Sentences with phrase «18th century art»

With its usual combination of scholarship and connoisseurship, the Yale Center exhibit has crossover interest for both those who love 18th century art and those who love -LSB-...]

You enter the Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach Resort & Spa through a grand marble lobby with chandeliers, 17th and 18th century art, and oversized colonial Mexican furniture.

You can sometimes see them in Dutch 18th century art works.

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It was one of more than 800 monasteries closed by Henry VIII but the ruins later became a centre for the Picturesque art movement in the 18th century.

There is a fine 18th - century phrase, «literature and art refine our sensibilities.»

«After the High Renaissance 17th century and the 18th - Counter-Reformation, art in most of Europe drifted towards pompous political and religious propaganda for a time.

The room design is a contemporary take on Philadelphia's historic interiors with a fresh interpretation of the city's 18th century of furniture makers, as well as art from local Philadelphia painters and photographers.

From wax - injected limbs, to ivory parturition dolls, the collision of art and science was key to understanding our bodies in the 18th and 19th centuries.

For those of you who love historical style, brace yourself for we're about to revisit the 18th century Rococo art movement, only this time, through a revival of a decadent trend — the Baroque & Roll.

Chinese motifs combined with 18th century European art makes for such a unique style, especially when used as a wedding theme.

More than 18,000 objects in the PMA's art collection (dating from the 18th century to the present day) provide visitors with plenty of thought - provoking conversation starters.

Working with Greenwood in the Art Department, Spencer began with a certain visual reality — aspects of 18th century France — before turning to the animated film or pure homage.

In The Sky in a Room, a team of organists will play the 1959 Italian pop song Il Cielo In Una Stanza for five hours a day in a gallery filled with 18th - century art.

In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, urban migration brought the art form to major city centers yet for decades capoeira was perceived as an outlawed practice.

It was wildly popular in 18th - century Spain, making appearances in the art of Spanish artist Francisco Goya, and as the favored pet of French royalty during that same era.

Although dogs strongly resembling bearded collies are depicted in art dating from the 18th century, hard evidence of the breed can not be found until the early - 19th century, when the first breed description was published.

This beautiful Beaux - Arts monument epitomizes the high - minded American renaissance of the late 18th and early 19th century.

All of the rooms have natural light and state - of - the - art audiovisual equipment, allowing highly varied events in Sintra to be catered for, while taking full advantage of the stunning surroundings and unique setting of this 18th century palace.

• Housed in an 18th - century seminary with a distinctive blue cupola that is a Valencia landmark, the Museu de Belles Arts (9 Carrer San Pio V; 34/96-360 -5793; www.cult.gva.es/mbav) boasts one of Spain's greatest collections — and with a mere fraction of the Prado's crowds.

If you enjoy history, you can explore the splendid 18th and 19th - century colonial architecture, the Aboriginal Arts Centre, the old world of the QVB (Queen Victoria Building), or take a trip back in time at the Rocks which offers 21st - century entertainment in a 200 - year - old setting.

Other collections include works from French impressionists including Paul Gauguin, Renoir, Degas and Monet, and significant pieces from 18th and 19th century American art.

This property also has one of Australia's largest private collections of fine art as well as 18th century Louis XV and Georgian antique furniture throughout.

And when you step inside the hotel the link with art continues with the precious 18th century tapestries and period furnishings.

Hidden behind the 18th century facade is the exquisite terracotta colored architecture, courtyards, and galleries packed to the hilt with ancient art.

A good place look is San José del Cabo's compact downtown arts district, nestled in a lovely 18th - century barrio.

Located in the heart of Aubusson, the world capital of tapestry art, Hotel Le France welcomes you in the traditional setting of an 18th - century coaching inn.

Relax in the award winning Plantation Bay's Mogambo Springs Spa which is designed to resemble an 18th century Tokugawa Japanese village or learn the skilful art of diving with the PADI 5 Star Dive training centre.

This hotel dates back to the 18th century and boasts many of the original features, making it perfect for art and architecture lovers.

We also decided very early on to feature an abandoned colony, but had been thinking 18th century until David Longo, our art director, brought up Roanoke.

Two art historians presented «E-visitors» with virtual re-creations of 18th - century exhibitions; one used a first - person - shooter video - game engine, the other, Google Sketchup.

18th - century Brazilian Baroque furniture and imaginaries; Caucasian Rugs; International contemporary art

Collecting area: Modern and contemporary art; 18th - century French decorative arts and French Art Deco furnitart; 18th - century French decorative arts and French Art Deco furnitArt Deco furniture

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[44] The museum's collections include art in many media from around the world, including European and American paintings, prints, sculpture and drawings, 18th and 19th century Japanese Ukiyo - e prints, 15th through 19th century Persian and Indian miniature paintings, 20th century Haitian art, 20th century Japanese netsuke, 20th century and contemporary photography, and Rapa Nui, African, and Native American artifacts.

The Department of American Art includes more than 1,000 paintings and sculptures from the 18th century to 1950 and nearly 2,500 decorative art objects from the 17th century to the preseArt includes more than 1,000 paintings and sculptures from the 18th century to 1950 and nearly 2,500 decorative art objects from the 17th century to the preseart objects from the 17th century to the present.

Thematic displays explore the international character of American art and Baltimore's position as a major center for art production and foreign trade from the late 18th century forward.

The connection between abstract painting and painting's self - definition is always seen as central part of Greenbergian doctrine, an extension of the grand narrative's account of the arts «coming into their own» in the 18th and 19th centuries which Wolterstorff describes.

Founded «for the purpose of encouraging American Genius,» the Corcoran's extensive collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th century American art represented the most significant American artists.

18th - century French Louis XIV frame, gilded hand - carved wood, molding width 4-7/8» The museum has published extensively on this painting and frame, Pissarro Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago, with painting technical report and detailed frame description, Cat.

1958 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (December 5, 1958 — February 8, 1959) A propos du baroque: Jean Degottex, Marcelle Ferron, Sam Francis, Simon Hantaï, Shirley Jaffe, Marcelle Loubchansky, Joan Mitchell, Judit Reigl, Jean - Paul Riopelle, Galerie Kléber, Paris (November — December) Some Contemporary Works of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio (November 11 - December 31) American Symbolic Realists: Fifteen American Artists, Palazzo Collicola, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto, Italy (June 8 — 29) 18th Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago (May 8 — June 8) The Museum and Its Friends: Twentieth - Century American Art from Collections of the Friends of the Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (April 30 — June 15) American Artists of Younger Reputation, New York Art Foundation, Rome (opened April 14) The Evocative Eye, Signa Gallery, East Hampton, New York (July 5 - 24) The International Art of a New Era: Informel and Gutai, Osaka Festival, Osaka, Japan (September 2 — 7) Action Painting, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts (March 5 — April 13) Abstract Impressionism, The Art Galleries, Portland Building, University of Nottingham, England (February 19 — March 19).

This blindsiding show travels to the Met in April, but whether you see it at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (where it is on view through March 18) or catch it in New York, the catalog for this extravagant showcase of 18th - century Mexican painting has its own allure.

Audiences rarely flock to exhibitions about 18th century European art with the enthusiasm shown for Impressionism and ancient Egypt, but the Kimbell Art Museum is hoping Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, on view Aug. 27 through Dec. 31, will change thart with the enthusiasm shown for Impressionism and ancient Egypt, but the Kimbell Art Museum is hoping Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, on view Aug. 27 through Dec. 31, will change thArt Museum is hoping Casanova: The Seduction of Europe, on view Aug. 27 through Dec. 31, will change that.

Having recently exhibited with the newly created Blenheim Art Foundation in its first contemporary art exhibition in the rooms and gardens of the 18th century Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire — the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill — with more than 50 artworks by the celebrated Chinese artist and social activiArt Foundation in its first contemporary art exhibition in the rooms and gardens of the 18th century Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire — the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill — with more than 50 artworks by the celebrated Chinese artist and social activiart exhibition in the rooms and gardens of the 18th century Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire — the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill — with more than 50 artworks by the celebrated Chinese artist and social activist.

But if we hope to find the beginnings of modern art, where do we start — in the 19th century, the 18th, the 17th?

Down in the great, dazzling port - city of New York (which has 83 — 100 museums depending on who's counting), visitors to the vast Metropolitan Museum of Art at Fifth Avenue might happily put on blinkers and head upstairs to soak up the intricate beauty of five Vajracarya priests» crowns, dating from the 13th to 18th centuries.

The Diderot series takes its name from the 18th century French Enlightenment philosopher, writer, art critic and encyclopedia contributor Denis Diderot.

The overall theme expresses the history of an island that is, relatively speaking, small but one that was constantly receptive to the rest of the world — whether through foreign painters shaping British art, through 18th - century trade, or through the apparatus of empire.

Occupying the 18th - century Threshing Barn, adjoining farm buildings, outdoor spaces and one of the new galleries, Barlow's dense and exuberant sequence of installations celebrates the rejuvenation of Durslade Farm that lay derelict and unoccupied prior to its recent conversion into an arts centre.

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Individual collections include: African art and samurai armour owned by Arman; examples of British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; Edmund de Waal's Japanese netsuke; Damien Hirst's skulls, taxidermy and medical models; Indian paintings from Howard Hodgkin; Dr. Lakra's record covers and scrapbooks, Sol LeWitt's Japanese prints, modernist photographs and music scores; 20th century British postcards and Soviet space dog memorabilia from Martin Parr; Jim Shaw's thrift store paintings; Hiroshi Sugimoto's 18th century French and Japanese anatomical prints and books; Andy Warhol's cookie jars; more than 1,000 scarves and other textiles by the American designer Vera Neumann from Pae White; and a collection of thousands of objects assembled by Martin Wong and subsequently acquired by Danh Vo.