Schiele's paintings are anything but pleasant.

He may have been eccentric in his behavior, but his paintings are as impassive as Persian tiles.

Also, there are housed here some priceless historical treasures from 400 to 600 years old -- paintings, lacquer, brocade, etc..

In addition to the paintings are drawings, prints, and illustrations.

Not all the paintings, however, are of cities.

Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.

His donor figures are often painted completely out of scale with the main scene, as in paintings of the previous centuries.

The Battle is now in the Alte Pinakothek, which has the best collection of Altdorfer's paintings, including also his small St. George and the Dragon ( 1510 ), in oil on parchment, where the two figures are tiny and almost submerged in the lush, dense forest that towers over them.

The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art ( which depict the Jataka tales ) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka .< ref >

The development of Aelbert Cuyp, who was trained as a landscape painter, may be roughly sketched in three phases based on the painters who most influenced him during that time and the subsequent artistic characteristics that are apparent in his paintings.

Cuyp probably first encountered a painting by van Goyen in 1640 when van Goyen was, as Stephen Reiss points out “ at the height of powers .” This is noticeable in the comparison between two of Cuyp ’ s landscape paintings inscribed 1639 where no properly formed style is apparent and the landscape backgrounds he painted two years later for two of his father ’ s group portraits that are distinctly van Goyenesque.

A phenomenal number of paintings are ascribed to him, some of which are likely to be by other masters of the golden landscape, such as Abraham Calraet ( 1642 – 1722 ), whose initials A. C. may be mistaken for Cuyp's.

Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.

Lastly and most importantly, the precision in mimicking Cuyp ’ s style by his follower Abraham van Calraet and their contentious signatures makes it all the more difficult to determine which paintings are genuinely that of Cuyp and which ones are actually accurate reproductions in his style.

They can also be used to build thick layers of paint: gel and molding paste media are sometimes used to create paintings with relief features that are literally sculptural.

It is possible these events, like the paintings, are full of rich metaphor or in the case of the animals of the desert, perhaps a vision or dream.

Some of the stories included in Saint Anthony's biography are perpetuated now mostly in paintings, where they give an opportunity for artists to depict their more lurid or bizarre interpretations.

There are comparatively few icons and paintings of him.

There are several paintings depicting Esther, including one by Millais.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

Chardin frequently painted replicas of his compositions — especially his genre paintings, nearly all of which exist in multiple versions which in many cases are virtually indistinguishable.

Since they showed pictorial sequences of men and corpses covered with shrouds, those paintings are sometimes regarded as cultural precursors of the new genre.

Throughout the Roman world, ceramics, lamps, gems and jewellery, mosaics, reliefs, wall paintings and statuary offer evidence, sometimes the best evidence, of the clothing, props, equipment, names, events, prevalence and rules of gladiatorial combat.

Paradoxically the " negative " connotations are now becoming associated with " positive " connotations-with the resurgence of gin, upmarket bars now frequently refer to " mother's ruin ", " gin palaces ", where printed copies of Hogarth paintings may sometimes be found ..

His work is an example of what is sometimes called Outsider Art ( formerly, drawings and paintings of the insane ).

Since 1996, the restitutions, according sometimes to less formal criteria, concerned 47 more pieces ( 26 paintings, with 6 from the Louvre including a then displayed Tiepolo ), until the last claims of French owners and their heirs ended again in 2006.

One may see similarities with how melancholic romantic paintings in the west sometimes used ruins from the age of the Roman Empire as a backdrop.

Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works ; he called his most spontaneous paintings " improvisations " and described more elaborate works as " compositions.

However though both Penni and Giulio were sufficiently skilled that distinguishing between their hands and that of Raphael himself is still sometimes difficult, there is no doubt that many of Raphael's later wall-paintings, and probably some of his easel paintings, are more notable for their design than their execution.

The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.

He so well replicated the styles and colours of the artists that the best art critics and experts of the time regarded his paintings as genuine and sometimes exquisite.

Since the 1980s, Johns produces paintings at four to five a year, sometimes not at all during a year.

Much meaning can be added to a painting by its title, but the titles of Hopper's paintings were sometimes chosen by others, or were selected by Hopper and his wife in a way that makes it unclear whether they have any real connection with the artist's meaning.

The cable television channel Turner Classic Movies sometimes runs animated clips based on Hopper paintings prior to airing its films.

This relatively new category of art includes paintings, sculptures and sometimes Native American crafts.

This is sometimes depicted in armorial paintings between the shield and the helmet.

While the word expressionist was used in the modern sense as early as 1850, its origin is sometimes traced to paintings exhibited in 1901 in Paris by an obscure artist Julien-Auguste Hervé, which he called Expressionismes.

The power of his physical effects was sometimes apparent even in the full-scale paintings which he exhibited in London ; The Chain Pier, 1827, for example, prompted a critic to write: " the atmosphere possesses a characteristic humidity about it, that almost imparts the wish for an umbrella ".

Giulio Campagnola, well known as the engraver who translated the Giorgionesque style into prints, but none of whose paintings are securely identified, is also sometimes also brought into consideration.

At an earlier period in Giorgione's short career, a group of paintings is sometimes described as the " Allendale group ", after the Allendale Nativity ( or Allendale Adoration of the Shepherds, rather more correctly ) in the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

As previously mentioned, some of the paintings and frescoes became immediately famous because they represented erotic, sometimes explicit, sexual scenes.

Small brushstrokes exhibit control of large areas, expressing the artist's emotion and focus on inner energy, and sometimes contemplation, creating expressive, lyrical and thoughtful qualities in the paintings.

The albums were the creations of conoisseurs who bound together single sheets containing paintings, drawings, or calligraphy by various artists, sometimes excised from earlier books, and other times created as independent works.

Later he began his Protractor Series ( 71 ) of paintings, in which arcs, sometimes overlapping, within square borders are arranged side-by-side to produce full and half circles painted in rings of concentric color.

The sophisticated and ' learned ' iconographical and compositional qualities of the paintings attributed to him are sometimes used as an argument in favour of this supposition.