Sentence examples for marble figure from inspiring English sources

It used to house a massive statue of the poet; now it contains another white marble figure.

By contrast, the marble figure, carefully finished and polished, glowers with operatic grandiloquence, bereft of its dramatic punch.

He was exhibiting a Roman marble figure of Aphrodite from the second century priced at around $220,000.

One, the marble figure of an angel carved around 1400, possibly in Burgundy, is the centerpiece of the Böhler-Blumka stand.

Regarded as one of the most beautiful surviving examples of the period, the sculpture is a life-size marble figure standing on a lotus blossom.

The same hairdo can also be seen on a small marble figure, belonging to the Museum of Fine Arts, in an adjacent case.

The three marble figures are original and expressive.

In the late sixties, she went to Italy and began making large marble figures.

Colossal marble figures of gods, fragmentary but overwhelmingly powerful, convey the titanic authority of Greek myth.

He commissioned Rysbrack to carve marble figures of the pagan Saxon gods, a savage English pantheon.

Another ancient writer, Diodorus, says of him that "he informed his marble figures with the passions of the soul".