Sentence examples for their calligraphy from inspiring English sources

These inscriptions and the rubbings made from them were valued both for their information and for their calligraphy.

They even allow you to draw a Chinese character by using your mouse and then search against their calligraphy database!

There is a religious intention here, called attention to in quotations from the Koran, their calligraphy intertwined with the ornamentation, affirming a unifying power.

Others might let those unborn children sort it out for themselves and go back to their calligraphy pens and place cards.

"Many of the manuscripts were really intended to dazzle, whether by their size, their illuminations, their calligraphy, choice of paper or choice of ink.

The city's Green Lake neighborhood is dotted with foreign-owned coffee shops like Paul's Café, where exchange students at the adjacent Yunnan Normal University meet to practice their calligraphy or have a beer after class.

Their ubiquitous calligraphy is composed of straight lines and sharp edges, giving their creations – pixos – a jagged look.

A later pair of screens — Shibata Zeshin's "Parody of the Four Accomplishments," from the second half of the 19th century — replaces the usual scholarly men with women, who appear to be writing love letters instead of practicing their Chinese calligraphy.

Visitors to his Paris studio often notice that manuscripts are beautiful - not just in their painstaking calligraphy, but because a passage may be conceived as a symmetrical shape of notes on paper and only later given musical substance.

These are experiences that induce rage, and they may not sound like an obvious source for Williams's recent pictures, with their graceful calligraphy and coolly ravishing surfaces and seeming absence of irate emotion.

Kairouan's mosques and monuments were old friends, but this time we discovered the National Museum of Islamic Art at Raqqada, about five miles out on the road to Sfax, with few fine pieces of ceramics and some 10th-century manuscripts on gazelle parchment, their Sufic calligraphy and gold-leaf decorations equaling in elegance anything that Europe was producing at the time.