of work is inspired by 16th and 17th century sea maps and the foreboding mysteries that lie beneath the waters.

It was there that I saw many small paintings from the 16th and 17th century.

The gallery space will display a series of rare manuscripts and painted miniatures of exquisite beauty, including a 16th - century Indian Khamsa of Nizami manuscript, and pages from the 1330 Shahnama known as «The Demotte Shahnama.»

The catalogue's authors recognize what a remarkable and curious artist he was, yet place him squarely within the Dutch art world of his time, as an artist following in the wake of Flemish landscape painting of the 16th century, and working in a vibrant artistic milieu of admiring colleagues and a burgeoning middle - class market for easel paintings and prints.

The Manufacturers, for example, originated from a newspaper photograph of a public apology by toy company Mattel, whose particular symmetry and formality reminded Wylie of Spanish 16th century still - life painting.

These use a painting technique Vicuña learned in the late 1960s from the Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington; and were initially inspired by the naive and subtly subversive images made by 16th Century indigenous artists in Latin America after the Spanish conquest when they were forced to paint angels and saints for the Catholic Church.

The paintings draw on such varied influences as Tibetan Thangkas, Indian miniatures and the 16th century Italian artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo.

The art collection includes prints by European and Japanese artists from the 16th century to the present day and oil paintings by leading British artists.

From the rich collections of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Genève and the Musée des Beaux - Arts de Caen, paintings from the Flemish and Dutch masters from the 16th and 17 century are interwoven in a dynamic way with the work of a contemporary artist working in Holland and Belgium: Jan Fabre, Hendrik Kerstens, Fiona Tan, Cyprien Gaillard and Hans Op De Beeck.

Today the historic collection includes watercolours, drawings, prints and maps of local views; Victorian paintings and drawings; 16th to 19th century prints; 20th century prints; lithographs by Honoré Daumier (1808 - 1879); 20th century works acquired through the Contemporary Art Society, including a Walter Sickert oil painting; a small collection of sculpture from the late 19th century to the present; ceramics, including pieces of Martinware pottery; 17th and 18th century textiles; and coins and medals.

Featuring painting, sculpture, and works on paper from the Smart Museum's permanent collection as well as select loans, The Painted Text juxtaposed images from the 16th to 19th centuries with their literary sources in order to investigate how artists interpreted and transformed the stories that inspired them.

Nagle's diverse influences include pop culture, California design, 16th - and 17th - century Japanese tea ceramics, and paintings by Giorgio Morandi and Francis Bacon.

These galleries highlight the important works from these collections and are organized into themes including 16th and 17th century religious art, 18th and 19th century Academic painting, 20th century American paintings and prints, and Contemporary art.

That painting will hang in the Great Hall along with 94 other European and American classical works from the late 16th to the early 19th century.

The 16th - century Low Countries painter Pieter Aertsen pioneered a new genre of large - scale art: the market scene, which combined the virtuoso rendering of materials prevalent in still life paintings with a human element that often had an allegorical subtext.

We specialise in Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Among the new arrivals is a significant set of 10 time - based media works from the collection of Peter and Mari Shaw, including Melik Ohanian's The Hand (2002), and Promises (2001) by Anri Sala; 12 Japanese paintings from the literati, Zen and Kano schools, from the Gitter - Yelen collection; several examples of American furniture design; and an exceptional 16th - century stained glass window by French artist Jean Chastellain depicting The Adoration of the Magi.

This exhibition catalogue for Hsieh Shih - ch «en: A Ming Dynasty Painter Represents the Past includes thirty - three paintings by the 16th century Chinese artist, Hsieh Shih - ch» en.

The fine art collection consists of about 19,000 works dating from the 16th century to the present and comprises paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and photographs by artists such as Lucas Cranach the Elder, Giovanni Savoldo, Henry Alexander, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Maillol, René Magritte, Alexander Calder, Hans Hoffmann, Frederick Hammersley, Fernand Leger, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Irwin, Claes Oldenburg, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Eva Hesse, Yoko Ono, and Raymond Saunders, among many others.

The four emerging and established artists that dot the globe for «Voluntary Sculptures,» relish the discarded and everyday, building upon traditions from 16th century still life painting to Dada and the readymade.

From the 1650s onwards, Giordano travelled extensively in Italy and absorbed the ideas of other schools of painting, most notably that of Pietro da Cortona and such 16th century Venetian masters as Titian and Veronese.

Baconian Empericism originating in 16th Century Dutch Landscape painting and finding its way into the grid of minimalist painting is manifest as a series of intersecting metal framings that hold the mirrors in place and distribute the urban scene along a flat grid.