Sentences with phrase «of renaissance paintings»

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston) A top - class «compact» museum, best known for its high quality collection of Renaissance paintings.

The U.S. Supreme Court may be the next stop in a long and winding lawsuit over whether the Norton Simon Museum is obligated to give up a pair of Renaissance paintings that have been among its most prized holdings since the 1970s.

In his recent works, these collages consist of fragments of hard - core pornography as well as sensual details - such as a bit of drapery or a glimpse of skin - cut out from art book reproductions of Renaissance paintings.

Sometimes it's something specific — I recently went to the Prado Museum in Madrid and felt very inspired there by all of the Renaissance paintings — but usually I'm merely responding to my thoughts and don't feel especially «inspired» in the typical sense.

Four Last Things is a point - and - click adventure game that's been built from cuts of Renaissance paintings which have then been brought to life by cutout animation.

This dress reminds me of a Renaissance painting.

Short Circuit is made of classic Combine ingredients: thick brushstrokes, a lace curtain, a scrap of polka - dotted fabric, postcard images of a Renaissance painting and Abraham Lincoln, a word scramble, a program from an early John Cage concert, and a Judy Garland autograph, all affixed with paint to a chassis made of scrap wood and cupboard doors.

The camera, as we know it today, evolved out of Renaissance painting experiments in linear - perspective.

His fascination with technological methods for producing paintings is also evident in the 2001 television program Secret Knowledge, in which Hockney posited that the Old Master painters used camera obscura techniques to project images of their subjects onto their paintings» surfaces, leading to the photographic quality of Renaissance painting.

I have placed it here because it fit with the issues raised by his retrospective, but also because I already have three searchable reviews of Viola — this one, my initial encounter in 1997, and reflections on his slow - motion dramatizations of Renaissance painting.

Imitating the composition of a Renaissance painting, five actors stand close together against a neutral background.

He first joined the National Gallery's staff in 1990 as the Clore Curator of Renaissance Painting.

HISTORY The first European publicly owned museum was the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, home of the Medici family holdings of Renaissance painting and sculpture.

Giovanni Bellini was still the leading artist in Venice — but a younger generation was starting to emerge, and its stars, Giorgione and Titian, would change the course of Renaissance painting.

While traveling through Italy in 1982, Chicago was inspired by the style and scale of Renaissance painting.

Simpson plays with the complex and paradoxical relationship between belief and illusion, playing off the ascetic language of American Minimalism against the illusionary tropes of Renaissance painting.

Not exact matches

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.

Blessed and Beautiful: Picturing the Saints by Robert Kiely Yale, 288 pages, $ 40 What I discovered,» writes Robert Kiely in this sumptuously illustrated book on Italian Renaissance paintings of the saints, «were images often infused with tenderness, exquisite sentiment, erotic vigor, but....

To uninitiated Westerners the large - eyed red fish may be simply charming, but to the Japanese the tai on the table of the Last Supper print brings the biblical stories home as surely as the blond, blue - eyed Madonnas in northern Renaissance paintings took the far - off events of the Holy Land to the doorsteps of northern Europe.

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.

It would ransack the paintings of the Renaissance for majestic winged creatures — Praise him all his angels.

I guess that means Michelangelo's David, about half of the paintings from the renaissance, and nearly all pieces of greek artwork are out.

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.

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of late medieval and Renaissance paintings and sculptures depict the Virgin Mary with one breast exposed as she is nursing or preparing to nurse the infant Christ.

Since the Renaissance, Western painting has attempted to create the illusion of space by the technique of perspective.

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.

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

The paintings of The Masters ignite Renaissance Girl's imagination.

In Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures, Eric R. Kandel, the noted brain scientist, states that painting — from the Renaissance until fairly recently — sought to create the illusion of the three - dimensional world on a two - dimensional canvas.

Next up, says Richardin, is analyzing the painting materials used by the masters of the European Renaissance — not to look for blood, but to attempt to reveal the secrets of their colors and textures.

Over time the dark, menacing woods of fairy tales and Renaissance paintings came to define everything we see as uncivilized and wild.

Chemistry teacher Gianluca Farusi explains how he used two Italian Renaissance paintings to delve into the chemistry of pigment extraction and the physics of forensics.

It looks like rings that were worn during the middle ages and Renaissance in paintings of people of that time.

It made a huge comeback, along with painting, music, liberal arts, during the Renaissance when the invention of the printing press popularized the practice through the spread of almanacs.

Together, they get caught up in a battle for a family fortune and the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.»

When one, the magnificently named Madame Celine Villeneuve Desgoffe - und - Taxis (an artificially aged Swinton) kicks the bucket, Gustave is the prime suspect, especially after he's named in her will as the new owner of her priceless Renaissance painting, Boy with Apple.

The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune — all against the back - drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent.

The movie follows a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel and his young employee and trusted protégé, with the plot surrounding the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the forces of history affecting Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

The plot revolves around the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the forces of history affecting Europe at the time.

The heart and mystery of the story, which trundles along entertainingly enough under director Ridley Scott, is embodied in J.P. shown driving a hard bargain for a Renaissance painting of «uncertain provenance» while his ostensibly beloved grandson sits in a cell.

Many scenes take place on a vast wooden stage, dressed appropriately for the scene, and every shot of the film is framed, lit and coloured as if it were a Renaissance painting.

The story includes the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and involves murder, mystery, romance and adventure, all set against the backdrop of the ever - changing Europe.

The plot thickens when the murder of an old lady and a stolen Renaissance painting puts Gustave and Zero on the run from cops.

After one of Gustave's former flings bequeaths a valuable Renaissance painting to him in her will, her discontented family, headed by Adrien Brody, do everything in their power to deprive Gustave of the prized, «Boy with Apple».

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.

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

Nowadays, it is one of Krakow's greatest tourist attractions and is also one of the country's premier art museums, which include collections of Italian Renaissance paintings, sculptures, metalwork, armourand the Sigismund II Augustus Tapestry.

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

Yes, arts learning may have social and moral and professional benefits, but if people don't value the materials of the fields themselves — if they can't say that if High School X doesn't acquaint students with Renaissance painting, classical music, and modern dance, its graduates will be undereducated — then arts educators lose in the competition for funds and hours in the day.