Sentence examples for Limner from inspiring English sources

He is a superb teller of a tale, a reveller in dodgy deeds, a keen observer of the febrile, dissimulating characters of court and embassy, and a splendid limner of the great jousts and entertainments of the age.

It went along with Gewalt, literally "control", his special word for exercising his artistic power, first the limner and then the re-creator of everything he surveyed.

He gained familiarity with graphic art from his stepfather, the limner and engraver Peter Pelham, and developed an early sense of vocation: before he was 20 he was already an accomplished draughtsman.

On the accession of James I, in 1603, his appointment as limner to the crown was continued, but he seems to have found the atmosphere of the new court less congenial to his art.

It was even said that lovers were able to see their reflections in each other's eyes, but the limner had no experience of this.

It was as if he imagined that the limner, being shorn of words, thereby lacked amusement.

In "The Inner Workings of a Rendering Plant", she limns a particularly effective method of skinning a dead, bloated cow (it involves an air hose).

But the more illuminating contests are those where a candidate does campaign, because that's where we can limn a stronger connection between the effort and the outcome.

In his Treatise on the Arte of Limning (c. 1600) he gives an account of his method and many sidelights on his own mercurial and engaging temperament.

This is the landscape Classical, with figures that has stirred romantics since it was first limned by 17th-century etchers and sketchers.

His lyrical portraits raised the art of painting miniature portraiture (called limning in Elizabethan England) to its highest point of development and did much to formulate the concept of portraiture there during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.