Painting Sentence Examples

I didn't want you to see the painting until it was done.

Evelyn's gaze fell to the painting again.

One day Cimabue was painting the picture of a man's face.

The beginnings of a school of wall painting also go back to the Middle Minoan period, and metal technique and such arts as gem engraving show great advance.

Jackson collected his painting and glass.

I saw a painting I may walk off with.

In the morning, she'd clean up the house and then start working on another painting, the portrait of Evelyn and Romas she wanted to give the two of them as their joint wedding present.

Anastasia is a mine of wealth in early examples of painting and sculpture, and one of the finest buildings in Italy of semi-Gothic style.

When he hung this painting outside of his door, some birds flew down and tried to carry the cherries away.

Flipping a light on, he guided them to a corner and pulled the cloth from a painting.

She hesitated then said, "It's in my studio; I'm painting it."

Turning to leave, her hands clasped to her face in horror upon noticing the painting.

After taking orders he went (1770) to Rome, where he obtained the degree of doctor of theology and common law, and devoted himself enthusiastically to the study of the fine arts, especially of architecture and painting.

He first devoted his attention to painting, but afterwards took up the serious study of music. He entered the Paris Conservatoire, but did not remain there long, because he had espoused too warmly the cause of Wagner against his professor.

Her latest painting-- another seaside depiction of Fisherman's Wharf-- leaned against one wall, ready to be delivered to Kevin's shop.

Munich is still the leading school of painting in Germany, but the romanticism of the earlier masters has been abandoned for drawing and colouring of a realistic character.

In painting, sculpture and music he considered himself the equal of specialists.

Artificial, like natural, ultramarine has a magnificent blue colour, which is not affected by light nor by contact with oil or lime as used in painting.

In private service superior posts were often filled by freedmen; the higher arts - as medicine, grammar, painting - were partly in the hands of freedmen and even of ingenui; the more successful actors and gladiators were often freedmen.

The interments are not nearly so numerous as in other catacombs, nor are there any vestiges of painting, sculpture or inscriptions.

Wilpert discovered in the Cappella Greca a painting of the " Fractio Panis " or eucharistic feast, which he cleansed from the dust with which it had been covered.

A school of painting arose here, one of the early masters of which is Allegretto Nuzi (1308-1385); and several of the churches contain works by him and other local masters.

Placed at the university of Cracow in 1491, he devoted himself, during three years, to mathematical science under Albert Brudzewski (1445-1497), and incidentally acquired some skill in painting.

In 1910 it was renamed and appropriated to the uses of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, which was instituted in 1826, and incorporated by royal charter in 1838, on the model of the Royal Academy in London.

The Sienese school of painting owes its origin to the influence of Byzantine art; but it improved that art, impressed it with a special stamp and was for long independent of all other influences.

There are besides an adequate number of training institutes for teachers, a great number of schools of commerce, several art schools - for design, painting, sculpture, music, &c. Most of these special schools are of recent origin, and are almost entirely maintained by the state or the communes.

Sodium uranate, Na2U207, is used as a pigment for painting on glass and porcelain under the name of uranium yellow.

Such embroideries are indicated by painting on the statues from the Acropolis and are often shown on vase paintings.

He lays no claim to the position of an original artist painting from life or commenting on the results of his own observation.

In the famous picture of Tomomachus of Byzantium Medea is deliberating whether or not she shall kill her children; there are copies of this painting in the mural decorations of Herculaneum and Pompeii.

The comparative lateness of this period makes it difficult to account for the wall painting at Beni Hasan, which accurately represents the process of glass-blowing, and which is attributed to the period of the XIth dynasty.

They painted their bodies; the pintaderas, baked clay objects like seals in shape, have been explained by Dr Verneau as having been used solely for painting the body in various colours.

Towards the end of the 15th century it became the seat of a school of painting strongly influenced by Mantegna, of which the principal representatives were, besides Bartolomeo Montagna, its founder, his son Benedetto Montagna, Giovanni Speranza and Giovanni Buonconsiglio.

Of late the so-called "Zinspalaste" ("tenement palaces") have been built on a magnificent scale, often profusely adorned without and within with painting and sculpture.

The Viennese school of painting is of modern origin; but some of its members, for instance, Hans Makart (1840-1884), have acquired a European reputation.

He then notes the application to portraiture and to painting by laying colours on the projected images.

Wotton's letter of 1620, already noted, was not published till 1651 (Reliquiae Wottonianae, p. 141), but in 1658 a description of Kepler's portable tent camera for sketching, taken from it, was published in a work called Graphite, or the most excellent Art of Painting, but no mention is made of Kepler.

There is no proof that any book or painting of real merit was sacrificed, and Savonarola was neither foe to art nor to learning.

Beyond this, he eloquently pleaded the cause of painting as a distinct art, which Lessing in his desire to mark off the formative arts from poetry and music had confounded with sculpture.

The courts are ornamented by sculptures of great beauty and richness; the delicately-carved cedar ceiling bears traces of polychromatic painting.

There are many fine frescoes in the interior ranging from c. 1300 (knights kneeling before the Virgin) to the 15th century, including Pisanello's beautiful painting of St George (mentioned below).

In architectural magnificence and in wealth of sculpture and painting Verona almost rivalled the Tuscan city, and, like it, gave birth to a very large number of artists who distinguished themselves in all branches of the fine arts.

Painting in Verona may be divided into four periods.

They are a very interesting survival of the almost classical Roman style of painting, and appear to be quite free from the generally prevalent Byzantine influence.

For Pisanello's pupils and other painters of subsequent date, see Painting.

Painting and Engraving.Tn Japanese art the impressionist element is predominant.

The same law prevailing in all natures creation, in the plumage of birds, the painting of butterifies wings, the marking of shells, and in all the infinite variety and beauty of the floral kingdom, the lesson is constantly renewed to the observant eye.

The development of Japanese painting may be divided into the following six periods, each signalized by a wave of progress.

The real beginnings of the study of painting and sculpture in their higher branches must be dated from the introduction of Buddhism from China in the middle of the 6th century, and for three centuries after this event there is evidence that the practice of the arts was carried on mainly by or under the instruction of Korean and Chinese immigrants.

The oldest existiog work of this period is a mural decoration in the hail of the temple of Horyu-ji, Nara, attributed to a Korean priest named Donchfl, who lived in Japan in the 6th century; and this painting, in spite of the destructive effects of time and exposure, shows traces of the same power of line, color and composition that stamps the best of the later examples of Buddhist art.

At the end of the 9th century there were two exotic styles of painting, Chinese and Buddhist, and the beginning of a native style founded upon these.

The art was one of imperfect evolution, but for thirteen centuries it was the only living pictorial art in the world, and the Chinese deserve the honor of having created landscape painting.

Towards the close of the Ashikaga shogunate painting entered on a new phase.

Sessh (1421-1507) was a priest who visited China and studied painting there for several years, at length returning in 1469, dis-.

Down to the end of this era painting was entirely in the hands of a patrician castecourtiers, priests, feudal nobles and their military retainers, all men of high education and gentle birth, living in a polished circle.

These artists, at first educated in one of the native schools, obtained from a Hollander in Nagasaki some training in the methods and principles of European painting, and left a few oil paintings in which the laws of light and shade and perspective were correctly observed.

The sixth period began about 1875, when an Italian artist was engaged by the government as a professor of painting in the Engineering College at Tokyo.

The designs for these decorations, like those of the sword ornaments, were adopted from the great schools of painting, but the invention of the sculptor was by no means idle.

Its manufacture as a special branch of art work dates from the rise of the naturalistic school of painting and the great expansion of the popular school under the Katsugawa, but the okimono formed an occasional amusement of the older glyptic artists.

Sometimes painting is introduced into these panels and lacquer and metal clasps are added to the ribs.

The word "alcohol" is of Arabic origin, being derived from the particle al and the word kohl, an impalpable powder used in the East for painting the eyebrows.

Next come the various kinds of inhumation graves, the most important of which are rock-hewn chambers, many of which contain well-preserved paintings of various periods; some show close kinship to archaic Greek art, while others are more recent, and one, the Grotta del Tifone (so called from the typhons, or winged genii of death, represented) in which Latin as well as Etruscan inscriptions appear, belongs perhaps to the middle of the 4th century B.C. Fine sarcophagi from these tombs, some showing traces of painting, are preserved in the municipal museum, and also numerous fine Greek vases, bronzes and other objects.

A little before his death he had also formed a scheme of writing a Discourse on the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, Etching, &c., but when he died he had made but little progress with it.

As an industrial centre Corinth achieved pre-eminence in pottery, metal-work and decorative handicraft, and was the reputed "inventor" of painting and tiling; her bronze and her pottery, moulded from the soft white clay of Oneium, were widely exported over the Mediterranean.

It was perhaps the facility with which a pillar of stone or wood can be turned into an image by painting or sculpturing on it eyes, ears, mouth, marks of sex and so on, which led anthropologists of an earlier generation to postulate such a law of development; but facts do not bear it out.

He then returned to America for a year, but in 1896 went to London, and during the next five years exhibited much sculpture and painting there and in Paris.

The history of institutions like universities and academies, and that of great popular movements like the Reformation, are of course 1 Technical subjects like painting or English law have been excluded by Hallam, and history and theology only partially treated.

Alberti wrote works on sculpture, Della Statua, and on painting, De Pictura, which are highly esteemed; but his most celebrated treatise is that on architecture, De Re Aedificatoria, which has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish and English.

Tattooing and painting the body were well-nigh universal.

The magnificence of the coast has inspired more than one famous painting.

This severely classical spirit inspired his first important painting, "Date obolum Belisario," exhibited at Paris in 1780.

The town contains numerous educational institutions, including a technical college, a school of painting, a celebrated classical school, which the emperor William II.

Modern painting among the Czechs begins with Josef Manes (1826-71) and Czermak (1831-78), and Ales.

It also has training-colleges, a lycee, a school of art and technics, museums of antiquities, natural history and painting, and several learned societies.

Early distinguished by her excellence as a pianist, organist and singer, she also showed considerable ability in painting and illuminating; but a lively poetic imagination led her to the path of literature, and more especially to poetry, folk-lore and ballads.

At a mature age - having first, it appears, become acquainted with Mantegna - he turned his attention to painting.

It shows so much mastery that one is compelled to believe that Raibolini must before then have practised painting for some few years.

He stands as a leader in the practice of polychrome, since widely diffused, and by his writings and example did much to reinstate the ancient union between architecture, sculpture and painting.

The accompanying illustration is reduced from a painting made from one of two which were driven in Hyde Park by Mr. Sheriff Parkins in the early part of the 10th century.

He became an active member of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture and of the Academy of Inscriptions.

Among his antiquarian works are Recueil d'antiquites egyptiennes, etrusques, grecques, romaines, et gauloises (6 vols., Paris, 1752-1755), Numismata Aurea Imperatorum Romanorum, and a Memoire (1755) on the method of encaustic painting with wax mentioned by Pliny, which he claimed to have rediscovered.

Educational foundations include the Royal College of Physicians, of Surgeons and of Science; the Royal Irish Academy, with an unequalled collection of national antiquities, including manuscripts and a library; and the Royal Hibernian Academy of painting, sculpture and architecture.

In the sacristy there is a very beautiful miniature-like painting of the "Scourging of Christ," by Piero della Francesca, and other pictures by later artists.

This painting was among Charles I.'s collection which was sold by order of the Commonwealth in 1649.

The educational institutions are numerous and of a high order, including a technical high school (with about 1100 students), which enjoys the privilege of conferring the degrees of doctor of engineering, doctor of technical sciences, &c., a veterinary college, a political-economic institution (Gehestiftung), with library, a school of architects, a royal and four municipal gymnasia, numerous lower grade and popular schools, the royal conservatorium for music and drama, and a celebrated academy of painting.

About the same time he had lessons in drawing and in oil painting from Runciman.

He had now plunged into the study of Bellini and the Venetian school, Fra Angelico and the early Tuscans, and he visited Lucca, Pisa, Florence, Padua, Verona and Venice, passionately devoting himself to architecture, sculpture and painting in each city of north Italy.

Although Ruskin was practised in drawing from the time that he could hold a pencil, and had lessons in painting from some eminent artists, he at no time attempted to paint pictures.

More was not only a lawyer, a wit, a scholar, and a man of wide general reading; he was also a man of cultivated taste, who delighted in music and painting.

This work procured him his "agregation" to the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, of which he was made a full member in 1775.

It is not unlikely that the houses of wealthy persons were distinguished by a good deal of ornamentation in carving and painting.

The best preserved painting shows a scene from a bullfight.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, painting replaced architecture as the distinctive art of Andalusia; and many of the foremost Spanish painters, including Velazquez and Murillo, were natives of this province.

Apart from the peasant class, Castilians have contributed more to the development of Spanish art and literature than the inhabitants of any other region except, perhaps, Andalusia, which claims to be regarded as supreme in architecture and painting.

Antwerp, famous in the middle ages and at the present time for its commercial enterprise, enjoyed in the 17th century a celebrity not less distinct or glorious in art for its school of painting, which included Rubens, Van Dyck, Jordaens, the two Teniers and many others.

It contains a magnificent painting by Lucas Cranach the elder, representing the Lord's Supper, Baptism and Confession, also a font by Hermann Vischer (1457).

Yet she confessed with her usual candour that she had no taste for painting, sculpture or music. Her supposed love of literature does not appear to have amounted to more than a lively curiosity, which could be satisfied by dipping into a great number of books.

The adornment and painting of this temple had once been very rich and varied.

Acastus was represented with his famous horses in the painting of the Argonautic expedition by Micon in the temple of the Dioscuri at Athens.

Sometimes the walls are furnished with galvanized wires, but this has been objected to as causing cankering of the shoots, for which, however, painting is recommended as a remedy.

The most valuable parts of the work are those which relate to poetry, of which he had a much more intimate knowledge than of sculpture and painting.

A characteristic, though rude, painting, found on the walls of one of the houses gives a representation of this event.

To this fact is largely due the excellence of the Germans in grandiose decorative painting and sculpture, a talent for the exercise of which plenty of scope has been given them by the numerous public buildings and memorials raised since the war of 1870.

The most noteworthy of its public buildings is the handsome Protestant Church, begun in the 14th century and finished in 1520, in the Gothic style, containing a beautiful cup-shaped font, cast by Meister Leonhardus in 1438, and a large mural painting of the Crucifixion by Johannes von Rosenau (1445).

C. t has for its subject pavements and roads, their construction, mosaic floors; c. 2 is on white stucco for walls (opus albarium); c. 3 on concrete vaults, gypsum mouldings, stucco prepared for painting; c. 4 on building of hollow walls to keep out the damp, wall decoration by various processes; c. 5 on methods and styles of wall painting, the debased taste of his time; c. 6 on fine stucco made of pounded marble - three coats to receive wall paintings; c. 7 on colours used for mural decoration; c. 8 on red lead (minium) and mercury, and how to use the latter to extract the gold from wornout pieces of stuff or embroidery; c. 9 on the preparation of red lead and the method of encaustic painting with hot wax, finished by friction; cc. to-14 on artificial colours - black, blue, purple;, c. to white lead and ostrum, i.e.

Later he studied painting for a short time at the Royal Dublin Society, but soon turned to literature, contributing poems and articles to the Dublin University Review and other Irish periodicals.

In each age will be considered the (A) statuary, (B) reliefs, (C) painting.

This may perhaps apply to other arts as well as to sculpture and painting.

Lastly we must recognize the different schools of Egyptian sculpture which are as distinct as those of recent painting.

Ramin (about the middle of the 11th century), can compete with Nizami in the wonderful delineation of character and the brilliant painting of human affections, especially of the joys and sorrows of a loving and beloved heart.

By and by the boy found himself drawn by preference from goldsmith's work to painting; his father, after some hesitation on the score of the time already spent in learning the former trade, gave way and apprenticed him for three years, at the age of fifteen and a half, to the principal painter of the town, Michael Wolgemut.

Of works certainly executed by him during his years of travel there are extant, besides the Basel wood-block, only a much-injured portrait of himself, very finely dressed and in the first bloom of his admirable manly beauty, dated 1493 and originally painted on vellum but since transferred to canvas (this is the portrait of the Felix Goldschmid collection); a miniature painting on vellum at Vienna (a small figure of the Child-Christ); and some half a dozen drawings, of which the most important are the characteristic pen portrait of himself at Erlangen, with a Holy Family on the reverse much in the manner of Schongauer; another Holy Family in nearly the same style at Berlin; a study from the female nude in the Bonnat collection; a man and woman on horseback in Berlin; a man on horseback, and an executioner about to behead a young man, at the British Museum, &c. These drawings all show Diirer intent above all things on the sternly accurate delineation of ungeneralized individual forms by means of strongly accented outline and shadings curved, somewhat like the shadings of Martin Schongauer's engravings, so as to follow their modellings and roundness.

The first five years, 1507-1511, are preeminently the painting years of his life.

In them, working with infinite preliminary pains, as a vast number of extant drawings and studies testify, he produced what have been accounted his four capital works in painting, besides several others of minor importance.

In 1511 was completed another famous painting, multitudinous in the number of its figures though of very moderate dimensions, the "Adoration of the Trinity by all the Saints," a subject commissioned for a chapel dedicated to All Saints in an almshouse for decayed tradesmen at Nuremberg, and now at the Imperial Gallery at Vienna.

Almost the only well-authenticated painting of the time is a "Virgin and Child" in the Imperial Museum at Vienna.

In painting there is the famous portrait of Hieronymus Holtzschuher at Berlin, in which the personality and general aspect of the sitter assert themselves with surprising power.

The John and Paul are conceived and executed really in the great style, with a commanding nobility and force alike in the character of the heads, the attitudes, and the sweep of draperies; they represent the highest achievement of early German art in painting.

The open work was filled up with whitewash, the painting and gilding effaced, the furniture soiled, torn or removed.

In Art the term is used for a representation or likeness of an animate or inanimate object, particularly of the figure of a person in sculpture or painting.

The statue by Boehm on the Chelsea Embankment, however, is characteristic; and there is a fine painting by Watts in the National Portrait Gallery.

But the Renaissance, like the religious revivals initiated in Italy, arrived in Scotland weak and weary; hence the church did not share in the new enthusiasms of the faith of St Francis, and art was trampled on by the magnates who hated poetry and painting.

See Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, who also gives an illustration, "taken from a manuscriptal painting of the 9th century in the Cotton Library," representing "a Saxon chieftain, attended by his huntsman and a couple of hounds, pursuing the wild swine in a forest."

They employ vegetable dyes for painting their bark-cloth, calabashes, &c. In some islands they also use a red earth for this purpose.

In the summer of 1856 Street removed to London, and Morris accompanied him, working very hard both in and out of office hours at architecture and painting.

The artistic life in Budapest is fostered by the academy of music, which once had Franz Liszt as its director, a conservatoire of music, a dramatic school, and a school for painting and for drawing, all maintained by the government.

External woodwork may be protected by painting or oiling.

At the French examinations for the prix de Rome the candidates are required to execute a painting in a given number of days, under strict supervision (en loge).

He was also an unfailing supporter of contemporary painting, in so far as it responded to his romantic tendencies, and he gave a fresh impulse to the arts of working in metal and glass.

In his holiday excursions, the interest in the fine arts more than once took him out of his way to see some old painting.

First comes architecture - in the main, symbolic art; then sculpture, the classical art par excellence; they are found, however, in all three forms. Painting and music are the specially romantic arts.

A pair of stocks was then shown beautifully cut in the rock, where no stocks appeared in the plan of 1870; with a crude painting suspended on the wall above, blasphemously representing the Messiah confined in them!

Other schools are the provincial Institute of Secondary Education (490 regular students in 1907; library of 12,863 vols.), a provincial school of arts and trades (opened 1882), a theological seminary, a boys' technical school, a school of painting and sculpture, a conservatory of music, normal school, mercantile school and a military academy.

The town hall (1693) contains a remarkable painting of the town council by Terburg.

It possesses a famous painting of the Last Judgment, formerly attributed to Jan van Eyck, but probably by Memlinc. Among other ancient buildings of note are the beautiful Gothic town hall, surmounted by a graceful spire, the armoury (Zeughaus) and the Franciscan monastery, restored in 1871, and now housing the municipal picture gallery and a collection of antiquities.

With the revival of civilized conditions in secular life, secular ideals in art also revived; the ecclesiastical traditions in painting and sculpture, which always tend to become stereotyped, began in the West to be encroached upon long before the period of the "Renaissance."

By painters both raw and boiled oil are used, the latter forming the principal medium in oil painting, and also serving separately as the basis of all oil varnishes.

One-third to be deducted off repairs to and renewal of woodwork of hull, masts and spars, furniture, upholstery, crockery, metal and glassware, also sails, rigging, ropes, sheets and hawsers (other than wire and chain), awnings, covers and painting.

No painting bottom to be, 1 allowed if the bottom has not been painted within six months previous to the date of accident.

Nor is he capable of painting the events in which he took a part, in their totality as a drama.

Roman literature, faithfully reflecting the sentiments of the aristocratic salons of the capital, while it almost canonized those who had been his victims, fully avenged their wrongs by painting Nero as a monster of wickedness.

His manner influenced Giotto, who set painting on a forward path.

Painting grew from a homely stock, until the work of Velazquez showed that Spanish masters in this branch were fully abreast of their Italian compeers and contemporaries.

But their example French was not productive of a really great school of French painting.

The Van Eycks, followed by Memling, Metsys, Mabuse, Lucas van Leyden, struck out a new path in the revival of painting and taught Europe the secret of oil-colouring.

Sculpture was represented in London for a brief space by Torrigiani; painting by Holbein and Antonio More; music by Italians and Frenchmen of the Chapel Royal.

In painting Nuremberg is not less prominent, as the names of Wohlgemuth and Dürer sufficiently indicate.

His most original compositions in verse, however, are elegiac and hendecasyllabic pieces on personal topics - the De conjugali amore, Eridanus, Tumuli, Naeniae, Baiae, &c. - in which he uttered his vehemently passionate emotions with a warmth of southern colouring, an evident sincerity, and a truth of painting from reality which excuse their erotic freedom.

In Sicyon also the art of painting was supposed to have been "invented."

Cassini (1625-1712) from Italy to superintend, the Academies of Inscriptions and Medals, of Architecture and of Music, the French Academy at Rome, and Academies at Arles, Soissons, Nimes and many other towns, and he reorganized the Academy of Painting and Sculpture which Richelieu had established.

He had renounced the beaten track, but he continued to study hard whilst he sought to procure bread by painting portraits at Io or 15 francs apiece and producing small "pastiches" of Watteau and Boucher.

There are schools of painting, sculpture and architecture under the direction of the Royal Academy of Arts; a conservatory of music under that of the Royal Academy of Music; and experimental gardens and laboratories under the Royal Society of Agriculture.

In 1773 he was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, and thereafter studied Italian painting and Etruscan antiquities and language.

About 1796 he went to Paris to study painting, but he ultimately devoted himself to natural history, and attracted the attention of Baron Cuvier, for whom he occasionally lectured at the College de France and at the Athenaeum.

These latter so accumulated that the temple became a rich museum, among the chief treasures of which were the figures of Amazons sculptured in competition by Pheidias, Polyclitus, Cresilas and Phradmon, and the painting by Apelles of Alexander holding a thunderbolt.

It had a flourishing school of painting in the 4th century, of which the most famous representation was Aristides, who excelled in pathetic subjects.

But his highest and rarest literary quality is his power of painting characters, scenes, incidents and actions, whether from past history or from contemporary life.

In 1907 the school had 813 students, of whom 313 were girls; it has an academic department, a business school and courses in domestic science, in farming, dairying and gardening, and in masonry, carpentry, painting, blacksmithing, waggonmaking, shoemaking, steam-fitting, printing and other trades.

In sculpture and painting not much has yet been done to adorn the city.

The king of Sicily's fame as an amateur of painting has led to the attribution to him of many old paintings in Anjou and Provence, in many cases simply because they bear his arms. These works are generally in the Flemish style, and were probably executed under his patronage and direction, so that he may be said to have formed a school of the fine arts in sculpture, painting, gold work and tapestry.

The marriage of Alexander and Roxana was the subject of a famous painting by Action.

In Spanish literature, the Dialogues of Valdes (1528) and those on Painting (1633) by Vincenzo Carducci, are celebrated.

According to Vasari the angel kneeling on the left, with a drapery over the right arm, was put ire by Leonardo, and when Verrocchio saw it his sense of its superiority to his own work caused him to forswear painting for ever after.

One of these was a cartoon or monochrome painting of Adam and Eve in tempera, and in this, besides the beauty of the figures, the infinite truth and elaboration of the foliage and animals in the background are celebrated in terms which bring to mind the treatment of the subject by Albrecht Darer in his famous engraving done thirty years later.

A sheet with two studies of heads bears a MS. note of 1478, saying that in one of the last months of that year he began painting the "Two Marks."

The preparation in monochrome for this picture, a work of extraordinary power both of design and physiognomical expression, is preserved at the Uffizi, but the painting itself was never carried out, and after Leonardo's failure to fulfil his contract Filippino Lippi had once more to be employed in his place.

After asserting these in detail under nine different heads, he speaks under a tenth of his proficiency as a civil engineer and architect, and adds lastly a brief paragraph with reference to what he can do in painting and sculpture, undertaking in particular to carry out in a fitting manner the monument to Francesco Sforza.

Lastly, recent research has proved that it was in 1494 that Leonardo got to work in earnest on what was to prove not only by far his greatest but by far his most expeditiously and steadily executed work in painting.

Pacioli was equally amazed and delighted at Leonardo's two great achievements in sculpture and painting, and still more at the genius for mathematical, physical and anatomical research shown in the collections of MS. notes which the master laid before him.

The invading sovereign, going to Sta Maria delle Grazie with his retinue to admire the renowned painting of the "Last Supper," asked if it could not be detached from the wall and transported to France.

A year passed by, and no progress had been made with the painting.

Isabella Gonzaga, who cherished the hope that he might be induced permanently to attach himself to the court of Mantua, wrote about this time to ask news of him, and to beg for a painting from him for her study, already adorned with masterpieces by the first hands of Italy, or at least for a "small Madonna, devout and sweet as is natural to him."

Isabella Gonzaga again begged, in an autograph letter, that she might have a painting by his hand, but her request was put off; he did her, however, one small service by examining and reporting on some jewelled vases, formerly the property of Lorenzo de' Medici, which had been offered her.

The importunate expectations of a masterpiece or masterpieces in painting or sculpture, which beset him on all hands in Florence, inclined him to take service again with some princely patron, if possible of a genius commensurate with his own, who would give him scope to carry out engineering schemes on a vast scale.

At Florence he was at last persuaded, on the initiative of Piero Soderini, to undertake for his native city a work of painting as great as that with which he had adorned Milan.

In one of the sections of his projected Treatise on Painting, Leonardo has detailed at length, and obviously from his own observation, the pictorial aspects of a battle.

The unfinished and decayed painting remained for some fifty years on the wall, but after 1560 was covered over with new frescoes by Vasari.

Few works of painting and none of sculpture (unless the unfulfilled commission for the Trivulzio monument belongs to this time) are recorded as occupying him during the seven years of his second residence in that city (1506-1513).

The mere attempt to conquer the kingdom of light and shade for the art of painting was destined to tax the skill of generations, and is perhaps not wholly and finally accomplished yet.

The MSS., with the single exception of some of those relating to painting, lay unheeded and undivulged until the present generation; and it is only now that the true range of Leonardo's powers is beginning to be fully discerned.

It is indeed doubtful whether Leonardo himself ever completed the MS. treatise (or treatises) on painting and kindred subjects mentioned by Fra Luca Pacioli and by Vasari, and probable that the form and order, and perhaps some of the substance, of the Trattato as we have it was due to compilers and not to the master himself.

This leaves the assembling and field riveting to be done on the ground, together with the adjustment of the lateral or wind-bracing, the placing of tie rods and the field painting.

To secure painting of permanent value a clean scaleless and rustless surface is first necessary.

The first requirement, therefore, for efficient painting is the careful removal of all mill-scale, rust, grease, or foreign substance, before even the priming coat is applied.

Painting and sculpture, like modern Rumanian architecture, are still in their infancy.

In a neighbouring tomb was what is believed to be "the oldest Greek mural painting which has come down to us," dating probably from the 4th century B.C. Among the minor objects discovered in the kurgans perhaps the most noteworthy are the fragments of engraved boxwood, the only examples known of the art taught by the Sicyonian painter Pamphilus.

Two years later biographical studies of Theodore Beza and Peter Martyr Vermili (Leben des Theodor de Beza and des Peter Martyr Vermili, Heidelberg, 1809) revealed more genuine scholarship. In 1812 appeared his History of the Iconoclastic Emperors of the East (Geschichte der bilderstiirmenden Kaiser des ostromischen Reichs), in which he controverted some points in Gibbon and sought to avoid painting the past in present-day colours.

The chief artistic features of the church are the group of the Last Judgment sculptured on the tympanum above the west door, and the painting by Ingres representing the martyrdom of St Symphorien, which took place at Autun in 179.

In music and painting there have been artists of talent in the Cape Colony, but the country is still too young, and the conditions of life too disturbed, to allow such a development as has already occurred in Australia.

Young Boudin found his desire to be a painter stimulated by their influence; his work made a certain progress, and the interest taken in the young man resulted in his being granted for a short term of years by the town of his adoption a pension, that he might study painting.

The church of St Mary is Perpendicular, with a fine porch, a painting of the Adoration of the Magi, attributed to Rubens, a small crypt said to have been used by Cromwell as a prison for the Royalists, and many interesting monuments.

This painting was executed for the temple of Asclepius at Cos, from which it was taken to Rome by Augustus in part payment of tribute, and set up in the temple of Caesar.

There are also industrial and historical museums, and collections of painting and natural history.

The Corporation buildings, a blend of the Scots Baronial and French Gothic styles, contain busts of several Scottish sovereigns a statue of Robert Burns, and Sir Noel Paton's painting of the "Spirit of Religion."

On the chest of Cypselus, Marpessa is represented as following Idas from the temple of Apollo (by whom, according to some, she had been carried off), and there was a painting by Polygnotus of the rape of the Leucippidae in the temple of the Dioscuri at Athens.

The existence of a school of art, where painting and architecture are taught, is also a sign of new times.

The town also possesses a library of 50,000 volumes, several high-grade schools, and is the seat of a great number of commercial and intellectual associations; but to nothing is it more indebted for its celebrity than to the Academy of Painting.

Langhans, the post office and the museum of sculpture and painting, the latter faced by the Mende fountain.

This work, which includes sculpture and architecture, as well as painting, has become indispensable to the art traveller in Italy.

The main art centres of Tuscany are Florence, Pisa and Siena, the headquarters of the chief schools of painting and sculpture from the r3th century onwards.

In musical skill and invention he already vied with the best professors of the art in Italy; his personal taste would have led him to choose painting as his profession, and one of the most eminent artists of his day, Lodovico Cigoli, owned that to his judgment and counsel he was mainly indebted for the success of his works.

The state also maintains a variety of technical schools, for agriculture, engineering, architecture, painting, music, &c. The whole system of public instruction is controlled by the minister of education and an advisory council.

Calvert (London, 1906, &c.), is noteworthy for descriptions of architecture and painting, and for the excellence of its many illustrations.

A residence of some years at Rome, devoted to painting and the study of the antiquities and galleries of the Eternal City, was followed by a visit to Naples and Sicily, and by the publication, at Palermo, of his first work, a poem of no merit.

The other works of Cicognara are - the Memorie storiche de' litterati ed artisti Ferraresi (1811); the Vite de' più insigni pittori e scultori Ferraresi, MS.; the Memorie spettanti alla storia della calcografia (1831); and a large number of dissertations on painting, sculpture, engraving and other kindred subjects.

Half the realm of creative art, that of statuary, was thus suppressed at a blow; and the other half, painting, forfeited all the grace and freedom, all the capacity of new themes, forms and colours, all the development which we see in the Latin Church.

Oils of lavender and of spike are used as vehicles for painting, more especially for the painting of pottery and glass.

The condenser is constructed of coils like the refrigerator, the cooling water being contained in a tank; frequently, however, a series of open coils is employed, the cooling water falling over the coils into a collecting tray below, and this form is perhaps the most convenient for ordinary use as it affords great facilities for inspection and painting.

She chewed on the end of her pencil, absently gazing at a painting.

Meanwhile, you were here where I could observe you for the painting.

He sold his first painting at age fifteen – something like $17,000.

Dean passed a timeworn farmhouse now sitting empty on land far more valuable to a developer than its intended use, its torn curtains shimmering in the paint-peeled window frame—an Andrew Wyeth painting.

He let out a primordial scream and threw the glass of blood at the painting with so much force, the crystal shattered and blood splattered crimson all over the painting and wall.

He looked at the wall where Elisabeth's painting should be and saw empty space with spattered blood around it.

A red neon sign blinked "Ocean Shore Motel," painting the parking lot and the bathing-suited man in a pulsating crimson glow.

We've done a damned good job covering our tracks—painting the Scranton Apartment, swip­ing motel receipts with Byrne's signature on them....

Abstract expressionism was a New York painting movement of the 1940's with its artistic roots based upon abstract art.

He was searching for an abstract expressionist painting by de Kooning.

Having terrified the consumer, they follow up by painting a lyrical picture of organic agriculture.

She lived a hectic pace, juggling her own painting career with bringing up her young family.

Everything in a Hopper painting, his interiors in particular, is full of meaning that propels the narrative.

The museumprocrastinated over the painting's introduction, chiefly because of a strong lobby of opposition from influential art dealers.

The painting showed a vague resemblance to the Mayflower in parts.

The average user is strangely absent, like the laborer in eighteenth century landscape painting.

For a customs official who was self-taught and only took up painting full-time in retirement, this was an extraordinary accomplishment.

Each image is a painting in high quality acrylic paint on canvas.

In addition to painting altarpieces and frescoes, he designed much of the inlaid marble floor of Siena Cathedral.

The complete animator has a set of painting tools built in, for you to draw the frames of your animation with.

Her painting, Diver appears on the cover of the first Earlyworks Press fiction anthology.

Above the chancel arch, there is a doom painting.

Not by painting but by weaving were those highly artistic designs achieved.

Those artworks chosen cover a wide array of disciplines, including examples of traditional landscape painting set against computer based interactive artwork.

The first painting I remember making was of a Hawaiian lady swimming the backstroke under a palm tree.

Ocean Terminal October 12th come along and be a lucky guest with face painting and goody bags.

Jo's main interests are silk painting, wax batik and embroidery and she exhibits her work regularly in the Yorkshire area.

The image of a child blowing bubbles is a commonly depicted theme by artists in 17 th century Dutch painting.

In 1980/81, I had the pleasure of painting a new standard for the exhibition budgerigar, which is still in use today.

It will feature calligraphy, painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics by some of the best artists working in Japan today.

For example, what might it have been like to view a Renaissance painting by flickering candlelight?

Each painting is accompanied by a caption in the form of a line from the play.

Pony Rides, bouncy castle, face painting & much more.

Ceramic Paws at Holme Grange Craft Village provides a peaceful countryside location - ideal for painting ceramic Paws at Holme Grange Craft Village provides a peaceful countryside location - ideal for painting ceramics.

As a part of articulating Indian Christology, many others have employed various art forms including poems, painting and dancing in Indian style.

At first, decoration was commonly executed in underglaze painting using blue cobalt.

It is ideal for painting conservators that are working on site or in the studio.

The painting becomes a dance, where artist and artwork are mutually constitutive.

On the scaffold were approximately 20 Chinese coolies who were painting the side of the ship.

The existing timber cladding required extensive repair work before painting and so it was considered more cost-effective to replace it entirely.

P P wax painting Draw a picture with wax crayons on paper.

The dense paintings of early cubism revived material painting at the expense of subject, which was taken as a given.

Either through painting or creation of your own decals will this be accomplished.

If painted decoration was required the article would then move onto the painting shop.

Boat painting is another area of their expertise with high quality work being carried out in the covered wet dock.

Paid attractions include dodgems, Mr Bounce and face painting.

The Early Learning Center gave us an additional donation of a painting easel.

If I smell lemon eucalyptus and mimosa I am right in that painting.

In May 1913, £ 48 had been raised for painting the exterior of the Chapel.

It dries poorly in cold damp conditions, so external painting needs to be done between April and September.

Like many other small towns in Iowa today, it resembles much more an inner city ghetto than a Norman Rockwell painting.

Students should have some basic ability in observational drawing skills and painting, but no previous experience of using gouache is required.

The painting made Edward's face seem grotesque, but there was a secret to the painting.

It should always be used when painting a lime harl.

Ian Curtis June 2005 oil on box canvas 30 x 24 inches Original oil painting of Singer ian curtis, done as a commission.

The area inspired the Hudson River School of painting, a sort of early American pastoral idyll.

The term impressionism came from a painting by Claude Monet.

This exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to see his new work and to understand the interrelation between his printing and painting techniques.

The refurbished roof painting celebrates the investiture of Charles in 1969.

Not just painting kettles or white milk jugs black or whatever.

What we're going Keith explains making naic is painting.

The painting, which is accentuated by the lead lines, has great simplicity.

When discussing Claude Monet's painting Impression, soleil levant, one art critic used the word Impression contemptuously in his article on the exhibition.

Painting can attain the same joyous losing of the ME in a supernatural revelation.

Activities include face painting, cake decorating, windmill making, lucky dip and visits from cartoon favorite Gordon the Garden Gnome.

One painting depicts Britain surrounded by a swirling Maelstrom coming from the mouth of a man who resembles Adolf Hitler.

A slide was shown of a painting of a very majestic sheep that was painted by a plumber.

Or he'd render them entirely anonymous, painting out their beautiful features with white theatrical makeup.

Baudelaire wanted to change all this and bring modernity into poetry and painting.

But how much can building parks and painting murals realistically contribute to the peace process?

As they began to run with great success in electoral contests, republican muralists had a reason to continue painting.

Orders are taken for Church work, and almost every kind of fancy or plain needlework, painting or carving.

On 27 th December 2005 she was gifted an original oil painting by the artist Steve Grimmond of Dundee.

These may be seen in an old oil painting of the church.

Also worth noting were Caroline Fulton's Gorillas, and Peter Flanagan's impressive oil painting of Evening Shoppers.

Optical illusion - John Langdon, 1999 Can you see why this painting is called optical illusion - John Langdon, 1999 Can you see why this painting is called optical illusion?

The most recent painting, by Angela Mirro, is of a rare Peruvian slipper orchid discovered in 2002.

Face painting Japanese origami Quilting, photography and art exhibitions.

Find a creative outlet - Channel some of your feelings into a creative outlet, like writing, painting or making music.

We also spent a few weekends painting the outside of the boat and doing some re-fitting in the cabin.

Whilst painting is, at present, a serious hobby she also works as an illustrator and mural painter using a variety of media.

On my white walls, I would ideally like to hang a huge abstract expressionist painting by De Kooning.

She worked for the royal family and probably taught miniature painting to Nicholas Hilliard when he was still a goldsmith.

The idea is refined into a small working study of how I see the finished painting to be.

Constable exhibited this painting at the Royal Academy in 1831, but continued working on it during 1833 and 1834.

Questions in the operative period When and where did Francis Wall acquire the painting?

The painting This picture is based on a watercolor painting by J Douglas Hunter.

See ' silk painting ' page for examples displayed within the church.

The project began in July 2002 with a week-long mural painting workshop.

He was always prolific but at times his painting lacked passion and became repetitive or obscure almost to the point of self parody.

Paul's selection reflects his own partiality to figurative painting.

A life-long passion for painting oils of faces, the artist also paints still life and landscapes.

The composer likened the piece to a painting " as it explores the many permutations and colors of sound.

Is the golden pheasant a real bird or just a walking painting?

Click on the thumbnail, right, to see a photogravure of the original painting.

All around me people were decorating away with a vengeance, so I applied myself to painting a face and some appropriate Chinese pictographs.

It's like having two artists painting the same picture.

Many homeworking scams involve piecework from painting cottages to assembling electronic components.

The heated platen can be positioned at the edge of the table to treat the painting at the sides.

Activities include painting, drawing, puppets, toy box, soft playrooms, cars, tricycles.

Singing, playing instruments, dancing, painting and composing poetry are all various ways of expressing human emotions in a creative manner.

Recently Peter has been painting iconic portraits of music legends.

He had a penchant for painting half- length figures of malicious sexually predatory women.

Painting in a range of media, but most comfortable with etching, he is one of Britain's most famous contemporary printmakers.

Typical gifts include quality wooden boxes to any size, plaques and clocks decorated with locally-inspired or Celtic pyrography and painting.

A husband comes home and sees his wife painting the living room, but she's wearing a raincoat and a fur coat.

Rajput court paintings originated from the Jain illustrated manuscripts but each Rajput court paintings originated from the Jain illustrated manuscripts but each Rajput kingdom developed its own painting style.

This extremely reductive idea of painting is one reason why Greenberg's concept of modernist fell out of favor in the 1960s.

Accident, Scotlands finest quality paintless dent removal company. we remove and repair car dents and dings without painting!

Nor can we fully understand medieval renaissance or baroque painting.

Look at how painting has constantly revolutionized itself over the past one hundred and twenty years.