Antique Canons

Deccani painters developed expressive and fantastical styles, innovating new idioms within the Indo-Persian canon while remaining true to traditional formats.

He captured the kindness of astronomer Canon Pingre as well as the fierce countenance of Doctor Borie.

The chair has been restored respecting the canons of the period of construction of this. The expert craftsman of our interior workshop has been able to perfectly capture the type of ...

Maud Earl (1864-1943) Maud Earl is quite possibly one of the most famous animal and dog painters of the nineteenth century, becoming a celebrity during the Victorian era and now occ...

The pope is the sovereign of the order. The order creates "canons" as well as knights, with the primary mission to "support the Christian presence in the Holy Land".

René Vincent (1879–1936) The French illustrator, active in the 1920s-1930s, worked according to the Art Deco style and canons, and became famous for his poster designs.

The image shows Commander Peary with Charles Behrens, the Lord Mayor of London, with the Lady Mayoress, Major Church Howe, the U.S. Consul, Canon Wainright, and the Mayor's daughters...

When classical architecture was revived during the Renaissance, two more orders were added to the canon: the Tuscan order and the Composite order.

In Austria it all started in 1742, only 25 years after the founding of the Grand Lodge of London and Winchester, the Lodge "Aux Trois Canons” was consecrated in Vienna by a Lodge fro...

The decoration follows classical canons and is centered around two bouquets placed on the main sides, with a larger predominant flower from which secondary branches with smaller flow...

It was around this time that the factory abandoned the Baroque decorative canons for the new trends in fashion, including that of the “paesini e figure” (villages and figure), a styl...

The expression 'thunder of Brest" refers to the canon at the foot of the castle of Brest, Brittany, that announced daily opening and closing of the gates of the arsenal.

PRESENTING A LOVELY late 19C Bronze Sculpture of Napoleon Crossing the Alps. 19th Century Bronze of Napoleon on Horseback in Battle, with canon, etc at his feet and on his favorite ...

He stands on a decorative rectangular bronze pedistal, with canon ball and a Telescope. This high-quality bronze is made from the lost wax process, otherwise known as cire perdue...

A large ship on the left appears to be firing its canons and a small ship on the right appears to be sitting very low in the water, either heavily loaded with cargo or sinking.

Moran eventually gained a reputation in his day of "having been the first among the artists to recognize the picturesque qualities of the scenery of the southwest," according to a bo...

After a few years he moved to Mechelen to become the servant of a canon. It also gave him the opportunity to begin his studies in the seminary for priests.

Reverend James Edgar Sheppard KCVO (1845-1921) was a Canon of Windsor from 1907 to 1921 and Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Alexandra, Queen Victoria and King Edward.

The grandiose masterful carving incorporating C-scrolls, flowering branchwork, stylized icicles, acanthus leaves, and distinctive architectural follies and figures which firmly place...

Besides being an artist who followed the established canons dictated by the Salon and the general public, there was another Bukovac who followed his own inner impulses of artistic cr...

A large ship on the left appears to be firing its canons and a small ship on the right appears to be sitting very low in the water, either heavily loaded with cargo or sinking.

Godine, 2018), pp. 128–29, 130 fig. 148 EXHIBITED: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 2018–19, Augmenting the Canon: Recent Acquisitions of American Neo-Classical Decorative Art...

The commode object of this study is elegantly carved according to the canons of the italian high cabinet making and has obvious stylistic proximity to the drawers by Francesco Bolgiè.

Initially working alongside the Cliquot family who acted as 'facteur d'orgue du Roi', he is recorded as building an organ for the church of Notre-Dame de Quebec, in Montreal in 1753 ...

The importance of the model in the canon for French furniture cannot be overstated.

Like Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883), who had riveted Paris in 1847 with his Woman Bitten by a Snake (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), Carrier-Belleuse violated the idealist canon of pure marble...