With naked gas jets below and leaky windows above, enough to ruin wall paintings in any medium, they have survived, in a building long unheated in winter, hot and damp under the iron dome in summer.

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

If you have taken this stroll in the morning, and you have the time and inclination, walk to the right along the crowded Corso for half a dozen blocks to visit the fine private collection of paintings -- mainly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- in the Palazzo Doria ( open Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday, 10:00 to 1:00 ).

Since 1892 ears of red, yellow, purple and white corn have annually been nailed to 11 big picture panels to create huge `` paintings ''.

It may have been true for all I know, because his glasses were like the bottoms of milk bottles, but it didn't prevent the paintings from being exciting.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Although this is unlikely ( as Calraet would likely have signed his paintings “ A.

As it turns out, even the historians and expert researchers have been fooled and forced to reassess their conclusions over “ Cup ’ s ” paintings over the years.

In 1923, he underwent two operations to remove his cataracts: the paintings done while the cataracts affected his vision have a general reddish tone, which is characteristic of the vision of cataract victims.

* Winslow Homer, Édouard Manet, Louise Abbéma and Pierre Bonnard all have paintings titled The Croquet Game.

The 1, 500-page, three-volume work is the most comprehensive collection of Pissarro paintings to date, and contains accompanying images of drawings and studies, as well as photographs of Pissarro and his family that have not previously been published.

Archaeological studies of rock art in Northern Australia suggest that the people of the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory have been using the didgeridoo for less than 1, 000 years, based on the dating of paintings on cave walls and shelters from this period.

Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

In summing up the painting's impact, author Martha Tedeschi has stated: " Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings — regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value — have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every viewer.

These paintings have been interpreted as reflections of the artist's sexual anxieties, though it could also be argued that they are a better representation of his turbulent relationship with love itself and his general pessimism regarding human existence.

Without any effort, Munch had a steady stream of female models, some of whom he may have had sexual relations with, and who were the subjects of numerous nude paintings.

" Many of his paintings, including The Scream, have universal appeal in addition to their highly personal meaning.

Fractal patterns have been found in the paintings of American artist Jackson Pollock.

In Europe, community cleaning squads have responded to graffiti, in some cases with reckless abandon, as when in 1992 in France a local Scout group, attempting to remove modern graffiti, damaged two prehistoric paintings of bison in the Cave of Mayrière supérieure near the French village of Bruniquel in Tarn-et-Garonne, earning them the 1992 Ig Nobel Prize in archeology.

Images believed to depict the Great Auk were also carved into the walls of the El Pinto Cave in Spain over 35, 000 years ago, while cave paintings 20, 000 years old have been found in France's Grotte Cosquer.

Various conjectures have been made as to the meaning these paintings had to the people that made them.

Prehistoric men may have painted animals to " catch " their soul or spirit in order to hunt them more easily or the paintings may represent an animistic vision and homage to surrounding nature, or they may be the result of a basic need of expression that is innate to human beings, or they could have been for the transmission of practical information.

The exhibition included paintings, bronzes, and porcelain which had previously not been available to the public.

Cave paintings, artifacts and other archaeological evidence indicate that there has been continuous habitation for some 8, 000 years.

And though, on orders from the hanging Committee and the Marquis de Chennevières, Pissarro's paintings of Pontoise for example had been skyed, hung near the ceiling, this did not prevent Jules-Antoine Castagnary from noting that the qualities of his paintings had been observed by art lovers.

Neither theory has been verified, and it remains as likely that the paintings represent an idealized composite.

The giraffe has intrigued various cultures, both ancient and modern, for its peculiar appearance, and has often been featured in paintings, books and cartoons.

Between that time and the paintings and frescoes that appear on the Goryeo dynasty tombs, there has been little research.

Davy was also a painter and three of his paintings dating from circa 1796 have been donated to the Penlee House museum at Penzance.

* Monroe is the last president who had never been photographed and whose portraits are preserved today only on paintings.

Some of the best known paintings of the museum have been digitized by the French Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France.

Julie Manet became the subject for many of her mother's paintings and a book of her memoirs Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, was published in 1987.

Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

They published a magazine for a short time and held an exhibit in Rome, featuring paintings, Tristan Tzara quotes, and original epigrams such as " True Dada is against Dada ".

His experimental art — which would encompass paintings, drawings as well as a bitter series of aquatinted etchings, published in 1799 under the title Caprichos – was done in parallel to his more official commissions of portraits and religious paintings.

The four paintings were published in The Saturday Evening Post on February 20, February 27, March 6 and March 13 in 1943.

In 2005, Grant F. Scott published Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs in which he re-edited the original material, added hundreds of newly discovered letters, included numerous reproductions of Severn's paintings, and prefaced this material with a critical introduction and commentary.

He had a very successful exhibition of paintings at the Calmann Gallery in London in 1938 and his first book, the self-illustrated children's pirate romance Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor ( based on a story he had written around 1936 ) was first published in 1939 by Country Life.

He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.

Probably the most famous examples of depicting proverbs are the different versions of the paintings Netherlandish Proverbs by the father and son Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger, the proverbial meanings of these paintings being the subject of a 2004 conference, which led to a published volume of studies ( Mieder 2004a ).

However, the linking of basic geometric forms with inherent beauty and ease of industrial application — which had been prefigured by Marcel Duchamp from 1914 — was left to the founders of Purism, Amédée Ozenfant and Charles-Édouard Jeanneret ( better known as Le Corbusier ,) who exhibited paintings together in Paris and published Après le cubisme in 1918.

The paintings were published in 1943 by The Saturday Evening Post.

His last painting for the Post was published in 1963, marking the end of a publishing relationship that had included 321 cover paintings.

" His numerous odalisque paintings were influenced to a great extent by the writings of Mary Wortley Montagu, the wife of the ambassador to Turkey whose diaries and letters, when published, fascinated European society.

In 1987, Van Vliet published Skeleton Breath, Scorpion Blush, a collection of his poetry, paintings and drawings.

White's watercolors would soon become a sensation in Europe and it was not long before the paintings were engraved by the Flemish master engraver Theodore de Bry, and through the medium of print, became widely known and distributed ; published in 1590 under the title " America ".

The 1950s saw the publication of two further works: Douglas Goldring's Regency portrait painter, and Kenneth Garlick's catalogue of Lawrence's paintings ( a further edition was published in 1989 ).

This was A Harlot's Progress, first as paintings, ( now lost ), and then published as engravings.

Wolf Vostell also gained recognition for his drawings and objects, such as images of American B-52 bombers, published under the rubric " capitalist realism " and as a result of his inclusion of television sets with his paintings.

Ariès published a study in 1961 of paintings, gravestones, furniture, and school records.

Susan Sontag's book " Regarding the Pain of Others ", published in 2003, is a study of the issue of how the pain and misfortune of some affects others, namely whether war photography and war paintings may be helpful as anti-war tools or, whether they only serve some sense of schadenfreude in some viewers.

The historical and military paintings of William B. T. Trego were widely published after his death ( according to Edwin A. Peeples, " There is probably not an American History book which doesn't have ( a ) Trego picture in it ").

They were allegedly created by Giulio Romano as paintings in the Vatican after a dispute with the pope, and the engraver Marcantonio Raimondi published them.