Sentence examples for figures of saints from inspiring English sources

Counterseals often bore the figures of saints.

At Cividale del Friuli, standing figures of saints have been incorporated in decoration in which the Byzantine influence is obvious.

The effigy, dressed in full armor, lies atop a marble tomb-chest carved with the figures of saints.

Their facetted surfaces are engraved with figures of saints surrounded by interlaced foliage scrolls, arches, arcades, and other late Gothic decorative motifs.

In Germany, Cologne was an important medieval cloth centre, renowned for orphrey webs (narrow cloths of gold bearing richly embroidered woven inscriptions and figures of saints).

The earliest Gothic sculptures were stone figures of saints and the Holy Family used to decorate the doorways, or portals, of cathedrals in France and elsewhere.

One of the chief entertainments nowadays is the annual pageant of the Doudou, Mons' version of the Ducasse carnival wherein a giant figure of Saint George slays the dragon, known as the Doudou.

A number of saints and historical figures have followed and presented specific approaches to Christian meditation.

In the fake in Vienna, the figures of both saints are enamelled; flesh is white, Michael and the Christ child have red robes, and Christopher blue, and the saints stand on a brownish dragon and blue water respectively, with green grass below both of these.

Figures of the saints appeared in the 12th century.

The prizes, though, are the South Indian bronze figures of Hindu saints.