Sentences with phrase «baroque ceiling paintings»

In 2016 while a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, she renewed her interest in Baroque ceiling paintings and incorporated their spatial complexity into her compositions.

Inspired by the city's lagoon and canals, Twombly splashed acrylic on to canvases shaped like baroque ceiling paintings, as if Monet was meeting Jackson Pollock and Tiepolo.

Not exact matches

In addition to the beautiful scenery, this city offers historical treasures like the baroque Bishop's Residenz, home to the largest ceiling fresco ever painted.

Enjoy a visit to Wurzburg, also called the «Pearl of the Romantic Road,» and see the magnificent baroque Bishop's Residenz and the largest ceiling fresco ever painted.

Built by Louis XIV, this extravagant precursor to the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles remained unfinished until the 1800s — but the Baroque - style gilded room, with its arched ceilings and inlaid paintings, is now a national and world heritage site.

These paintings invite the viewer to a place that has the ordered chaos of a Baroque ceiling.

In her compositions Jebavy often includes glassware forms that call to mind other Baroque artworks, such as Bernini's expansive Baldachin in St. Peter's Cathedral, or illusionistic Italian ceiling paintings and cathedrals, building altar - like architectural spaces that are at once intimate, domestic, and banal, and monumental, metaphysical, and transcendental.

An analogous distinction can be made between easel paintings that function as windows and the sort of trompe l'oeil murals favored by Baroque ceiling painters.

Regarded as the start of Baroque painting, Carracci's murals set new standards in ceiling decoration.

For his prize entry, he covered the entire expanse of a wall at Tate Britain with a Baroque wallpaper design of geometrical patterns in gold leaf, employing his usual method of painting on walls and ceilings of architectural spaces.

For example, from the Plexiglas circular labyrinth Bamboo Cinema (2001) to the graphite seascape Nocturnal (Neon Miniature)(2011) to the shimmering blue walls of Stacked Waters (2009) in the atrium of The Blanton Museum, Texas, Fernández references traditional artistic techniques from Baroque - era ceiling painting and conventions of landscape painting to the works of Land artist Robert Smithson and Minimalist Donald Judd.