Sentences with phrase «egyptian sculptures»

Highlights of the exhibition include ancient Egyptian sculptures of the gods Bast and Anubis on loan from the San Antonio Museum of Art, a folio from the Tegernsee Miscellany aka Bede Compendium — an eleventh - century manuscript depicting a zodiac dog from the Harry Ransom Center, and Thomas Sully's Cinderella at the Kitchen Fire from the Dallas Museum of Art, along with Albrecht Dürer's St. Eustace, a group of important and rare prints by Paul Gauguin, and contemporary works by Louise Bourgeois, William Wegman and Sandy Skoglund.

Highlights of the MFA's collection include: Egyptian sculptures, and jewellery; the Morse collection of 5,000 pieces of Japanese pottery; works of French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism; 18th and 19th century American art, including works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.

In a nutshell: An exhibitionof works relating to the circle, taking in everything from conceptual art to medieval manuscripts, ancient Egyptian sculptures and Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

For example, Egyptian sculptures show a Pharaoh and attendants in a ceremonial procession carrying the Pharaoh's «soul» or «secret helper» (the placenta with the umbilical cord) while Hebrew scriptures include several references to the placenta, referred to as the «bundle of life» or the «external soul».

Entering the museum, we were greeted by large - scale cut outs and an ancient Egyptian sculpture borrowed from the Louvre.

The Cavendish art collection spans 4000 years, from ancient Egyptian sculpture and masterpieces by Rembrandt to works by modern artists including Lucian Freud and Edmund de Waal.

The show will explore the eternal compulsion to produce and to collect works of art, displaying «objects» ranging from a 2nd century BCE Egyptian sculpture to works created for the last Venice Biennale, drawn together from Turin's most prominent collections of art and antiquities.

In a 1980 performance, Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934) juxtaposed images of her family members with Ancient Egyptian sculpture that created parallels between her personal and diasporic histories.

Sisters, by Lorraine O'Grady, is cut down, too — a selection of four diptychs from her 1994 Miscegenated Family Album, which pairs photos of ancient Egyptian sculpture with portrait photography.

Artists from Goya to Takahashi (Shotei) Hiroaki are included, along with Egyptian sculpture, Chinese and pre-Columbian ceramics, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, and prints, books, photographs, and paintings from an array of (mostly) Texas museums and UT alumni collections.

Collections The new section Collections, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal, will include Japanese netsuke (Sydney Moss, London); a 40 - piece display of Italian maiolica (Bazaart, London); and a collection of rare wooden Egyptian sculpture, including an exceptional large statue from the Fifth Dynasty (2500 — 2400 BC)(Sycomore Ancient Art, London).

The result is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to view Leonardo da Vinci juxtaposed with Barbara Hepworth and Alison Turnbull; William Blake with Wolfgang Tilmans and Carl Andre; ancient Egyptian sculpture with Anish Kapoor and Nancy Holt.

Note: Techniques of Egyptian sculpture were highly influential on many Greek sculptors of antiquity, and also on later African sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa.

The exhibition explores the eternal compulsion to produce and to collect works of art, displaying «objects» ranging from a 2nd century BCE Egyptian sculpture to works created for the last Venice Biennale, drawn together from Turin's Collections of art and antiquities.

In Egyptian sculpture and in most of the sculpture of the 20th - century artist Constantin Brancusi, for example, mass is paramount, and most of the sculptor's thought was devoted to shaping a lump of solid material.

The pose references Sumerian and Egyptian sculpture whilst the contour down the face indicates Moore's first influences of Cubism.

Lorraine O'Grady's (b. 1934) Miscegenated Family Album series (1980/1994) juxtaposes images of the artist's family members with Ancient Egyptian sculpture, creating parallels between her personal and diasporan histories.

Paul Feeley (1910 — 1966), while often mistakenly associated with the Color Field painters of the 1940s and 1950s, in fact found the inspiration for his work primarily from ancient art, Greek architecture and Egyptian sculpture.

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He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human.

It has been around for centuries, and, in fact, the ancient Egyptians created numerous motifs and sculptures focusing on the breed.

Although researchers are not entirely sure just how far back the Abyssinian breed dates, there are depictions of this feline in Egyptian art and sculptures.

This African breed is arguably the most ancient breed in the world, and sculptures of dogs resembling the Basenji can be found in Egyptian tombs.

The Iberians produced sculpture in stone and bronze, most of which was much influenced by the Greeks and Phoenicians, and other cultures such as Assyrian, Hittite and Egyptian influences.

Other artifacts include Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (some of the world's oldest writing), Egyptian mummies, a crystal ball owned by China's Dowager Empress, monumental stone sculptures from the ancient Maya and 4,500 - year - old jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.

The sphinx is part of a renowned international collection that also includes Egyptian mummies, Chinese Buddhist and ancient Greek sculptures, monumental steles from the ancient Maya and evocative African masks.

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The Nelson - Atkins serves the community by providing access to its renowned collection of nearly 40,000 art objects and is best known for its Asian art, European and American paintings, photography, modern sculpture, and new American Indian and Egyptian galleries.

Her works also fuse ancient and modern, Eastern and Western art forms; Buddhas and Egyptian deities morph into creatures recalling the sculptures of Giacometti or Louise Bourgeois.

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.

From left, Woman (Daybed), 2014; Women (055, 065), 2012; Sculpture (Zebrawood), 2010; and Egyptian Mau, 2010, all by Elad Lassry.

At Pace, Fred Wilson went whole - hog with superimposed, black - and - white «flag» paintings, and both glass chandelier and bronze Egyptian - god sculptures.

This cross-departmental survey includes objects from our holdings of Asian, African, Egyptian, American, Native American, and European art, among them paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, the decorative arts, illuminated manuscripts, printed books, and contemporary art.

Maiolica, particularly unexpected here, will be on show at Bazaart; Daniel Blau idiosyncratically mixes 19th - century fish hooks with David Bailey's photographs; Galerie Chenel posit an alternative to our alabaster - dominated view of antiquities with a presentation of coloured marble Roman sculpture; and Sycomore Ancient Art bring Egyptian wooden sculpture.

Wheat's energetic «tapestries» — made by pushing paint through the back of mesh window screens — collide allusions to Egyptian relief sculptures and ancient Greek mythology.

Collector sues Sotheby's over sale of Mahmoud Mokhtar sculpture Emirati collector Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al - Qassemi is suing Sotheby's auction house over a bronze sculpture attributed to Egyptian artist Mahmoud Mokhtar, which al - Qassemi purchased through the auction house in 2016, reports the Times (#).

Geneva Viralam of the gallery, tells me that the long blonde haired women are Kjartansson's nieces, sitting on a round rotating bed in grand hall surrounded by Egyptian, Greek and Roamn sculpture and architecture at Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh.

Traveling to Europe, the United States, and the Middle East, Anselm Kiefer has expanded his views, discovering new interests in mythology and religion, starting to implement motifs of Jewish mysticism and Egyptian hieroglyphic symbolism into his works and embracing sculpture and woodcuts beside painting and photography [2].

The Water Castings consist of fourteen sculptures that refer to the Egyptian myth of Osiris whose body was cut into fourteen pieces.

Christo sculpture set for installation in Hyde Park Westminster Council yesterday approved the scheme to install a floating ancient Egyptian Tomb structure, called a Mastaba, on top of Hyde Park's Serpentine lake.

The artist draws freely upon the history of figurative sculpture, evoking Greek and Egyptian statuary, fertility icons, Rauschenberg's combines or the playfully sinister sculptural portraits of Marisol; indeed, the synthesis of science fiction, modernism and «pop» with the distant past underlies much of Bhabha's work as evidenced in her uncanny choice of materials.

They recall the stone sculptures of ancient civilisations: the Greek kouroi perhaps or the monumental representations of Egyptian pharaohs.

The current exhibition presents, among others, the sculpture «King», which recalls an Egyptian statuette coated in gold leaf, with a face covered in voluminous artificial black hair that looks like the Black Panther hairstyles of the 1970s.

The idealized, abstract quality of the forty - five objects displayed, including sculpture, paintings, and several funerary masks, demonstrated the Egyptian belief that figurative representation was not only the physical record of an individual, but his / her link to immortality.

«The Loom of History» marks the first US solo exhibition of Armenian - Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt), whose raw and expressionistic works combine painting, drawing, writing, collage, and sculpture to contemplate the past and present through intersections of economics, philosophy, literature, and myth.

The exhibition is an intriguing combination of specially commissioned work by artists such as Marina Abramović and Anish Kapoor, and existing works by others, including Agnes Martin and Sol LeWitt — and also features Egyptian artefacts and a monumental sculpture by Canova.

The Nelson - Atkins serves the community by providing access and insight into its renowned collection of more than 33,500 art objects and is best known for its Asian art, European and American paintings, photography, modern sculpture, and new American Indian and Egyptian galleries.

The sculpture collection comprises works dating from antiquity to the present, from remarkable ancient - Egyptian pieces to modern and contemporary works by artists such as Constantin Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti, Isamu Noguchi, Donald Judd, and Anish Kapoor.

I know that before Christ, I mean, when you look way back, I mean at the work of the Egyptians or the Assyrians, the huge monuments, the huge sculptures, you know, of kings and gods, I mean, those were done deliberately to frighten people.

These will be shown alongside works by contemporary artists like the Egyptian - born Ghada Amer, who makes sculpture, painting and garden projects.

Behind - the - scenes access to the RISD Museum's extraordinary collection of 85,000 works of art — from early Egyptian relics to 21st - century experimental light sculptures — provides students and faculty with unparalleled opportunities for in - depth research.