Sentences with phrase «eighteenth century lighting»

One of the fun things about it are the little wooden trays that pull out that would have been used to set candle holders on — simple eighteenth century lighting!

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The results of this schism are with us still; it is not uncommon to find Baptist and «Christian» churches still facing one another across town squares and village lanes throughout Tennessee and Kentucky, just as New England Congregationalists divided into Old Lights and New Lights in the eighteenth century.

On this retelling, our eighteenth - century forebears appear in a new light: once considered selfish liberal brutes, intent on their rights and interests, they are transformed into virtuous citizens, single - minded in their dedication to the common good.

The show will examine his understanding of form and light in the composition of formal portraits, still lifes and figurative works that celebrate the sensual quality of nature and the human body.The works relate strongly to the museum's permanent collection of fine art that includes portraits from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Dutch old master still lifes and studies of the nude and human figure, a staple of western art dating back to the classical forms of Greek sculpture.

Offering a unique opportunity to compare likenesses in two and three dimensions, this study exhibition focuses on five works which depict two of eighteenth - century London's leading lights.

14 August - 14 November 2009 Gallery 4 Offering a unique opportunity to compare likenesses in two and three dimensions, this study exhibition focuses on five works which depict two of eighteenth - century London's leading lights.