Sentence examples for antique form from inspiring English sources

In Manchester and Sheffield, they have decided that this antique form of transport is just the thing on which to enter the next millennium.

This was traditionally believed to be the tomb of King Æthelberht I of Kent, and was "of an antique form, mounted with two spires".

This conclusion is refuted by Kane, however, who argues that it was instead Pierre-Charles Berthelin's additions to Richelet's Dictionnaire de rimes that first fixed the form, followed a century later by the poet Théodore de Banville; his creation of a parody to Passerat's "J'ay perdu ... ...... would lead Wilhelm Ténint and others to think that the villanelle was an antique form.

Newly discovered antique forms and themes were quick to find new expression.

Portraits, nudes, and genre scenes have occupied most of his attention so far, and several critics have noted Currin's increasing mastery of these antique forms.

Reviewers had panned the young Nemerov for his tin ear; but over time he became a master at renovating antique forms by filling them with modern diction.

By his thoroughgoing description of antique forms coupled with an instinctive sense of the political realities that underlay their original creation, Mantegna lent great impetus to the antique revival movement at mid-century.

In "Debutantes," for example, two small boys, one black and one white, and a pair of little girls on a tricycle, are in a memorial garden where statues representing horrible antique forms of torture are displayed.

On the one hand, Mantegna's search for accurate knowledge of Roman antiquity was reflected both in his depiction of specific monuments of Roman architecture and sculpture and in his creation of a vocabulary of antique forms that became the language of antique revival for more than a generation of northern Italian painters and sculptors after the mid-1450s.

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With its mock-antique form and Old South flavor, the piece had the airy, Valentine's Day prettiness of a romantic ballet.