Sentences with phrase «major altarpieces»

Among the works showcased in the exhibition will be rarely - exhibited early works; large - scale installations dedicated to Zora Neale Hurston, Jimi Hendrix, and John Brown, among other figures; and major altarpieces.

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Watson facilitated the acquisition of a number of remarkable European paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts, such as a late French Gothic sculpture of the Virgin and Child; an exquisite Sienese cassone (wedding chest) depicting the death of Lucretia; an important Italian Renaissance altarpiece by Bartolomeo di Giovanni; a richly iconographic 17th - century Dutch vanitas painting; and a majestic Neoclassical landscape by French master Pierre Henri de Valenciennes, among other major gifts and purchases.

Four of them (Christ Cleansing the Temple, two altarpieces from a chapel in Toledo, and the Laocoön) have recently returned from Spain, where they were featured in major exhibitions honoring the 400th anniversary of the artist's death.

The opening movement of «Soul Recordings» is a polka - dot revelry, a bedazzled wake - up call, a cymbal - clap altarpiece, a plastic - bead trumpet blast, and a monster of a skull - ringed, glitter - bombed orchestral chord breaking in fuchsia major.

The academy is about to launch the first major exhibition in the UK of the painter whose best known work shows a tailor in action, gathering together rare loans including his late religious paintings and altarpieces that have never left Italy before, and one portrait only identified as his work last year by the curators of this show.