Sentences with phrase «classical statues of»

A vast wasteland is filled with totemic stone formations and a small villa - museum, which holds such objects within as a Classical statue of a hero masturbating.

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The grounds have been decorated with a variety of classical statues, archways, and budding flowers for every season.

By last week the toll included the statues in the Mosul Museum, the classical site of Hatra, and the ancient Assyrian capitals of Nineveh, Nimrud, and Khorsabad, famed for their massive protective deities in the form of human - headed winged bulls.

Across northern Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State (IS) group devastated antiquities during its reign of terror starting in 2014, pulverizing classical statues such as those of Palmyra in Syria and bulldozing a 3000 - year - old ziggurat at Iraq's Nimrud.

The main work - related activity is when Perlman and Oliver go to inspect a sensational discovery: parts of a classical statue recovered from a lake.

With all the talk of immaculate, sensual 5th century bronze statues that invite you to be allured by their erotic magnetism of their twisted poses, Hammer himself almost seems like a piece of stunt casting as the tanned vision of classical virile perfection.

Each of the four Grand View Suites has a large classical statue from ceramicist, Ceccarelli — one for each of the four seasons, reflected in the Pitti sculptures downstairs.

The stadiums contain a combination of dark futuristic architecture and classical / medieval statues and tapestries.

The Hall of Sculpture Balcony bears a hefty selection of Nicole Eisenman's paintings and plaster sculptures amongst the museum's figurative marble statues, though the artist's brand of classical and art historical absurdities seem tame in comparison to the strangeness of satirical and metaphorical works by Iranian artist Rokni Haerizadeh installed in an adjacent space.

The exhibition contains work from all areas of Mapplethorpe's principal aesthetic interests including; still lifes, portraits, figure studies, flowers, body fragments and classical statues.

Highlights include small - scale sculptures by modern masters like Auguste Rodin, Jacques Lipchitz, and Henry Moore; ancient Chinese mingqi tomb figures and Buddhist devotional statues; European bronzes of princes, putti, and classical heroes; and boundary - breaking work by contemporary artists including Magdalena Abakanowicz, John Chamberlain, Robert Irwin, and H. C. Westermann.

The women's lack of vanity is revealed as they are shot at an uncomfortable proximity, blending their bodies with Classical statues and standing before Leonardo's Mona Lisa.

His tidy, well - organized space is punctuated by objects that offer clues to his mind at work: a bulletin board filled with a patchwork of pictures of the flags of Africa and a pair of plaster casts, one of a white classical Greek statue and the other of an ebony Egyptian mummy case, standing guard over his assistants» desks.

The bright painted colours of classical statues and temples has worn away over history.

But she often coupled her criticality with a sly humor and an exacting, alluring beauty, as in the 1983 — 88 series «Objects of Desire,» for which she cut out items from magazines, ranging from dresses and bowls to bondage gear and classical statues, which she then rephotographed and printed on solid fields of color that matched their frames.

Continuing her series of animated paintings, there are several wall works made from printed PVC with industry marker drawings of classical figures on them that have aluminum printed faces that gesture toward classical Roman and Greek statues.

Featuring varied sculptures, photographs and drawings, our booth examines the legacy of classical sculpture in Marie and Orensanz» work, and looks at how both artists draw on a tradition of fragmentation that comes from the display of broken statues from antiquity.

The improvised arms of snowmen come to mind, as does, once more, the classical world, with its ruined, limbless statues.

Alongside a major new commission, Votives brings together a series of existing works that take their cue from classical Greek votive statues.

You start in the relative sanity of the mirrored dining room and then squeeze through a series of chambers stuffed with prints and relics, before emerging into the domed, top - lit atrium with its gallery studded with classical statues looking down into the stone coffin of the pharaoh Seti I. Below are the monk's parlour and the crypt.

Koons seems to have taken a palmful of blue gazing balls and blown them out into the gallery, landing on classical statues and Midwestern lawn ornaments, which have coalesced in pure white plaster.