Sentences with phrase «pieces of centuries old»

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Assur, a 4500 - year - old temple - studded Assyrian city where kings and queens were laid to rest for centuries, is likely the next target, say archaeologists, who are desperately trying to piece together the extent of the damage.

Pieces of terra - cotta pottery, presumably centuries old, had been unearthed by the strength of the wave.

Lovely Chaos created such a cool piece of Mid Century Modern piece of furniture from a very old filing cabinet... how awesome does this look.

The embroidered design works much like a piece of visual art, highlighting the unique interplay of color, shape and line and bringing centuries old style to the home.

France's «Of Gods and Men,» the grand prize winner at last year's Cannes Festival, offers up just such a message in a finely wrought, quietly observed ensemble piece starring Lambert Wilson and the 79 - year - old Michael Lonsdale, whose jowly, hangdog countenance has graced over half a century of great cinemOf Gods and Men,» the grand prize winner at last year's Cannes Festival, offers up just such a message in a finely wrought, quietly observed ensemble piece starring Lambert Wilson and the 79 - year - old Michael Lonsdale, whose jowly, hangdog countenance has graced over half a century of great cinemof great cinema.

The Illusionist, based on a story by Steven Millhauser, is a lush piece of romanticism — a tale of enchantment set in turn - of - the - century Vienna about a magician named Eisenheim (Edward Norton), the son of a cabinetmaker, and his longtime relationship with Sophie (Jessica Biel), a duchess and the prospective fiancee of Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), an old - fashioned villain.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today called on Congress to pass the transportation portion of the American Jobs Act during a visit to the Bridgeport - Norristown Viaduct outside Philadelphia, a century - old passenger rail bridge that is among the hundreds of pieces of transportation infrastructure across Pennsylvania in serious need of upgrades and repairs.

As the audience has diversified, so has the Salon's offering — it now embraces a mix of Old Master drawings through to contemporary works on paper; although French Old Master, and 19th - and 20th - century pieces remain its core.

Nicholas Forrest of Artinfo reports that Albanian - born French artist Anri Sala has been selected to create Sydney's 2017 Kaldor Public Art Project, a sculptural sound piece called The Last Resort that will be installed in the Observatory Hill Rotunda, a century - old bandstand that overlooks the Sydney Harbor.

Other remarkable pieces include a 4,000 year old hippopotamus figure from Egypt's Middle Kingdom (from the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien in Vienna; see above for image), a Moche stirrup - spout ceramic vessel with deer hunting scenes from around 500 CE (from the Dallas Museum of Art), and the terrifying Ṣaḍbhuja Jñāna Mahākāla, an 18th century Tibetan sculpture in bronze, pigments, and vitreous pearls (from the Museo d'rte Orientale).

Exploring the fraught relationship of an increasingly modernized China to its cultural heritage, Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries - old Chinese artifacts — for instance, a Han dynasty urn onto which he painted the Coca - Cola logo (1994) and pieces of Ming - and Qing - era furniture broken down and reassembled into various nonfunctional configurations.

In partnership with Harlem Needle Arts, this exhibition interprets New York's African - American material history through contemporary pieces of needle and fiber arts which draw on centuries - old traditions.

The contemporary pieces are augmented with works by old masters: the important Apocalypse series of woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer (1471 — 1528) and Les Grandes Misères de la guerre by Jacques Callot (1592 — 1635), which reveal an impressive panorama of social rejection and human abysses in dialogue with contemporary works across centuries.

All pieces in this collection are made by hand, using centuries» old weaving techniques that make each rug one of a kind.

You can also look at the growth rings in the oldest trees and in pieces of wood that have been preserved from centuries past, and try to untangle how much of the variation in growth per year is due to temperatures versus rain, fertilization, disease, etc..

A hodgepodge of 20th century furniture came with the house, so the homeowners spent a lot of time rearranging and incorporating some of their own pieces while still preserving the Old Maine feel.