Example sentences of "from [art] sixteenth " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reports amassed in Europe in ever-increasing numbers from the sixteenth century on . |
| 2 | According to this claim , the mores of the eighteenth century were radically different from the sixteenth . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even if that analysis is too simple , the threads that lead from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries can still be followed . |
| 5 | This is an enchanting old inn , dating from the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Studies of household listings reveal comparatively few three-generational homes in England from the sixteenth century onwards : a mere 5 per cent on average . |
| 7 | But all this was to change as , from the sixteenth century onwards , enclosures were enforced and estates enlarged . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The exhibition ‘ Western painting from the sixteenth to the twentieth century from the Bremen Kunsthalle Collection ’ , the show of some of the works of art looted at the end of World War II , has moved from the Hermitage in St Petersburg to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative , Applied and Folk Art in Moscow . |
| 19 | A fine Benin brass warrior chief plaque from the sixteenth to seventeenth century should realise $120,000–140,000 ( £80,000–93,300 ) . |
| 20 | In light of the success of the Spanish sale held in London last spring and in recognition of the importance of German art in the international marketplace , Christie 's are organising a sale devoted entirely to German art from the sixteenth to the twentieth century , which will be held at King Street in May of 1993 . |
| 21 | In sharp contrast , Art of the Persian Courts : Selections from the Art and History Trust Collection by Abodala Soudavar gives a survey of Iranian and Persian manuscript painting , calligraphy and drawing from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries ( £55 ) . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now in its eighth year , the fair will comprise around fifty exhibitors , showing works from the sixteenth century to the present . |
| 25 | Similarly , the broadsheets — produced in large quantities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries — ‘ were the popular journalism of the day , recording [ such events ] , usually with a combination of a report and ballad , sometimes with a ballad alone ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Across the garden , the second room contains paintings and objets d'art from the sixteenth , seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The population reconstructions of Wrigley and Schofield ( 1981 ) support them and indicate that from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries fertility change was about twice as important as mortality in accounting for variations in population growth , and that declines in mortality were modest until the mid-nineteenth century . |