Sentences with word «romanesque»

Unique Richardsonian Romanesque with fabulous curb appeal.
Its Romanesque architecture is in perfect condition and the hotel houses the world's largest collection of Victorian art.
President Donald Trump owns approximately 77 percent of Trump Old Post Office LLC, which pays the government $ 3 million annually in rent for the renovated 1899 Romanesque Revival - style building, according to disclosures by GSA.
The five - storey, 35,000 - square - foot building at 151 West Hastings Street combines Romanesque architecture with a more modern style, surrounded by designer boutiques, art galleries and gourmet restaurants.
Housed in the 1899 Romanesque Revival - style Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, five blocks from the White House, the $ 200 million Trump International Hotel Washington D.C. features the first Ivanka Suite ($ 1,050 a night) and the first spa where her brand, not just the Trump name, is featured.
Popularized by the American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, Romanesque houses are constructed of rough hewn stone.
Like Queen Anne houses, Romanesque homes often have round towers and large porches.
Romanesque columns were originally seen in the Romanesque style of architecture in Western Europe from the 9th century to the 12th century.
The American architect Henry Hobson Richardson (1838 - 1886) put his own spin on the Romanesque style in what is called Richardsonian Romanesque; this was quite popular in the 19th century.
The Trump Organization has said it spent about $ 212 million — about 80 percent of it borrowed from Deutsche Bank AG — to redevelop the 1899 Romanesque Revival - style Old Post Office, located a short walk down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.
The fireplace is to be a Rumford design with a Romanesque arched fireplace surround crafted from local limestone salvaged from an old root cellar.
Originally inspired by Romanesque and Byzantine architecture encountered while traveling in France, his idea for the building was conceived in 1986.
Pousette - Dart's paintings and drawings capture light and reflect tone, drawing inspiration from the landscape, and sources as diverse as American Indian, Mayan and Islamic art, Chinese landscape painting and calligraphy, and Romanesque painting, among others.
The main styles of American architecture during the nineteenth century were Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Second Empire, together with some Italianate and Romanesque - style designs.
Neo-Gothic architectural design was exemplified by the work of Richard Upjohn (1802 - 78) and James Renwick (1818 - 95), while Romanesque - style designs were pursued by Henry Hobson Richardson (1838 - 86).
The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin raised $ 23 million to fabricate and endow Ellsworth Kelly's Austin, the late artist's only building, a Romanesque - style church lit with rainbow - hued glass windows.
Writing of Romanesque sculpture, art historian Meyer Schapiro sees individual invention in the medieval sculptor's rupture of architectural frames, in deviations from symmetry and in compositional «discoordination.»
In addition, we cover column statues and other architectural stonework by the great stone - masons and bronze - workers associated with Italian Renaissance sculpture, as well as Medieval, Romanesque and Gothic sculpture.
The English contribution to Romanesque art and Gothic art was considerable, especially in illuminated manuscripts and monumental sculpture for churches, though the other countries were now essentially provincial, and in the 15th century Britain struggled to keep up with developments in painting on the Continent.
My paintings have been inspired by many things — Mozarabic manuscripts, Romanesque painting (particularly from Catalonia), Mayan art, especially those exquisite vases, Islamic art, Chinese landscape painting, Chinese calligraphy to wall paintings, De Kooning, Mondrian... I could go on.
Romanesque Art Exemplified by a style of architecture that lasted from 1000 to 1150 in France and to the 13th century in the rest of Europe; characterized by massive vaults and rounded arches.
The term is also applied to the fine and decorative arts of the period, notably Romanesque Sculpture (c.1000 - 1200).
It was followed by Romanesque sculpture.
Romanesque Revival Neo-medieval style of monumental architecture which became popular in America and elsewhere during the nineteenth century.
Constructed of what looks like coarse wool, it is a Romanesque sculptural torso, with a small, arced home atop the pelvis.
Hobbs: Lee was fascinated by Schapiro's lectures on the Romanesque manuscripts, especially with the beasty things found along the border.
«They underlie so many things: architecture and old paintings that are informed by geometry, like Cimabue, Romanesque cathedrals, churches.
Rail: Who edited Meyer Schapiro's Romanesque Architecture Sculpture: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures.
The sculpture collection has masterworks from the Middle Ages (Romanesque and Gothic), as well as the Renaissance, together with fine examples from the 17th to early 20th centuries.
He received a traditional training at the Royal Academy, copying Greek, Etruscan, Romanesque and Gothic sculpture.
The anonymous role of the Romanesque church artist remained a model.
He also spent time outside Paris visiting Romanesque churches, and the relationship between art and architecture remained important to him, evident in the many public commissions he completed late in his career.
Further solo exhibitions in 2015 include the Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; Palazzo Falier at the Venice Biennale, and the Romanesque chapel Santa Cecília de Montserrat, Barcelona.
The Romanesque art of Europe of the eleventh and twelfth centuries can be characterised by a certain solidity, as well as by the self - conscious inclusion of classical elements.
He is the recipient of two Fulbright grants to Spain to study Romanesque altarpieces and one to Honduras.
One group of seven Romanesque windows shows luminous mosaics of thinly sliced agate, some of it artificially colored, to produce pulsating blocks of back - lit color.
- Romanesque: Stone Sculpture from Medieval England at the Henry Moore Institute - Ulrich Rückriem at Kirkstall Abbey - Lawrence Weiner at the Henry Moore Studio, Dean Clough, Halifax
Earlier talks explored Japanese Satsuma ware of the mid 19th to the early 20th century, the influence and spread of Chinese porcelain, the Romanesque bishops flanking the museum's main entrance, and Japanese netsuke.
On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Sean Scully will unveil a new «intervention'the Romanesque chapel Santa Cecilia de Montserrat, near Barcelona, Spain.
Romanesque and Byzantine art appealed to him, as did the Surrealist method of automatic drawing and the concept of art dictated by chance.
Inspired by Romanesque, Byzantine, Cubist, and Surrealist painting as well as African, Oceanic, and Native American art, he created a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms that provided rich visual and symbolic sources that he would explore throughout his long career in a multitude of painterly approaches.
This gallery displays important architectural sculpture, devotional objects and stained glass from the Romanesque and Gothic periods.
[21] For a site - specific piece that she produced at the Parrish Art Museum in 1998, Kruger placed across the upper range of the museum's Romanesque facade stark red letters that read, «You belong here»; below, on columns separating three arched entry portals, stacked letters spelled «Money» and «Taste.»
In the West Gallery, ten 70 ″ × 60 ″ works represent a history of architectural styles ranging from Moorish to the early Romanesque, through Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
In France, he discovered Romanesque art and architecture and Byzantine art.
The newest volume, «Seeing and Believing, A Traveler's Sketchbook», began with a 2014 trip focused on central France's Romanesque sites.
The beautiful Richardsonian Romanesque building, complete with gables and a turret.
This exquisite Romanesque revival - style structure, first erected in the 1890's, offers a unique look at Dallas history.
Old Romanesque Church is an original, large one - of - a-kind landscape painting signed by artist Pol Ledent.
Romanesque Church In Belgium is an original, one - of - a-kind landscape painting signed by artist Pol Ledent.
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