Sentences with phrase «medieval altarpiece»

This late medieval altarpiece panel, attributed to Pere Vall, will become the third work in the museum's collection dating before 1450.

Research into England's oldest medieval altarpiece — which for centuries provided the backdrop to Westminster Abbey coronations — has revealed that it cost no more than the rather unprincely equivalent of eight cows.

In Leguillon's rendition, Reinhardt's lecture starts with pyramids, moving to the peaked rooftops of buildings from many cultures, to the pointed tops of medieval altarpieces; the pyramidal form mutates to an X shape repeated in various contexts, ending on windows of a building slated for demolition; the lecture moves on to windows of all kinds.

The artist's interest in light, color, and multiple perspectives is also pervasive in some of her recent works in which she combines elements of Matisse's work with tripartite spaces evoking medieval altarpieces, unifying past and present times.

These works represent a tour of painting from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity and Byzantine and medieval altarpieces, to paintings from Asia, India, Africa, and the Americas and the greatest European and North American masters.

This distance from everyday reality was enhanced by McNairn's practice of creating triptychs or diptychs, in homage to Renaissance and medieval altarpieces, as in Through the Valley or In a High Place, both exhibited in 1997.

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In medieval times, however, there was a widespread knowledge of artists» materials that contributed deeper meaning to objects such as the Metz Pontifical (c. 1316) and the Macclesfield Psalter (c. 1330), both beautiful illuminated manuscripts now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as the Thornham Parva Retable, which was also restored at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, and the Wilton Diptych, Richard II's iconic portable altarpiece.

I thought of the medieval Netherlandish altarpieces I love so much: Sometimes the central panel — be it a picture of the annunciation, the crucificion, or a martyrdom — is flanked by panels depicting portraits of the altarpiece donors (often husband and wife, male and female).

The title itself merges «icon», referencing medieval reliquaries and Renaissance altarpieces, and «public», since pieces could be manipulated by the viewer.

This type of composition in three parts, and the use of gold - leaf decoration, recalls medieval and Renaissance triptych altarpieces.

Its permanent collection encompasses: Medieval and renaissance stonework; Gothic wooden statues; Late Gothic altarpieces; Renaissance and Baroque artworks; Modern art, notably 19th and 20th century painting, sculpture and numismatics; Contemporary art, notably by Laszlo Paal and Mihaly Munkacsy.

whispHer Lela Brunet In Lela Brunet's second solo exhibition WhispHer, she found inspiration studying the Gothic ornamental details found in altarpieces of late Medieval Art.

Admirable examples of woodcuts and mezzotints, for example, share Barbara Archer Gallery with a full - scale medieval - style altarpiece (above) and a video of a portrait screen - printed on a sheet of ice (below).