Prior to the renovations, exhibits were organized according to department, with paintings, sculptures and applied arts completely segregated.
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In return, they gave the Pope a set of plates, with paintings of plants from the Prince's Highgrove Estate.
He's got a modest three-room office, decorated with paintings of Airstream trailers, on the sixth floor of an office building near Grand Central Station.
More than a century later Sneden's war diary is being published in book form, together with paintings and maps he made of his experience.
The walls are decorated with paintings by Ed Sorel that are meant to recall the Jazz Age of the 1930s, many featuring the eponymous primates performing various activities.
Then he found out about Paleolithic cave art, and became determined to find a Bavarian cave with paintings as old and remarkable as the ones in France.
There, pieces include a cabinet made by Linley, the London-based furniture business started by Queen Elizabeth II's nephew, and an ornate, 19th century table decorated with paintings of Louis XIV's court, including his wife, Marie Antoinette.
But any insights into the later 19th-century American work are finessed for a nostalgic re-creation of a period installation with paintings hung close and "skied" to the ceiling, and a crowd of heroic figures and marble maidens on the floor.
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On the kitsch scale, many are right up there with Elvis paintings on black velvet.
We can compare drawings, sometimes made from life, with finished paintings or medallions.
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The first room of the show zings with exuberant paintings and Daumier-worthy drawings.
Towards the end of his opus, Mr Shoumatoff becomes strangely obsessed with the paintings of pink and purple coyotes that fill the cheaper art galleries in Santa Fe, in New Mexico.
After collecting a nightcap in the Club Lounge, we contentedly returned to our corner suite, embellished with oil paintings, fresh flower arrangements, leather ottomans, a dramatic half-tester king bed and mirrored French armoires.
Comparing the little-known Pollocks at the Hood with the paintings that later became touchstones of international veneration reveals that we might not have had the latter without the foundation laid by the former.
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With 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphic works and film clips, the exhibition traces three successive waves of artistic fascination with the twisted allure of the dark side: vampires, witches, demons, ghosts, ghouls, the forbidden, fantastic and occult the satanic in all its seductive, often erotic forms.
The walls are covered with psychedelic paintings of women and on display on the second floor, thousands of carefully catalogued beetles, stick insects, butterflies and mosquitoes are labelled and pinned to white boards, the life work of owners Manop and Dr Rampa Rattanarithikul, a local husband and wife team of insect specialists.
The former he associated with professional and court paintings, the latter with literati or amateur scholar-artists who looked to the idiomatic brushstrokes of past masters and prized painting as an expression of one's inner self and life force.
The ArtCase from Solid Line Products combines photos or paintings with a protective cover.
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The tombs, many with beautiful wall paintings, are almost the only remains of this culture.
Beyond the conference room, Ismail Zayer sits in his office, with abstract Iraqi paintings hanging on the walls.
With 80 oil paintings, watercolors and drawings, "The Late Interiors" can feel a bit overwhelming--especially since each painting requires so much of the viewer.
This year's theme was "Picture Israel: The Art And Craft, " with marchers carrying paintings, collages, and tapestries to show the diversity of Israel and its people.
The movie then jumps ahead to 2089, when two archeologists, Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and her boyfriend, Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green), discover some cave paintings with figures pointing to a planet or a moon.
With my curiosity peaked, I went online and the first thing I learned is that Hengshui is renowned for those small snuff bottles with the intricate paintings inside that are found all over the markets in Beijing.
The Charles Dickens Museum celebrates arguably the most iconic author of Victorian London, who lived and scribbled here in the late 1830s, recreating aspects of his daily life and career with manuscripts, paintings and original furniture.
Though it has no shortage of devotees, most people are still more comfortable looking at paintings with a subject, just as they prefer novels and plays with complicated plots and four-movement symphonies with familiar harmonies, and my guess is that they probably always will.
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The Washington exhibition draws from many stages in Bellows's career with more than 150 paintings, drawings and lithographs.
West came to them with five George Condo paintings he had commissioned as the base images for the cover.
As no complete garden records exist, Richard Sumner visited the site to look at remaining features and compared the scene with surviving photographs and paintings.
With brilliantly executed miniature paintings on most of 225 pages of enchanted vellum, the book provides text for just about any devotional or secular occasion.
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