Sentences with phrase «altarpieces by»

Its walls are decorated with warm tones of red and gold have a strong reference to the colors used in altarpieces by Giotto.
Twenty minutes with the late - 15th - century Isenheim altarpiece by Mathias, called Grünewald, will remind us.
A reunited altarpiece by Hans Memling ran at The Morgan Library through January 8, 2017, Martin Luther's Reformation through January 22.
An altarpiece by Piero della Francesca recovers some of its parts.
Over dinner at Red Rooster in Harlem, Beasley and Jones joined ARTnews to discuss Jones's new book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke University Press), and Beasley's recent project at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, an installation inspired by a historic image of black activist Huey P. Newton and an altarpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in Rome.
Watson facilitated the acquisition of a number of remarkable European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, such as a late French Gothic sculpture of the Virgin and Child; an exquisite Sienese cassone (wedding chest) depicting the death of Lucretia; an important Italian Renaissance altarpiece by Bartolomeo di Giovanni; a richly iconographic 17th - century Dutch vanitas painting; and a majestic Neoclassical landscape by French master Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, among other major gifts and purchases.
Set in a 20 - by -20-by-20-foot gallery known as the Cube, it reunites, for the first time in the United States, dispersed sections of an altarpiece by the 15th - century German - born, Flanders - based Memling and adds some of his exquisite portrait paintings.
The Frick Collection: «Piero della Francesca in America» (through May 19) Reuniting six panels from an altarpiece by Piero, this ravishing show approximates an intimate quattrocento chapel in the Frick's grand Oval Room.

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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.
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).
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.
Anyone could drop by, have a drink and a chat or, perhaps, buy something, such as Our David, their David Hockney - themed altarpiece.
The title itself merges «icon», referencing medieval reliquaries and Renaissance altarpieces, and «public», since pieces could be manipulated by the viewer.
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.
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.
His figurative scenes inspired Post-Impressionists including Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin; Pablo Picasso was profoundly influenced by his altarpieces.
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».
I try to intensify this optical ambiguity by collapsing the original altarpiece image on itself, multiplying its perspectives, disrupting the conclusive visual array of the original painting and replacing it with one that is still unfolding.
Exquisite works by Paolo Veneziano and Giovanni di Paolo, and an exceptional Guariento di Arpo altarpiece, anchor the museum's collection of gold - ground panel paintings.
Two sixteenth - century altarpieces from a church on the island of Murano were restored by Venetian Heritage with support from BVLGARI.
Similarly, #motherandchild is composed visibly as an icon or Florentine altarpiece and most identifiably Madonna and Child by Giovanni Battista Salvi.
Beasley's installation transforms the space into an elaborate environment influenced by a seemingly unlikely pairing: Bernini's Baroque altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica and an influential image of Black Panther Huey P. Newton.
Its permanent collection encompasses: Medieval and renaissance stonework; Gothic wooden statues; Late Gothic altarpieces; Renaissance and Baroque artworks; Modern art, notably 19th and 20th century painting, sculpture and numismatics; Contemporary art, notably by Laszlo Paal and Mihaly Munkacsy.
The Samuel H. Kress Collection consists of European paintings and sculpture from the 14th through the 19th Century, including the 26 - panel altarpiece of the Cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain, by Fernando Gallego and Maestro Bartolomé and their workshops.
Like an altarpiece the picture surface is partitioned in three parts, at the centre a fish in yellow, brown and pink on a light yellow background is surrounded by baskets.
«Hammer Projects: Kevin Beasley» presents «an elaborate environment inspired by Bernini's Baroque altarpiece in Saint Peter's Basilica and an infamous image of Black Panther Huey P. Newton.»
This distance from everyday reality was enhanced by McNairn's practice of creating triptychs or diptychs, in homage to Renaissance and medieval altarpieces, as in Through the Valley or In a High Place, both exhibited in 1997.
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.
Another important work, «Wound # 18» (2000), pays homage to Samaras's miscarried brother in a wall - size gold monochrome painting punctuated by a bloody - red gush, a meditational faux - altarpiece for his never - born sibling.
Deeply influenced by the artist's concepts of spiritualities — or belief systems that in spite of their differences share similar constructive ideologies — the works on view are like altarpieces, while the pigment on the floor alludes to ritual burnings in Eastern cultures.
Two paintings by the Renaissance master Fra Angelico were identified as «lost» panels from a Florentine altarpiece, and subsequently sold at auction for almost # 2m....
But if Brazil sounds a tad more manageable, it's still quite a lot to fit into one exhibition: four centuries of art and culture represented by 350 items ranging from Dutch depictions of the Brazilian landscape, Amazonian feather capes, and a monumental Baroque altarpiece to Neo-Concrete objects by Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Clark and works by contemporary artists like Ernesto Neto.
It is an early example of Kelly's multipanelled compositions, which were partly inspired by Renaissance polyptychs, especially Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece.
The academy is about to launch the first major exhibition in the UK of the painter whose best known work shows a tailor in action, gathering together rare loans including his late religious paintings and altarpieces that have never left Italy before, and one portrait only identified as his work last year by the curators of this show.
Four of the completed eight mural - like paintings have been brought together for the exhibition, where, supported by a selection of preliminary sketches and compositional drawings, they demonstrate Spencer's vision for the series to be displayed together as its own secular modern day «altarpiece».
Barkley Hendrick's Lawdy Mama embodies the «black is beautiful» mantra by conferring the awe and reverence once accorded Christian altarpieces on the figure of a beautiful woman crowned with a large, halo - like Afro.
Dumas's painting replaces the original altarpiece painted by Osmar Schindler in 1910, which was badly damaged during World War II.
Two panels from the altarpiece are among the finest paintings owned by the Morgan Library & Museum, where they have long been on permanent view in Pierpont Morgan's Study.
Inspired by gilded Greek and Russian icons as well as Renaissance altarpieces he encountered during a 1966 trip to Europe, Hendricks applied metallic gold leaf to a shaped canvas, effectively enshrining his subject.
Representing a cherished «altarpiece» of productivity and potential income in the makeshift squatter homes of apartheid - era townships, as well as the labor and repression symbolized by the American - manufactured sewing machine, the performers sew endless bolts of cotton and raw silk into long tails that pile up on the floor surrounding them.
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