Sentence examples for scheme of decoration from inspiring English sources

The latter were to have been only part of a much larger scheme of decoration in the church, but Parmigianino was extremely dilatory over their execution, and he was eventually imprisoned for breaking his contract, while the frescoes were contracted to Giulio Romano and Michelangelo Anselmi.

LONDON — The White Star Liner Titanic, which leaves Southampton and Cherbourg on her maiden voyage across the Atlantic to-day [April 10], is a sister ship to the Olympic, which she resembles in every respect except in a few details in accommodation and in the scheme of decoration.

In 1642 he painted the Amsterdam burgomaster Andries Bicker and his wife and son, and in 1643 he completed a great portrait group, The Company of Captain Roelof Bicker and Lieutenant Blaeuw, which formed part of the same scheme of decoration as Rembrandt's Nightwatch.

Each room has a complex iconographic scheme of decoration: in the hall it is Time; in the drawing room, Love; in Burges's bedroom, the Sea.

Each room has a complex iconographic scheme of decoration: that of the hall is Time, in the drawing room, Love, in Burges's bedroom, the Sea.

The richly symbolic iconography" and Masonic influences on the scheme of decoration are significant, Gillingham suggesting that Burges's Freemasonry connections were a partial explanation for his appointment and noting that a "symbolic masonic commentary pervades the Chapel.

Yet he also wrote much court poetry during this period, encouraged by the young king Charles IX, a sincere admirer, and, on the king's marriage to Elizabeth of Austria in 1571, he was commissioned to compose verses and plan the scheme of decorations for the state entry through the city of Paris.

Bernini's dynamic and theatrical schemes of decoration reached their climax in the nave vault of the Gesù, Rome, painted in 1674 79 by Giovanni Battista Gaulli (Baciccia) under the direct tutelage of Bernini.

In 1865 Burges started an extensive restoration of Cardiff Castle for the marquess; he made many extensions to the existing residential apartments and directed an elaborate scheme of interior decoration, and he worked on the project until his death.

This kind of preparatory sketch, for which there are parallels in wall painting, suggests that the artist was trying out the overall scheme of the decoration before making a more detailed sketch on the setting bed.

There is also a scheme of Crace decoration in the former Gallery.