Sentences with phrase «in ancient sculpture»

Baziotes, who was of Greek descent, often used the forms that appeared in the ancient sculpture he owned, and during the 1950s he studied Greek sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

With a humbling visual design bereft oflacking the usual superhero accoutrement in favor of a simple but iconic chromed exterior and his surfboard, visually the Silver Surfer has more in common with Greek gods as seen in ancient sculpture than the four - color superheroes that he shares the comics shelves with.

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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.

Irradiation has been used worldwide to save documents such as ancient Orthodox Christian icons in Romania, cultural artifacts in Brazil and religious sculptures in France.

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.

A few artifacts with features that are reminiscent of this sculpture have been found elsewhere in ancient Malta, such as the fragments of carved beds and the terra - cotta Sleeping Lady of the Hypogeum.

I just realized those of us with apple bodies have the Mother Goddess form, beautifully depicted in ancient Turkish sculptures of round women!

Ancient Egypt was full of animal deities, but cats reigned supreme, celebrated in sculptures and stories.

It was in Lorenzo's garden that Michelangelo made his first sculpture, a head of a faun based on an ancient model in Lorenzo's collection.

The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life.

In the ancient world, terracotta sculpture was ubiquitous.

It has been around for centuries, and, in fact, the ancient Egyptians created numerous motifs and sculptures focusing on the breed.

An ancient breed, depicted in ancient Babylonian sculptures, it has come down through the centuries relatively unchanged.

This African breed is arguably the most ancient breed in the world, and sculptures of dogs resembling the Basenji can be found in Egyptian tombs.

Tourists flock to Coba to see one of the largest stone causeway networks in the ancient Magan World, as well as sculptures and engravings depicting the ceremonial life of the Late Classic Period.

The ancient art form of sculpture is showcased both in Cannon Beach galleries and on its street corners.

Here, in one of Greece's oldest villages, visit the Treasury of the Athenians, the Temple of Apollo, and the Delphi Museum, which houses such masterpieces of ancient Greek sculpture as the bronze Charioteer and the famous Athlete Aghias.

Some particularly interesting attractions include the MUSA underwater museum, where visitors can dive or snorkel through more than 2,000 underwater sculptures; a day trip to the ancient city of Coba (a two - hour drive); a sailing excursion to Isla Mujeres for relaxation and snorkeling among the reefs; or a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity to swim with 50 - foot whale sharks.

The French pavilion inspired building houses a collection that spans 4,000 years, featuring European painting and sculptures, Mediterranean ancient art, and the largest collection of works on paper in the American West.

Inscriptions in Kediri script above the hermitage cells are still legible; inside are a few pieces of ancient sculpture and pedestals.

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.

Beloved of the ancient Maya, jade is mined in Guatemala today and you'll find it both as jewelry and as miniature sculpture.

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.

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 sculptureIn 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 sculpturein a style inspired by ancient Roman sculptures.

If these ceramics provide us with a formal record of their history, a series of drawings and sculptures made by Porras - Kim creates indexes of re-occurring forms that cumulatively provide a brief glimpse of life in ancient Western Mexico.

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.

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.

Accompanied by Bove's own monumental sculpture, Cretaceous (2014), an ancient, four - metre chunk of petrified wood bolted directly to an I - beam, the works are seen against white walls, with sunlight flooding in through the skylights of the gallery — a fitting homage to Scarpa in more than one way.

While Geng interprets ancient Daoist philosophy in her contemporary sculptures, Zhu presents a site - specific installation that evokes dreamscapes.

Artist Statement Contemporary handmade metal jewelry informed by modern sculpture and rooted in a love of ancient art & symbol.

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.

But it's Nagle's sculptures that have earned him his widest audience, and now, a show in a major gallery — displaying the objects in special vitrines as if they were works of ancient pottery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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.

MATTHEW BARNEY: RIVER OF FUNDAMENT Fourteen large - scale sculptures made in conjunction with Matthew Barney's «River of Fundament» (2014), a film inspired by Norman Mailer's novel «Ancient Evenings,» and displaying similarly epic, megalomaniacal ambitions.

Mendieta is currently featured in Crossing at Paço de Artes in São Paulo, Signs of Life: Ancient Knowledge in Contemporary Art at the Kunstmuseum in Luzern, and The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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.

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.

Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in South America and Africa.

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.

Viewers visit quarries and the ancient art of stone - carving, the economic center of London, and public art in airports; meet Greek river gods and an abandoned abstract sculpture in Cork; and discover drama at a traffic roundabout.

Each sculpture is set within its own space in the ancient woodland landscape, while benches and pavilions are also scattered among the trees.

The exhibition presents a unique opportunity to witness the importance of bronze in the ancient world, when it became the preferred medium for portrait sculpture.

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.

Though he produced colorful paintings, drawings, collages, and sculptures based on the Ancient Greek myth of Cronus, Hare is most remembered for his welded - steel sculptural abstractions of the 1950s in which abstracted biomorphic forms are suspended or interwoven in complex symbolic arrangements, as in The Dinner Table (1950) and Windows of Moons (1951).

The striated figures in «The Prince's Red Serpent,» «The Prince's Decoration,» and «Blue Sovereigns» cite the bronze head sculptures that were first crafted in the ancient Yoruba city Ile Ife and memorialized royal figures.

In the spacious galleries on the ground floor the artist presents carefully staged settings of larger than life - sized sculptures, such as mock - ups of an ancient olive tree or of a fireplace with mantle, as well as large - scale paintings.

In a 1980 performance, Lorraine O'Grady (American, born 1934) juxtaposed images of her family members with Ancient Egyptian sculpture that created parallels between her personal and diasporic histories.

The most popular exhibition in 2017 was a show dedicated to ancient Buddhist sculptures by the Japanese artist Unkei at Tokyo's National Museum.