Sentence examples for drapery from inspiring English sources

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.

In a New York magazine interview last year, he pulled away the drapery.

The chemical preparations, the fall of light on drapery, the expressions on the models' faces and the mysteries of photographic plates and darkrooms take on an almost sacramental intensity.

Aristide and Marguerite Boucicaut founded a large drapery and dry-goods outlet in Paris, Le Bon Marché, in 1852.

Stalactites vary in shape from thin strawlike features to massive pendants or drapery-like forms.

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.