Sentences with phrase «fresco chapel»

Museums taking part are: Buffalo Soldiers National Museum; Byzantine Fresco Chapel; Children's Museum of Houston; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Czech Center Museum Houston; The Health Museum; Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Houston Center for Photography; Houston Museum of Natural Science; The Jung Center; The John C. Freeman Weather Museum; Lawndale Art Center; The Menil Collection; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Rice University Art Gallery and the Rothko Chapel.

BYZANTINE FRESCO CHAPEL MUSEUM: Chapel housing two 13th - century frescoes from Cyprus.

Already included in its constellation of art venues are: the Menil Collection, the Cy Twombly Gallery, Richmond Hall (home to a site - specific light installation by Dan Flavin), the Rothko Chapel and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum.

Housed in the first United States building designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, the Menil Collection's main museum building anchors the 30 - acre campus, which includes the Cy Twombly Gallery, a site - specific Dan Flavin installation, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel — now a venue for long - term installations by contemporary artists — and outdoor sculpture.

Menil Byzantine Fresco Chapel.

SWAMP will be screening selections from the 35th season of THE TERRITORY, their short film showcase series broadcast on Houston PBS, Channel 8, in the Byzantine Fresco Chapel (4011 Yupon St) at 1:30 PM and 3:30 PM.

BYZANTINE FRESCO CHAPEL MUSEUM: Chapel houses 13th - century frescoes from Cyprus.

And now they fill the walls of the Menil Collection's Byzantine Fresco Chapel, where «The Fabiola Project» goes on view Saturday.

Menil Collection Foyer Constructions of Art & Faith: The Byzantine Fresco Chapel and the Menil Collection

The Menil Collection announced that March 4, 2012 will be the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes currently housed on its campus in the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, after which time they will be returned to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.

The Menil Collection announced March 4, 2012, as the final day to see the Byzantine frescoes at the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, after which they will return to the Orthodox Church of Cyprus.

The Menil Collection's main museum building, the first building in the United States designed by Renzo Piano, anchors a parklike 30 - acre campus, which also includes the Cy Twombly Gallery, a site - specific Dan Flavin installation, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel - now a venue for long - term installations by contemporary artists - and outdoor sculpture.

Francis Alÿs and Lauren Moya Ford: The Fabiola Project — Byzantine Fresco Chapel at The Menil Collection

The Bizantine Fresco Chapel was built in 1997 to house two rare 13th century fresco paintings; after a long inquiry, it emerged that the paintings were actually stolen in the»80s from the church of St. Evphemianos in Cyprus and, after an agreement between the Menil Foundation and the Church of Cyprus, the frescoes were finally returned to their original country in 2012.

In Houston they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, and the Cy Twombly Gallery, and provided underwriting for the Contemporary Arts Museum.

In Houston, they built the Menil Collection, the Rothko Chapel, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Cy Twombly Gallery, and underwrote the Contemporary Arts Museum.

The location is perfectly made for a destination wedding and can host up to 120 guests and up to 41 guests can stay on site with two pools, a small frescoed chapel, beautiful gardens and rustic cottages.

Not exact matches

The Sistine Chapel, with its famous frescoes by Michelangelo, is the official chapel of the Apostolic Palace, traditionally the papal resiChapel, with its famous frescoes by Michelangelo, is the official chapel of the Apostolic Palace, traditionally the papal resichapel of the Apostolic Palace, traditionally the papal residence.

CNN: Sistine Chapel ceiling turns 500 years old Michelangelo's fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, one of the world's most iconic pieces of art, will celebrate its 500th anniversary on Wednesday in Vatican City.

The Guardian: Sistine Chapel tourists to be vacuumed and cooled to protect frescoes The 5 million tourists who visit the Sistine Chapel every year are to be vacuum cleaned and cooled down before entry in an effort to reduce the pollution damaging Michelangelo's frescoes, the director of the Vatican museums said.

It has an invaluable collection of art received through donation before the art was a fraction of its current value or received by direct commission from the artist to the Church such as the Sistine Chapel frescoes.

The posters were a mock - up of Michelangelo's famous «Creation of Adam» fresco from the Sistine Chapel but with the character of God replaced with the satirical deity the «Flying Spaghetti Monster», which is typically used to parody intelligent design theory.

The South Bank Atheist Society (SBAS) poster featured the monster in place of God in a mock - up of Michelangelo's famous «Creation of Adam» fresco from the Sistine Chapel, but it was removed from the freshers» fair last week.

Commissioned to paint a religious fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the independent - minded Michelangelo balks at the assignment.

One of the most famous paintings is a fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Sandro Botticelli dated 1482.

The church is referred to as the Sistine Chapel of South America, and although it was very beautiful and the frescos were vibrant, it doesn't really compare.

There were also some stunning frescos on the walls of the Benedictine nuns» choir and the chapels of the two churches within the complex.

Dating back to 1748, the cathedral's ceiling was painted to resemble the frescoes of European cathedrals, and the numerous chapels located within the church are home to an impressive array of artwork ranging from sculptures to full - size portraitures.

You may also like to visit the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's world - famous fresco and a vast collection of other masterpieces are on display here, the Creation of Adam and the Last Judgement are known the world over, you can enjoy them in all their splendour (entry fee payable locally).

Day 7 Tour of the painted churches includes Sucevita, which is the best preserved of all with imposing walls and defensive towers, Moldovita and Voronet, known as the «Sistine Chapel of the East», famous for the blue colour used by the artists as background for its frescoes and a black pottery workshop in Marginea.

Langham Place Ballroom (approx. 1,100 sq m / 11, 840 sq m) with a capacity of 1,000 persons for receptions, additional 7 meeting and function rooms, as well as a large al fresco multi-functional garden terrace and wedding chapel

The curiosity of the listener is instantly engaged by this multisensory experience - its eclectic aural choreography so alien in this spiritual setting, complete with serene frescoes of ascensions and crucifixions, and yet perfectly attuned to the intimate realm of myth, aspiration, oppression and collective submission that this ancient chapel represents.

His frescoes in Santa Maria Novella and the Brancacci Chapel in Florence are his masterpieces, but this rare surviving panel painting by him preserves the severe grace of his style.

Has some art dealer prised this famous fresco off the wall of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua?

The famous Italian artist Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel with the help of watercolor art and the watercolor mixes for the fresco wall paintings.

He was born in San Lucido, a fishing village in Calabria, but when he was three years old his father moved the family to Rome, where he was employed as an architect and builder in the Vatican museums, and by the time he was seven he knew and loved the Michelangelo frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.

It is not too hard to see the links between Kounellis's art and Van Gogh's Potato Eaters or Masaccio's Brancacci Chapel frescoes, depicting intensely solid and real human beings and simple, straightforward objects.

The South London Gallery became a chapel with two tiers of Renaissance frescoes in which the settings for the groupings of nude figures were not the usual columns and arches but structures erected from enlargements of turds.

These include site - specific masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel frescoes «Genesis» and Last Judgement» by Michelangelo, as well as the four Stanze di Raffaello or Raphael Rooms - comprising the Room of the Signature (Segnatura), the Room of Heliodorus, the Room of the Borgo Fire, and the Room of Constantine, painted by Raphael.

He designed the award - winning Byzantine Chapel that houses the 13th - century frescoes from Cyprus, rescued from thieves and restored by the Menil Foundation.

The painting, which decorates the Cappella Chigi chapel, is divided into two parts: the Sibyls fresco in its lower portion and the Prophets fresco in the upper one; yet, the latter is considered a work only partially painted by Raphael.

Dominique de Menil's son, François, designed and built the Byzantine Chapel for the express purpose of housing a group of 13th - century frescoes that had been looted from a small church near the Cypriot village of Lysi.

After having been rescued and restored by Mme. de Menil, the frescoes were installed in the exquisitely designed chapel in 1997, where they were on continuous display until being returned to Cyprus in early 2012.

He was inspired by Michelangelo's fresco in the Sistine Chapel and proceeded to reproduce it in 32 rectangular sections.

Nasher supporters were given special access to the Vatican, 17th - century churches with paintings by Caravaggio and architecture by Bernini, and a behind - the - scenes tour of the restoration of the frescoes at the papal chapel in the Scala Santa.

In this stepwise process, the overwhelming and complex fresco that Tansey saw in the Sistine Chapel was broken down into a methodological and grid - like cacophony of figures.

ITALY Uffizi Gallery Florence Doria Pamphilj Gallery Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel Frescoes Raphael Rooms (Vatican) Venice Academy Gallery Capodimonte Museum, Naples FRANCE / BELGIUM Musee Conde, Chantilly Louvre Museum Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts SPAIN Prado Museum Madrid Reina Sofia, Madrid

BRITAIN National Gallery London Tate Gallery Courtauld Gallery British Royal Art Collection Saatchi Gallery ITALY Uffizi Gallery Florence Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel Frescoes Raphael Rooms (Vatican) Doria Pamphilj Gallery IRELAND Irish Art Galleries

ITALY Uffizi Gallery Florence Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel Frescoes Raphael Rooms (Vatican) Doria Pamphilj Gallery Guggenheim Venice NETHERLANDS Mauritshuis Art Museum Rijksmuseum Amsterdam BRITAIN National Gallery London Tate Gallery Courtauld Gallery British Royal Art Collection Saatchi Gallery Victoria & Albert Museum

The 13th - century frescoes were severely damaged when thieves removed them from a tiny chapel in Lysi, Cyprus.