Sentence examples for represented scenes from inspiring English sources

Originating and flourishing in Florence, these religious dramas represented scenes from the Old and New Testaments, from pious legends, and from the lives of the saints.

By means of these mediums it is true that objects in the world can be represented, scenes from life depicted, and emotions from life expressed, but these are irrelevant to the principal purpose of art.

Working together since their graduation from the Royal College of Art in 1990, the Chapmans won early acclaim for Disasters of War, made with plastic figurines that represented scenes from Goya's Disasters of War etchings.

Over and over, we are summoned to attend to surfaces, not merely to look through them at a represented scene or subject.

Vitruvius tells us that the Greeks were particularly interested in representing scenes from the Odyssey against a landscape background.

The six main frescoes represent scenes from the life of St. Francis of Assisi, Sassetti's patron saint.

Among his best-known works are a pair representing scenes from the life of St. Zenobius (1517).

They are also extremely interesting, because they seem to represent scenes from the tenth and eveventh books of Homer's Odyssey.

The majority of drawings were made during one of his last trips in 1873-1874 and represent scenes from India and Ceylon.

Two details of one of the surviving capitals, with the frieze up above, a frieze that represents scenes of women weaving; I'm not going to get into the meaning of all of that here today.

The exteriors of Hindu and Buddhist holy places, such as the famous terrace temple of Borobudur on Java, and the pediments and friezes of Greek temples utilize an abundance of figures and reliefs representing scenes from myth and sacred history.