Nor are all countries, or museum directors, keen to lose the masterpieces now hanging on their gallery walls.
But the masterpieces at the center of the exhibitions introduce visitors to the lost world of the flamboyant, nomadic warriors known as the Scythians.
Then her relatives carried her chair while she hobbled up and down each marble stairway, and rolled her in front of the masterpieces.
In the early 20th century, the chapel was decorated with a superb series of murals, now considered some of the masterpieces of Mexican art.
In 2003, the Day of the Dead celebration was entered on the UNESCO list of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
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The festival was organized after proclamation of Yakut heroic epos Olonkho on November 25th 2005, as one of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
The masterpieces were returned to the walls of the Tate.
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And you simply can not ignore the masterpieces preening in their gorgeous spaces such as the Hirshhorn, east wing of the National Gallery, Corcoran and the Phillips Collection.
The main purpose of the project was the safeguarding and promotion of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, enlarge knowledge of theses Masterpieces proclaimed by UNESCO among young generation, and promote the participation of youth and children in the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage and cultural diversity, enhancing intercultural dialogue for social cohesion and understanding.
The genuine bearers of the world masterpieces from Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Indonesia, Italy, China, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, the Russian Federation, the Philippines and Japan presented their intangible cultural heritage masterpieces during the festival.
The link between the proto-Pollocks seen at Dartmouth and the mature abstract masterpieces is the groundbreaking, ex-Peggy Guggenheim "Mural" of 1943.
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Hublot continued its innovations with the launch of Masterpieces, the new watch collection of Grandes Complications, and extended its store network.
The altar's carved marble bas-relief sculptures commemorate victories in Gaul and Spain, and are among the great masterpieces of antiquity.
Perhaps not the intellectual masterpieces that, to hear Mr. Payard tell it, sound like they come straight from his subconscious, but decent pastry nonetheless.
As court painter (and ultimately curator of the royal collections), he knew that no new painter could outshine the royal masterpieces by Titian, Tintoretto and Rubens.
The site is collaborating with Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation (WCF) -- an organization dedicated to restoring lost cinema classics from around the world -- to exhibit the refurbished masterpieces online.
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The collection is "unsurpassed in the number of masterpieces and iconic works critical to the development of Cubism, " according to a release from the museum.
Cleo Dyer from New York City writes in, I strongly believe that Detroit should sell anything it can to help the city, masterpieces and even land owned by the state are fair game.
In a news release, the museum said Lauder's collection, "unsurpassed in the number of masterpieces and iconic works critical to the development of Cubism, " will fill the spaces where representations of modern art had been lacking.
Digital data of the following five proclaimed masterpieces was acquired in the first phase of the project period in cooperation with NHK, Japan.
While the end result for both companies are innovative masterpieces, the process the build teams used to get there was entirely different.
The combination reflects the increasingly unsettled state of the art market lately, as billionaire collectors chase after the world's priciest masterpieces while collectors further down the food chain sneer at second-tier material that suddenly looks overpriced.
And he didn't get that kind of recognition for the ones you mentioned earlier on, which are his great masterpieces, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
The second-largest art museum in the country hangs masterpieces aplenty, especially Impressionist and Post-Impressionist pieces.
Without the Bible, there would be no Sistine Chapel and none of the biblically inspired masterpieces that hang in countless museums world-wide.
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The works include masterpieces by Guercino, Guido Reni, Domenichino, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Ludovico Carracci, Luca Giordano and Pietro de Cortona.
Even the greatest of masterpieces is bound to look different when you hang it upside down and fresher when you turn it right side up again.
In 2008 the Committee incorporated 90 elements (formerly proclaimed Masterpieces) into the Representative List.
The smaller of the two exhibitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Ming Masterpieces From the Shanghai Museum, " focuses on the Northern school.
Dealers said this reshuffling of Christie's marquee categories reflects Asia's rising clout but also underscores the dwindling supply of Impressionist and modern masterpieces still circulating in the marketplace.
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