Sentence examples for of their statues from inspiring English sources

Experts say, however, that the return may create pressure on the other three museums to review the provenance of their statues.

Indeed, their creators sometimes chose different kinds of stone for different parts of their statues according to the way they reacted to paint and wax, using types that could be highly polished for the fleshy parts and coarser varieties that would absorb paint for the drapery.

He had robbed of their statues and ornaments various temples at Samos, Ephesus, Pergamos, and Rhoeteum in the province of Asia and had given them to Cleopatra.

The Romans had taste enough to admire the arts of Greece, as plainly appears by the great collections they made of their statues and pictures, as well as by adopting their architecture and music: but I do not remember to have read of any Roman who made a great figure either as a painter or a statuary.

I expect you've discovered they're immensely proud of their statue of Anubis too?

Going against the advice of some of his peers and ignoring warnings about "going native," Wharton decides to involve the people of Kapa'au in the conservation of their statue and soon finds himself immersed in complex political, social, and cultural considerations, including questions about representations of the Native Hawaiian past: Who should decide what is represented and how?

"But we know that at least a lot of them were painted". They may look garish to us – but the Greeks felt that, without the splash of color, their statues were a little naked and, well, kind of ugly.

Full-size statues of gold and ivory were rare at all times because of their cost; statues with gilded wooden bodies and marble extremities were sometimes made instead.

A number of former Soviet rulers are commemorated in the Alley of the Leaders, their statues and busts standing or lying on underwater shelves of rock.

Southern communities were generally quiet about the source of their Confederate statues.

Here, hawkers congregate to tie brightly coloured ribbons around your wrist, a cheap enticement into purchasing one of their saintly statues or poorly woven purses.