Sentences with phrase «altarpieces for»

At present, Saltz plans to make 100 illustrations and 33 polyptych altarpieces for Dante's Prologue and each of the 99 Cantos, the altarpieces based on the most successful of the illustrations.

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

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....

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

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.

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.

He received a commission in 1805 to paint an altarpiece for the church at Brantham.

In 1810 he began work for an altarpiece for Nayland Church.

Dante drawing the Angel (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Lancelot and Guinevere, Mary in the House of St. John, The Blue Closet, The Tune of Seven Towers, and The Christmas Carol, are typical of this, Rossetti's best period, and his altarpiece for Llandaff Cathedral, a large work in oils, has the same atmosphere.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

Almost inevitably, the show grows more fascinating with modern times, when monochrome is no longer used for preparatory sketches or grisaille altarpieces, but for its own sake.

This installation, specifically made for the exhibition, recalls the format of an altarpiece, a work of art that decorates the space above and behind the altar in Christian churches.

«Early Netherlandish altarpiece paintings were a devotional object, kept closed and opened for display on sacred days.

In Leguillon's rendition, Reinhardt's lecture starts with pyramids, moving to the peaked rooftops of buildings from many cultures, to the pointed tops of medieval altarpieces; the pyramidal form mutates to an X shape repeated in various contexts, ending on windows of a building slated for demolition; the lecture moves on to windows of all kinds.

Oftentimes appearing as unorthodox altarpieces, Kuksi's sculptural wall works have been heralded for their superabundance of detail and narrative — as several theatrical microcosms may converge to produce one sensory fable.

In a group of large - scale paintings — exhibited for the first time — businessmen are depicted as Orthodox icons on altarpieces.

Piero received payment for that altarpiece in 1469, after as much as fifteen years of labor.

«For me,» he says, «if you want something really hard to understand, you'll stand in front of a multipanel Renaissance altarpiece — you have to know who all the saints are, and why they're there.»

I used to be bemused when Lisa Yuskavage, whose lesbo - bimbo figure paintings were featured at the David Zwirner Gallery in October, was praised for channeling, all at once, Disney cartoons and Giovanni Bellini's altarpieces.

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.

For MCASD's ongoing Cerca Series, De Luca's long - term project Stations (2006 - 2007) will be on view for the first time, together with a site - specific altarpiece triptych made for this exhibition, which responds to the changing light conditions experienced on the I - 5 South during her drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, created for Fayman Gallery at 1001 KettnFor MCASD's ongoing Cerca Series, De Luca's long - term project Stations (2006 - 2007) will be on view for the first time, together with a site - specific altarpiece triptych made for this exhibition, which responds to the changing light conditions experienced on the I - 5 South during her drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, created for Fayman Gallery at 1001 Kettnfor the first time, together with a site - specific altarpiece triptych made for this exhibition, which responds to the changing light conditions experienced on the I - 5 South during her drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, created for Fayman Gallery at 1001 Kettnfor this exhibition, which responds to the changing light conditions experienced on the I - 5 South during her drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, created for Fayman Gallery at 1001 Kettnfor Fayman Gallery at 1001 Kettner.

Admirable examples of woodcuts and mezzotints, for example, share Barbara Archer Gallery with a full - scale medieval - style altarpiece (above) and a video of a portrait screen - printed on a sheet of ice (below).

Although he was a highly versatile painter who created altarpieces, frescos, scenes from mythology, landscapes, cityscapes, and contemporary genre scenes in the manner of Venetian painter Pietro Longhi, he remains best known for his urban landscape painting of Venice.

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....

Yet throughout his prodigious and successful career, he and his bustling workshop also created imposing altarpieces and smaller religious paintings for private devotion or collectors, striking portraits, depictions of sensual episodes drawn from the classical tradition, and majestic allegories glorifying the Venetian state.

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».

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.