Sentence examples for work bequeathed from inspiring English sources

Most of the histories, however, are of the often memorialized — Mahler, Nietzsche, Alexander Hamilton, New York City police officers killed in the line of duty — who live on either in the work bequeathed to us or in the myths constructed around them after their deaths.

In Walsall, the New Art Gallery is a home for the works bequeathed the town by Jacob Epstein's widow.

"Manju: Netsuke From the Collection of the Ashmolean Museum" documents works bequeathed to the Ashmolean in Oxford by the British historian Monica Barnett.

Picking up in the Cabinet Room, with a small group of works bequeathed to the Courtauld Gallery by its founder, "Mantegna to Matisse" takes baby steps toward the 20th century.

Starting July 13, the Belvedere museum's "Masterpieces in Focus: 150 Years of Gustav Klimt" will show about 30 major paintings centered on his Golden Period, including "Kiss" (1907-08) "JudIth I" (1901), a handful of loans and two newly acquired works bequeathed by the Viennese collector Peter Parzer, "Sunflower" (1907) and "The Family" (1909).

This study is a careful and factual reconstruction of the lives of the ninety-nine Jesuit missionaries, using the twenty-six works bequeathed by the missionaries in question, as well as information gathered from forty-one archives in Europe.

One hopes that after years of good works, bequeathing millions to charities and institutions and reigning over Manhattan society, Mrs. Astor went to her final rest, in August 2007, ignorant of the implications of this scandal.

Brod not only ignored Kafka's wishes but published his work and bequeathed the originals to Esther Hoffe.

This week, the new boss praised the "entrepreneurial and creative freedom" and "decentralised responsibility" that Bertelsmann gives its executives.The results for the first half, which ended less than a month before Mr Middelhoff left, show both how much he achieved and how much work he bequeathed to Mr Thielen.

At her death a number of these works were bequeathed to American museums, including the Metropolitan.

The problem is that the Frick's founder, Henry Clay Frick, stipulated in his will that none of the works he bequeathed could be lent.