Sentences with phrase «century france»

The cheese grater was invented in 16th century France as a way to use cheese that had become hard.

In the film she draws parallels with witchcraft trials in 13th century France where witchcraft was declared the most urgent threat to mankind of all and where anyone who dared disagree ran the risk of being declared a sorcerer and rejected — or worse — by mainstream society.

Now you must travel back to fourteenth century France to rescue him.

The warmist movement is beginning to exhibit some of the behaviours shown by the revolutionaries of The Terror in 18th Century France.

Among the things we see are sculptures by Donatello, Canova, Gérome, Klinger, Rodin, Degas, Magritte, and Hans Bellmer; a fourteenth - century Italian reliquary bust; German religious sculpture from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries, and Spanish from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries; an eighteenth - century wax bust of a monk, hair, beard, cowl, and all; and chryselephantine busts from nineteenth - century France.

The Words seen like a regulation - Coley adopted them from a sign that was once erected in a village in seventeenth - century France by order of the King.

Wols Retrospective: Paintings, drawings and photographs by an innovator of art informel in early 20th - century France, through Jan. 12.

The beginnings of modern painting can not be clearly demarcated, but there is general agreement that it started in 19th - century France.

Follow up the show of South American painting (1600 - 1825) at Stanford's Cantor Center with work by Beat figure Wallace Berman at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and then revisit 17th century France in the Claude Lorrain exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco.

What Kelly is doing is to break up light into separate colours much as the pointillist or divisionist painters did in late 19th - century France.

Other exhibitions, developedin partnership with UChicago scholars and students, will explore topics like the history of perception, artistic inspiration in nineteenth - century France, and the metaphoric possibilities of abstraction.

Nonetheless, it possesses all the vivid fervor of Delacroix's famous figurative painting of «Liberty Leading the People,» the flag - waving ode to populist emancipation in 19th century France.

This spring, the Museum will host a series of talks in conjunction with the exhibition The Buffoonish Bourgeois: Caricatures and Satire of the Upper Middle - Class Businessman in 19th - century France, which will be on - view in the La Salle University Art Museum's newly renovated Special Exhibitions Gallery March 5 — May 30, 2008.

Dressing to Impress (ionist)-- In her review of the Met's new «Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity» show, Roberta Smith pulls out all the stops with a fulsomely rich survey of the interplay between advanced art and fashion in 19th - century France, and it's a rewarding read.

«Barbara Kruger: Peasant uprisings in seventeenth - century France, Russia and China: Barbara Kruger and the de-lamination of signs».

GLENN LONEY»S JANUARY, 2015 RAMBLES At The Asia Society: TAKAHIRO IWASKAI: In Focus, BUDDHIST ART OF MYANMAR, At The Brooklyn Museum of Art: KEHIND WILEY: A New Republic, At The CUNY Grad Center's James Gallery: SPECTERS OF COMMUNISM: Contemporary Russian Art, At The Frick Collection: COYPEL»S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth Century France, At The Galerie St Etienne: ALTERNATE HISTORIES: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the Galerie St Etienne, At The Grolier Club: ALDUS MANUTIUS: A Legacy More Lasting Than Bronze, LITERATURE OF THE LIBERATION: The French Experience in Print — 1944 46, At LCLPA — The Lincoln Center Library for The Performing Arts» Vincent Astor Gallery: BROADWAY REVEALED: Behind the Theatre Curtain, At MMA — The Metropolitan Museum of Art: CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE: Photographer of India & Burma — 1832 1860, At The MLM — The Morgan Library & Museum: The World Monuments Fund 2015 Paul Mellon Lecture, RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ROME: The Art of Urban Form, LINCOLN SPEAKS: Words That Transformed a Nation, PIRANESI & THE TEMPLES OF PAESTUM: Drawings from Sir John Soane's Museum, HEBREW ILLUMINATION FOR OUR TIME: The Art of Barbara Wolff, EMBRACING MODERNISM: Ten Years of Drawing Acquisitions, At MCNY — The Museum of the City of New York: EVERYTHING IS DESIGN: The Work of Paul Rand, SAVING PLACE: 50 Years of New York City Landmarks, At The Park Avenue Armory: WAS — The Annual Winter Antiques Show: A Benefit for the East Side House Settlement.

Organized by the Mount Holyoke College Museum and curated by Robert L. Herbert, one of the leading scholars of Impressionism, this exhibition traced the rise of two related types of «primitivism» in nineteenth - century France.

This exhibition traced the rise of two related types of «primitivism» in nineteenth - century France

The first writers to acquire an individual reputation as art critics in 18th - century France were Jean - Baptiste Dubos with his Réflexions critiques sur la poésie et sur la peinture (1718)[17] which garnered the acclaim of Voltaire for the sagacity of his approach to aesthetic theory; [18] and Étienne La Font de Saint - Yenne with Reflexions sur quelques causes de l'état présent de la peinture en France who wrote about the Salon of 1746, [19] commenting on the socioeconomic framework of the production of the then popular Baroque art style, [20] which led to a perception of anti-monarchist sentiments in the text.

In 19th - century France, Nadar (Gaspard - Felix Tournachon) photo - graphed the influential artists, writers, and poets of his era.

Wednesday, February 22 Public vs. Private: The Patronage of Madame de Pompadour in 18th - Century France Alden Rand Gordon, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College, Hartford, Conn..

Say we agree, generously, that 20 artists genuinely mattered in late 19th - century France at the dawn of modernism, one of the truly great moments of art history.

The patterned motif, which originated in eighteenth century France, often depicts farm life and pastoral vignettes of the French countryside.

One way I have been doing this is by considering four National Gallery paintings by the Le Nain brothers, three artists working in 17th - century France, and how they could be exhibited in a new manner.

However, it does shine in sculpture, as in fragments of the Renaissance in Germany and a stone relief from twelfth - century France.

The Picture Bible — one of the greatest illuminated manuscripts produced in thirteenth - century France — was disbound for conservation and study, offering visitors a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to view twenty - six of the book's pages in a single exhibition.

Or is it not more a question of the whole Rococo style of 18th - century France being «feminine,» if judged in terms of a two - valued scale of «masculinity» vs. «femininity»?

Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth - Century France is on view at The Frick Collection, New York from July 12, 2016 to October 2, 2016

«Watteau's Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth - Century France,» now on view at the Frick Collection, presents twenty or so works created around the War of the Spanish Succession, an early subject for an artist far better known for his fêtes galantes, those rich scenes of courtship and masquerade that catalogue an entire Baroque iconography.

In 16th Century France, Diane de Poitiers is mistress to King Henry II.

He's out to fight against the corruption that fills the streets of 18th century France.

Being able to run through 18th / 19th century France would be a joy, in my opinion.

The next game in the «Assassin's Creed» series will put players in the role of an assassin during the French Revolution in 18th century France, a country bitterly divided between rich and poor.

Developed around an ancient Benedictine monastery, Sarlat is a favourite location for film directors as modernity has largely excluded the area from its grasp which leaves it as one of the most representative towns of 14th century France.

Taking cues from Parisian bistros, the ornate facade and parquet flooring is instantly reminiscent of 20th century France.

Upon entering the luxury boutique hotel that is the Sir Stamford Circular Quay, guests could be forgiven for thinking that they have been transported back to 18th Century France.

Oversized murals designed by Mr. Christian Lacroix draw from Siam 19th century France and the world of haute couture.

History and Facts: This breed has its roots in 16th century France, where it were used to hunt wild hare.

Photo by Eric Bean / Getty Images Hound Ancestors of the Basset Hound can be traced back to 16th century France.

The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th - century France, and a window into the modern world's first multi-racial society.

This beautifully written novel is actually five self - contained character studies moving from 19th - century France to 2027 Italy, with several stops in between.

Born into poverty in late 19th - century France, Suzanne Valadon's life choices were limited.

Here, DeJean, trustee professor of French at the University of Pennsylvania and author of a number of books on French literature and history, turns her attention to a tale of intrigue and finance in 18th - century France.

In The Myth of the Common School (1988), a historical account of how the ideology of state schooling emerged, I traced the myth's development in 19th century France, the Netherlands, and the United States.

It was part of a summer reading assignment in 1965 and the «best and worst of times» in 18th - century France seemed to parallel the»60s civil rights struggles, especially the 1963 killing of four little girls, who were about my age, in the Birmingham, Alabama, church bombing.

A Woman's Life review: (Une vie) tells the story of one young woman's struggle in 19th - century France.

Why shoot a classic tale of late 19th century France like it's a straight - to - DVD «Cloverfield» sequel?

«Monsieur Chocolat» is based on a true story of two circus clowns — one black and one white — who change the dynamics of comic performance in turn - of - the - century France, clearly no small task, given society's hard - wired and rampant racism, not to mention the hardscrabble and precarious life of on - the - road entertainers.

With a 20th century attitude in 16th century France, this gal doesn't need a fairy god - mother.

In 19th - century France, Emma Bovary, the wife of a dull country doctor, embarks on a series of love affairs and spends well beyond her means.