Sentence examples for monumental ceiling from inspiring English sources

One is left wondering how its narrow columns can possibly support such a monumental ceiling, which even survived an earthquake in 1851.

Later he worked under the Veronese historical painter Antonio Balestra, but his one important work of this sort, the monumental ceiling of the Fall of the Giants (completed 1734) for the Palazzo Sagredo, was an artistic and critical failure.

As the company began recovering from the worst of the destruction, it became clear that the flooding had even affected 12 monumental ceiling frescoes that depict communication from its most rudimentary forms to that pinnacle of technological evolution (circa 1926): the candlestick telephone.

And then, with practiced grace, he skirted the tourists gawping at the monumental ceilings and descended the stairs to the lobby.

A specifically Baroque style of painting arose in Rome in the 1620s and culminated in the monumental painted ceilings and other church decorations of Pietro da Cortona, Guido Reni, Il Guercino, Domenichino, and countless lesser artists.

Cedar beams supported ceilings, monumental doorways built in cypress-wood and other odoriferous timber, brought from four quarters of the far-flung empire, led from one chamber to the next.

They included designs for garden statues, fountains, and festivals and culminated in the monumental paintings on the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors.

Indoors: Orient Lodge, as the three-story house is called, is a trove of period details, including etched-glass windows, chinoiserie wallpaper, vertically striped wainscoting, beamed and latticed ceilings, and monumental cobblestone fireplaces built with rocks from a stream on the property and ornamented with welcoming messages inscribed in gold leaf.

There any visitor can walk in and look up, and admire a dizzying, monumental version of the slatted ceiling Mr. Ledner created for his studio.

There hung a series of his Tornado pieces, which are monumental mobiles suspended from the ceiling.

Its monumental Roman architecture and vaulted ceilings provide a stunning backdrop to a bustling shopping mall and a host of restaurants.