Sentences with phrase «of eighteenth»

This imposing fireplace surround is an authentic reproduction of eighteenth century French style.

An embroidered chocolate - brown silk - velvet tapestry hangs between living - room windows; its lively pattern sets off the graceful lines of an eighteenth - century camelback sofa.

Patients who are minors at the time of the malpractice may wait to file after reaching age eighteen, but must file within two years of their eighteenth birthday.

Where the conditions of the eighteenth century in pre - and post-revolutionary France and in what is now the United States currently exist — in Iran, China, Russia, and other authoritarian regimes — it may well be the path of prudence to act anonymously if one can, but those conditions do not apply in Canada, the United States, Europe and many other parts of the world.

«Others reveal some misunderstandings of the eighteenth century, and then there might be unconscious ideological distortions.»

The achievements of the eighteenth - century explorer stand up surprisingly well to modern scrutiny, finds Boyd Tonkin

The original suggested onset was the end of the eighteenth century, when the European industrial revolution's large - scale coal - burning triggered rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

«The remarkable turn of the climate of Europe towards greater warmth from soon after the beginning of the eighteenth century and affecting all seasons of the year in the 1730 ′ s seems to have produced little comment at the time, though by then the temperatures were being observed with thermometers and entered into regularly maintained observation books in a number of places.»

He rivals Leonhard Euler, the Swiss genius of the eighteenth century.

Without historical knowledge of the grammatical nuances and peculiarities of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century society, the significance of events in Austen's plots may be lost on the reader, and the motivations of the characters so much harder to fathom.

``... Prof. D. Brunt referred to the diagrams showing the gradual rise of temperature during the last 30 years, and said that this change in mean temperature was no more striking than the changes which appear to have occurred in the latter half of the eighteenth century» p 238

Industrial Revolution - A period of rapid industrial growth with far - reaching social and economic consequences, beginning in Britain during the second half of the eighteenth century and spreading to Europe and later to other countries including the United States.

Emphasis was on the major draftsmen of the eighteenth century, including William Blake, Thomas Gainsborough, and William Hogarth.

He might have seemed, at the time, to be speaking for the great cultural movement about to emerge — for James Joyce, with his layering of classical myth and the profane reality of early - twentieth - century Dublin in Ulysses; for Picasso, whose postwar art of pastiche seemed to disassemble and recombine historical styles just as his earlier work had taken apart and reconstructed pictorial space; for Stravinsky, whose music had found a sense of modernity in both primitive ritual (The Rite of Spring) and the mincing artifices of the eighteenth - century ballroom (Pulcinella), and who sought for his Oedipus Rex «a medium not dead but turned to stone.»

Szeemann included a historical section with bronze cast self - portraits of the eighteenth - century artist Frances Xavier Messerschmidt, an ancestral figure to contemporary performance art.

In its earliest forms in the middle of the eighteenth century — the Salon of the Académie des Beaux - Arts in Paris and the exhibiting societies of London — the exhibition was a collective affair, organized among artists: a form of self - assessment and public presentation mediating between a guild of merchant craftsmen and the unstable fractions within the public that might provide a market for those artists» work.

It opens with an imposing wallpaper based on a painting by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, which immerses the ground floor of Museion in the atmosphere of an eighteenth - century picture gallery.

«Esma Sultan,» Ceylan's depiction of an eighteenth - century Ottoman princess renowned for her cruel disposition, draws on the empowering mythology of passionate, ruthless and assertive womanhood that characterizes accounts of her life.

Holdings of eighteenth and nineteenth century and early modern European and American art were enriched by the donation in 1982 of thirty - eight Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and contemporary American paintings and sculptures from the collection of Algur H. Meadows and his wife, Elizabeth.

Stan Douglas's video work Nu • tka • (1996), features overlapping, historically based monologues of eighteenth - century British and Spanish captains vying for the opportunity to colonize Nootka, only marginally concerned with Indigenous peoples.

Asian art dealer Ben Janssens displayed a trio of eighteenth - and nineteenth - century Frisbee - shaped samurai hats in a niche, the simple clean forms reminiscent of modern sculpture.

14 August - 14 November 2009 Gallery 4 Offering a unique opportunity to compare likenesses in two and three dimensions, this study exhibition focuses on five works which depict two of eighteenth - century London's leading lights.

Another related installation is a large glass disc, titled Lotus (2007) that refers to the Buddhist symbol but also to the slave trade: etched in glass, the filigree pattern contained in each petal of the lotus flower is made up of diagrams of the placement of human bodies in the cargo hold of an eighteenth - century slave ship.

Decorative Art and Sculpture The Museum holds an unmatched collection of English silver and porcelain, along with a range of historically significant 18th century French decorative art in the rococo style of the eighteenth century.

The sample consists of 111 pieces begins with the great painters of the eighteenth century topographical and runs Romanticism, Prerrafaelismo, and Impressionism, to the avant - garde and modernism of the last century, showing the vitality of the landscape genre in the XXI century.

Hogg paints monumentally scaled versions of the eighteenth century French artists Antoine Watteau's paintings, Gilles, in highly chromatic and -LSB-...]

Offering a unique opportunity to compare likenesses in two and three dimensions, this study exhibition focuses on five works which depict two of eighteenth - century London's leading lights.

The hard points, with their durable, clear thin strokes were especially suited to the purposes of Neoclassical and Romantic draftsmen of the eighteenth century.

«Necrology» (2017) is a series of giant posters depicting fictional obituaries written in the style of eighteenth - century title pages printed in muted cream, blood red, and black with elaborate typesetting.

At Firstsite, seventy cut - outs represent African slaves in the royal courts of eighteenth century Europe.

The interior resembles a confounding series of hallways, but with a twist: the walls are adorned with hand block - printed wallpaper depicting the delicate cream contrasts of an eighteenth - century floral Georgian Knot pattern.3 The interstitial, liminal presence of walls and passageways has a long trajectory in the artist's work.4 Here, dynamic and surreal corridors become Sosnowska's phenomenological response to an environment frozen in time.

He specializes in American art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

His technical achievements became a paradigm for British art for the whole of the eighteenth century, and his later works in particular influenced the near abstract compositions of the next generation of British artists.

He has published widely in the areas of eighteenth - century art history, critical theory, and contemporary art.

«Pierre Gouthière (1732 — 1813) was one of the greatest French artists of the eighteenth century.

Beginning in 2003 when he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, Wilson has worked with traditional Venetian glassmakers to produce black glass versions of eighteenth - century style chandeliers and ornate mirrors.

THE ART - HISTORICAL CATEGORY of «late work,» which emerged around the end of the eighteenth century, has itself begun to show signs of age.

Here, 100 cut - outs represent African slaves in the royal courts of eighteenth century Europe, put to work as ceramicists, herbalists, toy makers, dog trainers, viola da gamba players, drummers, dancers, shoemakers, map makers and...

Organized on the occasion of the eighteenth anniversary of the DESTE Prize, the exhibition titled DESTE Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition, 1999 - 2015 showcases works by the nine recipients of the prize from 1999 to 2015 together for the first time.

Science itself was emerging as a discipline, against a background of eighteenth - century natural history.

The title of the exhibition --- which plays on the highly extended titles of eighteenth and nineteenth - century social comedies and theatrical productions — contains the term «Pseudo-Georgian», a neologism coined by the artist.

Here, 100 cut - outs represent African slaves in the royal courts of eighteenth century Europe, put to work as ceramicists, herbalists, toy makers, dog trainers, viola da gamba players, drummers, dancers, shoemakers, map makers and painters.

Henri Matisse had suggested the possibility, with Red Studio, but even he sought the impersonal calm of eighteenth - century palaces.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.

In addition to the founding stories of the RA and PAFA, this exhibition recognizes the other artist - founders of PAFA, West's role as the teacher of eighteenth - and early - nineteenth - century American artists, and the development of monumental history paintings such as Christ Rejected and Death on the Pale Horse.

Appartamento Isabella is a charming apartment that is part of a villa of the eighteenth century located in a large historical garden directly above the sea.

They evoke the elegant French style mansions of the eighteenth century.

Deep within the bowels of the city are the bones of more than six million Parisians, the result of overcrowded cemeteries at the end of the eighteenth century.

Perhaps the most extreme example of breed morphology is that of the English Bulldog, a breed that emerged from the bull - baiting dogs of eighteenth century Great Britain.

My own take is that these dogs are nothing more than aberrant pointer or pointer - setter crosses that became fashionable running along coaches of country gentlemen in England during the middle part of the eighteenth century.