Sentence examples for of small narrative from inspiring English sources
Duccio's altarpiece, the "Maestà," contains a large number of small narrative scenes reminiscent of Giotto's fresco paintings.
A sparkling fountain trickles water to the bottom of the picture, from where it probably fell to thirsting souls in Purgatory on a predella — a strip of small narrative scenes — that was lost sometime before 1568, when a local writer lamented its ruin by restorers with "calves' hands".
There's more to Dennis than initially appears, and, through a series of small narrative turns, he manages to shake off the Danish dreariness — he pries away from Mom's viselike clutches with a lie about a bodybuilding competition in Germany — for the welcoming sun and embracing nights of Thailand.
They were succeeded by small narrative paintings.
Section References (For images, see gallery) The Ignudi are the 20 athletic, nude males that Michelangelo painted as supporting figures at each corner of the five smaller narrative scenes that run along the centre of the ceiling.
In Ivimey's work small narratives play out between creatures made of materials that include bone, cotton and leather.
His criteria: "There has to be big enthusiasm, lots of small businesses, and a narrative that attaches to it in a daily, ongoing way".
To unravel this web of small republics into a coherent narrative is a formidable challenge, and the Israeli foreign correspondent Yoav Karny has approached it head-on.
As a mother, though, the narrative reports of small children undergoing hospitalization for seizures and neurological problems – even though it's a very small number of cases over decades – stick in my mind.
In "Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima?", Ms. Ringgold juxtaposed a series of small portraits with squares containing handwritten narrative.
Where Mr. Schiff examined the ways in which Schumann molded pianistic miniatures into large, picturesque structures, Mr. Padmore and Mr. Bezuidenhout performed two of the composer's song cycles, "Liederkreis" and "Dichterliebe," also expansive narrative structures built of small, self-contained pieces.
