Sentences with phrase «of masterpieces in»

On his return to Munich, Lenbach was offered the post of Professor at the Academy of Art in Weimar - an offer he accepted - but only held the position until 1862, when he was commissioned by Count Schach to copy a number of masterpieces in some of the best art museums in Europe.

At times, the parade of masterpieces in «Unfinished» feels excessive, and it's hard to imagine how the Met will top this grouping of incredible loans (only roughly one third of the works on view came from within the Met's collection).

All told, we are presenting two centuries of masterpieces in a fresh, new perspective.

One of the masterpieces in the exhibition is a large painted chromed steel sculpture by John Chamberlain.

Narrated by Gallery director Earl A. Powell III, this video provides a tour exploring some of the masterpieces in the collection and underlines the Gallery's civic value to American society (6 mins.).

Situated on 15 hectares of land, visitors are invited to experience Indonesia's journey throughout the ages, beginning with the old and primitive nature of the prehistoric age, then pass through the Bronze Age and towards the Kingdom Age with one of its masterpieces in the form of Borobudur Temple.

But two of his masterpieces in other genres are: L'armée des ombres, a gripping account of the French resistance with Lino Ventura and Simone Signoret in particularly fine form, and Léon Morin, prêtre, another wartime drama, which pits a communist atheist, in full spiritual crisis, magnificently played by Emmanuelle Riva, against Belmondo, unusually cast as a totally engaged young priest.

While co-op titles rarely match the overall popularity of their competitive counterparts, the category still counts a number of masterpieces in its ranks.

Topping last years, A Bigger Splash, Italian director Luca Guadagnino has created nothing short of a masterpiece in... Read More

Now, I'll be fair and admit I didn't finish Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3, so the storylines could have magically developed into some sort of masterpiece in the last few hours of the game, but I highly doubt it.

Not exact matches

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

«In many ways, it is GM's post-bankruptcy masterpiece, a real feather in the cap of CEO Mary Barra and her executive team, who took what the company had achieved with its ill - fated EV - 1 back in the 1990s and turned it up to 11.&raquIn many ways, it is GM's post-bankruptcy masterpiece, a real feather in the cap of CEO Mary Barra and her executive team, who took what the company had achieved with its ill - fated EV - 1 back in the 1990s and turned it up to 11.&raquin the cap of CEO Mary Barra and her executive team, who took what the company had achieved with its ill - fated EV - 1 back in the 1990s and turned it up to 11.&raquin the 1990s and turned it up to 11.»

In 1999, the Library of Congress inducted the black - and - white masterpiece into the National Registry of Films.

John Maloof found, stuffed into two storage units in Chicago, the unknown masterpieces of the late photographer Vivian Maier.

Whether you're in Monaco for the mega yacht parties, the 21 gaming rooms of the legendary casino or the $ 30 cocktails (and $ 8,000 dames de compagnie) at the Beaux Arts masterpiece Hôtel de Paris, this miniature country is all about excess — furs, diamond heirlooms and magnums required.

He showed us some short video examples of great (and not so great) TED talks and then shared some specific suggestions as to what goes into crafting a memorable presentation — especially an 18 - minute masterpiece — to be delivered before one of the toughest and most accomplished audiences in the world.

I've learned that whether someone is trying to qualify for the Olympics, break ground in mathematical theory, launch a new business, or craft an artistic masterpiece, many of the practices underlying sustainable success are the same; supported by scientific evidence; and available to everyone.

That makes it well suited for the surprising number of art owners who don't hang their masterpieces on walls, but keep them warehoused in Switzerland, registered to offshore companies.

Instead, each side has capitulated - each in its own way - to the philistine notion that art is necessarily about power: that all works of art, including the world's great masterpieces, are best understood as either attacks on the established social order or defenses of it....

Leon Patillo's breakout single is a masterpiece in every sense of the word.

• Kalidasa, Śakuntala (Abhijñānaśākuntalam): As Kalidasa was «Sanskrit's Shakespeare» (though older than the Bard by around a millennium), and as this is his masterpiece, and as it was the German translation of this play that first inspired in Goethe the concept of «world literature,» one really should read it at least once.

Though still unpersuaded that Lancelot is a masterpiece, I am now convinced that Percy is to be commended for what he has attempted; namely, to confront us mercilessly with the nature of damnation in our time.

Published in 1844 and recounting a journey in the Middle East made a decade before, it is a masterpiece of the wry and elliptically self - mocking English travel memoir; only Eric Newby improved on the model in any respect.

The return to «the» canon, the high canon of Western masterpieces, represents the return of an order in which my people were the subjugated, the voiceless, the invisible, the unrepresented, and the unrepresentable.

It is one of those splendid ironies that it was the hard - rapping, chainsaw - wielding Eminem — more Uruk Hai or orc than elf — whose use of a sample from «Thank you» in his masterpiece «Stan» propelled her onto the global music stage.

But I will say this Jordan Peele wrote a masterpiece that has horror, drama, suspense and comedy in it... And it all was good so hey maybe it just fits in a bunch of categories!!!

Another verse in this musical masterpiece is the song of Zacharias.

Christ is the masterpiece of love in the midst of a creation designed for love, rather than a divine plumber come to fix the mess of original sin.

In this book Dominique tackles, confronts, and redirects subliminal messages of the world as she teaches women how to deflect ideas contrary to who God says they are; a masterpiece.

Still, we do know and we can see in retrospect that those energies are in fact pregnant with a potential that does produce the full panoply of life on earth and the masterpiece of neural engineering that is the human brain.

But do you think that the master dares to be unconcerned about whether he piously consecrates his powers in holy service, or whether by despair in the midst of glittering sins he simply produces — a masterpiece?

The movie will be set in the Star Wars universe, populated with Jedi knights and all, but instead of being the much - hyped Episode VII that will follow the ongoing adventures of the Skywalker family, it will be based on Akira Kurosawa's 1957 masterpiece, Seven Samurai.

Finally, Runciman's History stands as a great work of literature, an astonishing masterpiece of style despite the flaws in historical exposition.

This concept has kept instruction in the world's greatest literary masterpiece and its most influential body of literature out of the public schools and hence out of the primary channel for the transmission of our cultural heritage.

Renée's filmic predecessor in raw middle age is Emmi, the romantic lead of R.W. Fassbinder's 1974 masterpiece «Ali: Angst Essen Seele Auf» (Ali: Fear Eats The Soul)».

Instead of focusing so much on the issues, let's focus on the people behind them: brilliant, beautiful masterpieces made in the image of God.

It is a masterpiece of dramatic irony; for while ostensibly Jesus is on His trial before council, king and governor, we are clearly aware that the real prisoners in the dock are Caiaphas, Herod and Pilate, the priests and the blind mob, as well as the traitor Judas and the disloyal disciples who denied and deserted their Master.

Or this, from a Cambridge lecture by Arthur Quiller - Couch: «Is it possible, gentlemen, that you can have read one, two, thee, or more of the acknowledged masterpieces of English literature without having it borne in on you that they are great because they are alive, and traffic not with cold celestial certainties, but with men's hopes, aspirations, doubts, loves, hates, breakings of the heart; the glory and the vanity of human endeavor, the transcience of beauty, the capricious uncertain lease on which you and I hold life, the dark coast to which we inevitably steer; all that amuses, or vexes, all that gladdens, saddens, maddens us men and women on this brief and mutable traject which yet must be home for a while, the anchorage of our hearts?»

In the end, God's masterpiece of preparation was the Virgin of Nazareth.

Having been denied the male education in Chinese, they wrote down their own speech in syllabic units and went on to become the first novelists; included among their works is the acknowledged masterpiece of Japanese literature, The Tales of Genji.

In his multipart masterpiece, Mécanique Céleste, the first volume of which appeared in 1798, Laplace demonstrates that the solar system is stable over periods of time longer than Newton could predicIn his multipart masterpiece, Mécanique Céleste, the first volume of which appeared in 1798, Laplace demonstrates that the solar system is stable over periods of time longer than Newton could predicin 1798, Laplace demonstrates that the solar system is stable over periods of time longer than Newton could predict.

De Lubac's book is a masterpiece of intellectual erudition and sophisticated apologetics that argues that the deepest human longings for unity — longings that made communism so alluring to many idealistic people in the first half of the twentieth century — are fulfilled in the Church's supernatural mission.

From Town & Village, a neighborhood newspaper here, in a story about the New York Theatre Ballet: The company, which has reparatory seasons and revivals of long - lost chamber masterpieces, is also well known for its hour - long adaptations for children.

You have been created again as God's masterpiece for two purposes: to show what God can do through Jesus Christ, and to serve human need, engaging in good works which reflect the nature of God as gracious love.

In most cases what was covering the original masterpieces were the remnants of former attempts at retrieving their original meaning.

Waugh helped Merton prepare his masterpiece, The Seven Storey Mountain, for publication in England, whittling it down by several thousand words and improving the title, and Merton dedicated his historical work Waters of Siloe to Waugh.

... I do not hesitate to say that patience in a long illness is mortification's very masterpiece, and consequently the triumph of mortified souls.»»

This is pure John Dewey, an important part of the postmodern American intellectual's baggage: It is not the destination of the march that counts but the bravery displayed along the way Deweyism (as even Lionel Trilling admitted) is not characteristic of the literary masterpieces of the West that are generally rich in «wise answers» — Chaucer, Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoevski, and, in fact, Percy.

In fact, when served it was suggested that maybe cut the cake in half and place on top of other half, creating an instant layered masterpiecIn fact, when served it was suggested that maybe cut the cake in half and place on top of other half, creating an instant layered masterpiecin half and place on top of other half, creating an instant layered masterpiece.

So, in honor of combining Valentine's Day and my birthday, I have transformed this decadent cake into a Paleo masterpiece that is fit for any romantic Valentine's Day dinner or Birthday celebration!