Sentence examples for narrative relief from inspiring English sources

There is a longed-for narrative relief in this moment of breakdown: "Addiction won.

The Bharhut style, though at times archaic and primitive in its conception, marks the beginnings of a tradition of Buddhist narrative relief and decoration of sacred buildings that continued for several centuries.

Because sculptors were obliged to produce such vast quantities of work so fast, their standards deteriorated, and the huge vistas of narrative relief show signs of haste and slipshod workmanship.

Vishnu Vikrānta (the three strides of Vishnu), dated ad 467, and 6th-century panels illustrating the Kumārasambhava ("Birth of the War-God," an epic by the 5th-century Indian poet and dramatist Kālidāsa) are masterworks of narrative relief and dramatic mythical composition.

A pictorial tendency in sculpture had begun with Ghiberti's narrative relief panels for the north door of the Baptistery, in which he extended the apparent depth of the scene by placing boldly rounded foreground figures against more delicately modeled settings of landscape and architecture.

The monument guides pilgrims through an extensive system of stairways and corridors with 1,460 narrative relief panels on the walls and the balustrades.

Many of the surviving narrative reliefs and decorative plaques are in the Government Museum, Madras, and the British Museum.

The connection between Benedetto and Ghirlandaio is reflected in the careful realism of the five narrative reliefs in Benedetto's masterpiece, the pulpit in Sta.

His major architectural project in Hildesheim was the Benedictine church of St .Michael, for which he famously commissioned a set of immense bronze doors, each covered with narrative reliefs.

The five narrative reliefs of this pulpit roughly parallel the subject matter of his father Nicola's Pisa pulpit 40 years earlier, as does the overall architectural format, but the style pushes the expressive qualities innate in Nicola's Pisa pulpit to a new level of intensity.

Lotuses are also the design theme for a group of stellar faience chalices (circa 1425 to 925 B.C .. Several are in a stylized form of the blue or white lotus flower; a couple are decorated with narrative reliefs that symbolize royal might and rebirth.