Sentences with phrase «medieval life and art»

This is the institution turning in 2013 directly from Marcel Proust to «The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art.»

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Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thoughtby rachel fulton browncolumbia, 656 pages, $ 75 In thirteenth - century France there lived a monk who served as confessor for many townspeople, including a beautiful married woman.

These are universally popular as they enable learners to experience life as royals, knights, monks, soldiers and servants or become history, maths, art or even garden detectives at actual Roman, medieval, Tudor and Victorian sites.

In addition to the Carroll and Mozart volumes, Turning the Pages displays the personal notebook of Leonardo da Vinci; the Luttrell Psalter, an illuminated book created in the early 1300s that offers fascinating depictions of medieval life; a sixteenth - century medical anatomy text filled with exquisite engravings; the first atlas of Europe, assembled by Mercator in the 1570s; the dazzling Lindisfarne Gospels, the «pinnacle of Anglo - Saxon art»; and the oldest printed «book» in the world (actually a scroll), the Diamond Sutra, published in China in 868 and discovered in near - pristine condition in 1900.

Apart from travel, and in addition to the courses on medieval art and history I'd taken in Poitiers, I read bookshelves full of social history, religion, saints» lives, and art theory — I read for a year before I even began the first chapter, and I kept reading all the way through the writing process.

His interests ranged from his beloved Medieval sculpture to the art - world goings - on of downtown Manhattan, which Schapiro and his wife, Lillian, energetically kept tabs on, living in the thick of artists and critics in Greenwich Village (at West 4th and West 11th streets, to be precise).

Lara Eggleton (b. 1980, St Catharines, Canada) lives and works in Leeds Recent projects and publications include: «Postcolonising the Medieval Image», Routledge (2017), «Corridor8 art writing programme» (2016 - 18), «Conscious Coupling», The Double Negative / The Royal Standard (2016), «The Follies of Youth», Pavilion, Leeds (2015 - 16).

There was medieval painting, an asparagus still life by Monet, and Pop Art, which at that time was very recent.

Nature is the oldest theme in art: whether it be cave paintings of buffalo herds, the Laocoön Group fighting the snake, the hortus conclusus in medieval representations of Virgin Mary or Giorgione's looming Tempest, Flemish Still Life paintings, Manet's idyllic Luncheon on the Grass, Caspar David Friedrich's Sea of Ice, Van Gogh's psychedelic Sunflowers, Max Ernst's surreal forests, the spiritual mountain sceneries of der Blaue Reiter, or Arte Povera's energy objects and Land Art's earth formations — the list is endleart: whether it be cave paintings of buffalo herds, the Laocoön Group fighting the snake, the hortus conclusus in medieval representations of Virgin Mary or Giorgione's looming Tempest, Flemish Still Life paintings, Manet's idyllic Luncheon on the Grass, Caspar David Friedrich's Sea of Ice, Van Gogh's psychedelic Sunflowers, Max Ernst's surreal forests, the spiritual mountain sceneries of der Blaue Reiter, or Arte Povera's energy objects and Land Art's earth formations — the list is endleArt's earth formations — the list is endless.

On the occasion of Irving Sandler's new publication, From Avant - Garde to Pluralism: An On - The - Spot History, a selection of seminal writings from half a century ago to the present, Rail publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau paid a visit one sunny Saturday to the author's home / office which he shares with his wife Lucy Freeman Sandler, scholar of Medieval art, to talk about his life and woArt Editor John Yau paid a visit one sunny Saturday to the author's home / office which he shares with his wife Lucy Freeman Sandler, scholar of Medieval art, to talk about his life and woart, to talk about his life and work.