18 Metaphors for gallery

You find it in the umbrella roomat every Florentine gallery and museum is an official whose one object in life is to take away your umbrellaand it costs twopence-halfpenny and is worth far more.

The gallery was our chief resort; and, finding me a willing listener, my ancient companion delighted to inform me of all tradition had supplied her with, respecting the mighty warriors and stately dames, whose portraits still hung on the walls, smiling, as if in mockery of the desolation around.

The great hall, with its splendid timber roof, and the gallery, with a fine collection of pictures and curios, are two striking features.

The poetic element in these works strongly appealed to Giorgione's sensitive nature, and we find him developing this side of his art in the Beaumont "Adoration," and the National Gallery "Epiphany," both of which are clearly early productions.

But the gallery is almost a lumber-room, for the floor is too unsafe to walk upon.

Do you remember the picture gallery at the general's the other day, Dudley?" "Yes, what about it?" "I was thinking about that soldier there with all his medals who broke his mother's heart; and then about the soldier boy the general said was the bravest.

In the days when the New Gallery was new, a picture, signed by the unknown name of Priam Farll, was exhibited there, and aroused such terrific interest that for several months no conversation among cultured persons was regarded as complete without some reference to it.

The galleries and museums of the palace are the richest in the world, in Roman and Christian antiquities.

His gallery of portraits, Joseph Andrews, Parson Adams, Parson Trulliber, Jones, Blifil, Partridge, Sophia and her father and all the rest are each of them minute studies of separate people; they live and move according to their proper natures; they are conceived not from without but from within.

And the distress of the Froments increased when they passed from the works into the house, amid absolute solitude; the connecting gallery was wrapt in slumber, the staircase quivered amid the heavy silence, all the doors were open, as in some uninhabited house, long since deserted.

Hermitage Gallery, St. Petersburg JUDITH] Characteristic of the master is the introduction of the great tree-trunk, conveying a sense of grandeur and solemn mystery to the scene; characteristic, too, is the distant landscape, the splendid glow of which evokes special praise from the writers just mentioned.

You used to say, that the gallery was the best place of all for enjoying a play sociallythat the relish of such exhibitions must be in proportion to the infrequency of goingthat the company we met there, not being in general readers of plays, were obliged to attend the more, and did attend, to what was going on, on the stagebecause a word lost would have been a chasm, which it was impossible for them to fill up.

So we triumph over the young folk, who try to persuade us that the gallery is a judgment on us for giving in to the hired pew system.

A gallery of art is a perpetual feast of the most intense and refined enjoyment to every one capable of entering into its phases of thought and execution, analyzing its external and internal being, and tracing the mysterious transformations of spirit into form.

His heart had turned to Beechgrove, where the violets were springing and the young larches were budding; but he could not go thitherthe picture-gallery was a haunted spot to himand London he could endure.

The galleries are five separate recesses in the outer walls under the roofs, two in the east façade, and one in the north, south, and west, hung with pavilions of purple, blue, rose and white silk on rings and rods of gold, with gold pilasters and banisters, each entered by four steps from the roof, to which lead, north and south, two spiral stairs of cedar.

It occurred to me at the same moment, that this gallery of mortal casualties and afflictions must be a collection of votive offerings, and that the seeming market-house was, probably, a shrine of especial sanctity.

But the modern Munich galleries were not the task that picture galleries often are.

18 Metaphors for  gallery