17 sentences with 'paintings'

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• « We bought some paintings at a bohemian market. »

• « We found cave paintings on the walls of the grotto. »

• « Cave paintings are ancient drawings found on rocks and caves around the world. »

• « The viceroy's residence was decorated with luxurious tapestries and paintings. »

• « The artist painted with such realism that his paintings looked like photographs. »

• « The history of art spans from cave paintings to contemporary works, and reflects the trends and styles of each era. »

• « Despite paintings such as The Birth of Venus, however, Botticelli remained a pious Christian throughout his life. »

• « Medieval paintings often presented things from several angles at once to the viewer and had no sense of three-dimensional perspective. »

• « Futurist paintings often depicted vast clouds of dark smoke with abstract images of trains and radio towers, or sometimes just mixtures of colours. »

• « The English Vorticists, for their part, tried to capture the impression of movement in static paintings, among other things by depicting literal explosions in their art. »

• « Thus, although not as glamorous as beautiful paintings or soaring buildings, the practical effects of humanistic education led to its widespread adoption throughout most of Europe. »

• « In explaining their plan to Butler, Roberts was sure that the thieves already knew that it would be very difficult to find a buyer for one of the most famous paintings in the world. »

• « In 1901, the University of Vienna commissioned the artist Gustav Klimt to create paintings celebrating the three great branches of traditional academic scholarship: philosophy, medicine and law. »

• « By 1908 they had moved from heckling to stone-throwing and other forms of protest, including destroying paintings in museums and, on one occasion, attacking male politicians with whips on a golf course. »

• « Botticelli was patronised by various members of the Florentine popolo grossi (wealthy people), by the Medici and by the popes, producing numerous frescoes (wall paintings done in plaster), portraits, and biblical and classical scenes. »

• « The "Takamatsuzuka tumulus" was a name unknown to the general public until March 1972, when it received full-page coverage in the Japanese press because of the discovery of splendid paintings dating back to 700 AD, revealing an art form closely related to China. »

• « Four months earlier, Roberts had posed as a buyer of stolen paintings in order to recover four masterpieces in an international police sting. When Butler filled him in on the details of the theft of The Scream, he realised that solving the case would require as much imagination and daring as the previous one. »

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