Sentence examples for noble portrait from inspiring English sources
This is a noble portrait.
He points out that he did not get invited to the White House and asked to write a noble portrait of a president at war.
"I have always loved the whole Klimt world, the overt embellishment, geometric and organic as well, with heads and bodies appearing out of flat surfaces," said Ms. Burton, whose inspirations on her London studio "mood board" include the noble "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" and the erotic body flow of "The Kiss".
Here too Sir Godfrey Kneller's noble portrait of Grinling Gibbons has been replaced on the wall inside an elaborately carved frieze that was once attributed to him.The Saloon, which has been largely untouched since Walpole's day, has been rehung with the largest canvasses, one of which only made it back into the building by a finger's breadth.
In the Baroque era, Rubens slavered over roly-poly fleshy bodies; Rembrandt found beauty in old age and Velázquez painted noble portraits of the Spanish court dwarfs.
This is so flawed, funny and oddly noble a portrait of God, that the most hard-hearted atheist may find him hard to resist.
In the 15th century, when Leonardo daVinci sketched the warts of clerics and nobles, the charged portrait, as caricature is known among scholars, was an important vehicle for political and social criticism.
Sunset and sunrise are blasphemous mockeries to man; only the black rain out of the bruised and swollen clouds, or through the bitter black of night, is fit atmosphere in such a land.' It is deliberately confusing that the first work you see in this show is a self-portrait, a noble little engraving titled Proud Paul.
It shows a woman with the pale skin, high cheek bones and oval eyelids typical of the idealised portraits of noble women of the period.
It's a glimpse of coarse-grained reality, not a portrait of a noble hero who takes his lumps.
She grabbed the skull and sat contemplating it; in her vintage wooden swivel chair, she looked like a noble in a memento-mori portrait.
