Sentence examples for group of portrait from inspiring English sources

Magnificent paintings and a group of portrait statues were excavated from a building thought to be the ancient basilica of Herculaneum, and a large number of bronze and marble works of art were recovered from a suburban villa, called the Villa of the Papyri because of its having contributed a whole library of ancient papyri in Greek.

A group of "portraits" offers similarly color-coded descriptions of local personalities.

The principal feature of this fresco is the group of portraits of the Florentine colony in Rome, who are represented as witnesses of the biblical event.

Samuel A. Robb's carved-wood figure "Sultana" opens the show; a group of portraits of women painted by men (or unidentified artists assumed to be men) closes it.

Fingerprints can be seen in the terra cotta he modeled for a group of portraits of celebrated artists who similarly enjoyed the outdoors.

"I have a group of portraits which are meaningful to me — Borges, Beckett, and Francis Bacon — and of course, Marquez belongs in their company.

There is a bank of pure colour in a group of portraits of blooms by the phenomenal painter Emil Nolde, who said "the flowers would greet me jubilantly with their pure and beautiful colours".

This 1981 image is from her famous "Centerfold Series," a group of portraits inspired by photographs in Playboy but with the women in clothes and conveying a complicated mix of emotions.

The show will also bring together a group of portraits of his friend and patron Edouard Pailleron – a bohemian Parisian writer – and his wife and children, which are now scattered in collections in Paris, Washington and Iowa.

More interesting were a group of portraits of maimed and wounded Korean War veterans, and a "Holocaust Series" in which models lay in heaps or hung from racks like slaughtered animals.

Gainsborough preferred to paint his friends rather than public figures, and a group of portraits of the 1760s Uvedale Price, Sir William St. Quinton, and Thomas Coward, all oldish men of strong character illustrate Gainsborough's sense of humour and his individual approach to sympathetic sitters.