Sentences with phrase «from ancient sculptures»

Elements from ancient sculptures are piled up with images from b - movies and vintage toys resulting in the unexpected imagery that characterises HOPE's works.

Intuition at Palazzo Fortuny looks at its titular theme through works ranging from ancient sculptures to modern movements (some great Abstract Expressionism, Surrealism and Fluxus) to contemporary art by figures such as Anish Kapoor RA.

Sir John Soane's Museum, London, 25 June — 26 September 2015 The practice of artists drawing from ancient sculptures and plaster casts has played an important educational and inspirational role in Western art for more than 400 years.

From ancient sculpture to modern - day masterpieces, we are the original home of the blockbuster exhibition.

The fragmentary forms in the collection, some from ancient sculpture, are integrally ambiguous, demonstrating both destruction and the passage of time, whilst showing the potential for completeness.

The RA's temporary exhibition subjects are very diverse and range from ancient sculpture to contemporary art; some of the most successful exhibitions in Britain in the last years have been held here.

Not exact matches

The ship would not be disturbed again until 1900, when a sponge diver clad in a clunky dry suit and brass helmet saw an unattached bronze arm from a sculpture on the seabed, says Alexander Jones, a historian of the ancient world at New York University who has studied the shipwreck and its cargo.

Chemists have confirmed something that archaeologists and art historians have long suspected: Ancient sculptures found in western Africa contain blood from ritual animal sacrifices in their patina.

While the Musée des Beaux Arts hosts an impressive collection of pieces from ancient Egypt and European paintings and sculpture dating from the 14th Century, many of the galleries on Rue Burdeau showcase modern artists.

Catch a glimpse of the architectural skills of the ancient Roman people with a visit to the Colosseum and Roman Forum or make the journey to nearby Vatican City to browse through famous paintings, sculptures and artwork from centuries ago.

Ranging from prehistoric relics to remnants of the Greco - Roman period, the collection includes samples of ancient pottery and sculpture, statues from the Temple of Zeus, and coins from Agrigento's long - forgotten history.

Other artifacts include Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (some of the world's oldest writing), Egyptian mummies, a crystal ball owned by China's Dowager Empress, monumental stone sculptures from the ancient Maya and 4,500 - year - old jewelry from the Royal Cemetery at Ur.

The sphinx is part of a renowned international collection that also includes Egyptian mummies, Chinese Buddhist and ancient Greek sculptures, monumental steles from the ancient Maya and evocative African masks.

Many of the art and artifacts on display come from early expeditions: Sumerian cuneiform clay tablets (with some of the world's oldest writing), architectural elements from the 3,200 - year - old palace of the Pharaoh Merenptah, towering ancient Maya stone monuments, evocative masks from West Africa, Buddhist sculptures from China and Native American regalia.

Guidebook in the car, map pre-marked in yellow our day trip target Clonmacnoise, one of Ireland's most significant ancient monastic sites not far from Shannon Bridge and the edgy, earth - friendly sculpture park at Lough Boora.

The «Giant's Head» and «Mud Maid» woodland sculptures were just two of the surprises to be found along the woodland walk, emerging gently from the undergrowth in the beautifully natural forest, alongside some truly magnificent ancient broadleaved trees.

A sculpture of Venus seems to rise up from the water, and dominates the magnificent square in front of the Residence, from where starts a superb boardwalk along the ancient walls, which leads to the old city.

Entering the museum, we were greeted by large - scale cut outs and an ancient Egyptian sculpture borrowed from the Louvre.

In Still Life Studio, celebrated Australian artist Petrina Hicks continues to take inspiration from mythology and art history, this time featuring models with luminous skin posing with various props in a style inspired by ancient Roman sculptures.

It is, instead, a quiet show of representational drawings — 47 in total, with an additional triptych and book of prints made from the drawings via photogravure — all based on sculptures from an eponymous museum of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in Munich.

If Houseago's works resonate, it is because they encompass a wide range of influences: the formal language of sculpture throughout the ages (from ancient to early modern), mythology, the natural world of plants and animals, African tribal art, cartoon imagery and contemporary music and culture (the title of the exhibition contains a fragment from the lyrics of «Wild Child» by Lou Reed and a reference to James Taylor's «Like A Circle Round the Sun»).

The Cavendish art collection spans 4000 years, from ancient Egyptian sculpture and masterpieces by Rembrandt to works by modern artists including Lucian Freud and Edmund de Waal.

The Collection comprises 2,000 works from ancient Mediterranean and pre-Hispanic cultures to modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, and photography.

Finlay's garden is both a political statement (it takes it name from an independent state in Ancient Greece) and an artistic endeavour, blending landscape design with sculpture and poetry.

The artist has acquired a range of interesting pieces as a collector, from Japanese prints and landscapes to 17th - and 18th - century paintings, as well as an Egyptian funerary mask and other pieces of ancient sculpture.

Its holdings span 4,000 years and include European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts; ancient art from the Mediterranean basin; and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

Soaring high into the urban landscape, the multi-story mural from the Spanish duo features their signature remix of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures with their love for graffiti.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

Sculptures from the history of art also feature, including an ancient Janus figure, as well as modernist classics such as Rodin's Burghers of Calais (1884 - 88) and Brancusi's Bird in Space (1923).

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Colnaghi and Ben Brown Fine Arts present Textura, an exhibition celebrating texture and materiality in art which brings together paintings and sculptures from the ancient and modern worlds.

Britain is home to some spectacular ancient sculptures, from Roman bronzes that inspired Hollywood films to ancient Greek statues.

Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient oAncient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancientSculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancientsculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient oancient objects.

Before Kali has a wide range of references, from Indus Valley figurines, to ancient Indian Rasa theory that deals with art and aesthetics, to premodern sculptures, current political events, references to Western art history and contemporary feminist artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Maria Lassnig.»

From the Sun to Zürich, 2016, anchors the installation: it is among the largest examples from the series of painted steel tube sculptures Bove refers to as «glyphs,» whose curving forms could alternately suggest a cosmological spiral, an ancient hieroglyphic language, or a wayward nooFrom the Sun to Zürich, 2016, anchors the installation: it is among the largest examples from the series of painted steel tube sculptures Bove refers to as «glyphs,» whose curving forms could alternately suggest a cosmological spiral, an ancient hieroglyphic language, or a wayward noofrom the series of painted steel tube sculptures Bove refers to as «glyphs,» whose curving forms could alternately suggest a cosmological spiral, an ancient hieroglyphic language, or a wayward noodle.

Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts.

This broad assortment of over 10,000 4» x 5» glass slides, formerly used to teach History of Architecture and Town Planning, encompasses historical sites, architecture, painting, sculpture, manuscripts, city planning, drawings, jewelry and mosaics from ancient history through the 20th century.

Bhabha's sculptures summon ancient totems that resemble artifacts sent from the future that allude to unknown (yet ever present contemporary) catastrophe.

Colnaghi and Ben Brown Fine Arts present Textura, an exhibition celebrating texture and materiality in art which brings together paintings and sculptures from the ancient and modern worlds.

In the afternoon session, you'll learn about Bel and Baalshamin, the two lost temples of the city, funerary portraiture from the ancient city and all about the freestanding sculpture of the city.

Its permanent collection of more than 84,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from every part of the world, including objects from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art.

I like ancient sculpture from the Pre-Columbian era, sculpture from the Middle Eastern civilizations of the Tigris and the Euphrates, African art, American folk art, Japanese prints, and on and on.

Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is a vast array of sculptures posing as ancient artefacts newly found from the ocean floor.

Covering everything from sculpture, antiquities from across the ancient world, fine and applied arts, manuscripts and coins, the Fitzwilliam, which celebrates its bicentenary in 2016, has been hailed as «the finest small museum in Europe».

Sisters, by Lorraine O'Grady, is cut down, too — a selection of four diptychs from her 1994 Miscegenated Family Album, which pairs photos of ancient Egyptian sculpture with portrait photography.

The galleries showcase an exceptional collection of art from Africa; important works by established and emerging contemporary artists; outstanding European and American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts; significant artworks from China; ancient Antioch mosaics; and exquisite textiles from around the world.

In these sculptures, one might find references to works that range from ancient African and Indian sculpture to modern creations.

But this sculpture's essence — its numen, as the ancients would say — is inseparable from the festivities that filled it with life.

Assembled in this exhibition are artistic encounters drawn from the arts of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Europe, spanning ancient to contemporary and including mediums from painting and sculpture to calligraphy, prints and draw...

I see everything from Modernism to ancient ruins in the sculptures.

Along with the subject's own work, Larsen and his team included a chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, a sculpture by Donald Judd, prints by Vasily Kandinsky and Roy Lichtenstein, ancient religious objects from India and Pakistan, and an array of other art and design pieces to contextualize Sottsass's wide - ranging influences.