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Still, the sense that this is Bach’s “last will and testament” of church music led performers in the old days to monumentalise the piece.

I also got very close, as my intention wasn't really to monumentalise Lautner or make an image of a building.

Hirst's work of the past decade doesn't so much develop these themes as monumentalise them on larger scale and with more luxurious materials.

Often working in epic scale, Dirk Skreber's paintings monumentalise the banal.

The earliest temple-sculpture we possess is not from a Doric temple but from an attempt to monumentalise the old form.

The effect of so many rooms and so much wall space around the paintings is to monumentalise an artist who was anything but grand except in his ambitions.

He's a violinist with a fragile, vocal expressivity, who would surely emphasis the dancing nature of the music and wouldn't try to monumentalise the great Chaconne that ends the Partita.

There’s an attempt here to monumentalise a hidden phenomenon, and an emotional charge to the fact that artwork presents families separated by global economics, but there’s a problem about lack of narrative and context.

The Argive krater is far smaller than the Attic amphora; and it looks as though Athenian artists preferred to monumentalise vase-painting rather than venture into the new world of free painting.

Sculptors of korai seem often content with virtuosity and prettiness which can become trivial (cf. fig. 33); or if, like Antenor in fig. 3 5, they try to monumentalise the form, the effect is uneasy.

What Koons did was to monumentalise it by blowing it up out of scale – what is now a life-size sculpture started life as a trinket – and bring to it production values of a kind normally associated with Hollywood films.

681 (fig. 35), a little earlier than these last (which must belong to the very end of the century), is exceptional in being very large and in having the virtuosity deliberately played down, flattened out, in an attempt which could hardly be quite successful to monumentalise the type.

I resolved to monumentalize what I couldn't forget in any case.

A tried and true way to make stupid art is to monumentalize something small and ordinary.

Time has finally cornered him long enough to monumentalize him, it seems; but we'll see.

Such events monumentalize by their very nature.

Where movies monumentalize their subjects, video banalizes them, reducing everything to a collection of dancing pixels.

As the focus shifts toward the future, one of the challenges is to memorialize the horror of Sept. 11 without seeking to preserve or monumentalize it.

All their names were engraved on granite to honor their lives and monumentalize their memory and courageous deed.

Her pictures monumentalize the countryside's poor just as Gustave Courbet aggrandized stone breakers in 19th-century France.

The new historians have emphasized the need not to monumentalize the resisters but to place them in the context of their social and professional backgrounds and their generation.

His vitrines and, now, vitrines-within-vitrines are crucial in the way they encase, monumentalize and aestheticize his tableaux and create a needed sense of distance for the viewer.

For Picasso, this (along with his experience designing sets for the Ballets Russes) showed him how to monumentalize what until then had been an art of modest proportions.

The edifice was built under the reign of Emperor Tiberius to monumentalize the most important city, along with Asturica Augusta, of the Douro basin.

His large, powerfully composed pictures monumentalize the ordinariness that is insensitively grafted onto the pure coastline by visitors absorbed only in their commonplace household chores, like cooking and laundry.

Her music is more hymnlike than pop, her lyrics tinged with biblical inflections that monumentalize their characters as figures in a heroic canvas of the Old West, where sorrow and death stalk the landscape.

Rather than monumentalize, as aspects of Peter Sellars’s original production of 1987 did, Mr. Robinson tends to miniaturize, through images running almost constantly on as many as a dozen television sets spread across the stage.

Leone, Schickel writes, developed a style that alternated cunningly between extreme wide shots and extreme close-ups partly in an effort to monumentalize Eastwood's face; the director's mise en scène became "a landscape of masks."

It wasn’t just that it came from the wrong person, though that was a humongous turnoff in itself, an effort by the offerer, who is best consigned to the bottomless pit of forgetfulness, to monumentalize herself with her offer.