Sentences with phrase «fifteenth century italian»

In fifteenth century Italian and Dutch painting, the window was often rendered as a device to clarify reality, make discoveries, and gain knowledge.

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And it was in Italian that Orlando ultimately achieved his apotheosis as the supreme hero of chivalric fiction, in the three greatest Italian romances of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: the Morgante of Luigi Pulci, the Orlando Innamorato of Matteo Boiardo, and the Orlando Furioso of Ludovico Ariosto.

The largest Franciscan church in the world, the beautiful Basilica di Santa Croce was consecrated in the fifteenth century and is notable both for its superb artworks and for housing funerary monuments to Italian luminaries including Dante, Galileo, Rossini, Michelangelo and Machiavelli.

The history of Trinidad and Tobago dates since its discovery in the late fifteenth century by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

One gallery will contain more than sixty Italian, German, Dutch, and French drawings of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries.

These drawings and oils on wood panel, in a style and technique inspired by Flemish and Italian painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, also contain a foreign, anachronistic element: an eclipse, a cloud of smoke or a rock levitating over a landscape.

Citing a desire to revisit fifteenth - century Italian painting in which figures are situated within highly detailed architectural spaces, Larsen began to create narrative scenes that upset any sense of the illusory perspectives of traditional representation.

The Blanton has also brought out such rarely seen treasures as a regal Italian late fifteenth - century velvet ecclesiastical cape, which sometime during the twentieth century was sewn together with an ornamental border from 1530 that seems to have been of Flemish origin.

ROBILANT+VOENA deal in fine art from the fifteenth century to the twenty first, encompassing Old Masters and nineteenth century painting, classic modern, Italian post-war and contemporary art.

Reactions to this unquestionably beautiful gathering of seven paintings by the fifteenth - century Italian master are so hushed and reverent that I find myself wondering if people are transfixed by the paintings or by their participation in what has been widely recognized as this season's perfect little museum show.