Little was written about the interior, and perhaps the only reference to a mural program appears in The New York Times in 1899, when a reviewer remarked that the neutral limestone was to be set off by murals that "will supply the color necessary for an effect of brilliance".
To achieve polychrome effects of great brilliance, the Maya potters painted in semitranslucent slips over a light background, then fired the vessels at a very low temperature.
Pioneering installation art and anticipating interactive art is just a side effect of the brilliance of Rauschenberg's free-flowing assemblages of tyres, taxidermy and furniture that come together like people meeting in a crowd.
The prongs holding in place the 163.41-carat diamond disappear under four baguette-cut diamonds creating an effect of dazzling brilliance.
There are no scenic effects, its music is devoid of brilliance and high-flown effectiveness... those whose first requirement of an opera is theatrical action will be dissatisfied with it".
One of the effects of this creakiness is to highlight the brilliance of the score.
And sometimes of brilliance.
You can expect occasional moments of brilliance.
They were flashes of brilliance.
Speaking of brilliance, I loved the clue "Brilliant Peruvian ancestry?
