Sentences with phrase «venetian master»

In fact, she is a Tiepolo rather than a Manet type, one of the Venetian master's Cleopatras, say, or his Beatrice of Burgundy.

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.

From the 1650s onwards, Giordano travelled extensively in Italy and absorbed the ideas of other schools of painting, most notably that of Pietro da Cortona and such 16th century Venetian masters as Titian and Veronese.

The revolutionary French Romantic painter took his cues from Flemish and Venetian masters before him, yet he forged his own way as a writer, painter, and illustrator, adopting an influential style that made use of dramatic compositions and bold colors.

Just as the Venetian masters did not need to sign their own paintings, since their brushstrokes served as their signatures, Resika has a signature way of handling paint that is entirely his own.

This exhibition focuses on the Venetian masters Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto and Francesco Guardi.

Highlights from an outstanding selection of exhibitions include Master Draughtsmen of the Venetian Settecento: Drawings by Tiepolo at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art; a «once in a lifetime» exhibition of 22 drawings by the great 18th century Venetian masters, Giambattista and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, including studies for Giambattista's renowned ceiling frescos.

Curated by Matteo Mottin, the installation explored friendship and death inspired by the peculiar link between the 16th Century Venetian masters Giorgione and Titian.

Traveling to Europe, he settled in Venice for two years, studying the Venetian masters.

Not exact matches

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.

The master bath is sheathed in marble with Venetian - plaster insets; the sink fittings are by Sherle Wagner, and the 1960s mirror is made of polished nickel and coconut shells.

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.

SENSATION: - Master bedroom housed in its own pavilion - Canopied king - sized bed - Venetian glass dresser, chaise loungues, writing desk - Ensuite with magnificent claw - footed bath and chandelier - Air - conditioned FRENCH KISS: - Spacious bedroom housed in its own pavilion - King - sized bed with canopy - Writing desk, sofa, TV / DVD - Ensuite bathroom with free - standing tub, double sinks and indoor / outdoor showers and tropical garden LOVE & ROMANCE: - Two guest bedrooms house downstairs - Exquisite French - style king - beds - Antique design with writing desks, sofas, TV / DVD - Spacious ensuite featuring statement bathtub, double sinks and private outdoor showers in tropical gardens ELEGANCE & FOREVER: - Two upper floor guest bedrooms - Each guest room has two queen - beds adorned with delicate canopies - Featuring sofas, TV / DVD - Ensuites with freestanding bathtub, double sinks and special make - up mirrors

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

-LSB-...] Some of the greatest artists through the ages have amassed extraordinary holdings, among the most brilliant being Rubens's collection — featuring a remarkable selection of Venetian paintings and drawings by Florentine and Roman masters, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael — and that of Degas, who left 500 paintings, and 5,000 prints and drawings, at his death, including masterpieces by Ingres, Delacroix, Gauguin and El Greco.

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.»

Venetian vedute, Tuscan cassone panels, and a masterpiece of British painting all feature in London's upcoming Old Master sales

The exhibition presents historic works coming from Venetian institutions such as the Gallerie dell «Accademia (Giovanni, Bellini, il Marescalco, Scuole di Tiziano) and Fondazione Giorgio Cini (miniatures from the Masters from the XII to the XV centuries) as well as contemporary works from the Pinault Collection and other public and private collections.

«It is not clear when the essentially formalist notion of inner light became a commonplace in the criticism of Venetian painting of the sixteenth century, but it was certainly a major concern of the Bavarian painter Max Doerner, whose handbook The Materials of the Artist and Their use in Painting, with notes on the Techniques of the Old Masters (1921), had been published in an English translation in New York in 1934 and came to be much used in the circle of the abstract expressionists.

From a South Korean master of venetian blinds to one of the most influential (and mysterious) African - American artists of our time, here are the shows the art world is buzzing about this month.

«Glass is very demanding technically,» said Czeresko, who was trained by the masters of Renaissance Venetian glass - making techniques and also got a master's degree from Tulane.

Strongly influenced by the colour schemes used by Titian and others in Venetian altarpieces, when art criticism emerged from the 17th century Rubens was considered to be the master of colour, while Nicolas Poussin was seen as the master of design.

Venetian Canal (1894) Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz, one of the great masters in the art of photography.

The inset kitchen ceiling was finished in Modern Masters Lapis Venetian Plaster which gives the right amount of «pop» to the space.

«From the white Venetian plaster of the barrel - ceiling entry to the master bath, the home is predominantly a journey through light and art.»

A Venetian mirror above the marble basin is the focal point in this master en - suite bathroom.

In television producer Ellen Rakieten's Chicago home, designed by Anne Coyle and Nate Berkus, the master bath's clean white aesthetic is anchored by a striking Venetian - style mirror from Pavilion Antiques.

Linda Gottlieb's bathroom, with its soft - plum Venetian - plaster walls by Orazio De Gennaro Studio, makes for a sanctuary - like space off the master suite she shares with husband Robert Tessler — who credits their marriage's success to the one bed, two bath approach.

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