In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe used improved instruments, including large mural instruments, to measure star positions more accurately than previously, with a precision of 15 – 35 arcsec.

A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other large permanent surface.

Many people like to express their individuality by commissioning an artist to paint a mural in their home, this is not an activity exclusively for owners of large houses.

A large hand-painted mural can be designed on a specific theme, incorporate personal images and elements and may be altered during the course of painting it.

A large black-and-white photo mural of Radio Row can be viewed at the World Trade Center PATH station.

Efforts to bolster economic activity are evidenced by the city enacting policies to benefit small businesses, and even going so far as to paint a mural on the facade of a large water treatment building facing the freeway that depicts two shopping bags headlined by the words, " Shop in Fountain Valley.

Leger also created a large mural for the home's circular living room and sculpted an abstract form to serve as a skylight.

It was a very large mural sextant that achieved a high level of accuracy for astronomical measurements.

American art collector Albert C. Barnes convinced him to produce a large mural for the Barnes Foundation, The Dance II, which was completed in 1932 ; the Foundation owns several dozen other Matisse paintings.

He considered his finest work to be Midvinterblot ( Midwinter Sacrifice ), a large wall mural now displayed inside the Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts.

Some partly uncovered pre-Reformation wall-paintings and a large mural ( dating from the 14th century ) of Saint Christopher with the infant Child are on the North wall.

However, the town was greatly devastated by a large fire in the early forties and retains the authentic WPA Post office mural

Today a Russellville bank on the city square has a large mural depicting the robbery.

The library's collection consists of over 250, 000 books, two dozen public computers, a wide array of multimedia options, a large youth services area with a vivid mural depicting Westfield history, and multiple tables and carrels for studying.

Also multimedia artist group Keep Adding have a large mural on Picacho Ave at the Lion's Park titled, Wave Nest.

The castles varied in design but were typically characterised by powerful mural towers along the castle walls, with multiple, over-lapping firing points and large and extremely well defended barbicans.

In the room below, there is a large mural on the wall, which features both Alice and the triple smokestacks of a factory near the mental institution.

She realizes that a detail of Jerry's large mural is near a mental hospital and goes there.

At the station, a large mosaic mural ( 1990 ) by local people including children from the nearby primary school marks the centenary of the opening of the rail bridge.

In the 1980s, a large mural depicting the battle was painted on the side of St George's Town Hall.

Just prior to the first anniversary of the attacks, he paid US $ 100, 000 for his painting to be transformed into a large mural.

The large mural in the grand foyer is entitled " Fountain of Youth " and was painted by Ezra Winter.

A thrombus in a large blood vessel will decrease blood flow through that vessel ( termed a mural thrombus ).

All three artists, as well as the painter Rufino Tamayo, experimented with fresco on large walls, and elevated the art of the mural.

He met artist Michael Farrell during this period, and Farrell recruited him to assist with a large mural commission, which was painted at Ardmore Studios.

Solid brick buildings painted dazzling white, large domes and tall, picturesque palms stretched as far as the eye could see, while the wharves and harbor were filled with tall-masted sailing ships.

To be sure of matching color as well as form, pieces of cartoon were traced on the roughcast, and large samples painted in fresco, then left two months to dry out to their final key.

:: Lift down the large cups, my friends, the painted ones ;

He also repaired a large part of Beverley Minster in the diocese of York, adding a presbytery and an unusually splendid painted ceiling covering " all the upper part of the church from the choir to the tower ... intermingled with gold in various ways, and in a wonderful fashion ".

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

The richest grave of all was explored at Vaphio in Laconia in 1889, and yielded, besides many gems and miscellaneous goldsmiths ' work, two golden goblets chased with scenes of bull-hunting, and certain broken vases painted in a large bold style which remained an enigma until the excavation of Knossos.

Included in the Museum & Gallery collection are seven very large canvases, part of a series by Benjamin West painted for George III, called " The Progress of Revealed Religion ," which are displayed in the War Memorial Chapel.

They then moved to Vernon, then to a house in Giverny in Normandy, where he planted a large garden and where he painted for much of the rest of his life.

In 1983, the end zone design returned, with the addition of a large wishbone " C " Bears logo painted at midfield.

In 1996 the midfield wishbone " C " was changed to a large blue Bears head, and the end zone design were painted with " Bears " in cursive.

She painted a large canvas in 1884, Les Derniers Jours d ' Enfance, a portrait of her sister and nephew whose composition and style revealed a debt to James McNeill Whistler and whose subject matter was akin to Mary Cassatt's mother-and-child paintings.

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

Within that short span, such large paintings were painted with natural organic pigments.

However, if the shape is complex with many features, the algorithm spends a large amount of time tracing the edges of the region trying to ensure that all can be painted.

Mostly, animals were painted, not only animals that were used as food but also animals that represented strength like the rhinoceros or large Felidae, as in the Chauvet Cave.

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.

Along with his ambitious full-length portraits, Reynolds painted large numbers of smaller works.

Severn also painted such works as Cordelia Watching by the Bed of Lear, Shepherds in the Campagna, Shelley Composing Prometheus Unbound, Isabella and the Pot of Basil, Portia with the Casket, Ariel, Rienzi, The Infant of the Apocalypse Saved from the Dragon, a large altarpiece for the church of San Paolo fuori le Mura at Rome, and many portraits of statesman and aristocrats, including Baron Bunsen and William Gladstone.

Public transit is provided by the suburban services of the Luanda Railway, by the public company TCUL, and by a large fleet of privately owned collective taxis as white-blue painted minibuses called Candongueiro.

Some wall paintings are painted on large canvases, which are then attached to the wall ( e. g., with marouflage ).

Advertising murals were traditionally painted onto buildings and shops by sign-writers, later as large scale poster billboards.

In this fresco, he painted a large building with columns in perspective.

One of the most eulogistic of these artistic works in its celebration of his reign, is the ' Glorification of the Reign of Urban VIII ' painted by Pietro da Cortona in the large vault of salone of the Palazzo Barberini.