Sentences with phrase «reminiscent of renaissance»

Reminiscent of Renaissance - era Italy on the sought - after south end of Longboat Key, the property's 30,000 square feet of living space offer an array of aristocratic amenities, including a birdcage elevator and painted ceilings and murals.

Operating at the interface of drawing and painting, his pictures are sometimes reminiscent of Renaissance formal languages and at others of a Postmodern colliding of cultures.

Reminiscent of a Renaissance Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities, McGuire's studio objects reflect an esoteric interest in natural history such as the glass - cased and mounted specimens of taxidermied birds, shells, a sheep's skull, a mummified cat.

In a situation that would normally arouse anxiety, Kraijer's models preserve a stillness and grace reminiscent of Renaissance portraiture, further evoking a sense of an otherworldly, dream - like space through real encounters that border on the surreal.

The curator, Marie Costello, interim director of the gallery, writes in her catalog essay that the woman is reminiscent of a Renaissance Madonna, and indeed the woman's broad - brimmed black hat appears as a kind of halo around her head.

The same applies to his distinctive style blending street art motives with rich hyper - realist techniques reminiscent of Renaissance - era old master painting.

On entering the exhibition space, one is immediately drawn to the almost life - size portraits through the odd contrast of figures in a contemporary setting staged so to be reminiscent of Renaissance portrait paintings.

Reminiscent of Renaissance paisleys, our elegant Mackenna bedding features classic teardrop shapes intertwined with elaborate florals and swirling forms.

Not exact matches

Sometimes it's reminiscent of Affleck's earlier film The Town, a tale of bred - in - the - bone Boston criminality that bled real blood and inflicted tangible pain, but Affleck has stymied himself by trying to make Joe Coughlin a kind of renaissance crime lord.

It has a courtyard with an elegant portico, reminiscent of 15th century Renaissance Florence, and a grandiose staircase leading up to the piano nobile, the main floor of a Renaissance palace.

Her images are reminiscent of the Hudson River School painted with the precision of Northern Renaissance panel paintings.

For the last 17 years Kerstens has been photographing his daughter Paula, capturing her changing features in a series of compositions reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Baroque paintings of the 15 — 17th centuries but with a contemporary twist.

Her narrative urge and her need to express herself with figurative painting both originate from a strong communicative instinct that translates into drawings and animation, reminiscent of a certain Renaissance tradition that focuses its artistic study on drawing and the human figure.

While their execution is generally jaggedly severe (reminiscent of Expressionist woodcuts or the angularity of German Renaissance drapery folds), the resemblance to mid-career Pollock and de Kooning is unmistakable.

Reminiscent of the fresco tradition of the Italian Renaissance, from the late 1960s, Sol LeWitt's wall drawings marked a decisive development in the history of contemporary drawing in particular, and of art in general.

His idiom combined «low» art methods (graffiti - like pencil / crayon doodlings; all - over painting technique) with «high» art references to Classical Antiquity (reminiscent of Arte Povera), the Italian Renaissance and French Neoclassicism.