Sentence examples for draperies from inspiring English sources

In elegant abandoned villas damp stains the outside walls, and mildew rots the draperies still hanging in upstairs rooms.For years, Ibrahim Ferrer's music was treated with similar indifference.

Their features show a new humanism, and there is a sense of movement, even tension, in their bodies and draperies, comparable to contemporary English manuscript painting.

In the large figurative compositions Scorel completed upon his return to Holland, he introduced such Italian elements as nudes, classical draperies and architecture, and spacious imaginary landscapes.

Her paintings are Rococo in tone and approach, though her figures are given Neoclassical poses and draperies.

The tombs of Bernini are magnificent spectacles in which symbolic figures, clothed in sweeping draperies, with rhetorical gesture and expressive features, share in some emotional experience, theatrically depicted.

The forms are pierced and opened up, and the momentary, unstable poses, with draperies fluttering and tails lashing, give a vivid movement that releases the figures from the Mannerist spell.

The interplay of the linear and modeled forms of free draperies with the solid volumes of the human body was of great interest to Classical sculptors and later became one of the principal themes of Renaissance and post-Renaissance sculpture.

Gerriets is a West German theatrical-draperies firm.

The style of one of the anonymous medieval artists who worked on the glass is so distinctive, in the animation of the figure and the elegant folds of his drapery, that he is known as the Master of Methuselah, and his work has been identified in several windows on the continent.

Not a lot of sunshine penetrates the Supremes' sacred chamber; law or no law, the heavy drapery is not about to be pulled aside.

The exhibition provides a step-by-step analysis of their findings, which include the discovery that the drapery between the little god's legs was replaced probably around the second century AD.When Thomas Campbell first became director of the Met four years ago, he set out to increase the number of shows that spotlight the museum's own great holdings.