Sentences with phrase «18th century painting»

On the wall at the foot of the bed is a large 18th century painting of the Virgin Mary.

Many believe that an 18th century painting by Thomas Gainsborough features a dog resembling the Old English Sheepdog.

Now filming its third season, the show pits Leroy against three fellow antique dealers, who jet off to locales like Normandy, Glasgow and cities across the United States, bidding for everything from Chinese space helmets to 18th century paintings found at airport lost - luggage auctions.

The picture gallery, in particular, is magnificent containing over 200 14th to 18th Century paintings.

These tiny sculptures depict a variety of leisure related subjects from birds to ballerinas; some appear to have stepped out of 18th century paintings of fêtes galantes.

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The inspiration for director Amma Asante's fascinating period costumed drama, Belle, came from quite an unusual place — in Scone Palace at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, there hangs a painting of two young women from the 18th century.

«Many people in the 18th and 19th century, who came to India from the UK and Europe, were avid collectors of manuscripts and paintings.

Numerous paintings of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, show that Caniches were also a common pet on the late 18th century in Spain.

Paintings and writings show Dalmatian - like dogs in various regions of Europe as far back as the 14th century, and the dogs have been used in Dalmatia since at least the 18th century.

German Spitz Mittel originated in Germany sometime in antiquity, with examples nearly identical to the modern version viewable in 18th - century paintings.

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Handelskade is a small street that runs along the Curacao harbor and is lined with brightly painted 18th century buildings.

A nod to the age of the building was kept in the Maurer Room, which boasts original Rococo style decorations and 18th century wall paintings.

It was first build in the early 18th century with primary function in 1945 as a court of law and then became a historical building displaying an array of paintings.

The publisher is starting a brand - new contest, in which 137 lucky winners will get the chance to be immortalised in a 18th century - style oil painting, inspired by -LSB-...]

Individual collections include: examples of British vernacular culture from Peter Blake; the eclectic contents of two rooms from Hanne Darboven's family home in Hamburg; 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; 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.

Exhibition: Thomas Gainsborough at Morgan Library & Museum Although this 18th - century British master is known best for his portraiture and landscape work, his oeuvre extended far beyond his paintings.

Cap D'Antibes, France; Long Island, New York; Paris Banking 17th -, 18th -, and 19th - century French painting Top 200 appearance: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

A brief survey of representations of life - drawing sessions reveals: an all male clientele drawing from the female nude in Rembrandt's studio; men working from male nudes in 18th - century representations of academic instruction in The Hague and Vienna; men working from the seated male nude in Bailly's charming painting of the interior of Houdon's studio at the beginning of the 19th century; Mathieu Cochereau's scrupulously veristic Interior of David's Studio, exhibited in the Salon of 1814, reveals a group of young men diligently drawing or painting from a male nude model, whose discarded shoes may be seen before the models» stand.

A brief survey of representations of like - drawing sessions reveals an all male clientele drawing from the female nude in Rembrandt's studio; men working from male nudes in 18th - century representations of academic instruction in The Hague and Vienna; men working from the seated male nude in Boily's charming painting of the interior of Houdon's studio at the beginning of the 19th century; Mathieu Cochereau's scrupulously veristic Interior of David's Studio, exhibited in the Salon of 1814, reveals a group of young men diligently drawing or painting from a male nude model, whose discarded shoes may be seen before the models» stand.

[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.

Framed by Gill & Lagodich, period 18th - century French Louis XVI - painting frame; gilded carved wood; molding width 4 inches.

Framed by Gill & Lagodich, period 18th century French Louis XV painting frame gilded carved oak; swept profile, very refined example with exquisite gesso reparure, washed original gilding.

Holdings include a rare group of 15th - century Spanish, Italian and Northern European paintings, highlights of European sculpture, and an important selection of 17th - and 18th - century paintings.

Framed by Gill & Lagodich, period 18th - century French Louis XIII painting frame; gilded hand carved wood, molding width: 4-1/4»

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 present.

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.

Cloud and Dragon paintings are known as Unryūzu and were great influences for the 18th century Japanese artist Soga Shōhaku who has been a source of artistic inspiration for Murakami.

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.

Inspired by 18th Century French portraiture and Polaroid photography, his paintings combine different color schemes of lush tones and ghostly pastels.

A painting of African American cotton - pickers by Clementine Hunter and a desk carved by emancipated slave William Howard illustrate an 18th - century fieldhands» song: «Caller: Old Joseph was a wood workin» man... When he got old he lost his way... Makes that boss man right mad... Needs a young man to learn his trade,» with a recurring chorus of «Hoe Emma Hoe, you turn around dig a hole in the ground, Hoe Emma Hoe.»

The museum has also received La Surprise, a painting by the renowned 18th - century French artist Jean Antoine Watteau, from the same collection.

It will be the first time many of the paintings — acquired during the 17th and 18th centuries by rulers such as Tsar Peter I and Catherine the Great — have been back to the Netherlands.

Abbot Hall holds many fine examples of 18th - and 19th - century painting, as well as a substantial collection of work by Ruskin.

The artist has acquired a range of interesting pieces as a collector, from Japanese prints and landscapes to 17th - and 18th - century paintings, as well as an Egyptian funerary mask and other pieces of ancient sculpture.

At the Met the British 18th - century paintings — including works by Hogarth, Reynolds, and Lawrence — remain isolated in one room, in the rigid style of national and chronological hang favoured by that institution.

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.

Featuring approximately 200 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs, decorative arts, architectural and landscape designs, costumes, and popular culture ephemera — dating from the late 18th century to the present day — VMFA's landmark exhibition expands the chronological and geographic boundaries of the regionally diverse, multicultural revival.

In his intricate paintings, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) re-imagines 18th century colonial history, conjuring a fictional cast of subjects within his own original on - going narrative that includes a rebel fighting force of freed slaves, militiamen, dikes, lords, and tribesmen.

With a focus on American and European art from the 18th century to the present, Hirschl & Adler specializes in paintings, sculpture, works on paper, furniture and decorative arts.

FRAGONARD: DRAWING TRIUMPHANT The French artist Jean Honoré Fragonard (1732 - 1806) was active at a moment in the 18th century when drawings were beginning to shift from being preliminary sketches for paintings to valuable, collectible objects in their own right.

They were among artists who gathered in Rome in the 18th and 19th centuries, setting out to paint picturesque locations in the Campagna outside the city.

This exhibition explores nearly 200 years of paintings in the genre, from the realism of the 18th century to Modernism, Pop art and beyond.

«Exquisite Nature: 20 Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the 14th - 18th Centuries.»

Superb furniture and paintings from Vermont, decorative arts, and folk art from the 18th century to present are found throughout the museum.

Over the course of the 18th century, an outstanding collection of portraits and Old Master paintings was built up at Longford Castle.

Present - day manipulation of found material that seems to date back as far as the 18th century is incorporated into the work of Marine Hugonnier and Markus Schwinwald in the medium of collage and painting.