The Gentileschi is flanked by two other commanding, life-size portraits: Tiberio Titi's rosy-cheeked Duke of Mantua, Ferdinando Gonzaga; and Valore Casini's gesticulating actor, Francesco Andreini.
The whole song is a commanding celebration of life: an intense and wryly foreboding sermon that explodes into an ecstatic dance party.
And, where the original staging seemed built around Bryn Terfel's commanding, larger-than-life performance in the central role of Hans Sachs, it now seems much more a rounded company achievement, one of which ENO, the target of so much unjustified and unnecessary criticism in recent weeks, can be extremely proud.
So it's easy to see why an effective screenwriting instructor could become a commanding figure in the life of his students, and why McKee is more frequently referred to as a "guru" than anyone giving classes in animal husbandry.
General Casey had planned to stay only two years in the Army and then attend law school, but he enjoyed the Army life and commanding troops, and made the service his career.
The young Mailer 's models were Faulkner and Hemingway, but, more than the example of their prose, there was the allure of their fame, and their commanding role in American life.
But how did one small economic research institute come to occupy such a commanding position in British public life?
The second section, on hazardous commands identification and control, explores identification of hazardous commands and then, implementation, including two-step commanding and error prevention, giving the International Space Station life support system as an example.
Harold Giuliani died, of prostate cancer, in 1981, but he continued to assert a commanding presence in his son's life.
Each private has a one-one session with his commanding officer to go over the life plan and then they must present once a quarter in front of all the other soldiers about their progress.
The collages of life-size figures, though commanding, have a certain mythological ponderousness about them; they show women being attacked by vultures and giving birth to strange plant forms.
