Sentences with phrase «collection of renaissance»

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) A top - class «compact» museum, best known for its high quality collection of Renaissance paintings.

On Saturday, February 27th at The Clark in Williamstown, MA noted private collector Jon Landau, art dealer Andrew Butterfield, and former Clark Senior Curator Richard Rand discuss the collection of Renaissance and nineteenth - century painting and sculpture Landau has assembled over many years.

Waddesdon Bequest The British Museum opens a spanking new gallery for its great collection of Renaissance treasures.

Founded in 1963 when the City of Miami Beach accepted a collection of Renaissance and Baroque works of art from collectors John and Johanna Bass, the collection was housed in an Art Deco building designed in 1930 by Russell Pancoast.

Pairing the architect and designer famous for dressing in metal - inflected black leather and for catering to brands of the level of Chanel, Dior and Bulgari, with a museum founded on a collection of Renaissance art seemed an oxymoron until heading up the ramp into a world that functioned as a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities.

«We are excited to welcome The Renaissance Lucerne Hotel to our growing collection of Renaissance Hotels in Europe,» said Amy McPherson, president and managing director of Marriott International in Europe.

The Uffizi Gallery is known throughout the world for its mind - boggling collection of Renaissance art, and the Duomo towers over the center of town, offering stunning views and stark, beautiful interiors.

For a more refined alternative, Philadelphia Museum of Art boasts an impressive collection of Renaissance, American and Impressionist art.

«The addition of this superb painting to our collection will provide us with the opportunity to expand the history of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and to explore synergies with the DMA's existing collections of Renaissance art and Mexican modernism.»

Not exact matches

(CNN)- Its art collection is the envy of galleries the world over, but until now the Vatican has been better known for Renaissance masterpieces rather than hip modernist artworks.

I'm not talking about, say, Arvo Pärt or the collection of Russian Orthodox choirs or Renaissance Church music I have.

Prior to training as a journalist, Arabella spent six years working in the art world, in the rarefied atmosphere of London's leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, and undertook a short research internship at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she worked on the redevelopment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries collection.

About Renaissance Renaissance Hotels represents a diverse collection of 155 hotels in 35 countries worldwide.

ABH modern renaissance palette is quite famous for its beautiful collection of red, burgundy and gold shades while their subculture palette was not considered up to mark.

Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Palette, $ 42 — This now cult favorite palette is one I recently added to my collection and now can not get enough of!

The fabric is from the collection «Garden of Temptation», inspired by Italian Renaissance art.

Very deep voice, highly skilled... love everything hedonistic, also very much a Renaissance man... music of back in the day music, have huge collection of vintage, mint 33 1 \ 3 records!!

Persona 5, Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Zero, NiOh, Nier: Automata, Danganronpa HD, Kingdom Hearts 2.8 and the 1.5 +2.5 HD Collections, Dragon Quest XI (in Japan) and others released on Sony's console, sparking a Japanese gaming renaissance of sorts.

In the days before both the Virtual Console and the retro renaissance kicked off, Animal Crossing offered playable NES cartridges among its exhaustive collection of tat for the Villager to stockpile.

Thirty seven pieces of art from the Samuel H. Kress and European Art Collections at the Allentown Art Museum are used to take students into the past to explore the art, thought, and society of the Renaissance period in Europe.

Nowadays, it is one of Krakow's greatest tourist attractions and is also one of the country's premier art museums, which include collections of Italian Renaissance paintings, sculptures, metalwork, armourand the Sigismund II Augustus Tapestry.

Daphne Muse's collection of poetry, The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance, illustrated by Charlotte Riley - Webb, is a celebration of a rich cultural tradition.

This artistic movement came to be known as the Harlem Renaissance and that is the subject covered in this collection of short biographies.

The first floor houses Napoleon III's apartments, Egyptian artefacts and a collection of Italian and French Renaissance paintings.

The Cathedral's design is very ornamental, in renaissance style, and inside it, one finds the best expressions of Colonial gold and silversmithery, wood carvings in cedar and alder wood, such as the pulpit and the Main Altar worked in pure silver, as well as a valuable collection of oil canvases from Cusco's School of Art.

The Hatton Gallery, a comfortable 24 minute walk from Jurys Inn Newcastle, offers a permanent collection of works ranging from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century in a range of formats from painting to printmaking.

If you're looking for some serious retail therapy, Renaissance Mall is a collection of upscale, luxury brands — with names like Gucci and Louis Vuitton — in downtown Oranjestad.

The district's Musée des Arts et Métiers offers an enormous collection of scientific machinery, early steam engines and scientific instrumentation dating back to the Renaissance.

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Marriott's Gold Elite status offering will include lounge access at JW Marriott, Renaissance hotels, Marriott hotels and the Autograph collection, room upgrades when available, complimentary high - speed Internet access, 25 percent point bonus on Marriott stays, priority late check - out and a one - to - one transfer rate of MileagePlus miles into Marriott Rewards points.

«VanDerzee» Photographs by VanDerZee from the museum's collection capture African American life from the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance.

On view in the East Room are examples from The Morgan Library & Museum's extraordinary collection of medieval illuminated manuscripts, rare printed books and bindings, and handwritten manuscripts of great writers, artists, and composers from the Renaissance to the present day.

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1907: Hartford native J. Pierpont Morgan offered to build the Morgan Memorial, and in 1917 J.P. Morgan, Jr., presented the museum with his father's collection of ancient bronzes, Renaissance majolica, 17th century ivories and silver gilt objects, and Meissen and Sevres porcelains.

In 1902 when Pierpont Morgan commissioned Charles Follen McKim to design a library to house his growing collection of books and manuscripts, the architect conceived an Italianate marble villa that paid homage to the High Renaissance.

1986 Ringing in the Changes, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London (November 5, 1986 — January 10, 1987) The 1950s: American Artists in Paris, Part III, Denise Cadé Gallery, New York (November 4 — December 15) Couleurs de l'Ombre: Peintures Modernes de Grands Formats, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris (September 24 — October 26) Un Musée éphémère: Collections privées françaises, 1945 - 1985, Fondation Maeght, Saint - Paul - de-Vence, France (July 5 — October 5) Paintings, Sculpture, Collages, and Drawings, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston (March) An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (January 12 — March 30) Drawings, Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York (January 8 — February 8) The Inspiration Comes From Nature, Part 1, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (January 7 — February 1)

Harriet Kelley, whose art collection with husband Harmon Kelley forms the reason the exhibition came into being, spoke to the ways black artists represented their culture in the days of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance.

The Art Institute of Chicago have strengthened their Italian High Renaissance collection with the acquisition of Christ Carrying the Cross (1515 — 17) by Sebastiano del Piombo.

The collection of the UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts comprises more than 45,000 prints, drawings, photographs, and artists» books dating from the Renaissance to the present.

«Renaissance Impressions», at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (until 8 June), plucks some of the world's finest chiaroscuro woodcut prints from the ample collections of the artist Georg Baselitz, and the Albertina in Vienna.

There is also some traffic in the other direction: Aloïse Corbaz, for example, who was included in Dubuffet's collection, occasionally incorporated postcards of Renaissance art into her work, but most of her cultural references are completely translated into her own idiom.

BEYOND WORDS: ITALIAN RENAISSANCE BOOKS Among the 65 books from Boston collections is a first edition of Dante's «Divine Comedy,» illustrated by Sandro Botticelli.

1997 Visions of My People: African American Art in Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

When Georg Baselitz's collection of chiaroscuro woodcuts went on display at the Royal Academy in London last month («Renaissance Impressions: Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Collections of Georg Baselitz and the Albertina, Vienna»; until 8 June), it reaffirmed his place in the pantheon of distinguished artist - collectors.

The museum's permanent collection includes more than 6,000 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings [1] with an emphasis on European and American fine art from the Renaissance to the present.

Works on view, drawn from the Morgan's collections, survey illustrated publications from 1890 to 1935, contextualizing them within their idealized past — in touchstones of medieval and Renaissance book design — and mapping potential trajectories in experimental animation, the fine press, and works by graphic artists today.

Over a thirty - year period industrialist Norton Simon (1907 — 1993) amassed an astonishing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

Over a thirty - year period industrialist Norton Simon (1907 — 1993) amassed an exquisite collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

1997 African - American Art: 20th Century Masterworks, IV, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY; Fisk University Galleries, Nashville, TN Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, Hayward Gallery, London; Arnolfini, Bristol; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, England; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Revisiting American Art: Works from the Collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

Another focal point of the launch was the opening of Walter O. Evans Center for African American Studies, featuring a selection of close to 40 works from Evans» legacy collection of African American art - from 19th - century landscape paintings of the Hudson River School to works by masters of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as examples from the Federal Art Project of the 1930s and later 20th - century works by Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden, among others.