Sentences with phrase «piero della»

German judges of the Federal Constitutional Court, the highest court in the land, wear solid red robes, said to be based on the costumes worn by 15th Century Italian judges (as made famous in the paintings of Piero della Francesca).

On the floor of the studio, more books - on Leonardo da Vinci, Piero della Francesca, and Francisco de Zurbaran - lie open or in piles alongside computerized sketches for sculptures in coral, rust, and turquoise.

People, places and things mentioned: Alice Neel, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Piero della Francesca, Jennifer Samet, Beer With a Painter, Roland Barthes and his concept of the studium and punctum (from Camera Lucida)...

Piero della Francesca (ca. 1411/13 — 1492), Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels, ca. 1460 - 70.

As you know there is a Piero della Francesca in Williamstown at the Clark.

Italian Renaissance art historian for the University of Amsterdam Machtelt Israels observes the influence that the della Francesca household had on the realistic sense of space and architecture seen in Piero della Francesca's polyptychs and frescoes.

Or I took a figure from a Piero della Francesca fresco and an image of a background from a Francis Bacon painting.

I showed these paintings to Philip Guston in a group critique at the school in 1968, and we spoke about Piero della Francesca.

Aldous Huxley, in a 1925 collection of travel essays, identified Piero della Frencesca's Resurrection in Sansepolcro as «the best painting in the world.»

In Piero della Francesca in America, now on view at The Frick Collection, guest curator Nathan Silver has attempted to recreate the original Sant» Agostino altarpiece, borrowing two additional panels, one from the National Gallery in Washington — an amusing, small picture of St. Apollonia holding a tooth with a pair of pliers — and a full - length panel of Saint Augustine himself, on loan from Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon.

Equally, looking at Piero della Francesca and Masaccio, it is remarkable how they achieve an almost rhythmic sense of complementary colour, and how the use of colour moves the painting away from the iconic to a new physicality and depth.

In 1954 he was one of «Six Young Contemporaries» at Gimpel Fils Gallery and the following year was awarded a British Council Scholarship to study in Italy, where the landscape, quality of light and simplified depiction of events in the paintings of Fra Angelico and Piero della Francesca had a profound influence on his work.

Rail: What about Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross frescoes at the Basilica of San Francesco in Arezzo?

As to developing a sense of three dimensions I turned to the art of Piero della Francesca, who had been one of my heroes early on when I had studied the art of the Italian Renaissance.

It was also the first time I saw in person the work of Giotto, Massaccio, Piero della Francesca and other Italian painters.

Annodam comprises a series of new paintings derived from the artist's study of Piero della Francesca's fresco Madonna del Parto (c.1455 - 60).

In fact, Balthus was influenced by a plethora of artists, writers and cultural figures, including Piero della Francesca, Giotto, Gustave Courbet, Goya, Emily Brontë and Lewis Carroll — influences that ultimately shaped his colourful oeuvre, marked by a style that is highly classical, bizarre, at times erotic and often provocative.

Hanging alongside the Piero della Francesca works in the oval gallery at the Frick is a computer - generated image with all eight panels arranged in a virtual rendering of the Sant» Agostino altarpiece.

He perceived Piero della Francesca's serene compositions as precursors to Cézanne and modern colourism.

I think of painting the logos on surfboards as a contemporary parallel to the notations on banners in Piero della Francesca paintings.

With precious few Piero della Francesca works in the world — only about twenty — to have seven paintings under one roof makes this a remarkable opportunity.

I would say «Dad, that's a Piero della Francesca.»

Piero della Francesca, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (c. 1460 - 70), oil on panel, 107.8 x 784.

I went to see Piero della Francesca's The History of the True Cross.

Larry: I read that Piero della Francesca, when his eyesight was failing in the last ten years of his life, wrote a whole treatise on perspective and mathematics.

Piero della Francesca Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (1480 - 1482) Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

The Frick Collection owns four panels by Piero della Francesca: a full - length portrait of St. John The Evangelist in a flowing red robe; two small, gilded panels of an Augustinian Nun and an Augustinian Friar; and a small, gilded crucifixion scene.

So I love Goya, and I love Piero della Francesca and I love Vel

I have been a fan of Balthus for years and when I saw Virgin and Child Enthroned at the Clark I felt the connection to Piero della Francesca immediately.

I'd take a figure from a Courbet painting, and then a background from a Rothko, or I would steal a figure from Piero della Francesca, then take something from a Jasper Johns.

These four works have been identified as parts of the Sant» Agostino altarpiece, a commission Piero della Francesca received in 1454 for a church in his hometown of Sansepolcro.

Curator Peter Benson Miller attempts to parse Guston's output from this time, finding not only descriptions of Rome's architecture, gardens, and ruins, but also references to a long line of Italian painters, from Piero della Francesca in the 15th century to Giorgio de Chirico in the 20th.

Benefiting from the medieval study of optics, Renaissance artists like Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 - 1446) and Piero della Francesca (1420 - 92) initiated a number of rules of perspective governing recession and diminution in a picture.

The exhibition, which continues through April 17, features a number of large sculptures influenced by the works of Piero della Francesca and Leonardo da Vinci and created by Wholley, a long - time professor of art at Ramapo College.

The style is part Piero della Francesca, whose crystalline Renaissance paintings stripped away visual disorder to impose simplified geometries with a timeless aura.

Examples of the artist's most recent new departure can seen in Reconstructing Seurat, 2004, and Deconstructing Piero, 2005, based on two of his favourite historical paintings — Georges Seurat's The Bathers at Asinéres and Piero della Francesca's The Flagellation.

He aspired to serene classic art like Piero della Francesca's and Raphael's, with large clearly balanced forms.

Piero's Light: In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science, and Religion by Larry Witham

Looking at her semi-abstracted portraits of mothers and children, which evoke both the Post-Impressionists and Piero della Francesca, you wonder what else she might have accomplished had she not died at 31 from complications of childbirth.

We would go to museums and look at Piero della Francesca and Poussin.

Hofmann often illustrated his lectures with diagrams of the compositional structure and movement in paintings by Piero della Francesca, Giotto, and Rembrandt, as well as Cézanne, Picasso, Braque, and other moderns.

In her hospital drawings of surgeons at work in the early 1950s we can see the fluency and caress of similar rhythms; and we can easily understand why she was so drawn to Piero della Francesca as well as to the paintings of Mondrian and the sculptures of Brancusi.

Ziegler has created an entirely new series of works tailor made for the underground space: his five imposing sculptures are influenced by Brueghel's painting The Cripples and are surrounded by large - scale light boxes depicting an abstracted thicket of horses legs, derived from a detail of a Piero della Francesca fresco.

It has also been suggested that the restrained use of clear, delicate colour and simplified forms may have been a response to the work of early Renaissance artists, for example Piero della Francesca and Paolo Uccello.

Think of the light in Hopper's paintings or Caravaggio's, or even the flatness of light in early Renaissance painting, like in Piero della Francesca's.

He was fascinated by perspective and the tricks it plays, familiar with Renaissance masters such as Paolo Uccello and Piero della Francesca, and at the same time, with the perspective experiments of avant - garde photography and film - making.

The only light down in the depths of the car park is cast from Ziegler's enormous light boxes displaying an image taken from an old Piero della Francesca fresco, which cast dim light on to his mesmerising Bruegel - inspired Cripples Sculptures.

As a young artist, Guston made politically charged allegorical paintings that looked back to Italian Renaissance painters, particularly Piero della Francesca.

Rail: I had a similar experience with Piero della Francesca's painting «The Flagellation»: How monumental it looked on the projected screen in art history class!

He snarls at poseurs like Julian Schnabel and Jeff Koons, whom he has often lambasted before; he fills reams of paper with essays on Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca that read like extracts salvaged from books he never wrote; he doggedly retraverses his early Italian travels and limply describes Porto Ercole as «a huge living postcard».