Sentence examples for exquisite paintings from inspiring English sources

Upstairs on the fourth floor are dozens of exquisite paintings.

Exquisite paintings of African wildlife look down on warthogs and geckos made locally from scrap metal, intricately styled china vases, pots and plates and pretty wrought-iron floor lamps.

June 14 2014 December 14 201414 This small treasure of a show, featuring a velvety soundtrack from the Hindustani sitarist Ustad Shujaat Husain Khan, looks at artists who translated the moods of Indian classical music into exquisite paintings.

They came, these restrained, reserved, exquisite paintings, as visions, for which she would wait sometimes for weeks on end, rocking in her chair, steadying herself for a glimpse of the minute image that she would paint next.

It has the timeless feel of all the best myths about it - the poetic, mystical story of the stolen polar bear cub who has to choose between his two families is wonderful in itself, but when combined with Jackie's detailed and exquisite paintings, it's a book to treasure forever.

Il Salviatino now encompasses 45 rooms, many with 19th century frescoes and older mosaics, along with exquisite paintings and harmonized antique and modern furniture.

Exquisite miniature paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries show rajas and others in devotional or ceremonial clothing, while jewelry, textiles and armor illustrate South Asia's cultural diversity.

One was Metsu, whose exquisite complementary paintings, "Man Writing a Letter" (circa 1665-67), and "Woman Reading a Letter With a Maidservant" (circa 1665-67), are highlights of the exhibition.

In sixty tersely exquisite realist paintings and as many succinct lines of text, Lawrence compressed the epic sweep of the Great Migration into a cinematic saga.

In exile in Bordeaux, Goya spent his last days in physical misery, lamenting man's essential evil while experimenting with the new medium of lithography and inventing the most exquisite, luminous paintings on tiny chips of ivory.

In the spring of 2010 he was allowed to film in the Chauvet cave in southeastern France, where archaeologists have found exquisite wall paintings some 32,000 years old, the oldest ever discovered, and the result is an 90-minute documentary called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams".