Sentences with phrase «from fifteenth century»

ROBILANT+VOENA deal in fine art from the fifteenth century to the twenty first, encompassing Old Masters and nineteenth century painting, classic modern, Italian post-war and contemporary art.

The Frick Collection has one of the most important American collections of sculptures, which is presented in the exhibition with several other top pieces, including Francesco Laurana's moving portrait bust of Beatrice van Aragon, and the bronze Hercules of Antico, both from the fifteenth century.

Another show, «Pharaohs, Queens, and Goddesses,» boasts of a granite head from the fifteenth century B.C.E..

Consequently, I traced the history of Jews, Western Christians and Muslims from the fifteenth century to the nineteenth century in the first part of the book, to show the advent of modernity and its impact upon traditional agrarian faith.

To celebrate the completion of the Victoria Tower in 1860, some 150 years ago, these parliamentary authors have produced a selection of documents, artefacts and photos from the fifteenth century to the present day.

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More particularly, and with pointed significance for the tale of Joseph, we know that Egypt, which earlier in this period controlled the affairs of Palestine, was itself under the rule of foreign dynasties (the fifteenth to the seventeenth dynasties) from a point in the eighteenth century to about the middle of the sixteenth century B.C..

When, in the fifteenth century, Turkish con ~ quests and other factors had limited Christianity chiefly to Europe, the transition from the Europe of the Middle Ages to that of the Renaissance and modern times brought another major threat.

The term «reverend» is an epithet of respect applied to clergy since the fifteenth century, and from the seventeenth century it was used as a tide.

Following his death, Islam spread from Spain to the Indus river in India within a century, and by the fifteenth century had completed its expansion and major theological developments.

One thing which came to be known from the writings of these medieval travelers is that there was a considerable Nestorian dispersion all over India in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

From the Syriac sources mentioned by Mingana, we learn that during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Indian church did not have enough bishops and priests for the spiritual ministrations in the church.

We have very little information about the state of affairs of Christians from the eleventh to the fifteenth century.

Münzer's views derived from Reformation ideas, but he was also affected by the spirit of revolt that stirred in the German peasants during most of the fifteenth century.

In the closing decades of the fifteenth century the Papacy sank to a nadir from which it did not recover until the next century.

The present chapter is an attempt to cover the first period — from the closing decades of the fifteenth century to the mid-eighteenth century.

One lasted roughly from about the closing decades of the fifteenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century.

Other countries lacked the benefit of chile until the fifteenth century when Columbus took it back to Europe from the Americas.

The earliest parliamentary documents kept in the tower date from the very end of the fifteenth century.

The city of Angkor Wat was the capital of the Khmer kingdom from the ninth to the fifteenth century.

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK is an ambitious novel tracing the harrowing journey of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a beautifully illuminated Hebrew manuscript, from fifteenth - century Spain to war - torn Bosnia.

They are all a German dog breed that has originated from fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Casa del Herrero is steeped in cultural heritage, which is seen in both the George Washington Smith designed house and the collection of fifteenth and sixteenth - century art objects from Spain.

Although this art museum contains many notable artworks from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries it is the presence of Michelangelo's original marble statue of the biblical hero, David, that truly justifies a visit.

Like Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli did with his Museum that, already open to the general public in Milan in 1881, is one of the most important museum houses in Europe, a good example of one of the finest 19th century collections: from the fifteenth - century Lombardy maestros (Luini, Boltraffio, Solario) to masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and Cosmè Tura through to eighteenth - century paintings (Guardi and Canaletto) and exceptional collections of decorative arts.

The Hundred Years War, a conflict between England and France for control of the French throne which raged from 1337 until 1453 posed a threat to many provincial French towns; the construction of stout defensive walls protected Martel and the town became prosperous again in the fifteenth century.

First inspired by the printed book in the late fifteenth century, early printed series frequently depicted narrative subjects drawn from literary sources.

The Met has done the same with the Belles Heures de Jean, Duc de Berry, from the early fifteenth century.

Upritchard is drawn to a variety of arts, crafts, and design from around the world produced over the past several centuries, and an array of objects and techniques have informed her work: the fifteenth - century German sculptor Erasmus Grasser's wooden figures; the Bayeux Tapestry, made in the eleventh century, with its scenes of the Norman conquest of England; the use of canopic jars in Egyptian mummification; the bronze figures of the Chola dynasty in India; and the blank expressions of the masks used in Japanese Noh theater.

Masterpieces of European Painting traverses almost 500 years of history, from fifteenth - century Florence to nineteenth - century Paris or, to be more precise, nearby Chantilly where Paul Cézanne painted for five months in 1888.

This intimate exhibition presented paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, works on paper and books from fifteenth - to early nineteenth - century Europe, drawn from the museum's collection and supplemented by loans from important public and private collections.

From fifteenth - century Madonnas to Robert and Sonia Delaunay's spiritualized formalism, the tondo format has historically conveyed a cosmic holism, intimating a transcendent space unhampered by corners or limits.

Inspired by the Sienese painters from the thirteenth to fifteenth century, Geers interweaves the razor mesh with traditional iconography and abstract forms.

The show also includes a fifteenth - century de Medici Studiolo, a Kienholz installation with junked but working radios, and a room with a crazy - quilt salon hang of more than fifty paintings from the 1980s forward.

Around one hundred paintings from museums worldwide tell the great story of portrait and figurative painting from the fifteenth to the late twentieth century in four broad thematic sections that offer much more than a merely chronological approach to works by a host of outstanding artists: from Raphael, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Dürer, Cranach, Pontormo, Rubens, Caravaggio, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Velázquez, El Greco, Goya, Tiepolo up to the Impressionists, Manet, Van Gogh and great twentieth - century artists, such as Munch, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Giacometti and Bacon.

Derived from the acclaimed Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, this fascinating compendium celebrates the long, rich history of graphic design, from the first sample of movable type and the Nuremberg Chronicle of the fifteenth century to the cutting - edge magazines, posters, and ephemera of today.

The exhibition offers a comparative view of Mexico and Peru, the two principal viceroyalties of Spanish America, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and includes a selection of approximately 200 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, codices, manuscripts, queros (ceremonial drinking vessels), featherworks, and other extraordinary objects.

The Blanton has also brought out such rarely seen treasures as a regal Italian late fifteenth - century velvet ecclesiastical cape, which sometime during the twentieth century was sewn together with an ornamental border from 1530 that seems to have been of Flemish origin.

He suggests a theory of architecture that is based on the many transactions between architecture and geometry as evidenced in individual buildings, largely in Europe, from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.

Raphael, Rembrandt, Ruscha, Michelangelo, and Matisse were among the more than one hundred artists of the fifteenth to twentieth century represented in Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art.