Sentence examples for Upon paintings from inspiring English sources

The patterns are floral and architectural Renaissance conceptions, many based upon paintings and cartoons by the same artists who designed the Gobelins tapestries.

For those who have stumbled upon paintings of Paolo Veronese here and there in Europe and the United States, what does his name conjure up?

These are the saints, their appearance based upon paintings in the gallery – Crivelli's Saint Peter, say, or Cranach's St Apollonia – meticulously recreated in plaster, fibreglass and paint.

To stumble upon paintings in such surroundings, and in such a gracious building as Inverleith House, was always to be doubly blessed.

Stripped-down white cube galleries have conditioned us to look with dispassion upon paintings like the large-scale ones here, which depict goddesses and nymphs, heroines and victims, with full breasts and bountiful thighs.

The beginning of 2008 brought news of a Scottish pensioner who, concerned by a leaky roof, got a pleasant surprise in stumbling upon paintings worth over £250,000 in his attic.

These people were so creative". Terpning says he's thankful that Native Americans have allowed him to exhaustively photograph them observing their traditions, which has helped him build up an image bank he can draw upon for paintings.

There is no right way to gaze upon the paintings, no ideal set of conditions.

"I immediately recognised the diffraction pattern of wax as I encountered this material several times upon measuring paintings," Frederik Vanmeert, a PhD student at Antwerp, said.

He wandered into the Huntington Library and came upon two paintings he recognised from the backs of playing cards: Gainsborough's Blue Boy and Thomas Lawrence's Pinkie.

Sam Farber, a museum board member, recalled coming upon the paintings at the antiques show with his son, John, a fellow enthusiast of outsider art.