Sentences with phrase «created altarpieces»

Although he was a highly versatile painter who created altarpieces, frescos, scenes from mythology, landscapes, cityscapes, and contemporary genre scenes in the manner of Venetian painter Pietro Longhi, he remains best known for his urban landscape painting of Venice.

Not exact matches

Below, front and center, a sense of the whole scene as a horrific modern altarpiece is created by a candelabrum — not a menorah but a six - candled candelabrum in which one of the candles has been quenched.

PIG (Piece in Ghent), created for his participation in a group show in Ghent in 1994, was directly inspired by the altarpiece The Lamb of God (1432) by the van Eyck brothers in St. Bavo's Chapel, Ghent Cathedral.

Today, artists freely invent their own cosmologies, borrowing from a variety of narrative sources ranging from Renaissance altarpieces to video games; Matthew Barney *, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Pierre Huyghe, Mariko Mori, Pipilotti Rist, and Sam Taylor - Wood each create imaginary universes in their elaborately staged photographs, films, and videos.

Now a 35 - year - old CalArts graduate with a mean set of woodworking skills, Young has taken to crafting sculptures that employ the arrows, circles, lines, and other symbols to create quasi-religious forms (a reliquary, an altarpiece) that celebrate our attempts to make sense of the big questions in life.

The works in this exhibition range from the colourful and glittering portraits of fashionable aristocrats, to religious altarpieces and finally to more sober and insightful paintings created towards the end of his life.

This distance from everyday reality was enhanced by McNairn's practice of creating triptychs or diptychs, in homage to Renaissance and medieval altarpieces, as in Through the Valley or In a High Place, both exhibited in 1997.

For MCASD's ongoing Cerca Series, De Luca's long - term project Stations (2006 - 2007) will be on view for the first time, together with a site - specific altarpiece triptych made for this exhibition, which responds to the changing light conditions experienced on the I - 5 South during her drive from Los Angeles to San Diego, created for Fayman Gallery at 1001 Kettner.

Yet throughout his prodigious and successful career, he and his bustling workshop also created imposing altarpieces and smaller religious paintings for private devotion or collectors, striking portraits, depictions of sensual episodes drawn from the classical tradition, and majestic allegories glorifying the Venetian state.