Sentences with word «sarcophagus»

For example, they can see what's inside a mummy's sarcophagus with the phone, along with the ability to see the original colors and look of the Limestone Reliefs of Mesopotamia.

But Gorchov's invention is unique in the way it moves painting forward while evoking the arts of antiquity — from Bronze Age armor to Coptic sarcophagus portraits to Sienese panel painting — straddling the past and future within the confines of a formal device.

Tell Dallas Art News what painting, sculpture, collage, drawing, print, sarcophagus, building or any other media is your favorite work of art.

How do you justify putting fossil ammonite shells next to an Egyptian sarcophagus?

Among these media are granite and marble benches, enamel signs and even, as this handsome catalogue for Holzer's 2010 show at Skarstedt Gallery reveals, a sarcophagus.

This week we visited the medieval sarcophagus of Philippe Le Hardi in Dijon, received an exclusive tour from Charles Gaines of his new exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, walked Sunset Boulevard with artist collective Machine Project, attended the site - specific Bernhard Wilhelm 3000 exhibition at MOCA PDC, and visited The Reason We No Longer Speak at Fahrenheit.

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By invitation of the Tweakfest 2007, Etoy presented its Mission Eternity Sarcophagus in Zurich.

«This is the prime time in London,» said Pilar Ordovas, whose gallery on Savile Road organized an exhibition of sea - themed works, ranging from a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus to Damien Hirst's sculpture of a pickled shark, priced in the region of $ 10 million.

An ancient Egyptian panel from the sarcophagus of the scribe Menna will present viewers with one example of how people have ascribed sacred and mythical powers to animals.

The Healer, tall and straight as a tree, is enveloped within a sarcophagus - like space and wrapped in dreadlocks which cascade to the ground and have the gnarled texture of bark.

The works include a Roman child sarcophagus, a lioness sculpture by August Gaul and the marble sculpture Susanna (1869 - 72) by artist Reinhold Begas.

After the Seti sarcophagus arrived at his house in March 1825, Soane held a three - day party, to which 890 people were invited, the basement where the sarcophagus was housed was lit by over one hundred lamps and candelabra, refreshments were laid on and the exterior of the house was hung with lamps.

In his Trinity, a heavily shrouded Mary points to her dead son on the cross, and at its base a painted skeleton lies on a painted sarcophagus.

Francis Leggatt Chantrey carved a white marble bust of Soane that is still in the museum, in the» Dome» overlooking the Seti sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus comes closest to eye level, and the dramatic perspective above insists on it.

Paintings like this don't come on the market very often, for Klimt's jewelled sarcophagus - like portrait of one of his many Jewish patrons in fin de siecle Vienna hung in that city's Belvedere museum until it was prised out of this major public collection by law.

This show features historical works such as a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus (dated to the second half of the second century), «Paysage de mer» (1869) by Gustav Courbet, and two seashore nudes by Pablo Picasso; «Baigneur et Baigneuses», (1920 - 21) and «Les Trois Baigneuses» (1932).

Early Antonine, Sarcophagus Fragment with Eros, Three Nereids, a Triton, a Ichthyocentaur, and a Hippocamp (detail), about 140 - 160, Marble.

Niki de Saint Phalle's lurid 1990 throne, titled Horus, and a genuine Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus occupy the same gallery, if not the same culture or time zone.

Other works include a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus depicting a Nereid and Triton, dating from the second century AD, a Gustave Courbet seascape, and paintings by some of the twentieth century's most important artists, including Francis Bacon and Yves Klein.

Objects such as a fragment of a Roman sarcophagus, with beautifully carved Nereid and Tritons in a marble Aegean Sea, are also on display.

The USA has returned 25 stolen artefacts — including ancient vases, a marble sarcophagus, and fragments of ancient Pompeiian frescoes — to Italy after another successful repatriation operation led by the Carabinieri.

Prince's sarcophagus - like hood, presented on a wooden pedestal, is offered up as a sacred object.

He has Rachel Whiteread's melancholy cast of the underside of a bath, with its overtones of both headstone and sarcophagus.

Fleetingly, you think that you see a concrete tower with an open flap like a dark window, or that you are gazing at the interior of a distorted, disintegrating stone sarcophagus — but then the illusion falters and the two - dimensional flatness of the image reasserts itself.

On view were pre-Columbian sculptures, a sarcophagus, works by heavy hitters like Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and more momento mori works than you could ever dream of.

Now you find yourself shipwrecked on the very island he was seeking out... Will you finally be able to solve the riddle of the Golden Sarcophagus and find out what happened to your grandfather?

Mystical Items include, «El Dorado's cursed sarcophagus, Shambala's powerful Chinitamani Stone or the lost city of fiery Ubar's Djiin».

Upon opening the sarcophagus, Roman discovers a long - dead and decayed body, which releases — or possibly even breathes — some type of poisonous or viral spores.

Except it's not a statue — it's a sarcophagus, containing an ancient evil.

You play as these two characters as they uncover the secrets of an ancient sarcophagus from space that has a strange aura.

The opening moments of the campaign are rich with intrigue: the player character is woken from some sort of slumber in a sarcophagus covered in demonic seals.

Risen from the dead, the Witch Queen Seteki commands an army of mummified monstrosities hell - bent on terror, and only one band of brave adventurers has the gusto to sock ancient evil back into its sarcophagus!

It is up to you to help Annabel escape from the evil high priest, explore a pyramid and open a sarcophagus, visit a local fishing village, and sail down the Nile to a temple of the all powerful god Seth in your quest to help Akhenaten and restore order to Egypt!

Your friend Mike finds a sarcophagus with a body strikingly resembling his.

Throughout the game you'll find containers (doughnut box, sarcophagus, etc.) that Kisume will then use as a new temporary home.

His tomb is a 5 by 5 meter chamber with the central wooden sarcophagus.

An opulent sarcophagus had been ready for the royal cremation in Ubud.

Nina's sarcophagus was modeled by Italian sculptor Fabia Cotte.

In Sidon was found a sarcophagus, from the end of the fourth century BCE, on which is painted Alexander the Great and the King of Sidon hunting a lion with the help of a hunting dog, similar in build to the dogs in Ashkelon and similar in appearance to the Canaan Dog.

Franz gasped — not at their predicament, but at the contents of the spilled sarcophagus.

The sarcophagus was lifted, the man dragged free, but the crate was too heavy to raise to the wagon's height.

The sarcophagus fell again, on its side.

So she spends her days (quite happily, mind you) exploring the nooks and crannies of the museum, reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics as easily as you or I might read the daily newspaper, sleeping in a sarcophagus (comfortable and free of drafts) and surreptitiously neutralizing the many cursed objects that her oblivious mother brings back from her expeditions.

With him would go his beloved Ta - Miw, wrapped inside her own miniature sarcophagus of gold.

In the flickering candlelight, the sarcophagus shimmered.

Once empty, the priceless sarcophagus was toppled to the floor and abandoned with a crash.

Four monks lifted the golden sarcophagus from its shattered case.

For example, on the day of our visit to Crossroads, students prepare for parents to visit their exhibit about ancient Egypt, which includes a replica of a sarcophagus.