Sentence examples for ancient paintings from inspiring English sources

The temple complex features dagobas and caves adorned with reclining Buddhas and ancient paintings.

Here were mountains familiar from ancient paintings, crowds moving on bicycles, fields covered with crops.

Look at these ancient paintings," he said, pointing to the magnificent tangkas -- richly detailed images of Buddhist saints and demons that line the walls.

About a third of the works are now on view in seven top-floor galleries under the amended title "Paintings of Ming and Qing Dynasties —Selections of Chinese Ancient Paintings Donated by Deng Tuo".

A new mythological language became current, inspired partly by Classical literature and sculpture and by descriptions of lost ancient paintings and partly by the Renaissance search for the full physical realization of the ideal human figure.

These light beams are then bounced off into individual laboratories, stationed around the ring for scientists to study anything from unknown viruses to new vaccines to ancient paintings, as well as stardust.

Tassili, near the border with Niger and Libya, has ancient cave paintings, prehistoric rock paintings and engravings, and is rich in Neolithic artifacts.

Kaolin, a natural hydrated silicate of aluminium, was widely used as white pigment in ancient wall paintings and painted sculptures in ancient China [6].

The artist's use of black and white owes something to ancient cave paintings, to the tradition of tonal painting known as grisaille, to Picasso's interest in classical sculpture and to his own Spanish heritage and artists like El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya, who worked in black.

Mist hung in pointed mountains, matching ancient landscape paintings.

This was the case with ancient cave paintings, Roman tapestries, and grand imperial charts.