Sentences with phrase «century wooden figures»

The housekeeper is borderline hostile, the servants are frightened of strange things that happen in the nursery, and mysterious 17th - century wooden figures are found in a locked room.

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The space, with a rough wooden floor and mass of modelled figures, is suggestive of an artist's studio, but it is filled with sculptures of the body by some of the 20th century's greatest artists.

Upritchard is drawn to a variety of arts, crafts, and design from around the world produced over the past several centuries, and an array of objects and techniques have informed her work: the fifteenth - century German sculptor Erasmus Grasser's wooden figures; the Bayeux Tapestry, made in the eleventh century, with its scenes of the Norman conquest of England; the use of canopic jars in Egyptian mummification; the bronze figures of the Chola dynasty in India; and the blank expressions of the masks used in Japanese Noh theater.

The Cleveland Museum of Art's latest acquisitions include a Virgin and Child, a rare 13th - century wooden sculpture from the Mosan region of Europe; a Standing Female Figure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ carFigure, a clay figure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ carfigure representative of the Classic Veracruz period on Mexico's Gulf Coast; and Just the two of us, one of contemporary artist Julia Wachtel's first paintings to employ cartoons.