Sentences with phrase «renaissance fresco»

There are eight large light boxes scattered around the room which all feature a highly pixelated image of a section from a renaissance fresco; a battle scene painted by Piero Della Francesca.

To make it, he first made a drawing on paper and then, like a Renaissance fresco painter, pricked the cartoon with hundreds of tiny holes and transferred the image to the wall by rubbing chalk over the surface.

When the Turner Prize exhibition opened in October, Richard Dorment, art critic for The Daily Telegraph, described Wright as being «like a Renaissance fresco painter» who «damn near steals the show».

His description for wall drawing No. 766, sounds dry: Twenty - one isometric cubes of varying sizes each with color ink washes superimposed: but when you see it, the dusky colours appear like a Renaissance fresco painting.

An example of this is Tarik Berber, the star of our May exhibition, who uses techniques from renaissance Fresco painting to portray contemporary urban subjects to great effect.

Nancy Daubenspeck's pristine, ordered paintings harken to byzantine iconography, renaissance fresco,...

The huge canvas, unstretched, and flat to the wall, has the grandeur of a Renaissance fresco.

Magna and anime — as well as children's picture books, graffiti, and Renaissance fresco painting — influence Nara's style, but what may surprise viewers is the extent to which music drives his art and life.

And among the most powerful of these symbols are the unabashedly visual ones, whether in New Testament narrative, ancient creed, Renaissance fresco or Reformation hymn.

The itinerary starts from Spoleto, the beautiful medieval town of the Lombard Dukes, of the Renaissance frescoes of Pinturicchio, and of the legends of the holy forest of Mount Luco, where the Syrian hermits (the Fathers of the Deserts) used to hide for spiritual retreats.

stately Roman columns, Baroque and Renaissance frescoes and Moorish tiles and arches as you stroll the interior.

In Panorama of Rome (2012), you use painterly techniques that were popular long before the «white cube» even existed — the rococo, nineteenth - century panorama rooms, Renaissance frescoes, even Poussin and Corot.

It also crosses thick black borders, as if the walls have become windows, and it brings out the texture of the walls, inspired by Renaissance frescos.

The South London Gallery became a chapel with two tiers of Renaissance frescoes in which the settings for the groupings of nude figures were not the usual columns and arches but structures erected from enlargements of turds.

Mangold's use of subtle color and curvilinear abstract forms are associated with Minimalism but also recall other sources from Ancient Greek pottery to Renaissance frescoes.

Not exact matches

From the Modern Renaissance Palette, I applied Vermeer all over the lid, Buon Fresco above my crease, Antique Bronze to the second half of my lid, and then used Venetian red to blend the two lid shades together.

Last year, the city's august heritage was further illustrated when workers restoring the city's 15th - century cathedral uncovered a set of frescoes by the Italian Renaissance masters Francesco Pagano and Pablo de San Leocadio, which had been obscured by later work.

Pay a visit to the hidden art galleries on the narrow street paths, as well as Chiesa de Santa Maria, the Baroque 13th century church with amazing renaissance - style frescos.

The colours guide us through the work, lead us into the picture towards the figure and around the space they inhabit like a Renaissance narrative fresco.

Although the painting's chalky, fresco - like colors also refer to Renaissance art, the figures are lithe, athletic, and unmistakably modern.

In Italy the choice was invariably informed by the glorious history of Italian painting from the medieval fresco painting to the triumph of the Italian Renaissance.

Skowhegan is one of the only educational art institutions that teaches the traditional handling of fresco — the Renaissance technique of painting murals on plaster — if that's your thing; but video, new media, sculpture, and photography are the most popular media among participants.

Yet museums also explored neglected passages in art history, like the Renaissance portrait, Renaissance bronzes, an early Renaissance master, and Diego Rivera with Renaissance - style fresco.

The paintings in the exhibition portray poetic and moody allegorical treescapes, in which Renaissance, Romantic or Modernist styles of different sources (from Joachim Patinir to Albert Pinkham Ryder to Frances Picabia), are rendered with a technique resembling tempera or fresco painting, using translucent pigment applied thinly in many layers.

Wright uses paint, drawing, gilding and stained glass to shape delicate, suggestive, site - specific installations that simultaneously revel in tradition — recreating the lost arts of fresco and Renaissance perspective — and express the throwaway modern moment.

As a young muralist, his earliest influences were the frescoes of the Italian Renaissance masters, and his love of Italian painting persisted throughout his career.

Greenwald writes that both Harris and Ray's works are products of «expeditions to view Renaissance masterworks in the churches and museums of Italy and France... Ray's postcard - sized pictures are perfectly suited to the narrow walls of Steven Harvey Fine Arts... Based on her own travel photos of the architecture and frescos of Ravenna and Assisi, Rome and Florence, Ray's artwork about artwork has unfussy yet precise brushwork.»

Rasgado then extracted the painted surface of the wall using strappo, a technique developed during the Renaissance to move a fresco from one location to another, and transported it to his studio in Mexico City where he subsequently divided it into 144 pieces.

She saw his life coinciding with the moment that Giotto began to bring naturalism into early Renaissance painting, and so she chose for her St. Francis project to film the frescoes in the Upper Basilica of San Francesco in Assisi.

The term covers large paintings in oil on canvas or fresco produced between the Renaissance and the late 19th century, after which the term is generally not used even for the many works that still meet the basic definition.

The frescoes and mosaics intrigued the young artists; the realistic depictions of both natural and manmade form within Italian Renaissance art and the clean, structured lines of French modernism were different than that of Sheeler's formal impressionist training.

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.

The visceral, tactile immediacy of Knave stems partly from the fact that Yiadom - Boakye completes her paintings in one day, echoing the great Renaissance masters who painted frescoes a giornata.

Employing the Renaissance technique of pounce transfer like the iconic frescoes but instead of brushing away the powdered pigments, it lays on thick giving it a unique textured effect.

The Spring Summer 2012 couture collection features a group of extraordinary gowns by acclaimed American designers, Kate and Laura Mulleavy, inspired by frescoes painted by the early Italian Renaissance artist, Fra Angelico (c. 1350 — 1455).

Walls have always been sites for art: from cave paintings, to frescos on the walls of Pompeian homes, to the Renaissance cycles from Giotto to Michelangelo and the socially engaged murals of Diego Rivera in the twentieth century.

For the official Turner Prize exhibition, held at Tate Britain in London, he presented a large - scale symmetrically patterned fresco in gold leaf, achieved using laborious Renaissance techniques.

Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896 - 1974) and Jose Clemente Orozco (1883 - 1949) were the three greatest participants in the so - called Mexican Murals Renaissance, which led to a major revival of fresco painting.

Italian Renaissance art historian for the University of Amsterdam Machtelt Israels observes the influence that the della Francesca household had on the realistic sense of space and architecture seen in Piero della Francesca's polyptychs and frescoes.