Sentence examples for finely painted from inspiring English sources

(Smith) Last Chance Bryan Drury: 'Portraits' (closes on Saturday) Mr. Drury's six finely painted, intensely realistic panel paintings appear to be conventionally old-fashioned portraits of middle-aged rich folks.

The stylized, finely painted faces recall Byzantine mosaic saints.

The cumbersome though finely painted charabanc of the late James style is pulled swaying along by a frisky pony of a plot, farcical and romantic, designed for stage-lit action.

(Johnson) JEFF SONHOUSE: 'THE PANOPTIC CON' As sharp visually as they are politically, Mr. Sonhouse's compact, finely painted Pop-Surrealist portraits depict masked African American men in colorful tuxedos with hair made of real matches, steel wool and other materials.

Many booths, however, sold the very sort of handmade crafts that one would hope to find: ornate Persian carpets, many woven by nomadic peoples like the Turkmen and Lors; finely painted miniatures depicting hunting trips and polo matches; lacquered vases and bowls; and copper, silver and gold platters.

The pictures' images excited me as a film-maker and held up under the closest examination: a very finely painted face no bigger than my thumbnail, when magnified by my camera lens and projected on a screen, became a powerful and riveting icon full of drama, mystery, religious devotion, sensuality.

O'Connor painted finely textured portraits of the time and place she knew, but she was also writing about prehistoric forces and eternal destinies.

The blades are precisely moulded, finely finished and then painted.

But they are also finely detailed objects -- painted sculptures or three-dimensional collages -- in their own right.

Villas for important officials in Akhenaton's city of Tell el-Amarna were large and finely decorated with brightly painted murals.

"The Wings of Flightless Birds" was inspired by the finely detailed bird wings painted in the 18th century by Ito Jakuchu, the son of a Kyoto grocer.