Sentence examples for ancient portrait from inspiring English sources

Huan based this piece on an ancient portrait of Confucius which was completed during the Ming dynasty.

He is bearded with carefully coiffed curly hair, and that unmistakable deep diagonal crease in the earlobes which helps identify authentic ancient portraits of Hadrian.

Some rather OTT, almost gothic design flourishes (grand, ancient portraits standing out against its exposed stone walls), had me wondering if this takeaway and restaurant might be all fur coat, no knickers – but not at all.

My hosts and their guests were all lounging around the enormous living room, surrounded by ancient portraits of the family that owned the villa, reading Italian and English newspapers.

Enjoy the "art"; just don't make the same mistake I did and start thinking about the lives of the now-deceased human subjects of the ancient portraits hanging on that Cracker Barrel wall.

In both the Zuccone and the Jeremiah (1427 35), their whole appearance, especially highly individual features inspired by ancient Roman portrait busts, suggests Classical orators of singular expressive force.

In Ancient Rome, portraits of the reigning emperor were stamped on coins.

Actually it is thousands of years old, for his austere physical appearance evokes ancient Roman portraits of stoic philosophers and unbending senators.

It brims with telling details from old-fashioned household objects – stained pots and kettles, ancient family portraits, furniture and crockery – to the makeshift interiors and crumbling exteriors that speak both of endurance and of another time that is becoming history as the survivors approach the end of their lives.

In this context we are grateful to Tine Bagh for assisting with the fragments and to Lin Spaabæk for sharing her expertise on ancient mummy portraits.

And the open book, with its ancient Egyptian portraits, is yet another link to the famous psychoanalyst, who loved and collected Egyptian art.