Most important, however, are the seminude, marble gisants, or figures of the royal pair recumbent in death.
Erotica doesn't get tonier than in Alma-Tadema's "Tepidarium" (1882), a luminous small painting of an enervated Roman lass wielding a phallic strigil (a skin-scraper) and a strategically positioned feathered fan while recumbent on pillows and fur.
Padmanabha, recumbent, offers no comment.(Picture credit: The Economist).
He finished Giorgione's "Sleeping Venus", now in Dresden, by painting the pastoral landscape in which the recumbent nude rests.
Metamorphism associated with nappes (large recumbent folds) in the Alps and the Appalachians provides strong evidence that the tectonic transport of rocks typically occurs at rates faster than those of thermal equilibration in other words, that the nappes can transport hot rocks for large distances without significant cooling.
In the abbey church, recumbent statues mark the burial places of Henry II of England; his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine; and their son Richard I the Lion-Heart.
Lepers and smallpox victims used to be buried in a recumbent position.
While the figures exemplify the rigid, recumbent pose of a Gothic sculptural effigy, Mone decorated their garments and surroundings with joyful, unfettered, classical figures and motifs, subtly ushering this most traditional form of funerary monument into a new era of Renaissance inventiveness.
In this period, too, the sphinx the recumbent lion with head or face of the king became a commonly used image of the king as protector.
It was shown either recumbent or seated on its haunches, often paired with the sphinx; its function may have been protective.
The most important works from Dwight's pottery are finely modeled stoneware busts and statues, including busts of Prince Rupert of the Rhine and Charles II, a recumbent half figure of his daughter, and various classical figures, all by an unknown modeler.
