The curtains were of the same material, and there were some big oil paintings -- portraits in the style of Lancret and Boucher.

Francesca and Herbert considered themselves violently nonconformist and showed the world they were by filling their Colonial house with contemporary furniture and paintings and other art objects ( expensive, but not necessarily valuable, contemporary things ).

Among the other artists, whose paintings were discussed were Boucher, Courbet, Fra Angelico.

On display were 343 first-class paintings and sculptures from his fabled collection -- and every single one of them was up for sale.

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.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

In this period some " artisanal " products ( such as textiles ) were much more precious and expensive than paintings or sculptures.

Aalto claimed that his paintings were not made as individual artworks but as part of his process of architectural design, and many of his small-scale " sculptural " experiments with wood led to later larger architectural details and forms.

It would be a mistake to praise Warhol for the design of his boxes ( which were designed by Steve Harvey ), yet the conceptual move of exhibiting these boxes as art in a museum together with other kinds of paintings is Warhol's.

Angel-shaped beings appear in ancient Mesopotamian and Greek art and were probably the inspiration for the popular Christian image of angels, a popular subject for Byzantine and European paintings and sculpture.

Dürer exerted a huge influence on the artists of succeeding generations, especially in printmaking, the medium through which his contemporaries mostly experienced his art, as his paintings were predominately in private collections located in only a few cities.

Even Houbraken recalled that Cuyp was a devout Calvinist and the fact that when he died, there were no paintings of other artists found in his home.

Adding to the confusion is the similar initials between the two and the inconsistent signing of paintings which were produced by Cuyp ’ s studio.

Cuyp ” insignia, many paintings were left unsigned ( not to mention undated ) after being painted, and so a similar signature was added later on, presumably by collectors who inherited / discovered the works.

Furthermore, many possible Cuyp paintings were not signed but rather initialed “ A.

v. C .”), this brings up the question of how paintings were signed to show ownership.

Most original Cuyp paintings were signed by him, and in the script manner in which his name was inscribed.

Conversely, paintings which came out of his workshop that were not necessarily physically worked on by Cuyp but merely overseen by him technically, were marked with A. C. to show that it was his instruction which saw the paintings ’ completion.

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.

Mice and rabbits were the most frequent subject of her fantasy paintings.

The paintings of the Netherlandish masters were often exported for German and Italian merchants and bankers.

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.

* A fine collection of Buddhist paintings from Dunhuang and the Admonitions Scroll by Chinese artist Gu Kaizhi ( 344 – 406 AD )

* The Biology of Art ( 1963 ) – a look at the paintings of primates and their relation to human art

* List of works influenced by Don Quixote – including a gallery of paintings and illustrations

The Chester Beatty Library houses the famous collection of manuscripts, miniature paintings, prints, drawings, rare books and decorative arts assembled by American mining millionaire ( and honorary Irish citizen ) Sir Alfred Chester Beatty ( 1875 – 1968 ).

These themes find expression in paintings such as The Sick Child ( 1885 ), Love and Pain ( 1893 – 94 ), Ashes ( 1894 ), and The Bridge.

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.

* Thompson's poem was the inspiration for a series of 23 paintings by the American painter R. H. Ives Gammell ( 1893 – 1981 ).

Loquats and Mountain Bird, anonymous artist of the Southern Song Dynasty ; paintings in leaf album style such as this were popular in the Southern Song ( 1127 – 1279 ).

His paintings were exhibited for the first time at Toninelli Arte Moderna in Milan in 1963 – 64.

* 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

The myth is illustrated by two paintings, " Apollo and Marsyas " by Palma il Giovane ( 1544 – 1628 ), one depicting the scene before, and one after, the punishment.

Prometheus ' torment by the eagle and his rescue by Heracles were popular subjects in vase paintings of the 6th – 4th c. BC.

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.

Picasso ’ s Blue Period ( 1901 – 1904 ) consists of somber paintings rendered in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.

The generally upbeat and optimistic mood of paintings in this period is reminiscent of the 1899 – 1901 period ( i. e. just prior to the Blue Period ) and 1904 can be considered a transition year between the two periods.

Gradually the new type of secular portrait painting appeared, called parsúna ( from " persona " – person ), which was transitional style between abstract iconographics and real paintings.

Supposedly, when his mother was found, her dress was covering her face, an image that has been suggested as the source of several of Magritte's paintings in 1927 – 1928 of people with cloth obscuring their faces, including Les Amants.

The paintings he produced during the years 1918 – 1924 were influenced by Futurism and by the offshoot of Cubism practiced by Metzinger.

The years 1815 – 1825 marked significant growth in Morse ’ s paintings, as he sought to capture the essence of America ’ s culture and life.

* 1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

Yet despite the challenge, Anguissola's paintings of Elisabeth of Valois – and later of Anne of Austria, Philip II ’ s fourth wife – were vibrant and full of life.

One of his most famous paintings is The Roses of Heliogabalus ( 1888 ) – based on an episode from the life of the debauched Roman Emperor Elagabalus ( Heliogabalus ), the painting depicts the psychopathic Emperor suffocating his guest at an orgy under a cascade of rose petals.