Antique Murals

He utilized both oil and watercolor mediums, capturing still lifes as well as urban portraits from the subway and streets of Brooklyn that developed from his mural projects for the W...

The Zapotecs are particularly renowned for their mastery of stone carving and for the sophisticated decorative schemes employed in their architecture. Relief sculpture and mural pain...

The Versailles pattern was created by the French sculptor, Antoine Heller, who was inspired by the murals in the Palace of Versailles. It is a multi-motif pattern from 1888 and each ...

Suite de quatre appliques murales de la Maison Baguès, réalisées en fer doré.

The piece depicts a young girl in a pink dress seated at a piano playing a recital. The room has a mural of the sea on the wall and there is a vase of flowers on a table in front of ...

Nearly six and a half feet across and five feet tall, Camille Olvier’s nineteenth-century French market scene possesses the confidence of a mural and the immediacy of a fleeting morn...

Biberman completed three murals for public works projects, including his work Abbot Kinney and the Story of Venice for the Venice Post Office, which was installed for six months at L...

Miroir mural en chêne au cadre sobre et robuste, caractéristique du style Arts and Crafts de Gustav Stickley.

Exhibition at U.S.C. 1939. Post office murals for the treasury dept and downtown main post office major murals 1941-1944.

He spent a brief time in New York and then was in Chicago for eighteen months doing murals for International Harvester Company. In 1918, Pohl built a traveling studio onto his car ...

Other images had to visually impress viewers with the majesty and power of the monarch – some who saw Holbein’s 1537 life-size mural of Henry VIII and his family in Whitehall ‘felt a...

Following the Great Depression, he famously turned to large-scale mural projects featuring romanticized, nude female nymphs.

Griffith and Grafton explored the city together, painted local subjects, and collaborated on two murals for the St. Charles Hotel. Griffith remained active in New Orleans into 1917, ...

Painted for a commissioned mural decoration taken from several of William Shakespeares plays in which the tale is referenced.

He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

Painter of mythological composition, genre scene, portraits, landscapes, murals, tapestries boxes, designer, illustrator.

He also conceived the ceiling mural of night sky constellations for Grand Central Terminal in New York City.

Lafnet was best known, in his earlier years, for illustration work and comic drawing, and he illustrated novels by Georges Simenon, Charles Baudelaire, Marquis de Sade and Théophile ...

He often collaborated on mural commissions with his father and brother Virgilio.

The carved statuary marble centre tablet depicting the classical goddess Cybele, enthroned, with lion, cornucopia and mural crown. The fluted pilasters and carved oval paterae side b...

He returned to New York and attended the Art Students League as a student of William Merritt Chase and Henry Siddons Mowbray and then returned to Paris for training in mural painting...

The residential areas show a society with a complex hierarchy, and some of the richest tombs preserve important painted murals. The increase in population in these centuries made imp...

In The Garden, 19th Century circle of Robert Reid (1862-1929) American Impressionist & Mural Artist 19th Century American Impressionist portrait of a girl in a garden, oil on canvas.

Among his most notable pieces includes a series of murals at The Palace of Westminster.

They are flanking an oval escutcheon that is topped with an open mural crown. The shield alternates blue and red bands while depicting a starry sky above a castle behind choppy water...

After apprenticing as a decorative painter, he entered Dresden’s School of Applied Arts in 1900 and subsequently studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts under Otto Gussmann. His ex...

Meanwhile, Shinn kept busy with decorative work (murals, screens, and door panels) at private residences and even in Trenton, New Jersey's City Hall.

Meanwhile, Shinn kept busy with decorative work (murals, screens, and door panels) at private residences and even in Trenton, New Jersey's City Hall.

The son of celebrated painter and stained-glass designer John La Farge, he began his career assisting in his father’s studio before developing an independent practice encompassing la...

Dupas reached the height of his fame in the mid 1930’s, and in 1934 he received his most important commission to date; a series of large glass murals for the Grand Salon of the new F...

Two scaled dolphin supporters flank the shaped escutcheon that is topped by a mural crown. Spiral fluting embellishes the rolled rim beneath a twisted iron handle that would have hun...

Bands of vibrant, warm orange, yellow, and deep red lacquer are meticulously detailed with scrolling floral vines and geometric motifs, heavily inspired by classical South Indian tem...

He was chief of studio at the Academie Ranson from 1932 to 1935 and vice-president of the Jeune Gravure Contemporaine. He painted murals for the Palais de la Decouverte and designed ...

Petersburg, FL, 1937, Janus Administration Building of the Tampa, FL airport, 1938, U.S. Post Office murals in Perry, FL, 1940 and Milton, FL, 1941. He was also commissioned to do t...

Emerson herself painted murals -- for the Plays and Players Theater, a synagogue in Philadelphia and other buildings -- and exhibited widely.

Stylistic and Typological Classification As early as the 8th century, murals in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome depict Saint Anne with her daughter Mary; however, these do not yet repre...

The panels can be positioned to use as a self-supporting room divider or privacy screen, even mounted to the wall as a mural; the reverse side does show evidence of prior water damag...

Aubry; vases, dishes and plates; in 1912 four sets for La Lumière by Georges Duhamel, performed at the Odéon; in 1916 a screen for the Le Havre collector Léon Pédron; in 1918 panels ...

A su regreso, realizó encargos para diversas parroquias catalanas, destacando los murales del Monestir de Montserrat (1927–1930) y las vidrieras del Temple del Sagrat Cor de Jesús en...

He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter. His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd for the Baptist Church in Sou...

From his acquaintances in the theater world, Shinn began to paint decorative “rococo revivalist” murals in the homes of the wealthy elite. He also worked extensively in pastel, portr...

This decorative panoramic wallpaper in antique-style paper is inspired by early 19th century French wall décor. This mural reproduces French printed panoramas of the period, featurin...

Séon contributed to the execution of several major mural decorations, notably at the Panthéon, the Paris Hôtel de Ville and the Sorbonne.

This decorative panoramic wallpaper in antique-style paper is inspired by early 19th century French wall décor. This mural reproduces French printed panoramas of the period, featurin...

The four murals show a Jewish pioneer sowing and harvesting, a shepherd, and Jerusalem with a verse from Jeremiah 31:4, "Again I will rebuild thee and thous shalt be rebuilt."

(Francois) Laubnitz" he painted pictures that were very popular as mural prints in the first half of the 20th century.

He later moved to Santa Cruz in 1896, where he settled, painting murals for many local businessmen and the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk.

From 1930 onwards, however, Parent withdrew from artistic circles to work in solitude, withdrawn from the world, with the sole exception of the murals he painted for the Hôtel de Vil...

This impressive late 19th century French chromolithograph depicts "The Last Supper", after Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous mural in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. Printed in Paris...

He perfected a technique in enlarging pictures to mural size which had many followers. His paintings have been displayed in New York galleries during his lifetime.

His best-known mural, Le Départ des poilus, août 1914 (Departure of the Infantrymen, August 1914), is in the Gare de Paris-Est railroad station in Paris.

He was also known for his fine murals and frescoes. Ernest, with Alicia as his assistant, worked on two murals, one for the post office in Canton, Mass., and one in Washington, D.C....

He perfected a technique in enlarging pictures to mural size which had many followers. His paintings have been displayed in New York galleries during his lifetime.

Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Signature: Signed ‘Parrish’ (On the Reverse) Finished painting done as a prototype for the mural at the University of Pennsylvania LITERATURE L.S.

He perfected a technique in enlarging pictures to mural size which had many followers. His paintings have been displayed in New York galleries during his lifetime.

In 1914, Henderson built a house and studio of his own design at Lake Bluff, Illinois, and in the same year he was commissioned by Frank Lloyd Wright to design murals for Midway Gard...

Beyond the canvas, Jespers explored a wide range of media: etchings, linocuts, stained glass, mural painting, and tapestry design. His monumental designs were featured at internation...

He specialized in watercolors and oils of the Sierra Nevada and highly detailed floral still lifes. He also painted murals for the stations of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railr...

Jansson was one of seven artists who painted murals in the Swedish Club’s banquet hall, a project completed in 1922.

In addition to his work in commercial poster design, he was active in mural painting, ceramics, and illustration, contributing to Italy’s rich tradition of applied arts.