Sentence examples for monumental style from inspiring English sources

The principal manifestations of the monumental style are the megalithic monuments, although there is great variety among the megalithic customs of the many different populations in Sumatra, Laos, Indonesia, Borneo, and the Philippines.

The figures are treated in a strongly classicizing, frozen, and monumental style.

Along with Mahler's Eighth Symphony (Symphony of a Thousand), the Gurrelieder represents the peak of the post-Romantic monumental style.

Home to everyone from Irish shipbuilders to Chinese traders, its grand "monumental" style buildings had fallen into disrepute.

The fascist monumental style expresses this sense of progress, but the palace also features the typical Romanesque style of Puglia.

The heavy, monumental style of the earlier part of Louis's reign was gradually replaced by a lighter and more fluent curvilinear style.

Hopper stands with two other American artists, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, whose likewise monumental styles also trashed prevailing conventions of good painting and have proved to be deathless.

The result could be very decorative, especially when done in the monumental hieroglyphic style of writing, a style best adapted to stone inscriptions.

Picasso was working at that time in two radically different styles — the late-Cubist phase that produced such milestones as his 1921 "Three Musicians," and the monumental, figurative style of his classical period, influenced by his work with the Diaghilev ballet.

This monumental scenic style included magnificent colonnades, temples, palaces, and scenes so lavish that only the great ruling houses could afford them.

The figures of Saints Peter, Paul, and Christopher in the apse, his earliest frescoes in this chapel, show to what extent he had already absorbed the monumental figure style of Tuscany.