Sentences with phrase «16th century works»

Italian baroque fashion is inspired by Michelangelo's 16th century works, borrowing volutes, spiraling shapes that climb up the female body or embellish basic accessories and adding a sophisticated touch as well as making a statement.

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Unfortunately for the Church, they still believe the tactics that were successful in the 16th century still work in the 21st century.

Luther lived and worked during a time of historical upheaval; he both fomented and responded to the dramatic events unfolding in Europe in the 16th century.

The Spanish conquest in the early 16th century enslaved Indians to work in mines and on plantations.

My chief concern here is not to repristinate Luther's 16th - century work for the 21st century, but rather to appropriate it — fairly and responsibly — in order to respond more faithfully to some of the urgent problems facing our societies and our world.

... Dawson thought it strange that 16th - century men should read so many pagan classics and, philosophy and theology aside, so little of the great Christian works that had subsequently appeared, especially works of the imagination like the Cid or Parzival that were built around the question of what it means to live the Christian life in the world.»

First, a little history: In the 16th century Protestant and Catholic positions on justification became polarized and soon escalated to include other doctrines, including the authority of the church; scripture and tradition; good works; merit and indulgences; the mass; and sin and its effects in human life.

He illustrated his words with the great examples from Catholic history of priest - scientists whose work was revolutionary in terms of a scientific understanding of the world, such as the 16th - century Pole, Copernicus, whose astronomical observations demonstrated that the earth orbited the sun, and the 20th - century Belgian, Georges Lemaître, who was the first to propose a «Big Bang» startto the universe.

The term originated in late 16th - century England and appears in several works by William Shakespeare, including Henry V and The Rape of Lucrece.

Previous attempts to get DNA from parchment did not work well, but by using modern sequencing techniques, researchers can now get abundant livestock DNA from parchment, such as the 16th century deed from Lancashire, U.K., shown above, the team reports online today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Not only is parchment plentiful, but as a legal document, it also has been carefully stored and often dated, making it a more readily available source of ancient DNA than bones.

Hopefully, they didn't have to reprint it: One such volume is Andreas Vesalius's pioneering 16th - century work of anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body).

Like the work of Copernicus in the 16th century revealing the movement of the Earth, Darwin's idea shook the foundations of the establishment and profoundly altered humanity's view of its place in the universe.

Among the high - profile premieres this year are «Antz,» the new Dreamworks animated film; James Ivory's «A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries,» with Kris Kristofferson playing a character inspired by novelist James Jones; «Dancing at Lughnasa,» starring Meryl Streep in the film of Brian Friel's celebrated play; John Waters» «Pecker,» with Edward Furlong as a fast - food worker whose photos are embraced by the New York art world; Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh in «The Theory of Flight,» about a work - release prisoner assigned to a woman with Lou Gehrig's disease; Ben Stiller as a drug - addicted TV writer in «Permanent Midnight»; Christina Ricci in «Desert Blue,» about slim prospects for a teenager in a town of 89 people; «The Imposters,» the new film by Stanley («Big Night») Tucci, starring Tucci and Oliver Platt as cruise - ship stowaways; «Rushmore,» with Jason Schwartzmann as a prep schooler who is a lousy student but hyperactive in campus activities; Cameron Diaz in «Very Bad Things,» about a bachelor party that ends in murder; Cate Blanchett as «Elizabeth,» the story of England's 16th century monarch, and «The Judas Kiss,» with FBI agent Emma Thompson on the trail of the kidnapper of a computer genius.

Working from her own script and with the backing of VICE Studios and Seaside Productions, Foulkes will guide her leads Mia Wasikowska and Damon Herriman through a contemporary, often violent reinterpretation of the 16th century marionette play, «Punch and Judy».

In the 16th century schools have replaced the fieldwork and factory work; with the agrarian, industrial and information age education has been becoming gradually a tool to create better workers.

Bringing together over 50 unique medieval manuscripts and early print editions from the 8th to 16th centuries, Discovering Literature: Medieval presents a new way to explore some of the earliest works and most influential figures of English literature.

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.

An archetypic water dog of France, the Barbet is a rustic breed of medium size and balanced proportions who appears in works as early as the 16th century.

Many other 16th century Italian artists, such as Paolo Veronese and Palma Vecchio, used this breed in their work.

The Lundehund was a valuable working animal, essential in hunting puffin birds along the Norwegian coast for food as well as the commercial export of puffin down from the Viking Age through the 16th and 17th centuries.

This powerful working breed is a descendant of the original working Bulldogs brought to this country from England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Outside Madrid, Escorial Palace, built on the instruction of Felipe II in the 16th century, houses numerous valuable works of art and a library containing some of the oldest books in existence.

The temple is thought to be the work of the 16th - century religious leader and architect Danghyang Nirartha.

The subjects of this controversy are a pair of 16th - century wood panels by Lucas Cranach the Elder portraying Adam and Eve (estimated at $ 24 million), and a 19th - century impressionist work by Camille Pissarro (estimated at $ 500,000 in Oklahoma).

Making reference to the reaper who appears in everyday lives in Hans Holbein's 16th - century series «The Dance of Death,» as well as to the shadows that enthrall the fictional prisoners in Plato's allegory of the cave (a recurring theme in Kentridge's work), the piece also conjures a modern - day New Orleans funeral march.

- Corin Sworn (2013 — 15)-- Sworn (b. 1976) created a work drawing from the Commedia dell» Arte improvised plays originating in 16th century Italy.

One hundred 16th - to 20th - century European and American frames from the Gill & Lagodich Collection were hung with postmodern works of art.

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.

They range from examples by Flemish artists working in Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, to British artists» experiments in modernism after the First World War.

The Venetian works were made in response to the four noble rooms of Palazzo Fontana, a 16th century building located on the Grand Canal in Venice.

The museum's collection includes over 5,000 works by more than 1,000 women artists from the 16th century to the present, including Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Alma Thomas, Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Chakaia Booker and Nan Goldin.

This exhibition should broaden our understanding of what the late 16th - and early 17th - century artists who encountered Caravaggio or his works in Rome and Naples were then able to achieve, from Neapolitan masters such as Mattia Preti and Jusepe de Ribera through to French and Dutch «Caravaggisti», including Georges de la Tour and Gerrit van Honthurst.

Featuring Michelangelo, Bronzino and Girogio Vasari, this major exhibition explores «an era of outstanding cultural and intellectual talent», with more than 70 works from 16th - century Florence.

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.

Her current Artangel project, Surround Me, insinuates itself down alleys and courtyards in the City of London, her voice like an Elizabethan ghost, singing melancholy works by John Dowland and other 16th and 17th century composers.

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.

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.

KONGO: POWER AND MAJESTY A major survey that attempts to rethink art from Central Africa, with 130 works created from the 16th to the early - 20th century, including 15 Power Figures with nails driven into their surfaces, made partly in response to Western colonialism.

Upstairs, you can see other examples of the artist's lithographs and etchings, and one of her latest works — her first tapestry, depicting strange and sinister characters inspired by a 16th - century folk tale.

Works are drawn from the museum's collections and date from the late 16th to the 21st century.

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.

The museum's collection features 4,500 works from the 16th century to the present created by more than 1,000 artists, including Mary Cassatt, Frida Kahlo, Alma Thomas, Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Chakaia Booker, and Nan Goldin, along with collections of artists» books, 18th - century silver tableware, and botanical prints.

Recent works include the three - screen installation The Unfinished Conversation (2012), a moving portrait of the cultural theorist Stuart Hall's life and work; Peripeteia (2012), an imagined drama visualising the lives of individuals included in two 16th century portraits by Albrecht Dürer and Mnemosyne (2010) which exposes the experience of migrants in the UK, questioning the notion of Britain as a promised land by revealing the realities of economic hardship and casual racism.

This show also features Rego's first tapestry; a large - scale work made this year, based on a 16th - century folk tale of a daughter whose father was raised by eagles.

Essays by the curators are included: Addressing the return to Classicism at the end of the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Arkady Ippolitov discusses the obsession that defines both the work of Mapplethorpe and the Mannerists.

A recent American Heritage Preservation Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Bank of America funded the rematting and reglazing of twelve drawings by artists from the 16th to 20th Centuries including works by Edgar Degas, Anders Zorn, Cecilia Beaux and Francois Claudius Compte - Calix.

Previous winners of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women are Corin Sworn (2013 - 15)-- Sworn (b. 1976) created a work drawing from the Commedia dell» Arte improvised plays originating in 16th century Italy.

For Grasso, the focus in the film, as in much of his work, is about how the study of astronomy was linked to the idea of power in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Likewise, the enigmatic chimeras in the works of a 16th century artist like Hieronymus Bosch, for whom very little biographical information exists, remind me that pictorial evocations of the past can ripple out in ever expanding circles of human civilization.

Featuring around 100 works, this exhibition centres on the largely overlooked 16th - century painter Paris Bordone.