Sentences with phrase «wittenberg altarpiece»

He no longer even thought of commissioning altarpieces for the parish church that included himself on one side panel and his concubine and son on the other....

Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8 -1543), known today mainly for his portraiture, produced a wide range of works in his earlier years, designing woodcuts supporting Reformation views along with more traditional altarpieces.

As historians have long recognized, the meaning of the Wittenberg altarpiece is straightforward, if intricate: its images are visual summaries of confessional statements such as the Lutheran Augsburg Confession.

The focus of his study is Lucas Cranach the Elder's 1547 Wittenberg altarpiece.

He knows, loves, and serves not God but his own species through reading novels and journals, visiting art galleries and museums where altarpieces are admired as artifacts from a superstitious age.

The proclamation of the church must not focus on itself but must be grounded in Scripture, must point to the passion and, as the rest of the altarpiece demonstrates, to the incarnation and resurrection.

Twenty minutes with the late - 15th - century Isenheim altarpiece by Mathias, called Grünewald, will remind us.

Below, front and center, a sense of the whole scene as a horrific modern altarpiece is created by a candelabrum — not a menorah but a six - candled candelabrum in which one of the candles has been quenched.

«While some of the other objects in Riddle of the Image would have been cost the same as a farm or country home, the Westminster Abbey altarpiece would have cost no more than eight cows or about # 5 in 13th century money.

Research into England's oldest medieval altarpiece — which for centuries provided the backdrop to Westminster Abbey coronations — has revealed that it cost no more than the rather unprincely equivalent of eight cows.

In medieval times, however, there was a widespread knowledge of artists» materials that contributed deeper meaning to objects such as the Metz Pontifical (c. 1316) and the Macclesfield Psalter (c. 1330), both beautiful illuminated manuscripts now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the Thornham Parva Retable, which was also restored at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and the Wilton Diptych, Richard II's iconic portable altarpiece.

Rather than penny - pinching to preserve pounds, crowns and shillings, Bucklow believes that Henry III deliberately chose cheap materials and fake gemstones to accentuate one of the key themes of the altarpiece — miraculous transformations.

The final shot is the film's altarpiece: a weightless camera glides around the Toller and Mary in their rapturous embrace, as the emphatic sounds of the choir singing «Leaning on the Everlasting Arms» reverberate.

I thought of the medieval Netherlandish altarpieces I love so much: Sometimes the central panel — be it a picture of the annunciation, the crucificion, or a martyrdom — is flanked by panels depicting portraits of the altarpiece donors (often husband and wife, male and female).

Wander among the vast array of altarpieces, then marvel at El Greco's Saint John the Baptist.

Famous for having hosted King Louis XIV's wedding with the infanta of Spain in 1660, the church of St John the Baptist boasts an impressive altarpiece.

Santurantikuy literally means «The Selling of Saints» in Quechua, with «santu» meaning «saint» and «tikuy» meaning «sale», hence the often heard phrase of «cómprame un santito» referring to the many saints, angels, wise men, pastors and other religious clay figurines used for altarpieces and nativity scenes.

If you are religious or you simply like sacral art, there is plenty of sarcophages, tombstones, and altarpieces to enjoy.

Learn about the cathedral's history and construction and admire biblical artworks, sculptures and the altarpiece — the lifetime work of a single craftsman, Pierre Dancart.

Its walls are decorated with warm tones of red and gold have a strong reference to the colors used in altarpieces by Giotto.

The facades shows a transition between the Valencia and styles of the Baroque and neo-Classical, although the old altarpiece was preserved.

He was the anonymous purchaser of an 18th - century Benjamin West altarpiece from a London church for $ 2.85 million.

PIG (Piece in Ghent), created for his participation in a group show in Ghent in 1994, was directly inspired by the altarpiece The Lamb of God (1432) by the van Eyck brothers in St. Bavo's Chapel, Ghent Cathedral.

One of the first painted altarpieces in North and Western Europe, it also marks a more populist approach to Christianity, with realist figures depicted next to more sacred elements.

Hypothetical reconstruction of Piero della Francesca's altarpiece for the Church of Sant» Agostino in Sansepolcro.

«Golden Kingdoms,» at the Getty Center through Jan. 28, is a bona fide blockbuster of pre-Columbian bling; «Painted in Mexico, 1700 - 1790: Pinxit Mexici,» at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art through March 18, assembles an exhilarating bounty of altarpieces and portraiture.

Anyone could drop by, have a drink and a chat or, perhaps, buy something, such as Our David, their David Hockney - themed altarpiece.

«The Mystery of the Worcester's Leonardo» (10 March — 3 June) displays this painting with the Louvre's Annunciation for the first time since they were separated from their original altarpiece, backing up the museum's theory of attribution with a summary of its research findings.

There were accomplished riffs on master paintings (Jean - François Rauzier on da Vinci; Robert Wilson on Dürer, photographer Chan - Hyo BAE on Elizabeth I, Masami Teraoka on Renaissance altarpieces), and an ubiquitous shorthand commentary of words, snide, wry, or provocative — «For Sale», «Exit», «Heroes», «Not Yet Titled» — that were painted or scribbled, but predominantly drawn, in neon.

The title itself merges «icon», referencing medieval reliquaries and Renaissance altarpieces, and «public», since pieces could be manipulated by the viewer.

Separated from the main gallery, both painting and sculptures work in unison as an altarpiece.

New York — based artist Kevin Beasley transforms the museum's Vault Gallery into an elaborate environment inspired by Bernini's Baroque altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica and an infamous image of Black Panther Huey P. Newton.

An altarpiece believed to have been designed by the novelist has resurfaced in Windsor.

Today, artists freely invent their own cosmologies, borrowing from a variety of narrative sources ranging from Renaissance altarpieces to video games; Matthew Barney *, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Pierre Huyghe, Mariko Mori, Pipilotti Rist, and Sam Taylor - Wood each create imaginary universes in their elaborately staged photographs, films, and videos.

Inspired by the Vault Gallery's arched ceiling's allusion to sacred architecture, the installation is a contemporary interpretation of Bernini's seventeenth - century Baroque altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.

To that end, Beasley brings together two seemingly unlikely antecedents: Gian Lorenzo Bernini's seventeenth - century Baroque altarpiece for Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the iconic 1967 photograph of Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton wearing the party uniform of black leather jacket and beret, holding a shotgun in one hand and a spear in the other.

Now a 35 - year - old CalArts graduate with a mean set of woodworking skills, Young has taken to crafting sculptures that employ the arrows, circles, lines, and other symbols to create quasi-religious forms (a reliquary, an altarpiece) that celebrate our attempts to make sense of the big questions in life.

The works in this exhibition range from the colourful and glittering portraits of fashionable aristocrats, to religious altarpieces and finally to more sober and insightful paintings created towards the end of his life.

In the second half, Thomas Struth embeds a Renaissance altarpiece in a swirl of attention.

A reunited altarpiece by Hans Memling ran at The Morgan Library through January 8, 2017, Martin Luther's Reformation through January 22.

His figurative scenes inspired Post-Impressionists including Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin; Pablo Picasso was profoundly influenced by his altarpieces.

If the Renaissance still casts a long shadow, Robert Campin cast some of the most intricate ones, especially in his great altarpiece at the Cloisters.

Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and in a televised two dimensions on the right.

When unveiled at St Paul's Cathedral in London last year, Bill Viola's video installation of the four martyrs was lauded by the art critic Jonathan Jones as «visionary... a powerful modern altarpiece».

Crowd favorite Kris Kuksi submits a relatively small version of his altarpiece, assemblage pieces.

Brandon McDonald's Triptych of the Bat Family is an altarpiece and kneeler devoted to Batman's comic - book family.

Among them will be never - before exhibited altarpieces from the churches of Bergamo and paintings made for private devotion that reflect the new religious ideals of his time.

This exhibition brought together seven paintings, representing parts of two separate altarpieces for Borgo San Sepolcro.

Unlike the multi-panel Augustinian polyptych, the altarpiece of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Angels (Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown) forms a single unified picture field.

A photographic montage seen on a wall label illustrates what Piero's altarpiece — or significant portions of it, anyway — might have looked like.