On the top floor, among tiny figurative portraits of saints, is one larger painting that Stingel painted for the exhibition.
Attempting to achieve the enamel-like surface of early Renaissance panel painting, they painted on smooth panels or on fine-woven canvas rigidly stretched.
Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, wanted his portrait painted and since Islamic painting focused on calligraphy and miniatures, being painted by a top Venetian portraitist was the ultimate luxury.
And he found that by painting - he'd never painted before, but he found that by painting, that he could - that his mind cleared, and he was at peace with himself.
She was held after being seen scrawling a graffiti tag on the painting, a Romantic masterpiece painted in 1830 to celebrate a French uprising.
Inspired by Fukushima, this 100-metre painting is designed to suggest the scrolls painted by Japanese monks over 600 years ago for those who had to endure earthquakes, floods or war.
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Moody and sublime, the painting is part of a celebrated series Monet painted of the Thames River in the early 20th century.
In his eyes, Greenberg was a moralist in art who laid down rules about how a proper modern painting should look: as abstract and flatly painted as possible.
Munch painted four versions of his famous painting between 1893 and 1910, and there are two of the originals on view at the Munch Museum, one at the National Gallery of Norway and one at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
The painting Matritum Urbs Regia by Russian Pierre Schild was painted in 1956 and is based on the detailed drawings of 16th-century Flemish artist Anton van den Wyngaerde, who travelled widely around Spain on behalf of King Felipe II.
It is quite possible, if Picasso had died the day he painted Les Demoiselles that neither he nor his painting of five awkward-looking, two-dimensional prostitutes parading their wares in front of the viewer would be any more than footnotes in the story of modern art.
"This is an area that was rocked by riots less than a year before this mural was painted, and for many in the community the painting has become a real symbol of local pride, " Wood Green Councillor Alan Strickland said.
The largest painting on display at the Louvre is The Wedding Feast at Cana, painted by Paolo Veronese in 1563.
After all, Churchill had great affection for Morocco, she said, and his only painting during World War II was a view of Marrakech, which he painted following the Casablanca Conference in 1943.
In May 1994, Norwegian and British police mounted an undercover sting which uncovered the painting, unharmed, in the seaside town outside Oslo where Edvard Munch painted many of his most famous paintings.
Bonnard never painted from life, only from memory, which explains why his painting feels at once concrete and abstract.
But the collection's strength is American painting to 1945, and it boasts one of the greatest American landscapes ever painted, Frederic Edwin Church's "Niagara" (1857).
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Curators at the Prado museum in Madrid claim the painting of St John the Baptist, found in a Spanish church, was painted by the Italian master.
Favorites are a recently acquired set of 17th-century Dutch silvered, painted and varnished leather wall hangings, shown with Pieter de Hooch's painting "Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting" (c. 1663-65) in which similar coverings appear.
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