Besides shedding rain, these hoods also protect small ink frescoes on the plaster surface above the window. |
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A country so rich in frescoes and carvings of bacchanalian festivities must know a thing or two about making wine. |
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A perennial concern is the reconstruction of subjects of the lost lunettes above the surviving tiers of the frescoes. |
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His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns. |
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On the altar wall, itself, the symbolic right and left are evident in the frescoes of the bottom register. |
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The beautiful opera house claims to be one of the best in Europe, with perfect acoustics and frescoes painted by Karoly Lotz. |
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All were decorated with stained glass, frescoes, rich tapestries and paintings by the foremost artists in France. |
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Large chiseled columns support massive roofs and walls lined with carved frescoes. |
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Loose tiles clinked underfoot and I glimpsed spoiled frescoes which had faded, mildewed or simply disappeared under whitewash. |
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Another few decades would pass before Filippino Lippi finished the bottom tier of frescoes left incomplete by Masaccio and Masolino. |
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Seemingly every room inside has faux Corinthian columns and ceiling frescoes. |
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Aside from his many frescoes and easel pictures, Piola produced a great number of drawings that he sold to collectors. |
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There were eroded frescoes on the walls, and gleams of marble from corners where the weather had not penetrated. |
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The small duomo of the Collegiata has a series of frescoes based on the life of Christ. |
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They evoke more than anything the monumental gravity of Masaccio's frescoes, which are themselves notably sculptural in their forms. |
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Peace appears accordingly in the Sienese frescoes as a seductive Venus-like figure, reclining on a suit of armor. |
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The frescoes show his racy handling of narrative and his pungent characterization. |
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Tigers, lions and elephants are regarded as auspicious animals and appear on paintings and frescoes. |
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By the fifteenth century, many Western artists were using it in frescoes or in gesso on wood panel paintings. |
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Gutted architectural glories, their frescoes scraped back to the stone, stable horses. |
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There's the neoclassical dining room with its frescoes depicting the country house of the palazzo's previous owners, the Baglioni family. |
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The sites are fascinating for their pyramids, sculpture, frescoes and stelae. |
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Except for a grand-uncle who had painted frescoes in a church, nobody in his family had any connections to art. |
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The frescoes, which had been covered by centuries of soot and grime, have begun to be restored. |
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He mixed in antiquarian circles, copied Antique frescoes, and painted a celebrated portrait of the Scottish cicerone James Byres and his family. |
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Those lucky enough to steal a glimpse while the church was closed for renovations had reported that his frescoes were truly magnificent. |
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And the chromolithographs published by the Arundel Society provided cheap colour reproductions of early Italian frescoes. |
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Modern finishes and hand-painted frescoes were applied to recall the city's history. |
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Most of the frescoes on the ceiling are gone, but there are ornate chandeliers, and putti attend the plaster reliefs above. |
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Feasting scenes appear in the frescoes of Crete and the islands, and the Mycenaeans adapt this tradition for representation in their palaces. |
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Poussin perpetuates the convention, which goes back as far as the Pompeian frescoes, of burnished umber men and pearly women. |
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Rare paintings, frescoes and stone carvings present a marvellous panorama to the visitor. |
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Using cracked linen as a surface, she painted motifs that conjure up images of Italian frescoes while simulating the effects of time and weather. |
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I have identified only four other trecento frescoes of Christ in the House of Simon that include Judas. |
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Surviving panels by him include parts of a Passion polyptych, recalling his frescoes in S. Francesco, Assisi. |
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Everything that is removable, including frescoes, will eventually go on display in a local museum. |
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In towns and cities throughout the country, street-side frescoes, mosaics and tiny niches bearing the image of some Marian entity abounded. |
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The art can still be seen in frescoes and ceilings of old palaces and temples all over the State. |
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He then used the family fortune to reconstruct much of the two-storey royal palace and the frescoes on its walls. |
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In fact, many of the materials that are relevant to the present discussion have already been assembled around the frescoes. |
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Fourth and fifth Century writers describe the richness of its marbles, mosaics, frescoes, and the silver manger replacing the original clay one. |
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Slovenia has an unusual variety of art ranging from Gothic frescoes to contemporary sculpture. |
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The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur. |
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The frescoes by Giulio Romano and Penni in the lunettes and vault were retained and the altarpiece remained in place. |
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He had the facades embellished with exquisite tin-glazed earthware decorations and extraordinary frescoes showing mythological scenes. |
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In 1537 it was ceded to Angelo Massimi, who commissioned Perino del Vaga to paint frescoes on each of the lateral walls and on the pilasters on either side of the entrance. |
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The main attraction is the eleventh century Saint Sophia Cathedral, the city's oldest standing church, which contains some of the country's greatest mosaics and frescoes. |
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Some of its beautifully preserved frescoes depicted Egyptian motifs and animals, suggesting significant contact between the two peoples. |
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A couple large frescoes are hanging prominently, in full view. |
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In Rome he was trained as an artist by Agostino Tassi, a landscapist and the leading Italian painter of illusionistic architectural frescoes. |
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The unity, variety, and harmony of High Renaissance felicitously combine in the frescoes that decorate the Stanza della Segnatura. |
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After the conversion, the mosaics and frescoes were covered, sometimes by wooden blinds and sometimes by whitewashing over them. |
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Brilliantly hued frescoes played an important part in both the interior and the exterior decoration of the palace. |
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Their frescoes combined grandeur with a legibility and a social awareness rare in modern art. |
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The luminous frescoes and bold preparatory drawings on display show the skill of a fine draftsman and colourist. |
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On the four galleries of this peristyle are four apartments. They have fired-clay frescoes in which some of the tiles are of foreign provenance. |
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But there were frescoes on the walls, antique candelabra, and the Rialto market with its fresh produce was a stroll away. |
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In the other hand when you can admire the Hall of pottery and bronzes, the hall of glass, frescoes and pulpits of the fifteenth century. |
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It is most famous for the frescoes in the baronial hall, which dates from the early fifteenth century by an artist called Master of Manta. |
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Iconography retains traces of these developments of the theme, as in the frescoes of the Dura-Europos synagogue. |
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During the restoration the different layers of whitewash have been removed, so that the frescoes on the ceilings could be seen again. |
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The triforium zone of the basilica features a cycle of over thirty frescoes of the life and legend of Peter, executed in about 1300 and credited to Deodato Orlandi. |
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He painted many great church frescoes, but his greatest works are his portraits, which manage to be both warmly intimate and oddly estranging. |
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The church and monastery frescoes artfully reflect the complexity of Camaldolese geneology, and its religious and ideological program. |
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Imposing are the Cappellone of Saint Catald, with statues, frescoes, and marble inlays and the altar constellated with precious gems. |
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The dromos and funerary chambre are decorated with frescoes, representing in particular a funeral banquet. |
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Inside, it is decorated with stuccoes by the Swiss plasterer Abbondio Stazio and with frescoes by Luigi Dorigny. |
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Equally adept at all subject matter, Lycett decorated vases and plaques with medallions imitating cameos, polychrome figures derived from Pompeian frescoes, and genre scenes. |
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Unfortunately only some 18th-century prints of his frescoes and a few fragments of the numerous frescoed facades that adorned Venice survive. |
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This Centre, with its frescoes and figurines of jesters in the pure Senoufo tradition conserves the memories of a culture down the ages. |
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Very simple architecture, with gabled cover, the building rests on the plinth of the apse of Byzantine frescoes. |
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In order to create more display space windows were bricked up and valuable frescoes painted over. |
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Around this time, two tumuli were stripped of their frescoes and these were also sent to New York. |
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Always find the frescoes in the hall of Nicholas Abbot, presenting scenes of the Aeneid, and others in the room of Paradise. |
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The university city of Padua makes a great day trip – don't miss the stunning Giotto frescoes in the Chapel of Scrovegni. |
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It was this picture that sent Smith towards the frescoes themselves, and then the creation of her own imagined Francescho. |
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Weirder still are the giant frescoes of the poets Rimbaud, Baudelaire and others that dominate the market square. |
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The frescoes were executed in the tradition of oriental classical art and show the influence of the Sassanid tradition. |
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The frescoes are entirely hand-painted and adorned with genuine gold leaves. |
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On the vault there are frescoes depicting scenes from the lives of the two patron saints of the city. |
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This cycle of frescoes illustrates some episodes of the history of Rome as told by Titus Livius. |
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On the arches along the nave the eye encounters the sensitive frescoes by Boccaccio Boccaccino and the more eccentric ones by Altobello Melone. |
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In the church are exhibited various fine frescoes and the tomb of Galeazzo Cavassa. |
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One of several frescoes of women in the throne room and baths of the palace, she represents the taste and courtly life of the time. |
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In the 1790s he produced a sequence of frescoes of Punchinellos, remarkable for their joie de vivre and sense of theatre He was also a successful etcher. |
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Containing preserved frescoes and opulent glass mosaics, this remarkable archaeological discovery provides a rare insight into the daily life and culture of the period. |
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The room is a Second Empire design from the 19th century, featuring rich gold columns, frescoes, and glass chandeliers. |
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The art was too reminiscent of frescoes in temples or churches! |
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While Mycenaean frescoes were derived from representations and conventions of Minoan and Cycladic painting, the Mycenaeans adapted these for their own purposes. |
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One of the towers also has some remains of frescoes, which give a hint of how sumptuously the house was probably decorated, with painted ceilings, wood panelling and mural paintings. |
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We wrote immediately to the Italian authorities to offer whatever assistance they might consider necessary for the restoration of the Basilica and its frescoes. |
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Buddha images stamped on gold, silver and bronze coins, and in the form of statues and frescoes, spread all over the Far East, China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam? |
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On entering the part of the castle that awaits restoration and finding the frescoes, it is moving to think that such remnants of our history can have come down through the centuries with so little damage. |
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Remarkable frescoes of the time around 1440 showing the dolorous passion of the Lord, the legend of St. Peter, the Wise and Foolish Virgins and the Last Judgment can be found in the Protestant Parish Church. |
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The frescoes by our brother Blessed Fra Angelico attracted us both by their beauty and their impressive perfection, and by their clearly theological contents. |
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The first is to take care to secure as much movable material as possible and to safeguard material, such as frescoes, which is removable from monuments. |
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The Empire contained many kinds of villas, not all of them lavishly appointed with mosaic floors and frescoes. |
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On the clerestory walls, each pierced by 11 windows, were frescoes of the patriarchs, prophets, and Apostles and scenes from the Old and New Testaments. |
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About ten years ago it was cleaned and reinforced and the gaps and the coverings of the frescoes, which have knightly subjects, images of paladins and coat of arms, were restored with stuccoes. |
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A complex architectural composition with columns and cornices frames a series of frescoes representing sacred scenes, such as the Miracle of Saint Peter, or smaller representations of landscapes in the above panels. |
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In the canvas from Baltimore, we may even notice a foreshortened legless figure which seems to recall the one seen among the fallen soldiers in the frescoes from Mantua. |
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A technique for Theurgic ascent in the Mithras liturgy, the Chaldean Oracles and some Mithraic frescoes. |
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Rooms have a colonial feel with antiques and wall frescoes. |
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Pottery, stone carvings, sealstones, statuettes, gold, metalwork, the marvelous frescoes form the Royal and Little palaces and villas of the wealthy and finally, the unique painted limestone sarcophagus from Agia Trias. |
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The central panel of the ceiling frescoes by the Italian artist Gregorio Guglielmi shows the prospering of the monarchy under the rule of Maria Theresa. |
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During this period the castle was amplified with the addition of two drawbridges, another tower, Ghibelline battlements, still present today, and many other adornments including ornate brickwork and graffito frescoes. |
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Only the frescoes were missing, but perhaps some fold in time had brought us just before the arrival of Augustin, and might not the artist show up any minute now? |
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The lively colours of the paintings bring out the sculpted detail and, in the upper zones, the frescoes and stuccowork interpenetrate to produce a light and living decor of an unprecedented richness and refinement. |
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The monastery's magnificent church, topped by three large domes, is covered with 1200 frescoes, painted by the school of Zacharie Zographe, the greatest master of this art in his day. |
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Let us not forget that all these frescoes are not all imposing ones: small cities, confidential quarters, redo their faces and offer a face lift to numerous urban objects each one different from the other. |
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In the Church of Agios Nikolaos, in Klonari, there are wonderful frescoes of the 16th century, a magnificent iconostasis and the icons which decorate it are quite interesting for the visitor. |
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Beautiful chapter house, with its frescoes. |
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Here too the rooms are arranged around a court. On the other hand, in contrast to Knossos, the frescoes decorating the walls were relatively scanty, the unpainted floors and walls being covered with a lining of pure gypsum. |
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Kokoschka attended elementary and high school in Vienna and received his first artistic impressions from the stained-glass windows and Baroque frescoes of the Church of the Piarist Order, where he sang in the choir. |
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He turned his fluid line to designs ranging from intricate jewellery to monumental frescoes. |
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The reformist council paid him a retaining fee of 50 florins and commissioned him to resume work on the Council Chamber frescoes. |
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Holbein's frescoes of Rehoboam and of the meeting between Saul and Samuel were more simply designed than their predecessors. |
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The frescoes, done too soon and too fast, began to fade at once and now are barely decipherable. |
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The decorative use of narcissi dates as far back as ancient Egyptian tombs, and frescoes at Pompeii. |
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This beautiful aquatic flower appears in the Sigiriya frescoes and has been mentioned in ancient Sanskrit, Pali and Sinhala literary works. |
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The soldiers now lived in good stone barracks within walls decorated by frescoes. |
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Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento, Italy, still has intricate frescoes, excellent examples of Gothic art, in a tower room. |
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These frescoes underline the message that to move the wheel of disarmament on and forward, we require to exert no less than the men and women that adorn these walls. |
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The frescoes themselves had been rediscovered languishing under whitewash not long before and had, until the unearthing of the letter, been attributed to fellow Ferrarese Cosimo Tura. |
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Also attending the meeting was the head of the Umbria Monuments and Fine Arts Office, Vittoria Garibaldi, who talked about the restoration of the frescoes in the Castello di Magione chapel. |
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Archaeologists and restorers have in part recreated a first-century columbarium, or burial chamber for cinerary urns, using frescoes excavated between 1838 and 1922 in the Villa Doria Pamphili, the city's largest park. |
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The upper part of the Chamber is decorated by stained glass windows and by six allegorical frescoes representing religion, chivalry and law. |
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These were re-used during the Umayyad reconstruction when the castle was decorated with carved stucco, frescoes and mosaics, thus transforming it into a palatial residence. |
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Baroque period is instead the church of S. Mary Magdalene, which affects the undulating brick facade, unfinished, and, inside, frescoes and statues. |
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Moreover, capitals, watercolour paintings, oil lamps, frescoes, amphorae, glasses and jugs as well as a pair of precious gold earrings from the 5th century. |
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These sculptures accompany large frescoes in lively colours spread out from the reception area to the hallway linking the aquatic centre and the neighbouring school. |
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The magnificent frescoes of José María Sert have a timeless quality and evoke in me the same sense of awe as when I first entered this chamber as a member of my delegation more than a decade ago. |
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Are three medieval towers in front of Priam, the Tower Corsi, Guarnieri Tower and the Tower of Brandale: the facade of the latter, you can see an apparition in ceramics and medieval frescoes. |
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Both the porch and the main portion of the megaron had floors of painted stucco with borders of gypsum slabs and with frescoes on the walls, one apparently representing a battle in front of a citadel. |
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The old paradise of the rain god Tlaloc, depicted in the Teotihuacán frescoes, opened its gardens to those who died by drowning, lightning, or as a result of leprosy, dropsy, gout, or lung diseases. |
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Inside you can find five frescoes by the Aachen artist Alfred Rethel which show legendary scenes from the life of Charlemagne, as well as Charlemagne's signature. |
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Sinopia, the drawing that underlies European frescoes, does reveal structural information, but the relation of Sikander's drawings to Mughal art is more complex. |
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Indeed, the Minoan frescoes depicting dolphins in Queen's Megaron at Knossos indicate that Minoans were well aware of and celebrated these creatures. |
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We could just catch a glimpse of the haloed warriors and elders in the frescoes, the shine of the ikons, and the heavily armed forescreen of the altar. |
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The Church of Santa Sofia in Benevento was erected in 760 by Duke Arechis II, and it preserves Lombard frescoes on the walls and even Lombard capitals on the columns. |
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These palaces have yielded a wealth of artifacts and fragmentary frescoes. |
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Raphael, who in Rome became one of the most famous painters of Italy, created frescoes in the Villa Farnesina, the Raphael's Rooms, plus many other famous paintings. |
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Notable later notable medieval mosaics and frescoes can be also found in the churches of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Santi Quattro Coronati, and Santa Prassede. |
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