Antique Canons

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...

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 elegant figure of the Saint with pure lines conforms to a classical ideal canon (almost childlike face, curly hair, displayed sensuality).

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...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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 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.

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...