Sentences with phrase «of renaissance art»

It's fair to say that someone educated in the values of Renaissance art, and who therefore has a reasonable understanding of traditional painting, is less likely to regard postmodernist installations as art, than a person without such an understanding.

Schools and colleges of art throughout the world dutifully preached the new polytheism, adding further fuel to the bonfire of Renaissance art traditions.

Landscape was an established genre in Chinese art by the fourth century CE, but in Western art, landscape painting doesn't really begin until after the era of Renaissance art in the sixteenth century.

In fact, each of these operators has an eccentric take on the standards supplied by his forebears — in Poussin's case, the transparent pictorial window of Renaissance art, in Twombly's the in - your - face vehemence of the Abstract Expressionists.

Further examples of Renaissance art include major pieces by masters such as Konrad Witz, Martin Schongauer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Matthias Grünewald.

These studies were augmented by several trips to Europe between 1904 and 1909, during which he absorbed both European modernism, notably Cubism, and also the formal elements used during the era of Renaissance art (1400 - 1530).

«The addition of this superb painting to our collection will provide us with the opportunity to expand the history of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and to explore synergies with the DMA's existing collections of Renaissance art and Mexican modernism.»

While some may view the appointment as a curious one, since Mr. Syson is best known for his work in the field of Renaissance art, many of his exhibitions have included sculptures.

Manet shocks by wresting clothed and unclothed figures out of Renaissance art and into the present — and it says something that Thomas skips not just the clothed men, but also Manet's sudden shift in scale to a fourth figure, a woman, in the background.

I also love to see the churches that still show masterworks of Renaissance art.»

There is also some traffic in the other direction: Aloïse Corbaz, for example, who was included in Dubuffet's collection, occasionally incorporated postcards of Renaissance art into her work, but most of her cultural references are completely translated into her own idiom.

Pairing the architect and designer famous for dressing in metal - inflected black leather and for catering to brands of the level of Chanel, Dior and Bulgari, with a museum founded on a collection of Renaissance art seemed an oxymoron until heading up the ramp into a world that functioned as a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities.

In the Beck Building, Passion for Perfection features works from the Straus Collection of Renaissance art, and Spanish Colonial Paintings offers a selection from the Thoma Collection.

The gems of the Renaissance art world are located in the galleries of Florence — and no gallery is home to more masterpieces than the Accademia and Uffizi Galleries.

If one only has a short time in the city, spend a large majority of it uncovering a myriad of Renaissance art at the Uffizi Gallery, once the offices of the scandalous Medici family.

The Uffizi Gallery is known throughout the world for its mind - boggling collection of Renaissance art, and the Duomo towers over the center of town, offering stunning views and stark, beautiful interiors.

Her sudden and violent demise touches off a family squabble over inheritance and a crazy caper involving a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art: «Boy with Apple.»

A whimsical concoction as pretty as a wedding cake, a multi-tiered tale, within a tale, within a tale, the GRAND and very PINK Hotel Budapest is presided over by one Gustave H., (Ralph Fiennes), the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, and involves a wide - eyed lobby boy named «Zero,» Tilda Swinton as a wealthy octogenarian who's «dynamite in the sack,» a family squabble over inheritance, a priceless and definitely kitschy piece of Renaissance art, a greedy evil son (Adrien Brody), a knucklebound henchman with a frightening underbite (Willem Dafoe), a lanky lawyer (Jeff Goldblum) and his soon to be airborn Persian cat, monks on skis, cliff - hanging climaxes, and plotting pastry chefs!

We Need to Talk About Kevin: Akin to Lynne Ramsay's directorial approach only in miserable tone, the very best poster for We Need to Talk About Kevin abandons modern tendencies for an evocation of Renaissance art, its rain - pelted, window - shielded handling of subject calling to mind an aged, cracked portrait by Vermeer.

By seventh grade, students learn to draw with perspective, tying into their study of Renaissance art as well as geometry.

In the fifteenth century Florence, a center of Renaissance art and humanism, had a circle of brilliant intellectuals who were earnestly Christian.

Not exact matches

After appreciating the city's Renaissance architecture and art, sample some of the region's delectable Tuscan food and wine.

By 2011, Simon and Parish had met with some of the world's leading authorities on the Renaissance masters, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery in London.

«Tom and I are excited to take this classic brand into the future and create a new, artist - centric, artist - friendly company driven by strong business principles,» says Wagner, who likened their vision for UA to that of the Medici family's patronage of the arts during Italian Renaissance.

For some, it's the beaches, mountains, art treasures, and renaissance magnificence of Le Marche's medieval villages.

I am taking a class on the art of the High Renaissance in Italy right now.

The superscription reads: «a recurring motif in works commissioned by the wealthier patrons of Renaissance religious art,» while the Latin inscription on the window itself is «Dives Vincet,» or «Wealth Wins!»

(CNN)- Its art collection is the envy of galleries the world over, but until now the Vatican has been better known for Renaissance masterpieces rather than hip modernist artworks.

During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church served as the most important institutional incubator of the classical tradition in architecture and its allied arts.

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.

This is the line of Isocrates, Cicero, Isidore, the artes liberales of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance humanists, the vision of Matthew Arnold, of some teachers of the liberal arts today, especially humanities teachers and, of course, many religious colleges.

The «New Learning» pushed on far, much beyond the confines of the literature, art and music of the Renaissance.

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.

In the Renaissance the reawakened interest in the art and literature of Greek and Roman antiquity was often directed to Christian themes, but the latter did not loom so prominently as they had in the philosophical awakening of the Middle Ages.

A great artistic flowering of Germanic art took place immediately preceding, and in part continued into, the Reformation period — the culmination of the so - called northern «renaissance.»

In the history of art the attempt to achieve realism virtually as an end in itself is a minority report, Greco - Roman classicism and the Renaissance being the lone examples.

«After the High Renaissance 17th century and the 18th - Counter-Reformation, art in most of Europe drifted towards pompous political and religious propaganda for a time.

The humanistic contribution of the Renaissance improved the liberal arts, as well as modern natural and social sciences, must be a major part of any liberal arts education that would make sense today.

- the cruciform has not only molded the American landscape but also laid the foundation of art as a credible form of aesthetic communication - example: The Renaissance: the enlightenment of art and science.

In the past — before 2015 — Catholic ads on the Washington Metro system featured Renaissance - art Madonnas and included the addresses of Catholic churches where those interested might attend Christmas Masses.

But of Bramante, of the new building and painting and what we now call Renaissance art and architecture, nothing really impressed him.

The Medieval and Renaissance worlds studied the ars moriendi — the art of dying.

The Renaissance Phoenix has some other unique features that make it a top pick for visitors, like a one - of - a-kind art exhibit in the lower level of the hotel.

Prior to training as a journalist, Arabella spent six years working in the art world, in the rarefied atmosphere of London's leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, and undertook a short research internship at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she worked on the redevelopment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries collection.

«To our friends and neighbors in the Fremont East and Arts Districts, and to the numerous charities we have worked with, being part of the downtown renaissance and community has been a true joy.»

For this year's edition of Vendemmia d'Artista, the art project that Ornellaia launched in 2009 to revive, in a modern key, the Renaissance tradition and cultural value of artistic commissions, the winery selected Canadian artist Rodney Graham to interpret L'Infinito (Infinity), the quality that characterises Ornellaia 2011.

Through the centuries, production and consumption of Salumi became more and more important: from the Renaissance splendor, where cuisine rose to an art form with its sumptuous banquets to the nineteenth century..

That's why works of art from the Renaissance, or from Van Gogh, speak to us when we look at them.

Make renaissance crafts in Apex, explore the night sky in Durham, make foil works of art at the in Raleigh, play with Legos in Raleigh and more.

The Wake Forest Renaissance Centre for the Arts hosts free family - friendly movies rated G or PG the second Monday of each month at 10:30 a.m., and this Nov. 13 is no exception.