Sentences with phrase «ancient wall paintings»

Wyle's imagery references current affairs and the media, as well as a diverse range of sources including ancient wall paintings, art history and film, celebrity culture, even football.

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The television follows a winged Mexican through Mexico's jungles, over rivers and mountains, to the ancient cities and into the mighty pyramids, where (as pictured above) the ancient peoples of Mexico can be found, along with their occupiers, artfully disporting themselves in front of wall paintings.

One of the ancient diagrams painted on a wall in Wat Pho - showing how to massage «sen lines» or energy lines

Paintings and prints frequently carry particular meaning within Petzold's films, as examples of the ancient tradition of ekphrasis, probably none more so than in Phoenix's immediate predecessor Barbara (2012) with its conspicuous Rembrandt print, but likewise in much earlier works like Die Beischlafdiebin (The Sex Thief, 1998) with a Gerard Richter on the wall — another artist conspicuously engaged with multiple forms of peculiarly German afterness.4

During your guided visit, admire the paintings that remain on the walls, and look for signs of the early fast - food restaurants beloved by ancient Romans.On the quest for amazing scenery, combined with history and spirituality, you'll visit Montecassino sanctuary.

Away from the beach, you'll find lush green parks full of colourful tropical birds, spectacular caves with ancient wall - paintings and some fascinating attractions.

Vibrant late fall colors painted across the trees and hillsides, the worn exterior of ancient stone buildings, awe - inspiring views from medieval walled cities, the mystical white horses on the plains of the Camargue, a...

Elegant Room with panoramic view over the Tuscan countryside of the Valdichiana Decorated in tones of orange and yellow, with a comfortable queen - size bed and a hand - painted wardrobe, this light and welcoming room overlooks the Valdichiana and its lakes through a wide window set in the ancient city walls.

This peaceful location is only 2 km from the centre of Agios Nikolaos and sits beside the picturesque Almiros River with its abundance of wildlife and natural beauty.There are many attraction near the property such as ancient city Lato and Panagia Kera, a Byzantine church from the 13th century, with medieval wall paintings.

In a modest sized rectangular white walled exhibition space, objects of daily use, artifacts ancient and new, paintings and pots, quilts, and kimonos were arrayed on two tiers, hung from the ceiling, against works hung on wall that were subtly dematerialized by natural light coming from unseen skylights along the edges of the dropped ceiling.

Later, casting further and wider, she pulled in Japanese prints, Indian miniature painting (one of the most impressive compositions in the show, painted directly onto the gallery wall, is named Rajasthan), and ancient Egyptian tombs, whose carefully integrated decorative schemes inspired her approach to a set of hospital murals.

Using many layers of painting media, washi paper, and marble dust on panel, an exquisite surface quality is created that evokes ancient walls or tablets.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

Relief paintings of these deities, symbols of motherly protective care for the dead, are found on walls of ancient Egyptian tombs.

Jonathan Jones of The Guardian newspaper noted that his «Dry - stone walling, sacks of grain and rice, and a painting that includes part of the score of St John Passion by JS Bach, bring a sense of real life, organic and ancient, into the museum.»

Lance Esplund, art critic for the Wall Street Journal, writes of Joan Snyder: «The functions of Ms. Snyder's art, first and foremost, are to further the tradition of painting and to explore the most serious aspects of the human condition; to connect us not only to one another and to nature but to ancient rites and myths.

Ancient Babylonian Wall is an original, one - of - a-kind abstract painting signed by artist Pol Ledent.

Originally referring to the ecstatic verses created by ancient Greek followers of Dionysus, the term, for him, stands for what the wall texts call «the primacy of the artist's expressive power over the subject» — that is, the nominal subject that triggered the improvisatory process of picture - making loses its original meaning by being translated into this new state of being, since any painting is both abstract and a fiction.

Ancient City Wall is an original, one - of - a-kind abstract painting signed by artist Pol Ledent.

Her work incorporates a wide range of allusions, from Rome's Baroque church facades to the antique vessels of Sicily to ancient Roman domestic wall paintings.

Born in 1924 in the ancient Persian city of Qazvin, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent her childhood in a grand old house replete with stained glass, wall paintings and nightingales.

The compositions are bilaterally symmetrical and are drawn directly from ancient Roman mosaics, decorative wall painting, quilt patterns, and textile design.

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