Sentence examples for figures of christ from inspiring English sources

Crucifixes with brightly gilded figures of Christ dot this tidy enclave.

The name is also applied to figures of Christ as the Lamb of God, especially to waxen disks impressed with this figure and blessed by the pope.

In his "Pietà" of 1850, on loan from Oslo's National Gallery, the French painter retains only the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, making the scene even more desolate and distressing.

Scholars attribute the reverse side in part to an anonymous artist known as the Engerda Master and in part to Schäufelein, who is thought to have painted the figures of Christ and two henchmen.

Three of the 14 canvases he painted in 1609 for the retable of Santiago de Tlatelolco have survived: one, the Porziuncola, shows figures of Christ and the Virgin floating on clouds in front of a kneeling St. Francis.

The inventories showed how Henry remodelled the crown during his reign to reinforce his new role as head of the Church of England, substituting three kings for three small figures of Christ.

Although the top of the cross has been lost, a weather-beaten, 15-foot (4.5-metre) shaft remains, showing on one face a figure of Christ trampling on the heads of beasts, a runic inscription underneath, and, above Christ's figure, a falconer, possibly St. John the Evangelist with his eagle.

The apparent paradox is resolved through Wilde's interpretation of the figure of Christ.

pointed out the dominant figure of Christ the Judge in the fresco of Michelangelo".

It is the figure of Christ falling under the cross and struggling to rise.

All elements of the painting lead the eye to the calm and pyramidal figure of Christ.