He also painted some portraits ; overall his painted oeuvre was not large.

Meanwhile, in 1868, tombs at Ialysus in Rhodes had yielded to Alfred Biliotti many fine painted vases of styles which were called later the third and fourth " Mycenaean "; but these, bought by John Ruskin, and presented to the British Museum, excited less attention than they deserved, being supposed to be of some local Asiatic fabric of uncertain date.

He stayed for some years circa 1712 in Venice, where he painted many works for the patron Zaccaria Sagredo.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

Returning to France, in 1890 Pissarro again visited England and painted some ten scenes of central London.

The graphics, by Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud and Gregor Punchatz, were modelled in various ways: although much was drawn or painted, several of the monsters were built from sculptures in clay or latex, and some of the weapons are toy guns from Toys " R " Us.

A tradition exists in some parts of the United Kingdom ( such as Scotland and North East England ) of rolling painted eggs down steep hills on Easter Sunday.

He painted a number of pictures, several of them in larger format and to some extent featuring the Art Nouveau aesthetics of the time.

* Hans Holbein is considered to be the greatest portraitist of Erasmus, having painted him at least three times, and perhaps as many as seven ; some only survive in versions by other artists.

In painting buon fresco, a rough underlayer called the arriccio is added to the whole area to be painted and allowed to dry for some days.

This is because ( through some unknown path ) the pixels on the other side of the mark can be reached and painted in the future.

Harpsichords have been decorated in a great many different ways: with plain buff paint ( e. g. some Flemish instruments ), with paper printed with patterns, with leather or velvet coverings, with chinoiserie, or occasionally with highly elaborate painted artwork.

Irenaeus, ( c. 130 – 202 ) in his Against Heresies ( 1: 25 ; 6 ) says scornfully of the Gnostic Carpocratians, " They also possess images, some of them painted, and others formed from different kinds of material ; while they maintain that a likeness of Christ was made by Pilate at that time when Jesus lived among them.

This walnut ink drawing can be clearly seen in some of the thinly painted areas of his work.

In some cases, evidence of accidents or repairs may be added, such as dents or freshly painted replacement parts, and weathered models can be nearly indistinguishable from their prototypes when photographed appropriately.

Pliny mentions some painted ceilings in his day in the town of Ardea, which had been done prior to the foundation of Rome.

He also painted some frescoes in the Prato Cathedral and Bologna.

Although Alma-Tadema's fame rests on his paintings set in Antiquity, he also painted portraits, landscapes and watercolors, and made some etchings himself ( although many more were made of his paintings by others ).

Veronese also painted the breed into some of his other religious work, including The Marriage at Cana and The Finding of Moses.

Layers that consist of complex geometric objects ( such as text or polylines ) may be broken down into simpler elements ( characters or line segments, respectively ), which are then painted as separate layers, in some order.

There he painted some of his best-known paintings including " The Doctor and the Doll ".

He also painted many portraits of Polish gentry and was interested in Huguenot and Polish history as well, making some paintings on the topic.

There are fresco cycles in the Sala delle Sibille ( Room of Sibyls ), with its original terracotta fireplace bearing the coat of arms of Giovanni Romei, in the adjoining Saletta dei Profeti ( Room of the Prophets ), depicting allegories from the Bible and in other rooms, some of which were commissioned by cardinal Ippolito d ' Este and painted by the school of Camillo and Cesare Filippi ( 16th century ).

The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.

In the northern or " Anasazi " portion of the Ancestral Pueblo world, from about 500 to 1300 CE, the most common decorated pottery had black painted designs on white or light gray backgrounds.

People have even made their own boats or watercraft out of materials such as foam or plastic, but most homebuilts today are built of plywood and either painted or covered in a layer of fibreglass and resin.

The Reformation theologian Calvin argued, Nahum painted God by which his nature must be seen, and " it is from that most memorable vision, when God appeared to Moses after the breaking of the tables.

The first and most famous of the Jirel of Joiry stories is " Black God ’ s Kiss ", which received the cover illustration ( painted by Margaret Brundage ) in the October 1934 Weird Tales.

In most diodes, a white or black painted band identifies the cathode terminal, that is, the terminal that conventional current flows out of when the diode is conducting.

The art could range from simple sketches, to reproductions of large elaborate works painted in oil or acrylic, though most are created in ink.

With the commercialization of graffiti ( and hip hop in general ), in most cases, even with legally painted " graffiti " art, graffiti artists tend to choose anonymity.

The most common form of public transportation in Haiti is the use of brightly painted pickup trucks as taxis called " tap-taps ".

The Chauvet Cave in the Ardèche Departments of France contains the most important preserved cave paintings of the Paleolithic era, painted around 31, 000 BC.

These groups were for long the most frequently painted ; works such as Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling are therefore history paintings, as are most very large paintings before the 19th century.

It is a very useful tool for organizing and keeping track of naval vessels, and also provides the basis for the identification numbers painted on the bows ( and frequently the sterns ) of most U. S. Navy ships.

The 36 most important sights of the city centre are connected with a long red line, which is painted on the pavement.

Some of his most famous works are believed to be painted at the house and gardens of Capt.

Over the next five decades, he created covers for numerous books and magazines, notably Astounding Science Fiction both before and after its title change to Analog ; Mad magazine ( for whom he painted many early covers featuring the iconic character, Alfred E. Neuman ) from 1958 to 1962 ( he started at Mad in February 1957 and by July 1958 was the magazine's new cover artist ; he painted most of its covers until October 1962 ); cover art for DAW, Signet, Ballantine Books, Avon, all 58 Laser Books ( which are now collectors ' items ), and over 90 covers for Ace books alone.

All these qualities come together in his most famous painted works, the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks.

Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, painted for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan.

The main emphasis was on various, fortunately very durable, forms of sculpture in stone and clay ; little painting has survived, but what has suggests that painting was mainly used for geometrical and plant-based decorative schemes, though most sculpture was also painted.

The Reformation theologian Calvin argued, Nahum painted God by which his nature must be seen, and " it is from that most memorable vision, when God appeared to Moses after the breaking of the tables.

Most ( but not all ) machines sold to run TOPS-10 were painted " Blasi Blue ", whereas most TOPS-20 machines were painted " Terracotta " ( often mistakenly called " Chinese Red " or orange ; the actual name of the color on the paint cans was Terracotta ).

Around 1450 – 1456 he painted his three most famous paintings The Battle of San Romano, the victory of the Florentine army over the Sienese in 1432, for the Palazzo Medici in Florence.