Sentence examples for antique representations from inspiring English sources
If the ancients really drove the quadrigae thus harnessed, we can only suppose the charioteer to have checked its speed by pulling up the horses, and leaning with his whole body backwards, so as to make the bottom of the car at its hindermost border scrape the ground, an act and an attitude which seem not unfrequently to be intended in antique representations.
Smith renders these thickly, often in acid tones, imbuing these antique representations with a more contemporary energy.
Until now, that is... Nandan Ghiya has contorted the frames of antique portraits into tactile representations of data gone wrong.
A typically grand portrait by Reynolds depicted its subject as a kind of timeless figure, a neo-noble Roman draped in antique robes.Gainsborough, by contrast, aimed at vivacious representation of the person actually before him, resplendent in contemporary fashion.
What you see more often are works that conflate historical traditions and aesthetics with contemporary motifs, as in Li Lihong's pedestal-size ceramic representations of the McDonald's golden arches covered by antique-style patterned glazes (at Beatrice Chang).
This year's Winter Antiques Show has a generous representation of ancient gods and goddesses decked out in Neo-Classical finery, stern-faced ancestor portraits, and such exotica as Louis XIV's wine cooler from Versailles (a marble tub with gilded images of sunbursts and lions' faces), and George Washington in the form of an aristocratic stove figure.
An antique dealer, right?
"Antikvarnaya!" "An antique?" "Da.
