Sentences with phrase «of renaissance artists»

In fact, she seems to be simply a Venetian woman posing for Titian, in a painting that breaks the barrier between religious art and real life, and shows why Titian is the most human of Renaissance artists.

Frowned upon by generations of art historians as the last expression of irrationality (as opposed to perfect perspective) the primitive painters played a pivotal role in bridging Medieval styles with the resurgence of classicism characteristic of Renaissance artists and architects.

Biblical themes or mythological subjects were portrayed by a wide range of Renaissance artists such as Albrecht Dürer and the German «Little Masters.»

A set of drawing resources: Figure Drawing and then looking at the Wash techniques of the Renaissance artists and a drawing resource with lots of different tasks to build skills in drawing.

Used for A-level students to develop their interest in ink - wash techniques by looking at the work of Renaissance artists.

(Incidentally, this structure mirrors the model of the Renaissance artist's studio, in which numerous assistants made the work, and one artist received the credit.)

This story reveals — behind the glamour and dark phantasmagoria of Barney's work — the picture of a Renaissance artist physically engaged in the chemistry, labor, and construction of his creations.

Art Institute of Chicago acquires rediscovered painting by Sebastiano Del Piombo The Art Institute of Chicago has bought Sebastiano Del Piombo's Christ Carrying the Cross (1515/1517), a masterpiece that has only recently been identified as the work of the Renaissance artist.

And familiar masterpieces have been given a new power to stun, notably Piero della Francesca's majestic «Virgin and Child Enthroned With Four Angels,» the greatest example of this Renaissance artist's work in this country and was seen at the Frick Collection last year.

Not exact matches

«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.

Thanks to artist Lala Ragimov, whose renditions of Flemish Baroque and Venetian Renaissance style paintings include investor caricatures, Index Funds also has outright humor that, again, helps explain each concept chapter by chapter.

At this point in the course, I would want my students to grasp what was just beginning to become clear to the Renaissance humanists themselves: that there are fundamental commonalities between humanistic culture and Christianity that bring them together objectively, irrespective of the wishes and plans of writers, artists, and intellectuals.

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.

Mitchell Merbaek's The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe documents an increase in the depiction of violence in Renaissance paintings of the crucifixion, which created a dilemma for artists.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

In great periods of painting, such as the Renaissance in Europe, the wealthy who could afford to hire artists often subsidized major religious works as appropriate to the scale of their own palaces and as gifts to religious institutions.

Fatih was a generous patron of learning who endowed many educational foundations, and was himself a serious student who used eight languages and showed his keen interest in the Renaissance by inviting many famous scholars and artists to come and work in Istanbul.

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.

Chihuly, 61, is one of the nation's best - known glass artists and has been credited by art critics with starting a renaissance of glass art across the U.S..

I would have liked to have been an artist in the Renaissance, when there were values, values tied to the beauty of man.

Working in oils, Renaissance artists could create a vivid illusion of reality by making individual brush strokes disappear.

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.

No sign of the office stationery images that the app might be expected to provide, but I am offered a drawing by a Renaissance artist and a picture of a fish.

Adapted by Philip Dunne from the novel by Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstacy is the story of the 16th century war of wills between Renaissance artist Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and «warrior pope» Julius II (Rex Harrison).

This feature length narrative film follows the emotional and psychological journey of a young, black, gay artist as he discovers the hidden legacies of the gay and lesbian subcultures within the Harlem Renaissance.

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?

Wiseau has been enjoying a career renaissance ever since actor - director James Franco released The Disaster Artist in theaters nationwide, a comedic recreation of the Hollywood cult figure's making of The Room.

As an artist, renaissance man and auteur in the making, Steve's work has been compared to the work of David Lynch and Matthew Barney.

TMNT, a full - length animated adventure, revolves around the familiar antics of a quartet of swashbuckling, pizza - loving, reptilian ninjas named after Renaissance artists: Michelangelo (Mikey Kelley), Leonardo (James Arnold Taylor), Raphael (Nolan North) and Donatello (Mitchell Whitfield).

It's a movie about a humanoid turtle named after an artist of the Italian Renaissance punching a giant brain in the face.

At the peak of his career, Oscar - winner Fredric March plays the title role, the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, who romances the Dutchess (played by Constance Bennett).

Fresh off wigging - and - accenting his way through the role of would - be auteur Tommy Wiseau in his The Room tribute film The Disaster Artist, James Franco is gearing up to portray another modern Renaissance man — one whose efforts to wear multiple creative hats resulted in wide - spread acclaim, rather than ironic appreciation: cartoonist, poet, and songwriter Shel Silverstein.

This extensive PowerPoint presentation illustrates the changes and development of Giuseppe Arcimboldo's work as a «Late Renaissance» artist and con...

This is a short visual display of how perspective developed from the early Medieval paintings through the key artists in the Renaissance: Giotto, Masaccio, Brunelleschi, Leonardo and then the Dutch artists and then to Cubism.

(I saw middle - school students in Harlem reading The Block, which combines poetry of Langston Hughes with paintings of Harlem Renaissance artist Romare Bearden.)

The text describes the life and work of the most influential artist of Renaissance history.

OGDEN — After six weeks studying the artists Harlem Renaissance, students at Two Rivers High School got a sample of the (almost) real thing.

· National Education Association offers a curated set of lesson plans for Black History Month for grades K - 12, including links to original slave narratives and a lesson on the Harlem Renaissance that connects to audio clips of artists like Duke Ellington.

The Editor of Easy Street, she is also a senior editor at The Lascaux Review as well as an editor / administrator for Prison Renaissance, an organization fostering mentorship and collaboration between free and incarcerated artists.

Portrait of a Conspiracy by Donna Russo Morin My good friend Donna Russo Morin's first installment in the Da Vinci's Disciples series takes us on an irresistible headlong adventure: A ruthless assassination rocks Renaissance Florence to its core, and a secret sisterhood of women artists band together to save one of their own from the bloody reprisals.

Little is known about the life of sculptress Augusta Savage, a prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, but here Schroeder provides a somewhat fictionalized account of the artist's childhood and the events leading up to her enrollment in the Cooper Union School of Art.

This meticulously researched book is equally insightful and entertaining, teeming with detailed accounts and rich descriptions that bring not only Michelangelo to vivid life but also the Renaissance era in which he lived, when «the princes of the Church» had the power to make or break an artist's career.

My first book, Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance (Enslow, 2002) has gone into a second printing.

In this illustrated selection author Wendy Hart Beckman provides encapsulated biographies of ten artists who participated in the Harlem Renaissance.

The breed appeared in several paintings by German artist Albrecht Durer of the High Renaissance movement.

Delegates will also explore the city of Dakar, shop at crafts markets and artists quarters, and visit the new African Renaissance monument.

An inspiration to great artists and the birthplace of Renaissance culture, Italy's magnificent monuments will take your breath away.

Seville, capital of Andalusia, Roman city, Arabic, renaissance, baroque, American, Mary - devoted, flamenco, bullfighting, modern, festive, luminous, perfumed, seafaring, traditional, hospitable, gracious, cosmopolitan, religious... All these adjectives and many more that could be added to describe this city, that aside from personifying the typical «Spanish» and «andaluz», has so many attractive artistic, cultural, social and tourist qualities that has converted it into one of the most universal, well - known and most - visited cities in the world, cradle of inspiration for writers, painters and artists in general.

The performance was part of Renaissance Hotel's RLife LIVE program, an entertainment and music platform that provides hotel guests and local patrons the chance to discover emerging and established artists on - site at Renaissance Hotels around the world.

In 2008, the brand began an intense journey to firmly establish itself in the lifestyle hospitality space by introducing game - changing programmes including Navigator and RLife LIVE, one of the industry's most well - recognised entertainment platforms showcasing emerging musical artists through live performances in Renaissance Hotels around the world.