Sentences with phrase «century chalices»

Also it is home to a number of 15th century chalices.

The British Museum and Wiltshire Museum have jointly acquired the Lacock Cup, a silver 15th - century chalice, with help from the Art Fund.

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«This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind» St Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, third century

When 12th century piety (yielding to a growing scrupulousness over spilling the wine) withdrew the chalice from adults, it also suspended giving the wine to infants at baptism.

International Sparkling Awards — Italy Launches the First International Award Dedicated to «Sparkling» Wine: The centuries — old traditions and chalices of emotion: the most elegant wine in the world now has an exclusive award.

Additional highlights include Helen Frankenthaler's Belfry and February Turn (both 1979), which mimic the look and feel of Abstract Expressionism yet in truth represent a rupture with that tradition through the use of a staining technique that seemingly minimizes the artist's role in the process; Frank Stella's Double Scramble (1978), whose nested squares, color contrasts, and pulsing optical effects bridge the artist's early minimalism and later illusionism; and Robert Rauschenberg's Golden Chalice (1989) which, insofar as it marries abstraction and representation and juxtaposes gestural brushwork and photographic media, affords a crucial link to late 20th - century abstraction.

Artworks in themselves, the ensembles are presented throughout the museum's medieval galleries in its Fifth Avenue building, among historical items of inspiration, including bejeweled crosses and gilded chalices dating to the 15th century.