Example sentences of "from [art] sixteenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reports amassed in Europe in ever-increasing numbers from the sixteenth century on . |
| 2 | The first dated coin was issued by Valdemar II of Denmark in 1234 , but this is an isolated and untypical example , and dates became a frequent part of the design only from the sixteenth century . |
| 3 | This is an enchanting old inn , dating from the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | Studies of household listings reveal comparatively few three-generational homes in England from the sixteenth century onwards : a mere 5 per cent on average . |
| 5 | But all this was to change as , from the sixteenth century onwards , enclosures were enforced and estates enlarged . |
| 6 | The present dramatic ruin probably dates from the sixteenth century , although it is believed that Dunegal had his manor house on the site in the twelfth century . |
| 7 | Such difficulties of interpretation as the modern local historian may encounter are not , however , confined to this class of writing alone , as a single example taken from the sixteenth century will illustrate . |
| 8 | The second resource is in the Department of Archives and Manuscripts , and consists of thousands of farm records , from every English county from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 9 | The two leaves and the gates had gone long since , for it possibly dated from the sixteenth century — nevertheless there was a distinct something about it and Mr. Hibberd , the antique dealer often asked my mother if she would consider selling . |
| 10 | The well is believed to date from the sixteenth century and still produces the pure water which the inhabitants had drunk in the days of the plague . |
| 11 | Standing in the old town is the Corpo Santo Chapel , dating from the sixteenth century , which is open all day for people to view the interior . |
| 12 | It is , for example , some sort of commentary on our times that , if one is content to stick to theology , with some Greek and Latin texts thrown in , it is possible to assemble a representative collection from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 13 | The majority of information on coffin types comes as a result of the recent introduction of funerary studies in archaeology and vault examinations — much from work carried out in the 1980s at such places as Christchurch , Spitalfields , at Hinton St George , Somerset , and Withyham , Sussex — where opportunities arose to study at first hand coffins dating from the sixteenth century to the present day . |
| 14 | Part of the Semper wing of the Zwinger palace , the historic collection was known as the ‘ Rustkammer ’ ( armoury ) from the sixteenth century but renamed the ‘ Historisches Museum ’ after World War II . |
| 15 | The third edition of the Salon du Dessin has moved location from the Hotel George V and will include around thirty dealers showing drawings from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 16 | In preparation , Cantini have a Corpus of Italian Paintings from the Sixteenth Century in Dutch Public Collections , with contributions by various authors on behalf of Florence 's Istituto Universitario Olandese di Storia dell'Arte ( L60,000 ) . |
| 17 | Also forthcoming is Francis Haskell 's eagerly awaited History and its Images : Art and the Interpretation of the Past , the next chapter in his history of culture , this time through the examination of the historians ' use of visual images from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 18 | Now in its eighth year , the fair will comprise around fifty exhibitors , showing works from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 19 | The catalogue treats 347 sheets , most from the sixteenth century , by Breughel , Goltzius , Pourbus , de Gheyn II , Jordaens , van Dyck , Rubens and about 120 other masters , arranged in alphabetical order of the artists ' names . |
| 20 | The statue is known to have been in Florence from the sixteenth century onwards and is documented as being in the Uffizi from 1676 , but was always thought to have been a copy of a Greek original . |
| 21 | It seems that the masterplan , compiled by former Tate curator Richard Francis , is recommending that the existing galleries be given over to British art , from the sixteenth century to the present day , while another building , either already in existence , or to be built , but in either case not far from Millbank , will become the gallery of modern art . |
| 22 | Providing the general boundary was the Christian , Pauline , tradition , sustained through the institutionalisation of the Church , and fertilised from the sixteenth century by the Puritan and dissenting traditions . |
| 23 | As with salt ways Welsh roads indicate their use as drove roads particularly from the sixteenth century onwards . |
| 24 | Like the salt traffic , the cattle trade that developed so strongly from the sixteenth century onwards moved along existing green lanes and trackways . |
| 25 | In doing this the government was employing techniques perfected from the sixteenth century onwards in the expansion of the Muscovite state towards the Black Sea and the Volga basin . |
| 26 | It is certain from the size of some Chinese jade artefacts that larger blocks were being quarried , probably in the region of Yarkand , from the sixteenth century . |
| 27 | The Turkish occupation of this area , which lasted from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth , did not cause these Serbian communities to be dissolved . |
| 28 | The frescoes by Tobias Stimmer date from the sixteenth century , and it all adds up to a quite wonderful example of late German Renaissance . |
| 29 | The Textile Museum in the Vadianstrasse has on show a remarkable range of products made in St Gallen from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth . |
| 30 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |