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  2. Paintings in the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum

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    The committee had to look for other artists for the missing spandrel and intercolumniation paintings. In 1885 Hans Canon was initially entrusted with the ceiling painting, but he also died a few months later. Finally, Mihály Munkácsy was commissioned to paint the ceiling with Apotheosis of the Renaissance, which was completed in the middle of ...

  3. Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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    In each corner of the chapel is a triangular pendentive filling the space between the walls and the arch of the vault and forming a doubled spandrel above the windows nearest the corners. On these curving shapes Michelangelo has painted four scenes from biblical stories that are associated with the salvation of Israel by four great male and ...

  4. M. C. Escher in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In 2017, four combs and 244 steps from old wooden-stepped escalators at Wynyard railway station, Sydney, Australia, were "refashioned into a soaring crisscrossing tangle reminiscent of an Escher puzzle" named 'Interloop', designed by local artist Chris Fox and hanging from a ceiling above one of the new sets of escalators. [15] [16] [17]

  5. List of works in stained glass by John Piper - Wikipedia

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    Piper's glazing fills back wall of central staircase on ground floor, backlit and hung to disguise the lift shafts. [11] 1960–61 Chapel of Nuffield College, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Patrick Reyntiens North Window depicts the Five Wounds of Christ, with the feet, hands and heart isolated, drawn in outline with the only colour being the gashes of ...

  6. Sistine Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The work was designed on a grand scale, and spans the entire wall behind the altar of the Sistine Chapel. The painting depicts the second coming of Christ on the Day of Judgment as described in the Revelation of John, Chapter 20. High on the wall is the heroic figure of Christ, with the saints clustered in groups around him.

  7. Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953.The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. [1]

  8. Ascending and Descending - Wikipedia

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    The lithograph depicts a large building roofed by a never-ending staircase. Two lines of identically dressed men appear on the staircase, one line ascending while the other descends. Two figures sit apart from the people on the endless staircase: one in a secluded courtyard, the other on a lower set of stairs.

  9. The Meeting on the Turret Stairs - Wikipedia

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    The Meeting on the Turret Stairs (or Hellelil and Hildebrand, the Meeting on the Turret Stairs) is a watercolour painting from 1864 by Frederic William Burton. It was painted in London, where Burton later became Director of the National Gallery. The painting is housed in the National Gallery of Ireland.