Quotes About Art

The Holy Grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er Her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, She lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.

Gentlemen, not only does the face of Mona Lisa look androgynous, but her name is an anagram of the divine union of male and female. And that, my friends, is Da Vinci's little secret, and the reason for Mona Lisa's knowing smile.

Despite for a monumental reputation, the Mona Lisa was a mere thirty-one inches by twenty-one inches -- smaller even than the posters of her sold in the Louvre gift shop.

Michelangelo is the gold standard," Winston said with a chuckle, "brilliantly posing David in an effeminate contrapposto, his limp wrist casually holding a flaccid slingshot, conveying a feminine vulnerability. And yet David's eyes radiate a lethal determination, his tendons and veins bulging in anticipation of killing Goliath. The work is simultaneously delicate

Smrt se dá porazit jediným zp?sobem, a to tak, že vlastní život promÄ›níme v mistrovské dílo.

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change.

Seeing how prominently Edmond had displayed the masterpiece, Langdon wondered if perhaps the painting itself might hold some clue as to what Edmond had discovered. At first glance, the painting's subject seemed far too primitive to hint at an advanced scientific discovery. Its broad uneven brushstrokes depicted a Tahitian jungle inhabited by an assortment of native Tahitians and animals.

Inferno. In addition to Botticelli's celebrated Map of Hell, there was Rodin's timeless sculpture of The Three Shades from The Gates of Hell Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Stradanus's illustration of Phlegyas paddling through submerged bodies on

Bombay Sapphire and Gogol should never be mixed.

gilded frame, the seventy-six-year-old man heaved the masterpiece toward himself until it tore from the wall and Saunière collapsed

WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHY YOUR FIVE-YEAR-OLD COULD NOT HAVE DONE THAT HOW TO SURVIVE MODERN ART

brilliantly posing David in an effeminate contrapposto, his limp wrist casually holding a flaccid slingshot, conveying a feminine vulnerability. And yet David's eyes radiate a lethal determination, his tendons and veins bulging in anticipation of killing Goliath. The work is simultaneously delicate and deadly." Langdon was impressed with the description and wished his own students had as clear an understanding of Michelangelo's masterpiece.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

Michelangelo is the gold standard," Winston said with a chuckle, "brilliantly posing David in an effeminate contrapposto, his limp wrist casually holding a flaccid slingshot, conveying a feminine vulnerability. And yet David's eyes radiate a lethal determination, his tendons and veins bulging in anticipation of killing Goliath. The work is simultaneously delicate and deadly.

Since the days of Michelangelo, sculptors had been hiding the flaws in their work by smearing hot wax into the cracks and then dabbing the wax with stone dust. The method was considered cheating, and therefore, any sculpture "without wax"—literally sine cera—was considered a "sincere" piece of art.

museum's Grand Gallery. He lunged for the nearest painting he could see, a Caravaggio. Grabbing

There are no straight lines in nature, Gaudí was once quoted as saying

While Christian tradition favored literal images of its gods and saints, Islam focused on calligraphy and geometric patterns to represent the beauty of God's universe. Islamic tradition held that only God could create life, and therefore man has no place creating images of life—not gods, not people, not even animals.

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Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and discovered that replicas of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise

Como siempre dice el señor Kirsch, uno de los objetivos del arte consiste en fomentar el diálogo.

Todas las referencias a obras de arte, tumbas, túneles y elementos arquitectónicos de Roma son completamente reales, al igual que su emplazamiento exacto. Hoy en día todavía pueden verse. La hermandad de los illuminati es también real.

There is only one way to triumph over death; that is by making our lives masterpieces.

Impressionists, Cubists, and Surrealists who had stunned the world between 1870 and 1960 by entirely redefining art. VAN GOGH… SEURAT… PICASSO… MUNCH… MATISSE… MAGRITTE… KLIMT… KANDINSKY… JOHNS… HOCKNEY… GAUGUIN… DUCHAMP… DEGAS… CHAGALL… CÉZANNE… CASSATT… BRAQUE… ARP… ALBERS…