In his paintings people hold, gaze at or are revealed by pale white candles and burning lamps.
When they returned an hour later, the two young girls added a pale green votive candle to a memorial on a spot on the sidewalk near where their brother was shot 10 times.
Deep in the earth, surrounded by the pale light of a single candle, Juan Gutiérrez Guzmán is laboring with a sledgehammer and a spike, looking for the ancient sparkle of amber.
In El Greco's painting An Allegory, painted in about 1580 to 1585, a monkey and two boys gather round a silvery candle flame whose pale light casts enigmatic, wondrous light on their faces.
Stay The Lion & Pheasant (doubles from £115 B&B) breathed new life into Shrewsbury's hotel scene when it opened, bringing a dose of soft-edged Scandi style, with exposed timbers, pale grey paint and glowing candles – to what had once been a car dealer's depot.
As Adrien, Pierre Niney is extraordinary to behold: pale, tapered, and flickering, like a candle made flesh.
Natasha undressed by a candle's wan flame, and saw her reflection in the murky glass of the window — her pale, thin neck, the dark braid that had fallen across her clavicle.
Pale yellow flames swayed from squat white candles on white linen.
On the front steps of Tuckahoe High School, votive candles still burned in the pale afternoon sun.
By contrast, the gas flame of a kitchen range is pale, even though it is hotter than a candle flame, because of the absence of soot.
