Sentence examples for secular objects from inspiring English sources
We are in the early centuries of the larger Byzantine empire, and themes from antiquity — Dionysian revelers, Herculean hunters — are still present in many secular objects.
There are also secular objects of adornment, like headbands, girdles, belts, cummerbunds and square beaded pendants called "keepers of the heart".
The April show, she said, will consist solely of secular objects: Hopi figurines, Navajo weavings and, perhaps most prized, American Indian pottery.
The Tami style, as it is seen on secular objects, is characterized by depiction of a wide variety of animal figures (crocodile, turtle, lizard, fish, pig) in a highly stylized manner.
Dating from the 11th to the 16th century, more than 75 ecclesiastical and secular objects from the Basel Cathedral will be reunited beginning tomorrow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In early times, like bronze, it was mainly used for religious purposes, but it later came to be employed for a variety of secular objects, principally those intended to furnish the scholar's table, such as brush-pots, ink-slabs, water-droppers, table-screens, and paper-weights.
The battered casket, originally a secular object, probably survived because it was subsequently used as a church reliquary.
The worldly achievements of James Bartholomew Cummings AM, known as "the cup king" in the racing world, were honoured by the inclusion of a powerful secular object: the Melbourne Cup won in 1996 by Saintly.
Picasso: No, seriously, the fan was chosen because it is a symbol of femininity, because it balances the picture compositionally, and because I posed her hand in the classic religious position referencing Leonardo's "Madonna of the Rocks," except I wanted her to be holding a secular object.
A local news article published in January 1997 reported that secular Turks objected to the mosque because it would "symbolize the power of the Islamists over Taksim as well as the whole country".
And reliquaries, containers made to hold such remains, changed in form, style and meaning over centuries, in the process taking on lives of their own, becoming precursors of the modern, secular art object.
