Sentences with phrase «renaissance painting»

The camera, as we know it today, evolved out of Renaissance painting experiments in linear - perspective.
This spring, the National Gallery presents the first exhibition in Britain to explore the role of architecture in Italian Renaissance painting of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries.
Mitchell Merbaek's The Thief, the Cross, and the Wheel: Pain and the Spectacle of Punishment in Medieval and Renaissance Europe documents an increase in the depiction of violence in Renaissance paintings of the crucifixion, which created a dilemma for artists.
Led by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) rebelled against the art establishment of the mid-nineteenth century, taking inspiration from early Renaissance painting.
A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery is organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.
Opie's work draws as much from Renaissance painting as from the traditions of street photography, and her most recent body of work most directly engages with old master portraiture.
My paintings at this time were both perceptual and conceptual: smallish images of architecture, mostly Victorian houses, with their interesting balance of details upon large planes, which were painted on site during summers away from the city; small still life paintings; larger figure compositions ---- studio works ---- looking toward Italian High Renaissance painting, with one or two or three figures in an architectural setting.
This series combines references to Early Renaissance paintings with digital symbols and artifacts.
Together, they get caught up in a battle for a family fortune and the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting.
Another canvas inspired by Renaissance paintings of self - flagellating saints was made by striking canvas with paint - soaked whips, then cutting it into pieces and sewing it back together in a quilt pattern.
Organization: The exhibition curator was John Hand, curator of northern Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art.
Tthe National Gallery in London presents Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting on view through 21 September 2014.
The classical torso of St. Sebastian also recalls the many Renaissance paintings which portray the tortured saint.
This exhibition takes a fresh look at German Renaissance paintings in the National Gallery Collection, providing insights into the way these works were perceived in their time and in the recent past, and how they are seen today.
Later she shot images herself, and looked to a wider variety of sources for material, like Renaissance paintings and drawings in the case of photographed collages that she made in the early 1990s.
To mimic Renaissance paintings, Selski developed a unique technique involving oil paint, beeswax, aged tints and frozen paintings to cause cracks in the beeswax.
The Smart Museum's European collection ranges from antiquity to the nineteenth century, with particular strengths in works on paper as well as Renaissance painting, sculpture, and decorative arts.
The first floor houses Napoleon III's apartments, Egyptian artefacts and a collection of Italian and French Renaissance paintings.
To celebrate the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, we've chosen ten of the greatest Renaissance paintings on display across Britain.
The greatest expressionist altarpiece in the history of art; combines Gothic art, Bosch - like imagery and the latest German Renaissance painting techniques.
Whether it's Christ or John the Baptist or the Madonna, in Early Renaissance painting there's a hierarchy in those paintings.
They just don't hold me in the way so many other Renaissance paintings do.
Four Last Things is a point - and - click adventure game that's been built from cuts of Renaissance paintings which have then been brought to life by cutout animation.
Permanent exhibitions include a collection of 18th - and 19th - century English porcelain, a collection of late Renaissance paintings, Aubusson and Gobelin tapestries and exhibitions of European furniture and decorative arts.
His attention to detail and texture has been described as evocative of the great tradition of Netherlandish Renaissance painting.
Name: «The Tempest» (La Tempesta) Date: 1506 - 8 Artist: Giorgione (Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco)(1477 - 1510) Medium: Oil painting Genre: Landscape painting / or history painting Movement: High Renaissance painting Location: Venice Academy Gallery
To uninitiated Westerners the large - eyed red fish may be simply charming, but to the Japanese the tai on the table of the Last Supper print brings the biblical stories home as surely as the blond, blue - eyed Madonnas in northern Renaissance paintings took the far - off events of the Holy Land to the doorsteps of northern Europe.
Though the Renaissance marked a gradual turn to secularized culture, many early Renaissance paintings featured religious iconography.
Haris Epaminonda The artist's new film Chapters explores ritual and love in a series of images that evoke Renaissance paintings.
The painting relates to an abundant history of Early Renaissance paintings depicting voluminous skirts so mountainous that women's bodies entirely disappear beneath the folds.
Over time the dark, menacing woods of fairy tales and Renaissance paintings came to define everything we see as uncivilized and wild.
The plot thickens when the murder of an old lady and a stolen Renaissance painting puts Gustave and Zero on the run from cops.
It is not unusual to see Bolognese puppies and dogs make their appearances in ancient Renaissance paintings and Flemish tapestry work.
European nobility caught the fever, and eventually Bichon Frises were appearing in Renaissance paintings alongside their royal owners.
New York Investments 20th - century painting; emerging artists; illuminated manuscripts; Late medieval and Early Renaissance painting Top 200 appearance: 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
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Like many artists, Rothko also greatly admired Renaissance paintings and their richness of hue and apparent inner glow achieved through the application of multiple layers of thin glazes of color.
In his most recent body of work, Santiago reimagines the history and story of the Black Knight that figured in several Renaissance paintings and literary accounts, such as the one depicted in the painting Chafariz d'el Rey, c. 1570 - 80 (artist unknown).
Venetian Renaissance painting is as distinctively beautiful as the city that nurtured it.
«It's like a gorgeous Renaissance painting of a human being, except it's a rose.»
He retrained himself as a painter by studying modern art on a trip to Europe and by drawing after Renaissance paintings.
As you clear security into the realm contained within a long white tent in the north corner of Regent's Park, the first stall on the left is laden with Renaissance paintings dripping with gold.
The sculptural form and symmetry of High Renaissance painting seemed their logical extension.
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