Sentences with phrase «eighteenth century paintings»

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel of today is descended from the small Toy Spaniels seen in so many of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century paintings by Titian, Van Dyck, Lely, Stubbs, Gainsborough, Reynolds, and Romney.

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It can be identified in numerous hunting scenes painted in the eighteenth century.

Like Gian Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli did with his Museum that, already open to the general public in Milan in 1881, is one of the most important museum houses in Europe, a good example of one of the finest 19th century collections: from the fifteenth - century Lombardy maestros (Luini, Boltraffio, Solario) to masterpieces by Pollaiolo, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Bellini and Cosmè Tura through to eighteenth - century paintings (Guardi and Canaletto) and exceptional collections of decorative arts.

Visually, The Garden of Delights alludes to abstraction, and conceptually it engages with the late seventeenth and eighteenth century casta paintings commissioned by Spanish officials in Spain's New World colonies in the Americas that depicted the intermingling of three major races.

In addition to the founding stories of the RA and PAFA, this exhibition recognizes the other artist - founders of PAFA, West's role as the teacher of eighteenth - and early - nineteenth - century American artists, and the development of monumental history paintings such as Christ Rejected and Death on the Pale Horse.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

The 1977 show also included female Old Masters of established reputation: Renaissance painters like the Cremonese aristocrat Sophonisba Anguissola and the Bolognese Lavinia Fontana; eighteenth - century professionals like the pastel portraitist Rosalba Carriera, whose Venetian studio was once as essential a stop on the Grand Tour as that of her male colleague Pompeo Batoni in Rome, and the Swiss - born Angelika Kauffmann, represented by a self - portrait that showed the dark - haired, porcelain - skinned beauty making a definitive choice between painting and music.

The artist's initial inspiration for these works comes from casta painting, a seventeenth - and eighteenth - century genre characteristic of New Spain and particularly prevalent in colonial Mexico.

The eerie, slightly uneasy feel of Ghenie's work continues unbroken from these painted works to The Darwin Room, an installation of meticulously sourced eighteenth and nineteenth century panelling, floor boards and furniture, juxtaposed with contemporary items.

Hey, I am talking about eighteenth - century flower painting here.

Francesca specializes in medieval and Renaissance Italian art with a secondary interest in eighteenth - and nineteenth - century American painting.

The museum's second - floor galleries feature American paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the eighteenth century to the present.

Exceptional examples include a late eighteenth - century portrait by the New England artist John Brewster, Jr.; a lush, highly detailed nineteenth - century still life by Severin Roesen, a German - born artist based in Williamsport in the 1860s; exquisite nineteenth - century landscapes by William Sonntag, John Kensett, and William Trost Richards; and an impressive range of twentieth - century paintings and sculptures by artists, including Marsden Hartley, Richard Diebenkorn, Red Grooms, and Marisol.

A major strength of the museum lies in its collection of paintings by European artists from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

Kaphar copies seventeenth - and eighteenth - century paintings before taking them apart.

Diligently hand - sanded, the planks are monochromatically painted with milk paint, an eighteenth - century matte furniture paint.

A highly respected art conservator practicing in Roxbury, Connecticut, Yost's experience restoring fine oil paintings from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries has allowed him to translate the techniques of the masters into contemplative landscapes for modern viewers.

In the artist's words: «Part of the liberating thing about making some of these figures over the porn was to accept the sort of crappy way that I paint compared to somebody from the eighteenth century.

The early drawing My Sister and Me by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1986) is a copy in pastel of a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, whilst another early pastel is a copy of a work by the eighteenth century French artist, Jean - Baptiste Greuze.

Through paintings, sculptures, photography and decorative arts, Visions of US explores evolving ideas about American cultural identity from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries to tell a rich and inclusive story about how we imagine and represent the United States.

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American artists primarily painted landscapes and portraits in a realistic style.

The featured characters give a sense of romance and are inspired by religious and mythological sculptures and paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Main Gallery: Unrestored Unrestored (1995) consists of an installation of framed oil paintings that appear to be minor eighteenth - or nineteenth - century European works 60 rely in need of conservation and repair.

and Hong - Do Kim (1745 - 1806), while some elements are taken from Farmer's Life, an eighteenth - century genre of Korean paintings applied to folding screens, reproductions of which are displayed alongside Ri's paintings.

For the vast majority of European paintings before the eighteenth century, the absence of a title testified not to a deliberate refusal of prevailing custom but to the default condition of artistic practice.

Hogg paints monumentally scaled versions of the eighteenth century French artists Antoine Watteau's paintings, Gilles, in highly chromatic and -LSB-...]

The Landscape Garden is rooted in an eighteenth century taste for idealised classical landscapes that developed from studying the seventeenth century landscape paintings of Salvator Rosa, Gaspart Poussin and Claude Lorrain.

Unrestored (1995) consists of an installation of framed oil paintings that appear to be minor eighteenth - or nineteenth - century European works 60 rely in need of conservation and repair.

Landscape painting in the eighteenth century continued to develop in response to the general social and political climate engered by the ancien regimes in England, France and the rest of Europe.

Among the earliest landscape paintings of the region, are those by Thomas Coram and Charles Fraser from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Holdings of eighteenth and nineteenth century and early modern European and American art were enriched by the donation in 1982 of thirty - eight Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and contemporary American paintings and sculptures from the collection of Algur H. Meadows and his wife, Elizabeth.

Starting with eighteenth - century French architectural painting and passing by Charles Burchfield's starved landscapes, the show placed contemporary works of ecotrauma by Pierre Huyghe, Erin Shirreff, Alexis Rockman, and Mark Dion alongside an indelible video from Fukushima, in which an unknown worker in a hazmat suit points at the camera for long minutes: a speechless, unanswerable indictment.

For Adam Cvijanovic's third solo show at Bellwether Gallery, Love Poem (10 Minutes After the End of Gravity), he has created two monumental paintings that hark back to the triumphant decoration of late eighteenth - century Rococo.

In each work, a blue mirrored, hand - blown glass gazing ball — a convention from eighteenth century garden design — reflects its surroundings, uniting painting, sculpture, and architecture in order to multiply sensory experience.

It opens with an imposing wallpaper based on a painting by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, which immerses the ground floor of Museion in the atmosphere of an eighteenth - century picture gallery.

The Terra Foundation collection comprises 731 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures dating from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century by artists such as John Singleton Copley, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Marsden Hartley, and Edward Hopper.

His canvases are populated with dramatic images lifted from sources as various as Salle's own black - and - white photographs, eighteenth - through twentieth - century French and American painting, 1950s print advertising and how - to - draw manuals.

A grid of photographs from pioneering feminist conceptual photographer Natalia LL's series «Sztuka Postkonsumpcyjna» (Post-Consumer Art, 1975) and «TAK / YES» (1971) was placed alongside Zuzanna Janin's video Walka / Fight (2001)-- in which the artist boxes the professional heavyweight Przemysław Saleta — and new paintings by the emerging artist Ewa Juszkiewicz based on eighteenth - and nineteenth - century society portraits.

The Frick Collection includes superb examples of Italian paintings and bronzes, Dutch seventeenth - century works of art, Limoges enamels, English eighteenth - century portraits, French eighteenth - century paintings and furniture, nineteenth - century paintings and Chinese porcelains.

The first and by far the greatest help to reading is the compulsory hyphening that makes a single adjective out of two words before a noun: eighteenth - century painting / fleet - footed Achilles / tumbled - down shack / Morse - code noises / single - stick expert.