Sentences with phrase «of early renaissance»

This can be seen in so many of the early Renaissance paintings, where colorful windows, doorways, and arches create a believable depth in which the figures reside.

There is also the formalism of the early Renaissance landscape as a backdrop that contrasts nicely with your characters» mysterious, almost mystical personae.

Under the influences of early Renaissance painting, Japanese printmaking and, perhaps obliquely, Pop Art, he made flattened, precisely contoured portraits of the architect Frederick Kiesler, the art critic Katherine Kuh and the art collector Roy Neuberger.

It concentrates on paintings of the Early Renaissance and High Renaissance, particularly the Sienese school, and features works by Botticelli and Domenico Veneziano, as well as by Spanish painters like El Greco and Goya.

It has also been suggested that the restrained use of clear, delicate colour and simplified forms may have been a response to the work of early Renaissance artists, for example Piero della Francesca and Paolo Uccello.

Historically speaking, Plimack Mangold's tilting linoleum tiles date back to the exploratory period of Early Renaissance, when rudimentary perspective was in the process of becoming codified.

Important as the influences of Early Renaissance painting were on the development of German art, of equal relevance were the events in their homeland, where the Reformation was continuing to make its presence felt.

During this decade he constantly augmented the monumentality of his paintings, though he never fully embraced the austere nobility of his early Renaissance models.

The influence of the Early Renaissance masters and Spanish Baroque painters can also be seen in Scully's expression and use of colour.

The greybeards hated the archaism of Burne - Jones's dense application of scumbled and rubbed watercolour, designed to mimic the tempera techniques of early renaissance painters.

The six vibrant and highly detailed tapestries presented here bear the influence both of early Renaissance painting and of William Hogarth's «modern moral subjects,» literally weaving characters, incidents and objects from Perry's research into a modern - day version of Hogarth's famous A Rake's Progress.

One aspect of early renaissance painting that I found inspiring was the use of repeating decorative elements in the backgrounds of the large figurative paintings.

It links the mannerist and Renaissance styles, which clearly reflects that fact that mannerism is a form of early Renaissance painting.

Using these panels as inspiration, she continues her exploration of the Early Renaissance and digital themes, focusing on the process of merging digital and analogue in crafting these works.

The works by artists of the early Renaissance were particularly inspiring to Landy and you can see them, including Carlo Crivelli's Saint Jerome (about 1476), Lucas Cranach the Elder's Saints Genevieve and Apollonia (1506), Sassetta's The Stigmatisation of Saint Francis (1437 — 44 and Cosimo Tura's Saint Jerome (probably about 1470), displayed in the Gallery's Sainsbury Wing.

The second Morris show, «Boustrophedons,» is on 40th Street in the new Castelli space, with the title taken from the Greek word for the winding text, sometimes used in illuminated manuscripts of the early Renaissance, that must be read alternately left to right and right to left.

Among the great painters of the early Renaissance, Petrus Christus is the most approachable, but his career is shrouded in mystery.

Later in his artistic life De Chirico changed into a more «classical» painting style, inspired by the painters of early Renaissance, Giottto and Ucello.

Lately I've also been crushing on dark floral prints; they channel that same kind of early Renaissance opulence.

The Mel Gibson one, whatever you may think of Mr. Gibson, the setting does have that sort of early Renaissance feel, you know, it's kind of gritty and the stone walls really do look cold and barren, whereas the Kenneth Branagh one is set in a much — it's like a much later Renaissance, even maybe 150 years later in its look.

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The development of crowdfunding, however, is powering another Renaissance of creators on a «much bigger scale,» said Ohanian speaking in New York City last week at the BBC Future World - Changing Ideas Summit earlier this month.

Nor was it true of the Church's accommodation of Renaissance opulence or early modern ideologies about the divine right of kings.

While it is regrettable that he never made his peace with Italian classicism» one wonders what Cram might have learned from the delicate austerity of Florentine arcades or the freewheeling geometric brilliance of Borromini» his early embrace of the Mexican Baroque (spurred by his partner Goodhue), his late interest in the Iberian Renaissance, and his numerous forays into American colonial revival show he was no mere Gothic fanatic.

, «If I Had a Hammer,» and «Turn, Turn, Turn» (best performed, if I may say, by the Byrds), Seeger did as much as anyone to popularize the folk music renaissance of the late «50s and early «60s.

Disregard for realism was possible for the early medieval artists because the Renaissance concern for a faithful rendering of reality had not yet come about.

It was indeed only in the early Renaissance, in the liturgical drama which influenced the subject matter of the newly recovered art of painting — where the resurrection did get attention — that Magdalene was returned to prominence and became for the first time an officially popular figure.

The first wave of this revolution — inaugurated by early - modern thinkers dating back to the Renaissance — insisted that man should seek the mastery of nature by employing natural science and a transformed economic system supportive of such an undertaking.

Thus the liberal arts were separated from the rather narrow focus on Christianity that characterized their medieval and early Protestant form, while being reshaped by the influence of the Renaissance.

He proceeds sequentially, from the sacred architecture of the Old Testament to the early Christian basilicas, then on to the Byzantine and Romanesque cathedrals and churches, and from there to the Gothic, the classicism of the Renaissance, the baroque and rococo, the neoclassicism and «revival» styles of the nineteenth century, and on to the present day.

That this contorted, expressionistic work was achieved out of the wreckage of an earlier, more naturalistic undertaking — done in a style much closer to that of the high Renaissance, with which Michelangelo is generally associated — is particularly revealing.

We blame these religious wars upon intolerance, but they were also symptomatic of the gradual loss of papal prestige, a shift in the scope of temporal power and, or course, the early Renaissance.

The foundations of Hebrew philology and biblical exegesis were laid by Jewish scholars in the early Middle Ages, and carried forward by Christian scholars from the Renaissance to the present.

In the early modern era, the Council of Trent was a thorough and rigorous response to the developing Protestant critique of the Church, and the Renaissance was driven in part by Catholic humanists moderating the sometimes dry and legalistic scholasticism of the middle ages.

They first spoke of a «renaissance of the twelfth century» (C. H. Haskins), then discovered an earlier one in the ninth century.

Whether they then date the beginning of modernity with the first appearances of the Enlightenment or earlier depends on their interpretation of Reformation and Renaissance.

Professor Calvel not only acted as a cheerleader for the renaissance of bread in France, but also shared the techniques that allowed French bakers to again move up to the levels that had been taken for granted a few decades earlier.

Monty, making the rounds in the Boston area ahead of this week's U.S. Senior Open, regaled a group of golfers at Renaissance Golf Club on the eve of his early - morning tee time at nearby Salem Country Club and had them rolling in the aisles with tales of the over-50 set and Ryder Cup victories and defeats.

I had no way of knowing early on that my renaissance girl had Sensory Processing Disorder which was strongly affecting her ability to eat or that my little caboose was missing an enzyme and couldn't eat meat.

Prosecutors say the crimes happened in the late evening and early morning of Dec. 5 and 6 at the Renaissance Albany Hotel.

It's like watching a Renaissance musician strike at the keys of an early clavichord.

When artists in the early Italian Renaissance began applying egg tempera to large wooden panels instead of manuscript pages, they had to build up their images from tiny brush strokes.

This experimental renaissance of multiferroic physics gives a long overdue justification to the earlier pioneering theoretical works and judging by the pace of current research is set to continue well into the 21st Century.

Renaissance alchemists now theorized that base metals (the ones earlier alchemists thought were made mostly of sulfur) were imperfectly developed, or immature, forms of gold.

As Newman read old alchemical texts, he discovered that by the late 15th and early 16th centuries (the time of da Vinci and the beginning of the Renaissance), alchemists had refined not just mercury but also their core ideas about matter.

The General Collection of Early Books and Manuscripts includes Greek and Roman papyri, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, Near - Eastern manuscripts, and 1796.

It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years.

Even though the prologue informs, «This story takes place in New York City sometime in the early 1990s,» a.k.a. pre-Rudy's Renaissance, this raw view of Manhattan feels hopelessly hackneyed and dated, even if it was Scorsese himself who crafted this original vision twenty - five years ago.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Brian De Palma brought hip, freewheeling funkiness to the American film renaissance of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

SHAUN OF THE DEAD is a crisp and lethally funny blend of B - movie monsters and those «kitchen sink» dramas from Britain's theatrical renaissance of the late 50s and early 60OF THE DEAD is a crisp and lethally funny blend of B - movie monsters and those «kitchen sink» dramas from Britain's theatrical renaissance of the late 50s and early 60of B - movie monsters and those «kitchen sink» dramas from Britain's theatrical renaissance of the late 50s and early 60of the late 50s and early 60s.