Sentence examples for monumental church from inspiring English sources

Devotional ardor radiates from monumental church paintings.

Subsequently, at Basel, he continued work on his monumental Church Dogmatics (completing four volumes) and delivered more than 500 sermons.

The five extant monumental church portraits of the queen are clearly modeled on the Byzantine imagery, but also highlight specifically Georgian themes and Persian-type ideals of female beauty.

Antoni Gaudí is known to many as the genius behind Sagrada Família, the monumental church in Barcelona, Spain, that has been called "the most extraordinary personal interpretation of Gothic architecture since the Middle Ages".

There was also little need for Christian art, because monumental churches had yet to be built and there were few wealthy patrons to commission it.

A giant of American Catholicism in the early 20th century, Archbishop Ireland gave the Twin Cities a pair of monumental churches, the Basilica of St .Mary and the Cathedral of Saint Paul.

Erudite works on monumental brasses, church masonry and stained glass remained by his bedside in adult life.

The bright modern dining room is on the ground floor of a fascinating building that was once the Convento dei Crociferi (the Crusaders' Convent), next door to the monumental Gesuiti church with its Tintoretto and Titian paintings.

The architects of Ravenna's monumental mosaic churches and secular buildings from the Ostrogothic kingdom and the years following the Byzantine reconquest developed new styles, but they did so as an expansion of late Roman ideologies of public buildings along Byzantine lines.

"By the Reformation, the commissioning of monumental stained-glass church windows was dying out in Germany.

Despite its monumental appearance, the church is rather small in size.