Sentences with phrase «venetian art»

Tobias Rehberger's installation, a masterful appropriation of the Venetian art of glassmaking, introduced the exhibition with a recognition of place, history and craftsmanship coupled with a charmingly hokey, Internet - based, multi-city conceit about light and global harmony.

With twenty - eight years of experience in the field of Venetian art history and restoration, Ms. Conn oversees Save Venice conservation projects in Venice, and lectures in Italy and the United States on Save Venice's activities.

Highlights of the Hermitage include the Faberge jewellery collection, gold artifacts from Eastern Europe and Western Asia, plus masterpieces of the High Renaissance, the Baroque, Flemish and Venetian art, Rococo, Neoclassicism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, and Expressionism across all the genres like portraiture, landscape art, genre - painting, still life and history painting.

Among the collateral events, I'll be interested to see what «Land Sea» at Palazzo Falier (9 May — 22 November), which promises to place Sean Scully's abstracts in the context of Venetian art and architecture, does to this artist's elegiac palette.

Venetian art, from a historical perspective, has a reputation for being bright, bold and dramatic.

Originating as the Venetian Art School, of which Tiepolo was the initial president, it claims to be the first institution to teach art restoration, since 1777.

Curator Felicitas Thun - Hohenstein selected Bertlmann because she feels «her methods in terms of both concepts and aesthetics will continue a Venetian art history of provocation in the best sense of the word».

Moving to Italy and then to Spain, his work fused lessons learned from the glories of Byzantium with the ravishing color of Venetian art and the elegant artificialities of Roman mannerism.

A triumphant demonstration that far from brilliant colour and fine brushwork eclipsing draughtsmanship in Venetian art, you can trace a continuing tradition of drawing from Bellini to Canaletto.

Sanctified and worldly subjects come together in the Scottish National Gallery's exhibition of Venetian art

In writing dedicated to his paintings a reader will find frequent reference to Northern Renaissance and Venetian art, Persian miniatures, as well as more modern touchstones like Francis Bacon and Willem de Kooning.

Not exact matches

Determined to enjoy (but not too much) the fruits of their labors, the growing middle class of Dutch burghers, merchants, traders and manufacturers filled their tidy town - houses with art that celebrated their personal dignity and accomplishments, the humid sweep of their lowland countryside, and the miraculous bounty of Indonesian spices, Chinese porcelains, tropical fruits, Persian carpets, Venetian glass and other luxuries made available through the expertise of their merchant fleets.

In early March, The Venetian and The Palazzo played host to the 59th General Assembly of Master French Chefs, «Maîtres Cuisiniers de France,» a prestigious worldwide organization dedicated to French culinary arts.

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An object of glittering yet fearful fascination - was it reflecting simple reality, or something more spiritually revealing - the Venetian mirrors were state of the art technology, and subject to industrial espionage by desirous sultans and royals world - wide.

Over twenty - one books this sharp, kind - hearted native Venetian has exposed readers to contemporary Venice in all its aspects: its arts and architecture, food and family life, but also its crime and insidious corruption.

A break comes when an art dealer obtains for him a commission to restore a Venetian palace fresco by the eighteenth - century master Tiepolo, for a disreputable Italian businessman.

This afternoon, visit an artisan studio to get a hands - on introduction to the centuries - old art of Venetian mask making.

Located on newly - fashionable West Avenue, Mondrian is just minutes from the center of South Beach, downtown Miami, Miami Design District, Wynwood Arts District, Venetian Causeway, Lincoln Road, Ocean Drive and Espanola Way.

Palazzina Grassi - Venice, Italy (late summer 2007) Facing the famous Canale Grande and taking its diminutive name from the neighbouring art museum Palazzo Grassi, the small residence hotel embodies two eras of Venetian history, yet unites them in a distinctly modern way.

More a tour of a private mansion than museum, it was modeled on a Venetian palace, decorated with textiles, furniture and sculpture and some remarkable art work.

In Fatma Hanoum Hotel in Chania, Crete, guests will experience the harmonious blend of Venetian and Ottoman architecture and of state - of - the - art facilities and intimate hospitality.

Ideal location to completely emerge oneself in Venetian charm, surrounded by art and history, and to be transported by the romantic atmosphere of the city.

Vancouver, Queen Elizabeth Theater; May 22 Calgary, Southern Jubliee; May 23 Montreal, Place des Arts; May 30 Las Vegas, The Venetian; June 10 Los Angeles, Walt Disney Concert Hall; June 14 Austin, The Long Center PAC; June 20 at 2 pm and 8 pm San Diego, Copley Symphony Hall; July 11 Orlando, Dr. Phillips Center; July 18 Charlottesville, John Paul Jones Arena; August 28 San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall; August 29 Durham, Durham Performing Arts Center; September 10 St. Louis, Powell Hall; September 11, 12, 13 District of Columbia, Strathmore; September 16 Philadelphia, Mann Center; September 18 Providence, Providence Performing Arts Center; September 25 Chicago, Auditorium Theatre; October 1 Indianapolis, Old National Center; October 2 Milwaukee, Milwaukee Theater, October 3 New York, Barclays Center; October 13 Salt Lake City, Abravanel Hall; October 15 Columbus, Ohio Theater; October 18 Houston, Jones Hall; October 22 Dallas, Music Hall at Fair Park; October 24 Portland, Keller Auditorium; October 25 Hamburg, O2 World; November 8 Amsterdam, Heineken Music Hall; November 11 Brussels, Palais 12; November 12 Madrid, Palacio Vista Alegre; November 13 Barcelona, Auditori Forum; November 14 Rome, Auditorium Conciliazione; November 15 Zurich, Hallenstadion; November 21 Dublin, Convention Centre; November 22 San Jose, San Jose Civic Center; December 5

Join popular art instructor Will Kemp as he shows how to tackle and simplify a complex Venetian townscape scene in acrylics.

There are not only her massive donations to a variety of museums, but the legendary Peggy Guggenheim collection in her Venetian palazzo on the Grand Canal, one of the most visited modern museums in the world, with some 326 works of art by 100 different artists.

The Venetian authorities cited health and safety concerns, but the Icelandic Art Center (which commissioned the work) thinks otherwise: a statement released shortly after the closure complained that the biennale «is not a venue for truly free artistic expression».

Two Venetian museums, the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, will fling open their doors in a fortnight and allow visitors to view one of the most tightly guarded art exhibitions of recent years.

He formerly served as the Weisenberger Fellow in American Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where he curated the exhibition Venetian Views: American Works on Paper.

In 2001, the jury of Venetian Bienalle awarded to Cy Twombly the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, thereby recognizing the exclusive place which belongs to this master in the world of contemporary art.

The English painter Walter Sickert, in his memoir of Degas, reports various opinions of the master's — that one should use oil paint as if it were pastel, or that «the art of painting was so to surround a patch of, say, Venetian red, that it appeared to be a patch of vermilion.»

Chihuly's art remains at the cutting edge of the technical and virtuoso possibilities of glass as a medium, and this exhibition will include many iconic works for which Chihuly is known — Ikebana, Mille Fiori, Chandeliers, Tabac Baskets, Venetians, Boats, Persian Ceiling — as well as site - specific installations, taking advantage of our soaring Atrium and reflecting pools.

She is a devoted student of art, art history, and exhibition history, and has devoted bodies of work to the formal and institutional legacies of Constantin Brancusi and the Venetian architect and exhibition designer Carlo Scarpa.

As experienced commissioners of large - scale contemporary art the Lisson Gallery brought together a range of major pieces by 19 artists, both inside and outside the historic Venetian Palazzo Franchetti.

Elsewhere, the Royal Academy hosts In the Age of Giorgione, an exploration of Venetian Renaissance art that will combine works by Titian, Bellini and others with that of the lesser - known talent Giovanni Cariani.

Rather than the Florentine school of the Renaissance, which stressed drawing (disegno) as the foundation of all art, including painting, Mason is in the Venetian tradition, which espoused color first and foremost.

This methodology is employed in all V - A-C initiatives, taking place in its Venetian space, through international, cross-institutional partnerships and in its future home for arts and culture in Moscow, GES2.

Haegue Yang Silo of Silence — Clicked Core 2017 Aluminum Venetian blinds, LED tubes, aluminum and steel hanging structure, powder coating, steel wire, revolving stage, cable 1105 x 780 x 780 cm Courtesy of the artist Installation view of Silo of Silence — Clicked Core, KINDL — Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 2017 Photo: Jens Ziehe

Dishes such as Risotto with Black Goby and Mackerel, parsnip, pain d'epices and passion fruit illustrate the lagoon's seafaring history while the presentation highlight's the Venetian historical love of colour, texture and innovation when it comes to both art and food.

The Galleria dell» Academia on the south bank of the Grand Canal houses one of the finest collections of pre-19th century Italian art in the world, with of course, a focus on the Venetian Masters.

The Collection of Giovanni & Gabriella Barilla: Important Porcelain, Venetian Fine and Decorative Arts from their Residence in Geneva sothebys.com

1999 — Zanzibar, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales 1997 — Venetian Maps, Harris Museum & Art Gallery Preston.

«The Art of Illumination: The Belles Heures de Jean, Duc de Berry» ran at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through June 13, 2010, «Pages of Gold» at The Morgan Library through September 13, 2009, and «The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete» at the Onassis Cultural Center through February 27, 2010.

The Museum also exhibits works of art given to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for its Venetian Museum since Peggy Guggenheim's death, as well as long - term loans from private collections.

Darkening the stately arced windows of the Art Gym is Fade to Black (2010), a venetian blind coated in black flocking that has been nearly destroyed by gunfire.

In fact, she seems to be simply a Venetian woman posing for Titian, in a painting that breaks the barrier between religious art and real life, and shows why Titian is the most human of Renaissance artists.

During her 30 - year Venetian life, Peggy Guggenheim continued to collect works of art and to support artists, such as Edmondo Bacci and Tancredi Parmeggiani, whom she met in 1951.

The painting and sculpture section spans in time from the Renaissance to present day and is further sub-divided in chronological sections: Late Gothic painting; Dutch and Flemish painting, including works by Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck and Jan Brueghel the Elder; Italian Baroque and Venetian 18th century, including works by Domenichino, Canaletto, Guardi and Bellotto; Swiss painting, including Hodler, Segantini, Vallotton, Giovanni and Augusto Giacometti; Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, with masterpieces by Géricault, Manet, Monet, Cézanne, van Gogh and Bonnard; Nordic Expressionism, including a large selection of works by Edvard Munch and Oskar Kokoschka; Modern art, with works by Mondrian, Klee, Chagall, the Surrealists, Léger, Matisse and Picasso; the Giacometti section comprehends the most important museum selection of works by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti; the Art since 1945 collection includes works by Tinguely, Twombly, Beuys, Kiefer and Baseliart, with works by Mondrian, Klee, Chagall, the Surrealists, Léger, Matisse and Picasso; the Giacometti section comprehends the most important museum selection of works by the Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti; the Art since 1945 collection includes works by Tinguely, Twombly, Beuys, Kiefer and BaseliArt since 1945 collection includes works by Tinguely, Twombly, Beuys, Kiefer and Baselitz.

From the Biennale of art and architecture to the Doge's palace, from Venetian glass to contemporary art masterpieces on show in fascinating historical palaces, Venice has all a curious traveller looks for.

The best place I've ever stayed in Venice is......... For me staying with friends near the Peggy Guggenheim villa is always the best Venetian experience, a quick walk and you can find a great bowl of pasta and world - class art.