Sentence examples for polychrome from inspiring English sources

The technical capacity to produce full-colour, or polychrome, prints (nishiki-e, "brocade pictures") was known but so labour-intensive as to be uneconomical until the 1760s, when Suzuki Harunobu, whose patrons were within the shogun's circle, was commissioned to produce a so-called calendar print.

A very wide variety of sumptuous polychrome effects are represented, although many were probably not produced by lustre properly so-called.

Similarly Neoclassical is Tolsá's central retable in Puebla Cathedral, which is a clear, perfectly circular construction supported by Doric columns (on which are seated a number of polychrome wooden angels).

His "Yakusha butai-no-sugatae" ("Portraits of Actors in Their Various Roles"), a series of large nishiki-e, or polychrome prints, created between 1794 and 1796, marked the peak of his creative work.

She created polychrome and monochrome wooden reliefs in the 1930s, which integrated biomorphic with geometric forms, and during that period and into the 1940s she also produced a series of "line" pictures, another manifestation of her interest in geometric abstraction.

At first the decoration was executed only in blue; then red and yellow were added to produce polychrome ware.

The earliest authenticated piece of Nevers, dated 1589, is a large oval polychrome dish depicting a mythological subject, the triumph of Galatea.

Ordinary wares such as flower vases, tankards, and jugs are thick-bodied, with a creamy glaze; and decorations either in blue or polychrome are common.