Fortunately the traveller Pausanias has left us a careful description of these paintings, figure by figure.

The term " multiform " has been applied by art critics ; this word was never used by Rothko himself, yet it is an accurate description of these paintings.

During this period he made several visits to the collection of antiquities at Dresden, but his description of its best paintings was left unfinished.

No actual description of the paintings was provided.

The Saradatilaka, adds to this description that Raja-Matangi plays the veena, wears conch-shell earrings and flower garlands, and has flower paintings adorning her forehead.

In England, Shakespeare briefly describes a group of erotic paintings in Cymbeline, but his most extended exercise is a 200-line description of the Greek army before Troy in The Rape of Lucrece.

It will typically include a description of the objects covered, together with paintings or photographs and an index.

To this is added the use of ekphrasis: the novel opens with an admirable description of a painting of the rape of Europa, and also includes descriptions of other paintings such as Andromeda being saved by Perseus and Prometheus being liberated by Hercules.

Recently, many authorities such as the American Ornithologists ' Union have begun to use Phalacrocorax brasilianus after M. Ralph Browning argued that Piso's description and paintings do indeed refer to the Neotropic Cormorant.

Starting shortly after their marriage in 1924, Edward Hopper and his wife, Josephine ( Jo ), kept a journal in which he would, using a pencil, make a sketch-drawing of each of his paintings, along with a precise description of certain technical details.

Tempera also refers to the paintings done in this medium.

The archive keeps official records and files of the present city administration and its predecessor, and collection items of different type and origin, which refers to the city, such as photographs, posters, graphics, paintings, maps and plans, or a newspaper clipping collection.

Another meaning of the word may also refer collectively to all multi-panel paintings ; it refers not only to a style of art, but also refers to an altar display.

Nerdrum refers to his highly finished, charcoal drawings as " paintings " Often his drawings are large in scale and are works in their own right, as well as being studies for future paintings.

Dogs Playing Poker refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars .< ref >

Parietal art, or cave art, refers to paintings, murals, drawings, etchings, carvings, and pecked artwork on the interior of rock shelters and caves.

In the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the author Henry Fielding refers to paintings by William Hogarth in order to explain what some of his characters look like.

Delivery refers not only to written or spoken language, but also refers to photographs, paintings, or movies.

The title refers to the several paintings by Swiss-German painter Arnold Böcklin.

In the novel, Francis Sandow refers to “ that mad painting by Boecklin, The Isle of the Dead .” Böcklin created at least five paintings with that title, each depicting an oarsman and a standing figure in a small boat, crossing dark water toward a forbidding island.

The title refers to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and the image of Vermeer viewed from his back is a reference to Vermeer's paintings The Art of Painting and The Little Street.

The name " Tarkus " refers to the armadillo-tank from the William Neal paintings on the album cover.

Their converging styles make it difficult to exactly understand the influences each had on the other, although it is clear enough to say that Aelbert started representing large scale forms ( something he had not done previously ) and placing animals as the focus of his paintings ( something that was specific to him ).

By the late 18th century European influences in painting were clear, with the introduction of oils, perspective, figurative paintings, use of anatomy and composition.

But he keeps the soft clear light of Perugino in his paintings.

" Some art historians in Eastern art, such as Yukio Yashiro, also argue that the landscape in the background of the picture was influenced by Chinese paintings ; however, this thesis has been contested for lack of clear evidence.

His widow acted to clear Nash's debts ( some £ 15, 000 ), she held a sale of the Castle's contents, including three paintings by J. M. W. Turner painted on the Isle of Wight, two by Benjamin West and several copies of old master paintings by Richard Evans these were sold at Christie's on 11 July 1835 for £ 1, 061.

Works like Crivelli's Garden have clear links to the paintings by Carlo Crivelli in the National Gallery, but other works made at the time, like Joseph's Dream and The Fitting, also draw spatially and in their subject matter from Old Master works by artists such as Diego Velázquez.

This is clear from the fact that in none of the ancient Christian cemeteries are there found paintings of martyrs other than those who had suffered in that neighborhood.

This is clear from the fact that early Christian cemeteries contain paintings only of local martyrs.

Due to Castiglione's work Qing court paintings began to show a clear Western influence.

Its clear structure can be seen Mudejar. It has three naves and can be classified among the religious monuments of the thirteenth century and fourteenth centuries, whose construction began after completion of the Reconquista by Fernando III. The head of the temple was built in the fifteenth century and was decorated with paintings of this era that can still be seen behind the Baroque altar.

The deceptively simple forms and large areas of clear color in his paintings combine to create unforgettable icons of psychological drama.

Alfred de Tanouarn describes one of Hamon's paintings as " clear, simple and natural, the idea, the attitudes and the aspects.

Many of the paintings appear to have been made only after the walls were scraped clear of debris and concretions, leaving a smoother and noticeably lighter area upon which the artists worked.

Although it is widely reported that the Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli burned several of his paintings based on classical mythology in the great Florentine bonfire of 1492, the historical record on this is not clear.

Historians previously accounted Egypt as the earliest site of cat domestication due to the clear depictions of house cats in ancient Egyptian paintings about 3, 600 years old.

Girodet is remembered for his precise and clear style and for his paintings of members of the Napoleonic family.

Another important innovation was Dan Christensen's use of a spray technique to great effect in loops and ribbons of bright color ; sprayed in clear, calligraphic marks across his large-scale paintings.

In the period 1928-1931 he was a contributor of the unu magazine ( an avant-garde periodical with Dadaist and Surrealist tendencies ), which published reproductions of most of his paintings and graphic works: " clear drawings and portraits made by Victor Brauner to his friends, poets and writers " ( Jaques Lessaigne-Painters I Knew ).

A variant uses the opposite technique: most of the area is clear, except for individual elements ( photo cutouts or paintings ) affixed to the glass.

The influence of the Zero group and the materials they used is clear in Haacke's early work from his paintings that allude to movement and expression to his early installations that are formally minimal and use earthly elements as materials.

For reasons that are not clear, whirligigs in the shape of the cross became a fashionable allegory in paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth century.

The early art produced by these influences was described in Sburătorul by Şirato, Tonitza's friend, as " paintings which are fact drawings with a light resonance of intellectualism "; during the period, Rampa magazine hailed the painter as " A priest of humanitarian ideas, of ideas demanding the attention of present-day world leaders, with a more and more clear and audacious tone ".

All his works are remarkable for their combination of freedom and strength with softness and delicacy, and his crayon paintings unite to these the additional quality of clear and brilliant colouring.