Sentences with phrase «centuries of masterpieces»

All told, we are presenting two centuries of masterpieces in a fresh, new perspective.

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Ortiz - Teissonniere describes the show as a «21st century mix of video design, 3D scanning technology, music, high - definition photography, light and sound and special effects is bringing a 15th Century masterpiece to the digital era.century mix of video design, 3D scanning technology, music, high - definition photography, light and sound and special effects is bringing a 15th Century masterpiece to the digital era.Century masterpiece to the digital era.»

Selected as Amazon's book of the year, and beautifully written, the 800 - page novel tells the story of Theo Decker and a famous painting — Carel Fabritius» seventeenth - century masterpiece, The Goldfinch — and how Theo's relationship with it transforms his life, for better and worse.

De Lubac's book is a masterpiece of intellectual erudition and sophisticated apologetics that argues that the deepest human longings for unity — longings that made communism so alluring to many idealistic people in the first half of the twentieth century — are fulfilled in the Church's supernatural mission.

George Frideric Handel's soaring 18th century masterpiece gets a joyful treatment of blues, jazz, gospel and a downright impressive collective of soloists, 100 + member choir, ensemble orchestra and jazz combo.

Nevertheless, a sizable minority of physicists, Rovelli included, believe that any successful merger of the two great masterpieces of 20th - century physics will inevitably describe a universe in which, ultimately, there is no time.

This navy Lyon lace is a true masterpiece produced on one of the three looms remained from the 19th century.

This ivory Lyon lace fabric is a true masterpiece produced on one of the three looms remained from the 19th century.

This black Lyon lace is a true masterpiece produced on one of the three looms remained from the 19 th century.

This black Lyon lace trim is a true masterpiece produced on one of the three looms still remained from the 19th century.

This reinforces my feeling that this film is in fact a artistic and spiritual masterpiece of the 21st century.

An Italian masterpiece that elegantly and effortlessly depicts the natural rhythms of life in a rural community in the nineteenth century.

A fascinating and fastidiously complex study of one man's moral choices at a crucial juncture in his life, Cristian Mungiu's Graduation is a thoroughgoing masterpiece which offers proof that Romania's cinematic upsurge remains the most vital and important national film movement of the current century.

An extravagant and very well acted retelling of Thackeray's masterpiece of EnglIsh manners and mores at the beginning of the 19th century.

His new film, a chatty 18th - century chamber drama, reunites the stars of his 1998 masterpiece Last Days of Disco: Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny.

At the film festival: Bruce LaBruce's subversive masterpiece, Gerontophilia, a lovely rom - com in which everybody fucks one another across all age and gender borders — desire shall bind us together; Juno Mak's Rigor Mortis, a touching albeit grim look at loss and damnation in the form of a Chinese hopping - vampire movie, with many a nod to the subgenre's clichés and conventions; Jealousy, Philippe Garrel's latest tale of love ground down by the mill of daily life, raw and naked even by his ascetic standards; Hayao Miyazaki's troublesome The Wind Rises, which frames the story of a fighter - plane designer as a grand romance of struggle and failure, with animation's supreme living master contemplating the price mankind can sometimes pay in the name of one dreamer's self - fulfillment, and the willful blindness and egocentricity it takes to realize one's vision; and finally to Yorgos Lanthimos's Necktie and Athina Rachel Tsangari's 24 Frames Per Century, their contributions to the Venice 70: Future Reloaded omnibus, not to mention the untitled pieces by Jean - Marie Straub, Monte Hellman, Amit Dutta, and Haile Gerima.

Outside Italy, he became a forgotten man until he bounced back in 1978 with his masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, a three - hour survey of peasant life at the turn of the century, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

For centuries male filmmakers, writers, painters, artists of all kinds have often cited women as the inspiration for their brilliant masterpieces.

However, considering the fact that those two films are near masterpieces, giving Manchester By The Sea that qualification means that it ranks among the best of the century so far, and quite easily stands as the best film I've seen this year with only a month left to go for the unlucky contenders looking to unseat it.

I, on the other hand, completely agree with Twitch's Ben Umstead who said Only God Forgives is a masterpiece because «thirty years from now when we talk about movies of the early 21st century, Refn and Only God Forgives will undoubtedly be an important part of that conversation.»

National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman), France / USA North American Premiere Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman (Crazy Horse, At Berkeley) takes the audience behind the scenes of this London institution, which is inhabited by masterpieces of Western art from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Orlando (Sally Potter)-- A magnificent visual adaptation of Woolf's masterpiece, which wraps up many of the gender / feminist concerns of the century with amazing style, grace, and Tilda Swinton's face.

(1988); the Holy Grail of silent comedy shorts, a previously - thought - lost Laurel and Hardy THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (1927), and Luchino Visconti's fully restored masterpiece ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960), starring Alain Delon in a grand emotional opus on imploding fraternal tensionof silent comedy shorts, a previously - thought - lost Laurel and Hardy THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (1927), and Luchino Visconti's fully restored masterpiece ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960), starring Alain Delon in a grand emotional opus on imploding fraternal tensionOF THE CENTURY (1927), and Luchino Visconti's fully restored masterpiece ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (1960), starring Alain Delon in a grand emotional opus on imploding fraternal tensions.

«Children of Paradise» (Criterion), Marcel Carné's legendary epic of love, theater, and crime in 19th Century Paris, is a masterpiece of French cinema and one of the best loved films of all time.

Takahata is best known for his touching war tragedy Grave of the Fireflies (1988) and while this latest isn't quite up there with his masterpiece, it's still a beautifully animated, well - acted, well - told version of the 10th century Japanese folk - tale on which it is based.

Shot on location more than a quarter of a century later, Jules Dassin's masterpiece The Naked City (1948), a noir procedural inspired by Italian neorealism, offers a grittier view of Lower Manhattan from street level.

Cold - shouldered by the Academy for most of his career, Chaplin got two honorary awards, one at the start of his career (in 1929) and another at the end (in 1972, for «the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century»), but nothing specifically for the great achievements — the towering comic masterpieces City Lights, Modern Times and The Great Dictator.

Hailed as «a masterpiece of 21st century dance» from English National Ballet, Akram Khan's Giselle comes to...

Werner Herzog's 1972 masterpiece stars the inimitable Klaus Kinski as a power - crazed explorer in 16th century South America, who leads a band of conquistadors through the Amazon in search of El Dorado.

MYSTERIES OF LISBON By Tony Pipolo Raúl Ruiz turns a classic 19th - century novel into a 21st - century masterpiece

This is illustrated in «The Decameron,» Giovanni Boccaccio's 14th Century masterpiece filled with vivid stories, the basis for the adaptation of one or two of the tales.

Whilst at times difficult to watch, Grave of the Fireflies is more than a film, it's a masterpiece of human endeavour, and the hand drawn tragedy echoes every cry of anguish that has sounded throughout the centuries, ever since we first learnt to kill our own kind.

It's hard to pick just one image from Andrew Dominik's masterpiece as it is one of the most beautifully photographed movies of the 21st century, the train station shadow / smoke scene is one other iconic moment that comes to mind, but for my money nothing beats this gorgeous frame in which Brad Pitt's Jesse James look over the sunset as he contemplates his next move.

The British filmmaker begins the narrative proper of his 1992 masterpiece The Long Day Closes with the blazing brass pomp of Twentieth Century Fox's iconic fanfare, written by Alfred Newman.

The bombast of these pronouncements couldn't be further from the world of a non-studio, intensely personal artist like Terence Davies, but the British filmmaker nevertheless begins the narrative proper of his 1992 masterpiece The Long Day Closes with the blazing brass pomp of Twentieth Century Fox's iconic fanfare, written by Alfred Newman.

«It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults» Frederick Douglass The book The Making of a Classroom Hero», is a one - stop masterpiece on quality lesson delivery, that carefully combines all the twenty - first century learning themes, aimed at moving your class from good to great.

A small sampling of the wide range of content that may be found here includes artwork such as Goya's Disasters of War; panoramic cityscapes of New York City's Fifth Avenue; George Caitlinâ $ ™ s North American Indian Portfolio; William Blake's hand - printed masterpiece of 1793, America a Prophecy; as well as 16th - century maps and drawings depicting the landing of European explorers in the Western Hemisphere; engravings of battle scenes of the American Revolution; photographs recording the westward progress of the American transcontinental railroad; sheet music covers and restaurant menus from the 1890s; and photographs of Depression - era New York City by Lewis Hine and Berenice Abbott.

Labelled as «one of the most notable and artistically independent sculptors of the early 20th century,» Rembrandt created detailed animal sculptures, with his often bronze coloured masterpieces now being on show in museums across the world.

Some of these include the tenth - century Book of Deer, which is probably the oldest surviving Scottish manuscript and contains the earliest known examples of written Gaelic; the thirteenth - century Life of Edward the Confessor, which contains masterpieces of illumination; the Cairo Genizah collections, which are glimpses into the everyday live of a Jewish community in Egypt over a period of 1,000 years; digital versions of its Islamic and Sanskrit collections of both secular and religious texts, including some of the earliest surviving Qur» ans; the Nash Papyrus, which contains one of the oldest texts from the Hebrew Bible, the Codex Bezzae, one of the most important New Testament manuscripts; and others.

In 2006, The New York Review of Books described the diaries as «one of the masterpieces of nineteenth - century French literature.»

Boyd has already proven himself adept at telling the story of the 20th century from the male point of view, in the underrated 2002 masterpiece Any Human Heart.

Olmstead wrote a masterpiece of life after the civil war and before the turn of the century.

Residence Luna Cavtat is a stunning, 17th - century masterpiece in Cavtat Old Town, near the Croatian capital of Dubrovnik.

The façade of this 21st - century masterpiece with its monochrome color palette and diamond roof pattern reflects the influence of the Gothic St. Stephen's Cathedral.

The seventeenth - century villa houses many masterpieces of Italian art whilst the colourful gardens, described as «a place of heaven», feature plantings of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias as wells as exotic plants, bamboos, ferns and ancient cedar and sequoia trees.

The carnival dates back to the 19th century and UNESCO declared it as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2003.

Behind the fountain is the San Giuseppe dei Teatini, a 17th century masterpiece of Sicilian Baroque architecture.

Like Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli did with his Museum that, already open to the general public in Milan in 1881, is one of the most important museum houses in Europe, a good example of one of the finest 19th century collections: from the fifteenth - century Lombardy maestros (Luini, Boltraffio, Solario) to masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and Cosmè Tura through to eighteenth - century paintings (Guardi and Canaletto) and exceptional collections of decorative arts.

A true architectural masterpiece, Waldorf Astoria Amsterdam has the privilege of being hosted by six magnificent 17th and 18th century canal palaces.

Sydney Opera House Guided Tours offer you a once in a lifetime opportunity to venture inside one of the great architectural masterpieces of the 20th Century!