Sentences with phrase «images of animals centuries»

And some of the country's most important cultural and tourist destinations — granite hills painted with images of animals centuries ago — were being damaged.»

Not exact matches

The advent of aerial photography has changed the way people see their world more than any other development since Eadweard Muybridge's seminal images of moving animals in the second half of the nineteenth century.

Image: Power Figure (Nkishi) with Mambele (Cowrie Shells) Unidentified Songye (Kalebwe subgroup) artist, late 19th - early 20th century Between the Lubefu and Lomami rivers, East Kasai Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo Wood, metal, cowrie shells, fiber, beads, animal hide, organic materials 21 x 6 x 5 1/2 inches (53.3 x 15.2 x 14 cm) The Allan Stone Collection

Images (left to right): Mouth mask probably depicting the head of a rooster, Indonesia, Southeast Moluccas, Leti, Luhuleli, 19th century, wood, boar tusks, clam shell, mother - of - pearl, buffalo horn, resinous material, and pigment, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; Ceremonial cloth (tampan), Indonesia, South Sumatra, Lampung region, Paminggir people, late 19th century, cotton, Dallas Museum of Art, the Steven G. Alpert Collection of Indonesian Textiles, gift of The Eugene McDermott Foundation; Protective figure (jaraik) in the form of an animal, Indonesia, West Sumatra, Mentawai Islands, Siberut Island, Taileleu village, c. 1930, wood, pigment, shell, metal, rattan strips, grass fibers, and monkey skull, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.; Male and female protective figures (pagar), Indonesia, North Sumatra, Lake Toba region, Toba Batak people, 19th century or earlier, wood, Dallas Museum of Art, The Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc..

Arranged thematically, the more than eighty small drawings, large - scale works, and sketchbooks on view will foreground Brown's iterative reworking of motifs from her wide - reaching arsenal of source material — prints by eighteenth - century draftsman William Hogarth, pages from animal encyclopedias, and Jimi Hendrix's 1968 album cover for Electric Ladyland are just some of the images that Brown has rendered again and again in her own hand.

Arranged thematically, the more than eighty small drawings, large - scale works, and sketchbooks on view will foreground Brown's iterative reworking of motifs from her wide - reaching arsenal of source material — prints by eighteenth - century draftsman William Hogarth, pages from animal clip - art books, and the cover of Jimi Hendrix's 1968 album Electric Ladyland are just some of the images that Brown has rendered again and again in her own hand.

As for the cobalt blue designs on the front of the reeeeally old crocks - apparently ones from the 18th century were typically embellished with stylized loops, and images from nature, like flowers, animals, fish, birds and butterflies...