Sentences with phrase «work of renaissance»

Discounting the anachronisms, each might be mistaken for the work of a Renaissance master.

In 1936, he moved to New York where he developed his interest in philosophy, poetry and the work of the Renaissance painters.

The work of the Renaissance painter Tintoretto was shown at the Venice Biennale in 2010 and the controversial artist Jeff Koons has just had his work on show at a museum in Frankfurt normally devoted to Old Masters» sculpture.

Art Institute of Chicago acquires rediscovered painting by Sebastiano Del Piombo The Art Institute of Chicago has bought Sebastiano Del Piombo's Christ Carrying the Cross (1515/1517), a masterpiece that has only recently been identified as the work of the Renaissance artist.

Alongside contemporary art, the work of Renaissance masters such as Cimabue, Piero della Francesca and Giorgio Vasari are also presented.

Used for A-level students to develop their interest in ink - wash techniques by looking at the work of Renaissance artists.

He was influenced by his traveling companion Paul Cadmus and the works of the Renaissance Manorists painters who steered him to the use of egg tempera and the development of his magic realism.

They haven't announced their next show that will coincide with the middle of the Biennale yet, but previous exhibitions have re-examined the life and works of Renaissance masters such as Caffi and Bellini, through to contemporary American Conceptual artist Jenny Holzer.

The style of the building is actually mid-way between Renaissance and Baroque, and combines an architectural structure inspired by the works of Renaissance architect Jacopo Sansovino with a rich Baroque - like decorative apparatus.

Located on Collins Avenue in Miami Beach, the Bass Museum of Art was founded in 1963 when John and Johanna Bass donated 500 works of Renaissance and Baroque art to the city of Miami Beach.

Artists found inspiration in the splendor of the buried world and in the writings of the great philosophers of their time and reacted against the excess and flourishes of the Rococo style by emulating the great works of the Renaissance.

His reimagining of brutal Biblical and mythological scenes from the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters Michelangelo, Guido Reni, and Caravaggio, immediately remind us of the timeless nature of war and violence, the use of camouflage canvas acting as the link between past and present.

Not exact matches

Factoring is among the oldest forms of banking (during the Renaissance it helped make the Medici family very rich), but it doesn't work the same way as an ordinary loan.

Akbar Yungai started as a bellhop, working his way up to the front desk at Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, and is now on the brand's elite Navigator program — where, instead of standing behind a desk, the 30 - year - old approaches guests and encourages them to leave the well - trodden tourist paths.

Yet it is absurd to suggest that reductions from current levels will call forth some renaissance of hard work.

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And compared to the amazing sacred music of the Renaissance and Baroque, by which the composers sought to glorify God through the sheer beauty and scale of their work, it sounds very paltry indeed.

The superscription reads: «a recurring motif in works commissioned by the wealthier patrons of Renaissance religious art,» while the Latin inscription on the window itself is «Dives Vincet,» or «Wealth Wins!»

After the French occupied Egypt many scholars studied in Europe and a renaissance was started which culminated in the work of the great scholar, Muhammad Abduh, who brought new ideas to the people of Egypt.

He had read with pleasure and intelligence Yeats (maybe most of all Yeats) and hundreds of serious works by Claudel, Peguy, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, Francois Mauriac, G.K. Chesterton, Belloc, Maritain, Yves Simon, Romano Guardini, Sigrid Undset, and Heinrich Böll — all the writers of the «modern Catholic Renaissance.»

Holbein emerges here as a quintessential Renaissance figure, an observer of the world and seeker of truth whose work embodies Protestant humanism.

Le Goff's body of work, then, stands as a challenge to historians who argue for the Italian Renaissance and Reformation as a break that unleashed a series of forces, intended or not, ultimately leading to the current social imaginary.

To this end St Philip worked hard to invent diversions which would keep his charges occupied, especially at what he considered the most dangerous times — the long sultry Roman afternoons, and the period of the pre-Lenten carnival, when Renaissance society gave itself up to a distinctly un-Christian preparation for Lent (and if anyone doubts that Sixteenth Century Rome could be fully as immoral as our own times, let him read the Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, a great artist, but far from a good man).

That this contorted, expressionistic work was achieved out of the wreckage of an earlier, more naturalistic undertaking — done in a style much closer to that of the high Renaissance, with which Michelangelo is generally associated — is particularly revealing.

In this work the master superseded at last the Renaissance principles of causality and the representation of the rationally possible.

In great periods of painting, such as the Renaissance in Europe, the wealthy who could afford to hire artists often subsidized major religious works as appropriate to the scale of their own palaces and as gifts to religious institutions.

Fatih was a generous patron of learning who endowed many educational foundations, and was himself a serious student who used eight languages and showed his keen interest in the Renaissance by inviting many famous scholars and artists to come and work in Istanbul.

Stephen Greenblatt, for instance, in Renaissance Self - Fashioning (1980), the foundational work of the New Historicism, reads Othello as a virtual allegory of the European conquest of the New World.

It is remarkable that in spite of the massive scholarly work on medieval science there are still books on the history of science that begin with an account of the achievements of the ancient Greeks and pass immediately to the Renaissance, completely ignoring the contribution of the Middle Ages.

His ideas became part of the background of physical thought in the renaissance of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries through the works of Copernicus, Bruno, Galileo, and later, Newton.

He is a past chair of the National Organic Standards Board, a founding board member of Pennsylvania Certified Organic, the Chairman of the Board of Director of The Seed Farm, part of the Green America Non-GMO Working Group, a Project Member of The Noble Foundation's Soil Renaissance project, and a Board Member of PA Farm Link.

It was an exciting project to work on because in helping to bring the Sagamore Spirit brand to life, not only were we uncovering a forgotten part of Maryland's past but we were also creating a love story for Maryland that inspires visitors to be a part of the renaissance of Maryland whiskey.

He is a past chair of the National Organic Standards Board, a founding board member of Pennsylvania Certified Organic, the Chairman of the Board of Director of The Seed Farm, part of the Green America Non-GMO Working Group, a Project Member of The Noble Foundation's Soil Renaissance project, and a Board Member of PA Farm Link and IFOAM North America, among other organizations.

Prior to training as a journalist, Arabella spent six years working in the art world, in the rarefied atmosphere of London's leading auction houses, Christie's and Sotheby's, and undertook a short research internship at the Victoria & Albert Museum, where she worked on the redevelopment of the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries collection.

«To our friends and neighbors in the Fremont East and Arts Districts, and to the numerous charities we have worked with, being part of the downtown renaissance and community has been a true joy.»

That's why works of art from the Renaissance, or from Van Gogh, speak to us when we look at them.

Considering James Pallotta's recent assertion that Roma will work to take better care of its Italian prospects, Tumminello might be the ideal centerpiece for a potential Italian renaissance at the Trigoria.

Make renaissance crafts in Apex, explore the night sky in Durham, make foil works of art at the in Raleigh, play with Legos in Raleigh and more.

2002 Midwifery Today, Philadelphia, «The Anthropology of Hospital Birth»; «Closing the Evidence - Practice Gap» with Marsden Wagner; «Dealing with Consumer Demand»; «Medical Imperialism: The Impact of the Western Model of Birth on the World» with Marsden Wagner; «Birth Renaissance around the World: Models that Work,» with Jan Tritten.

The Ethiopian government of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has signalled that it is not impressed and that it will carry on with work on the multibillion dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a move seen by some as raising temperatures further, possibly triggering the «water wars» that pessimists have long predicted will characterise the geopolitics of the 21st century.

«As a county legislator, I will work to ensure fairness in economic development and to unify residents in all parts of the district so that we can enjoy our fair share of our city's newfound renaissance,» she said.

The news release notes: Renaissance Economic Development Corporation has been working with the Department of Transportation on a vision for the redesign and vendor market.

From Renaissance painters» first use of perspective to artistic algorithms shaping 21st - century works, mathematics and art have a long, rich history

As long ago as 1988, the «Programma Nazionale della Ricerca,» brainchild of Antonio Ruberti, a former minister of scientific research, aimed to create a scientific «renaissance» by persuading Italian scientists working overseas — including several Nobel laureates — to return to Italy.

Working in oils, Renaissance artists could create a vivid illusion of reality by making individual brush strokes disappear.

This experimental renaissance of multiferroic physics gives a long overdue justification to the earlier pioneering theoretical works and judging by the pace of current research is set to continue well into the 21st Century.

We are pleased to announce that the Company has partnered with NuHub, a collaborative group of public, private, academic, and community development groups working to maximize the economic and job creation impact of the nuclear renaissance on the Midstate of South Carolina, to compete for one of two federal grants from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for small modular reactor (SMR) development.

Work on NLRP3, IL - 1beta and metabolism formed part of the renaissance of interest in immunometabolism, which in this context means intracellular metabolic changes occurring in immunity that are governing for immune and inflammatory effector mechanisms.

In 2013, Meyer and Vaillant, the latter of whom had worked at Chanel and Balenciaga, launched Coperni Femme, a womenswear label named after renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

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