38 Verbs to Use for the Word sculpture

Amen.'" The Baptistry contains some curious sculptures.

Pretty, who had shown a wonderful gift for modeling in clay, was going some day to Paris to study sculpture.

Lastly we have what is in many ways the most interesting picture in FlorenceNo. 71, the Baptism of Christfor it is held by some authorities to be the only known painting by Verrocchio, whose sculptures we saw in the Bargello and at Or San Michele, while in one of the angelsthat surely on the leftwe are to see the hand of his pupil Leonardo da Vinci.

"Brrr." "Somebody keeps making sculptures here," Oliver said.

And now, here is a simple but most useful test of your capacity for understanding Florentine sculpture or painting.

It is, therefore, no less clear that the tranquillity and serenity of the Hellenic ideal, so necessary to consummate sculpture, was here out of place.

They scan all the red wilderness, dispensing their blessings of cool shadows and rain where the need is the greatest, refreshing the rocks, their offspring as well as the vegetation, continuing their sculpture, deepening gorges and sharpening peaks.

Accordingly, his work in architecture at this period seems waiting for plastic illustration, demanding sculpture and fresco for its illumination and justification.

His reply deserves sculpture: "When I did it, I knew not that it was good.

It is not my purpose to describe the decline of art, or enumerate the names of the celebrated masters who exalted sculpture in the palmy days of Pericles or even Alexander.

Passing under one of the three arches of the façade, we traversed the courtyard to the extremity, and while waiting for the guide to come to us at the small side door, examined the curious sculptures surrounding the window on the left.

Those who have once seen his drawings for Judith with the head of Holofernes, and for Solomon judging between the two mothers, will never forget their sculpture.

The font has grotesque sculpture upon it, the subjects being doubtful.

In Sculpture as in Painting many more subjects are treated than were formerly thought suited to representation in marble and bronze, and a large proportion of these recent motifs demand a broad method of treatmenta manner often called "unfinished" by those who approve only the smooth polish of an antique Venus, and would limit sculpture to the narrow class of subjects with which this smoothness harmonizes.

The word used for mark in this prophecy is [Greek: charagma] (charagma), and is defined to mean, "a graving, sculpture, a mark cut in or stamped."

The Greeks did not originate sculpture.

In short, the poet owes to his legend what sculpture owed to the temple.

We went into the chapels and admired the sculpture when the guide told us we ought, and stopped with interest sometimes over some tomb which he did not point out.

I must inform you, too, that the Pope promised me the sculptures, and so did Salviati; and they are men who will maintain me in my right to them.

Now he was bidden to quit both sculpture and painting for another field, and, as Vasari hints, he would not work under the guidance of men trained to architecture.

The Sacristy of S. Lorenzo was built by Michael Angelo and panelled with marbles to receive the sculpture he meant to place there.

Gabriel recognised these coarse sculptures as being contemporaneous with the Puerta del Reloj, and by far the most ancient work in the Cathedral.

After looking at these originals and casts, and remembering those other Michelangelo sculptures elsewhere in Florencethe tombs of the Medici, the Brutus and the smaller Davidturn to the bronze head over the cast of Moses and reflect upon the author of it all: the profoundly sorrowful eyes behind which so much power and ambition and disappointment dwelt.

Painters saw at a glance that the genius which had revolutionised sculpture was now destined to introduce a new style and spirit into their art.

Poets and prose writers have agreed to ridicule all verdant sculpture on a large scale.

38 Verbs to Use for the Word  sculpture