Everywhere else his ideas lay or hung in visible form: his models, drawings, ten-foot canvases in monochromes from his painting days, and underfoot a windfall of broken-backed books that looked as though their insides had been ransacked by a maniac.

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

A poem by Dylan Thomas, a saxophone solo by Charles Parker, a painting by Jackson Pollock -- these are pure confabulations as ends in themselves.

One young girl told me how her mother removed a wart from her finger by soaking a copper penny in vinegar for three days and then painting the finger with the liquid several times.

There are 151 items in the Wilmington show, including one painting by each member of the `` Eight '', as well as work by Sloan's friends and students.

When Charlie came up from the beach for his four-o'clock pill, the whole establishment ( gaudy enough when seen through mist and fog ) looked like a floodlit modern painting -- great blocks of dizzy color, punctuated at regular intervals by the glaring white of five community refrigerators.

Up on a dune, he saw a girl, all by herself, sitting on a camp stool before an easel and absorbed in her painting.

This image of a fully mature " Venus rising from the sea " ( Venus Anadyomene ) was one of the iconic representations of Aphrodite, made famous in a much-admired painting by Apelles, now lost, but described in the Natural History of Pliny the Elder.

History painting | Painting by Jan Matejko | Matejko, 1882.

This painting by Anselm Feuerbach re-imagines a scene from Plato's Symposium ( Plato ) | Symposium, in which the tragedian Agathon welcomes the drunken Alcibiades into his home.

Peter I interrogates Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich at Peterhof, history painting by Nikolai Ge, 1871, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

It can be said of late phase mannerist painting in Florence, that the city that had early breathed life into statuary with the works of masters like Donatello and Michelangelo, was still so awed by them that it petrified the poses of figures in painting.

While by 1600 the Baroque elsewhere was beginning to give life to painted figures, Florence was painting two-dimensional statues.

Ildefonso ), a painting by Peter Paul Rubens.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

Triumphus Caesari, by Andreani, after a painting by Mantegna

" The Musician ", oil painting | oil on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929, stolen in 1 May 2009 from the Scheringa Museum of Realist Art.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

In painting, Dürer had relatively little influence in Italy, where probably only his altarpiece in Venice was seen, and his German successors were less effective in blending German and Italian styles.

The design came from a painting by German artist Johannes M. Dietz.

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze ( May 24, 1816 – July 18, 1868 ) was a German American history painter best known for his painting Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Film noir's aesthetics are deeply influenced by German Expressionism, an artistic movement of the 1910s and 1920s that involved theater, photography, painting, sculpture, and architecture, as well as cinema.

Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400 – 1800 ( 2008 ) 360pp essays by scholars covering German and Italian territories, the Netherlands, France, and England ; plus guilds in cloth spinning, painting, glass blowing, goldsmithing, pewterware, book-selling, and clock making.

The bombing of Guernica on the afternoon of 26 April 1937 – a mission used as a testing ground for the German Luftwaffe's Condor Legion – was probably the most infamous event of the war and inspired Picasso's painting.

Hans Baldung Grien ( c. 1484 – 1545 ) is a German artist in painting and printmaking who was considered the most gifted student of Albrecht Dürer.

Germany | German painting from ca.

Over the following centuries the three terms grotesque, moresque and arabesque were used largely interchangeably in English, French and German for styles of decoration derived at least as much from the European past as the Islamic world, with " grotesque " gradually acquiring its main modern meaning, related more to Gothic gargoyles and caricature than to either Pompeii-style Roman painting or Islamic patterns.

Faiss held two German patents related to the preparation of waxes for encaustic painting.

Ambrosius Holbein ( c. 1494 – c. 1519 ) was a German and Swiss artist in painting, drawing and printmaking.

Manfred Zimmerman, however, discovered that the painting was by German artist Josef Madlener and dates to the mid – 1920s.

Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies ( often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged ) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick ( to which the pair moved in 1914 ), where he was briefly arrested as amid accusations of being a German spy in 1915.

German troops in combat with the Herero in a painting by Richard Knötel.

* Hercules und Omphale is a painting by the 16th century German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Though initially mainly a German artistic movement, most predominant in painting, poetry and the theatre between 1910-30, most precursors of the movement were not German.

The steep and sweeping vista was the subject of the well-known painting Chalk Cliffs on Rügen by the 19th-century German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich.

German students fighting a sabre duel, around 1900, painting by Georg Mühlberg ( 1863 – 1925 )

The poster appropriated a painting by Nazi artist Richard Klein, replacing the flag of Nazi Germany with the Yugoslav flag and the German eagle with a dove.

Pommer put Caligari in the hands of designer Hermann Warm and painters Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig, whom he had met as a soldier while painting sets for a German military theater.

This price set a record for both Franz Marc's work, and 20th-century German painting.

The Broad and the Narrow Way, a popular German Pietist painting, 1866

The towers on a 2002 German stamp, based on a painting by Lyonel Feininger