Turner's (1835) is bright, but you can actually see the individual brush marks with which Turner changed the history of art.
The history of art is filled with visual hoaxes, such as Arcimboldo's 17th-century paintings of vegetables arranged to look like human faces.
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Lichtenstein is at this point interested in the history of art, and you can rarely tell whether these marvelous paintings and sculptures are parodies or homages, especially of or to Picasso.
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He sees this period as a turning point in the work of each artist and in the history of art, and he chronicles every day, sometimes every hour, of their life together.
Martin Kemp, Emeritus Research Professor in the History of Art at Oxford University and a leading expert on Leonardo da Vinci, gives the careful estimate that there are probably no more than 20 paintings by the master in the world, which suggests there could be five more to be discovered.
The idea of abstraction is so central to the history of modern art that it left its mark on the work of nonvisual artists as well.
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And with that he was off to his home for a nap, before returning to the museum that evening to escort the secretary of state and the cream of New York society through the history of American art.
's the Teaching Company, which sells loads of prerecorded lectures on meaty topics, such as the history of the Vikings and The Art of Critical Decision Making, delivered by scholars from the snootiest of ivory towers.
Mr. PAJAUD: It's the greatest drawing in the history of black art, as far as we're concerned.
Mr. FitzGerald teaches the history of modern art at Trinity College.
"Provenance is the alternate history of art, " Ms. Reist explained.
"The opportunity for a museum or a private collector to buy one of the great icons of art history is unlikely to be repeated any time soon, " said Shaw.
One of the most popular museums in the world, the Louvre has a long history of collecting art from the Islamic world, from putting on the first exhibition in Paris dedicated to Islamic art in 1893 to creating a dedicated Islamic art department in 2003.
Mountain View just added 20 US museums to its battery of 10, 000 indoor schematics, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, 17 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in DC.
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Christopher Frayling - Rector and Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art.
So think of a highly-qualified software engineer (the vertical part of the T) who can talk knowledgeably about higher education and art history (the horizontal part of the T).
In the early exhibitions there was no attempt to display paintings chronologically or even geographically, but with the growth of art history in Germany this gradually became more common, as did the idea of panoramic displays of the work of a single artist, which by 1900 had become a standard way of commemorating their anniversaries.
Wright Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pewabic Pottery and the Motown Museum.
The first five installments of the series are something of an art-history and philosophy course.
The latest instalment in this series concerns the archaeology, history, art and architecture of the province of Ghazni which we sincerely hope contributes to greater knowledge and understanding of the historic city of Ghazni and also sparks new interest among the Afghan youth to help safeguard heritage under threat from looting and destruction.
The Berlin section, which has been directed by Terence Riley, chief curator of the department of architecture and design at MoMA, in collaboration with Barry Bergdoll, professor of art history at Columbia University, is rich in the pre-1920s houses later written out of Mies's official history of himself.
In Australia, the battleground is history, the related issue of indigenous rights, art and the environment.
Born in Staniewicze, Poland in 1937, Johnson immigrated to the United States via Rome in 1968 after studying art history at the University of Wroclaw.
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For inclement weather, Akureyri has quality museums covering the expected ( history, art, the preserved homes of local writers) and the unexpected ( antique toys, motorbikes, aviation).
This is no doubt a deliberate attempt to honor his memory by presenting his work undiluted, without the usual trappings of art history.
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The Budapest-based European Roma Cultural Foundation described Stojka as an "outstanding Austrian Romani woman... and a key figure for the history, art and literature of Romani culture in Europe", reported Reuters news agency.
But it is the strategy of this turnaround that highlights the crucial difference between those who advocate for old buildings on the basis of art and history and those who deal in them as commercial commodities.
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Born in Stockholm, the son of a botanist and a mathematician, he turned his back on family tradition by studying art history at the University of Stockholm.
The evening auction of Impressionist and Modern Art made history by realizing the highest total for any auction ever held in Europe.
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