Sentences with phrase «century painting cycle»

The resulting voids, which show through to the pristine white of the gallery walls, correspond to the faces of figures in Pietro Longhi's «Sala Longhi» 18th - century painting cycle.

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By comparing findings of the current period of minimum activity with those of previous cycles, scientists can paint a picture of the changes in the sun over a span of decades, and sometimes centuries.

• Number of Residents: 780,559 • Estimated Number of Bicycles: 881,000 — nearly twice the number of cars • Percentage of People Who Cycle Daily: 58 % • Number of Canals: 165 • Number of Bridges: 1,281 • Number of Houseboats: 2,500 • Paintings by Rembrandt: 22 • Paintings by Van Gogh: 206 • 16th -, 17th - and 18th - century buildings: 8,863 • Cafes and Bars: 1,515 • Windmills: 8 • Historic Church Organs: 42 • Number of Concerts and Theatrical Performances Per Day: 40 • Nationalities: 180 • Contact: Netherlands Board of Tourism & Conventions • Who Knew?

The title, The Course of Human History Personified, is borrowed from the poet Dante and recalls both grandiose artistic and literary cycles from the nineteenth century such as the New York Hudson River School artist Thomas Cole's five - painting The Course of Empire of 1836, where nature plays as large a role as humans.

Luca Giordano (Naples 1634 - 1705 Naples) was one of the most celebrated artists of the 17th century, producing religious and mythological paintings as well as many decorative fresco cycles in both churches and palaces.

In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and collaged elements of earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.

The centerpiece of the Pace exhibition will be Wilson's Sala Longhi (2011) an installation inspired by an 18th - century cycle of paintings by Pietro Longhi in the Sala Longhi at the Museo del Settecento Veneziano Ca» Rezzonico in Venice.

Gerhard Richter's 15 - painting cycle is quite simply one of the most important works of art of the second half of the 20th century.

The technique can be traced back to the 17th century and refers to the practice of painting out of doors: working with a sense of immediacy and freedom, embracing unpredictable elements, and following the natural cycle of light through time.

«Together with Twombly's cycle of paintings The Four Seasons 1993 - 5, acquired in 2002, this gives an enduring place in London to the work of one of the great painters of the second half of the 20th Century.»

Among the works on display are David Hockney's season cycle, an international collection of sculptures by artists from Eduardo Chillida to Henry Moore, masterpieces of classical modernism from artists such as Pablo Picasso and Edvard Munch, breathtaking works of decorative art, and a selection of the Würth Collection's Old Masters, including one of the most significant paintings of the 16th century, Hans Holbein the Younger's «The Madonna With the Family of Mayor Meyer».

Walls have always been sites for art: from cave paintings, to frescos on the walls of Pompeian homes, to the Renaissance cycles from Giotto to Michelangelo and the socially engaged murals of Diego Rivera in the twentieth century.