| In this case, internal evidence indicates that the writing, ornament, and figural paintings were all executed by a single hand. |
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| These objects were often decorated with figural motifs including dancing maidens, birds, or baskets of flowers. |
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| The recumbent figure, whose sexual ambiguity is iconographically unique, is one of several figural types conveying the myth of Hermaphroditus. |
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| On the other hand, the largest tesserae and the least elegant craftsmanship of the face of Medusa indicate a lesser figural skill. |
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| Historically, highlands people did little figural carving, though bows and arrows carved with small geometric motifs were common. |
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| However, James's figural use of textuality both produces and justifies a reader's instinctive preference for Ralph. |
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| Round shapes with figural reliefs placed on the door of a mint obviously suggest coins, and this is far from accidental. |
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| History paintings come first, followed by other types of figural art, landscape, and last of all, still life. |
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| The distinction made here is a broad one between two different categories of representation, the aniconic and the figural. |
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| Fading in and out of these plasterlike surfaces are Lee's personal hieroglyphs of drawn and painted figural and insect forms. |
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| This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs. |
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| The two figural miniatures and all the canon tables are contained on a separate gathering, a quaternion, physically joined together. |
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| The texts themselves display a transposition from the literal to the figural levels of discourse. |
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| The Paulinian mirror is itself a figure for our inherently figural, mediated apprehension of God, the ultimate Truth. |
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| The Doric entablature the herms carry on their hairy heads provided Sansovino with metopes that he could fill with figural sculpture. |
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| A group of small, crisp, highly colored circus paintings of the mid-1940's in which figural elements join the abstract forms, is a delight. |
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| Pronouncedly abstracted faces and figural motifs can be discovered amid the three-dimensional decorations. |
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| A somewhat lengthy disquisition on epideictic rhetoric is notably broken up by a discussion of the figural strategies of auxesis and epistrophe in the cartoon's obscene song. |
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| The gold bowl from the acropolis is also arranged around a central rosette in three concentric bands of figural representations separated by three ornamental bands. |
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| Yes, perhaps we can see that a figural interpretation of the parable is an appropriate step, but what about the wholesale allegorization of all the details? |
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| The figural imagery on Fatima's ewer surely indicates that it was a private commission, meant for her personal use. |
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| Models for utilitarian pieces such as doorknobs, backplates, and drawer pulls are stored in separate boxes from the models for garland appliques, plaques, and figural mounts. |
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| In Senufo society, divine creation is commemorated by large, sculpted figural pairs that depict a timeless and ideally balanced archetype of humanity. |
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| The figural sgraffito in the architrave represents venatic scenes of a lion and a hunter. |
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| His energetic rendering of the thunder god is a fine example of the quirky and amusing quality of his figural painting. |
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| The frieze lacks the Doric triglyph and metope, and hence this area can hold a continuous band of carved ornament, such as figural groups. |
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| The show aims to give equal weight to the abstract and figural work of this great artist, she says. |
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| As a result the previously rich figural ornamentation gave way to simpler constructions with V and K struts. |
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| The richness of their figural ornamentation places them among the first rank late Gothic sculpture. |
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| The walls and ceilings feature geometrical, figural and plant polychrome decoration of 1978 made by Zygmunt Wigliusz of Krakow. |
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| He sees the product as an object of figural, aesthetic art which is, in no way, obliged to depict something concrete. |
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| One of the ways in which this foreshadowing of Agnes's death is expressed in the poem is through the swan imagery so deeply embedded in the poem's figural texture. |
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| This painting has both a landscape and figural feel, as a faint green underpainting pokes tenuously through a peach-colored second ground that has the tactility of flesh. |
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| By the late eighteenth century his sons John and Simeon Jr. were recognized as the preeminent ship, architectural, and figural carvers in the region. |
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| All of the Chorasmian figural works are so lifelike that it is evident that portraiture had reached a high state of development by the 3rd and 4th centuries ad. |
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| Much of the figural or architectural sculpture of ancient Greece was painted colourfully. |
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| While an exaggerated physical presence pervades his figural paintings at the same time as the natural environment recedes, so too is a human presence increasingly absent from his landscapes. |
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| Large panels of grisaille glass, designed to let in more light, stand between the coloured panels with figural imagery. |
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| They began to simplify, elongate, geometricize, and fragment their figural forms. |
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| Exclusive tea sets and fancy figural porcelain. |
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| Though by no means rejecting historical-critical insights, as is made clear in MGH §7, ARCIC proposes a creative retrieval of the ancient practice of figural reading which has a firm basis in our common tradition. |
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| If there is a weakness in this show, it occurs in the figural sculpture, which inhabits more than one catagory and overall seems less substantial than work in other areas. |
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| Moreover, it is important to point out that a chastened figural reading was as important to the Reformers as it was to the early Church Fathers and medieval theologians. |
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| Recent research has emphasized particularly close relationships in design between the sculpture of the Siena facade and French foliate patterns and figural reliefs, especially from the cathedral at Auxerre in France. |
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| The inscription states that the ewer was made for the wife of Sultan Qaytbay, and the presence of figural decoration suggests that it was for her private use. |
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| They are highly developed drawings through which Brittain worked out the composition and figural details of his subjects with line drawing and the layering of black, white, and red conté. |
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| Six of nine niches with lunettes on the highest floor are decorated with figural sgraffito representing the human virtues: faith, love, hope, justice, wisdom and fame. |
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| He eschewed the dramatic illusionism and dynamism of the Baroque style in his figural compositions, preferring instead to blend quotations from ancient sculptures with stylistic elements of Raphael, Correggio, and Titian. |
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| Among the ancient Maya, logographic symbols were often incorporated into figural art, lending layers of significance to the greater composition. |
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| This austere linearity when depicting the human form was adopted by many other British figural artists, including the Swiss-born Henry Fuseli and William Blake, among others. |
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| The piece is simply outstanding, once again thanks to the fact that figural representation is barely hinted at, allowing for more mystery in the piece. |
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| A ROYAL Doulton made six different Poachers as Toby jugs or figural jugs. |
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| This discovery increases the corpus of Classic period Maya mural painting to include residential figural wall art with highly complex painted texts and calendrical content. |
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| Hazlehurst Antiques are regular exhibitors at the fair, and are renowned specialists in fine signed bronze figural sculpture of the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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| Some of them are traditional ones, but most of them are contemporary ones, such as, many of his own creation such as Zoomorphic, Beladi, Figural and Massoudy. |
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