Sentence examples for church decorations from inspiring English sources

The city's industries include metalworking (especially church decorations) and the manufacture of matches and brandies.

The iconographic schemes of these 9th-century churches largely reflect local 5th- and 6th-century church decorations.

Berruguete's use of a rather rich and extravagant but delicate ornamentation in his church decorations is typical of Spain's Plateresque style.

A specifically Baroque style of painting arose in Rome in the 1620s and culminated in the monumental painted ceilings and other church decorations of Pietro da Cortona, Guido Reni, Il Guercino, Domenichino, and countless lesser artists.

Anna Maria Vici Torrigiani, whose shop here makes cassocks and church decorations, presented the pope last year with an icon of the Virgin Mary against a background that depicts Lake Albano and Castel Gandolfo.

In fact, marrying during Lent means sobriety in terms of church decorations, musical accompaniment, and the like, thus, we would suggest, younger spouses are reluctant to marry in this period.15.15

Although mosaic continued to be used to a certain extent as church decoration, it was a changed art.

Since the 13th century the Assumption has been widely represented in church decoration, and during the Renaissance and Baroque periods it became a popular subject for altarpieces.

It was then that pictorial windows of stained glass became a major art form and in northern Europe the most important single element in church decoration.

As the altars were stripped, statues smashed and sacred hangings torn down, its texts were nailed up in their stead, becoming the sole form of church decoration.

Not surprisingly, stained-glass design was to become the firm's main contribution to the development of church decoration in England in the 19th century.