Sentences with phrase «number of masterpieces»

On his return to Munich, Lenbach was offered the post of Professor at the Academy of Art in Weimar - an offer he accepted - but only held the position until 1862, when he was commissioned by Count Schach to copy a number of masterpieces in some of the best art museums in Europe.

It was responsible for a huge number of masterpieces across all the painting genres, and featured virtuoso portraitists like Frans Hals (1580 — 1666) and Rembrandt (1606 — 1669), genre - painters like Jan Vermeer (1632 — 1675), landscape artists like Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 — 1682) and still life masters such as Frans Snyders (1579 — 1657), Jan Davidsz De Heem (1606 - 1684) and Willem Kalf (1622 - 1693), among many others.

Primarily focused on Italian Renaissance art, the permanent collection of the Accademia includes a number of masterpieces by artists such as Hans Memling, Hieronymus Bosch, Piero della Francesca, Andrea Mantegna, Tintoretto, Titian, Veronese, Alessandro Longhi, Lorenzo Lotto, Giovanni Bellini, Giambattista Tiepolo, and Canaletto; as well as the already mentioned Vitruvian man by Leonardo and the famous Tempest by Giorgione.

While co-op titles rarely match the overall popularity of their competitive counterparts, the category still counts a number of masterpieces in its ranks.

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That makes it well suited for the surprising number of art owners who don't hang their masterpieces on walls, but keep them warehoused in Switzerland, registered to offshore companies.

While the number of those who can appreciate the beauty of a chess masterpiece is far greater, it is still a tiny minority of the human race.

And you'll not get any argument from me about the wankfest over JM, by the way I didn't see a tactical masterpiece, just a ragged performance from your mids and a mismatch of numbers in the middle.

In this remarkably obsessive work, Chris Jordan arranged 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the United States every thirty seconds, to mirror French Neoimpressionist painter George Seurat's masterpiece: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jette.

With an advance that one cryptography expert called a «masterpiece,» University of Texas at Austin computer scientists have developed a new method for producing truly random numbers, a breakthrough that could be used to encrypt data, make electronic voting more secure, conduct statistically significant polls and more accurately simulate complex systems such as Earth's climate.

By plugging in Edward Sarul's numbers — a very reliable source of information described in Poprawski's masterpiece «Aspect of Strength, Power and Speed in Shot Put Training» (1988)-- this equation predicts a personal best of at least 17 - 18 meters.

This hot little number is another one of Cultro's masterpieces.

The good first: one of the primary prisoners, Daniel Culp — referred to by his prison number of 8612 once he is «inside» — is played by Ezra Miller, best known for 2011's devastating masterpiece We Need to Talk About Kevin.

Distributor Sony Pictures Classics has pulled off a number of wins in this category, and, in Andrei Zvyagintsev's «Leviathan,» which took the screenplay award at Cannes, the studio has another strong contender, a movie that weaves naturalism, allegory and dark humor into a multi-layered masterpiece.

, one of a comically - high number of Looney Tunes I'm tempted to call Jones's masterpiece and seen here in glorious HD.

There are a refreshing number of Newly Featured titles this week, from Golden Age musicals to classic noir to Kurosawa masterpieces to modern crime thrillers.

They double the number of Wenders movies released by Criterion and present his international breakthrough film (Alice) and his first unabashed masterpiece (Kings).

This was a very close call for my number one spot, but regardless, this movie will stand the test of time as a sci fi genre masterpiece.

Instead of a standard thriller with the requisite number of action beats, [Cedric Jimenez] takes a more purely procedural approach, more interested in the accumulation of details surrounding the case and the people involved — in that regard, it is closer to David Fincher's masterpiece «Zodiac» than anything else.

At one point, the number 237 is mentioned over the P.A. system in one of the film's scenes, a direct reference to the terrifying hotel room in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece.

Today, we have an increasing number of tools that help develop and refine the masterpiece within every child.

The new, third - generation Continental GT finds its voice from the hand - built masterpiece that is its 6.0 - liter twin - turbocharged W - 12 engine, which is rated at 626 horsepower and 664 lb - ft of torque — numbers that would have blown everyone away a decade ago but now almost seem commonplace.

But the Nsx is Honda's technical masterpiece, and even though it sells in tiny numbers compared with every other Honda product, it does bring a measure of prestige to the Japanese automaker.

We have always wanted one of his tables since we first enjoyed a dinner around one of his masterpieces a number of years ago.

It doesn't matter if you craft a stellar piece of art that tickles all the senses and is a literary masterpiece, a smaller number of pages will equal smaller payments.

Additionally, list the contests you've won, explain why your comic book is the best and outline the large number of people who are waiting for the official release of your masterpiece.

While Classics brings you a number of literary masterpieces, and Stanza gives you access to 50,000 e-books, neither e-book app has quite the brand recognition of Amazon and Kindle.

From Daniel Silva, the number one New York Times best - selling author, comes a modern masterpiece of espionage, love, and betrayal.

The people at Gunner Kennels, who created this masterpiece of dog crate design, ran the numbers and came to the realization that more than 100,000 dogs are killed each year due to transportation accidents and from kennels falling out of truck beds.

Barcelona also plays host to a number of modern art masterpieces - including the iconic Gaudi architecture - and each one is more photogenic than the last so make sure to leave plenty of memory for all your new snaps.

A game is more about numbers and individual flaws, as the experience of the entire package is so satisfying that you never feel let down by a masterpiece like this one.

In Basel, Ms. Lévy's booth was packed with masterpieces by a wide array of blue - chip artists, including Gerhard Richter and Barnett Newman, and she managed to build a number of impressive deals, including the sale of Picasso's 1971 painting Tête d'Homme à la Pipe, which had been priced at $ 15 million.

Since then the collection has grown to incorporate an impressive number of gifts, donations and acquisitions, from Renaissance masterpieces to Tudor portraits, Victorian decorative arts to contemporary works.

The artist's drip and pour masterpiece, Number 31, on display at the exhibition, encompasses his legendary, radical style in all of its forms.

Now recognised as the crowning moment of Pollock's career, this exhibition contained several of his greatest large - scale masterpieces, all of which were painted that year: Number One, 1950 (Lavender Mist)(National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.); Number 27, 1950 (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York); Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)(Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York); One: Number 31, 1950 (Museum of Modern Art, New York); and Number 32, 1950 (Kunstsammlung Nordrhein - Westfalen, Düsseldorf).

Last spring, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, with a Pollock collection unrivaled by any other museum worldwide, presented an exhibit of highlights from that collection, representing all the stages of his career, including the massive One: Number 31, 1950 (at top of page), widely considered his masterpiece.

Stein said the sale also saw a number of «exceptional prices for Kinetic Art,» led by the early Jesús Rafael Soto «masterpiece» Sin Título (Vibración Amarilla y Blanca), 1960, that sold for $ 1 million (estimate: $ 400,000 / 600,000).

The permanent collection of the National Gallery London contains nearly 2,500 paintings, and features a large number of top masterpieces by Old Masters like Jan Van Eyck, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian, Diego Velazquez, Hans Holbein, Vermeer and Van Dyck.

A number of notable exhibitions of classic, modern and contemporary Chinese art, include: Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan; Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974 - 1985; Confucius: His life and Legacy in Art; The Last Emperor's Collection: Masterpieces of Painting and Calligraphy from the Liaoning Provincial Museum; Buddhist Sculpture from China: Selections from the Xi'an Beilin Museum, Fifth through Ninth Centuries; Shu: reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art.

But in the 1950s, after completing his masterpiece The Listening Room (1952, Menil Collection, Houston) along with a number of prestigious murals - for the Knocke - le - Zoute (1951 - 3) casino for example - he was given a major retrospective in Brussels (1954).

That this painting is a signature work of the artist's career is evidenced by the fact that it hangs in permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mere steps away from Jackson Pollock's masterpiece Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), 1950.

The National Gallery of Victoria has staged a number of major exhibitions, known as Melbourne Winter Masterpieces exhibitions, as follows:

Spanning thirteen centuries (c. 650 - c. 1970), the Museum's holding of over 22,000 European artworks features masterpieces by a number of the greatest artists in history.

An art thief that tried to sell a number of stolen expressionist masterpieces that including paintings by Marc Chagall and Arshile Gorky at well below their market value, has been sentenced to four years in prison, Associated Press reports.

Drawing on influences such as Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin, Steinpichler produces vibrant masterpieces, combining a number of subjects, colours and styles.

For your little artists, a free and fun children's area will hold a number of arts and crafts activities to allow them to create their own masterpiece.

Bacon To Doig: Modern Masterpieces From A Private Collection brings together works by artists such as Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, David Hockney and Barbara Hepworth, collected over a number of decades, and will form part of Wales» Year of Legends programme.

Pollock is best known for masterpieces like: One (Number 31)(1950) Museum of Modern Art, New York; Autumn Rhythm (Number 30)(1950) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Lavender Mist (Number 1)(1950) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Blue Poles (No. 11)(1952) National Gallery of Australia; Out of the Web (Number 7)(1949) Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Convergence (1952) Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Lucifer (1947) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Eyes in the Heat (1946) Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Orze (1950, MoMA, New York); and Arabesque Number 13 (1948, New York, R.B. Bahr Collection).

Phillips acquired a number of exceptional masterpieces including: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880 — 81) by Renoir; The Repentant St. Peter (c. 1600 — 5) by El Greco (the first passionate expressionist); St. Peter Repentant (1823) by Goya (the bridge between the Old Masters and moderns such as Cezanne); Portrait of Paganini (1832) by Eugene Delacroix; The Uprising (1848) by Honore Daumier; Mont Sainte - Victoire with Large Pine (1886 - 7) by Cezanne; Wheat Field at Auvers with House (1890) by Van Gogh; Portrait of Elena Pavlowski (1917) by Modigliani; and the large - scale still - life called The Round Table (1929) by Georges Braque.

By the 1970s Morley had abandoned his strict Superrealist style for a newly developed painterly expression, yet his commitment to his first great masterpiece never waned, and SS Amsterdam in Front of Rotterdam is reproduced in a number of later works, such as Age of Catastrophe, 1976, and The Day of the Locust, 1977, now housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Cubism, Expressionism, Dada and Surrealism were the most important of these movements, and attracted a number of indigenous American artists, including: the New Jersey Cubist / Expressionist John Marin (1870 - 1953); the vigorous modernist Marsden Hartley (1877 - 1943); the expressionist Russian - American Max Weber (1881 - 1961); the New York - born Bauhaus pioneer Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956); the unfortunate Patrick Henry Bruce (1881 - 1937), noted for his semi-abstract impastoed pictures; Stanton Macdonald - Wright (1890 - 1973) and Morgan Russell (1883 - 1953), two Americans living in Paris who invented a colourful abstract style known as Synchromism; Arthur Garfield Dove (1880 - 1946) noted for his small scale abstracts, collages and assemblages; the Mondrian and De Stijl - inspired Burgoyne Diller (1906 - 65); the influential American Cubist Stuart Davis (1894 - 1964); the calligraphic abstract painter Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976); the surrealist Man Ray (1890 - 1976); the Russian - American mixed - media artist Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988); the Indiana metal sculptor David Smith (1906 - 1965); Joseph Cornell (1903 - 72) noted for his installations; the Iowa - raised Grant Wood (1892 - 1942) noted for his masterpiece American Gothic (1930), and the Missouri - born Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975), both of whom were champions of rural and small - town Regionalism - part of the wider realist idiom of American Scene Painting; and Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000) the famous African - American artist.