The period saw a rise in the creation of mural-size works to decorate churches, as well as a boon in the region's singular casta paintings, which documented the racial types of the booming colony.
It is this tension between what he observed and what he imagined that makes Leonardo's Milanese paintings so singular.
In the last two decades, her vivid prose, mystical paintings and singular music, all conceived in visions said to have been induced by debilitating migraines, have been whooshed from centuries of monastic obscurity to New Age celebrity by a flurry of performances and publications.
These accumulated bits of cultural detritus are at the heart of the artist's singular body of work: paintings, installation and video that plumb the uncanny underbelly of middlebrow life in America.
His singular approach to paint application may have been suggested in part by familiarity with the work of Titian, and could be seen in the context of the then current discussion of 'finish' and surface quality of paintings.
Gregory Gillespie, an artist whose probing, urgent, often bizarre paintings occupied a singular place in the history of late-20th-century representation, died on Wednesday at his home in Belchertown, Mass, an apparent suicide.
Such materialism works well with "singular" works of art, such as paintings, Beardsley thinks, but "multiple artworks"—musical compositions which have many performances, poems which exist in multiple printings present problems.
Sensuous, chromatically singular and transcendentally iconic, the single-color paintings of Thursz (1925-1992) offer visual and spiritual refuge from the bustle of metropolitan life.
Tintoretto's first phase includes a group of 14 octagonal ceiling paintings with mythological themes (originally painted for a Venetian palace), which exhibit singular refinement in perspective and narrative clarity.
