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...dapt by doing the entire public domain, including graphics, music, movies, sculpture, paintings, photographs, etc. . . . Q. PG makes obscure and ina...

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...gyptians are not only to be seen in pyramid, obelisk, sphinx and colossus, for sculpture and hieroglyphic reveal the nation in marvellous advancement....

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...a, on the plus side of your tally, we have the monuments to architecture, sculpture and music, some orphanages and hospitals, and some people who ho...

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...ous on many serious occasions, from Man and Superman to Androcles; and Mr. Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr. Johnson might have unbent, to devise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art o...

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...Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs S...

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...The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architecture and music all reached peaks of perfection. Poetry was the epitome of the arts: a scholastic requirement, a route to fame, a moulder of character. Nearly 50,000 poems of the Tang have survived. The coll...

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...ral, gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of 1858, Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he saw the Faun of Praxiteles in a Roman sculpture gallery. The theme, characteristic of Hawthorne, is guilt and the Fall of Man. The four main characters are Miriam, a beautiful painter who is compared to Eve, Beatrice Cenci, Lady Macbeth, Judith, and Cleopatra, an...

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Ce livre comporte 24 sculptures et autant de poèmes qui y sont associés.

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...vention, they set off on an expediton to Mercury, planning to visit Venus on the return voyage. On Mercury they find a strange city eerily abandoned. Sculptures of giant figures alarm them. In a building they discover a machine. The engineer gets it running, and blaring out of the machine a thundering voice speaking Mercurian begins to sound in a way that conveys to them t...

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...und the three high doors (with recesses deep enough for several circles of sculpture) and indent the four great buttresses that ascend beside the huge... ...e cor- nice and the angles of the arches, being covered with the daintiest sculpture of arabesques, flowers, fruit, medal- lions, cherubs, griffins, a... ...te; and the re- cesses of the windows, with their happy proportions, their sculpture, and their color, are the empty frames of bril- liant pictures. T... ...at you from the windows, from the balconies, from the thick foliage of the sculpture. The portion of the wing of Louis XII. that looks toward the cour... ...s utterance of the French Renaissance. It is covered with an embroidery of sculpture, in which every detail is worthy of the hand of a goldsmith. In t... ...ds on the edge of the great terrace, and has, over the portal, a wonderful sculpture of the miraculous hunt of that holy man. In the way of plastic ar... ...Chenonceaux, leads to the house, making a pretty vista as you approach the sculptured doorway. Azay is a most perfect and beautiful thing; I should pl... ...med by a wing which, on the right, comes forward. This front, covered with sculptures, is of the richest, stateliest effect. The court is approachcd b... ...h a monumental salamander indulges in the most decorative contortions. The sculptured vaults of stone which cover the windings of the staircase within...

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...edge of a cliff. At its base, in its projected shadow, gleamed certain dim sculptures which I wonderingly ap- proached. One of the images, on the left... ...e, I mean, viewed with the eye of the satirist! To combine 33 Henry James sculpture and satire, signore, has been my unprecedented ambition. I flatte...

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... replied Kenyon; “for I found a great deal to interest me in the mediaeval sculpture hidden away in the churches hereabouts. An artist, whether painte... ... tide into her urn and poured it thence into the marble basin. But now the sculptured urn had a great crack from top to bottom; and the discontented n... ...ilvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in a... ...of entrance it had a central Gothic arch, elaborately wreathed around with sculptured semicircles, within which the spectator was aware of a stately a... ...c imagination showed its overflow and gra- tuity of device in the manifold sculptures which it lavished as freely as the water did its shifting shapes... ...osaic, of rare workmanship. Around their lofty cor- nices hover flights of sculptured angels; and within the vault of the ceiling and the swelling int... ... seem doomed to receive, sooner or later, though seldom from the hand that sculptured them,” said Hilda, laughing. “But you must not let yourself be t... ...ld analogy,—the clay model, the Life; the plaster cast, the Death; and the sculptured marble, the Resurrection, —and it seemed to be made good by the ... ...reoccupation of the feelings is apt to produce, in reference to objects of sculpture. Being of so cold and pure a substance, and mostly deriving their...

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...ls and shrill merriment over head. Here were old brick tombs with curious sculptures on them, and quaint gravestones, some of which bore puffy little... ...ng ago.” “On the gravestone,” said Hammond, “a slate one, there was rudely sculptured the impress of a foot. What it signifies I cannot conjecture, ex... ...eraldic animals; some story, very likely, told, almost revelling in Gothic sculpture of wood, like what we have seen on the marble sarcophagus of the ... ...t stood a stone statue of a venerable man, wrought in the best of mediaval sculpture, with robe and ruff, and tunic and venerable beard, resting on a ... ...eys of the Hospital, had roughened and blackened this ven erable piece of sculpture, enclosing it as it were in a superfi cies of decay; but still (... ..., etc., as if year after year had been spent in bringing these veg etable sculptures to perfection. In one of the gardens, more over, the ingenious ... ...d was piled up in the virgin soil. Old tombs there were too, with numerous sculptures on them; and quaint, mossy gravestones; although all kinds of mo...

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...y were great creatures. They came, it was clearly traceable, from pictures sculpture—and from a definite re- sponse in myself to their beauty. My moth... ...ith- out metals, without beasts of burthen, without letters, with- out any sculpture that has left a trace, and yet with a sense of astronomical fact ... ...hedral. The three tourists devoted a golden half hour before dinner to the sculptures on the western face. The great screen of wrought stone rose up w... ...e Roman Baths. The Pulteney they found hung with pictures and adorned with sculpture to an astonishing extent; some former proprietor must have had a ...

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... Pope – V olume One Shakes off the dust, and rears his reverend head. Then Sculpture and her sister-arts revive; Stones leap’d to form, and rocks bega... ...s of white marble rear’d, Crown’d with an architrave of antique mould, And sculpture rising on the roughen’d gold. In shaggy spoils here Theseus was b... ...he fix’d a reverend eye, Great without pride, in modest majesty. In living sculpture on the sides were spread The Latian wars, and haughty T urnus dea... ...nfuse The softer spirit of the Sapphic Muse. The polish’d pillar different sculptures grace; A work outlasting monumental brass. Here smiling Loves an... ... trees, and stones, and farms, and farmer fall. Gold, silver, ivory, vases sculptured high, Paint, marble, gems, and robes of Persian dye, There are w...

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...esent [certain of ] the manuscripts to the Bodleian Library, and verse and sculpture form an imperishable me- morial of his connection with the Univer... ...ylon, the eternal pyramids, Memphis and Thebes, and whatsoe’er of strange, Sculptured on alabaster obelisk, Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphynx, Dark ... ... verse, mourning the memory Of that which is no more, or painting’s woe Or sculpture, speak in feeble imagery Their own cold powers. Art and eloquence... ...serts of the Universe; Yet, nor in painting’s light, or mightier verse, Or sculpture’s marble language, can invest That shape to mortal sense—such glo... ...f of moonstone carved, did keep A glimmering o’er the forms on every side, Sculptures like life and thought, immovable, deep-eyed. _585 52 52 52 5... ...5 55. One seat was vacant in the midst, a throne, Reared on a pyramid like sculptured flame, Distinct with circling steps which rested on ... ... and did with softest light inform _635 The shadowy dome, the sculptures, and the state Of those assembled shapes—with clinging charm Sin... ...12 12 12 12 12. Upon that rock a mighty column stood, Whose capital seemed sculptured in the sky, Which to the wanderers o’er the solitude Of distant ... ...d of that lonely home: Within was seen in the dim wavering ray The antique sculptured roof, and many a tome Whose lore had made that sage all that he ...

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... placed at each end of the chateau of Louis XII., the delicate carving and sculpture, so original in design, which abound every- where, the remains of... ...hich the courtiers promenaded; the galleries, marvellously ex- ecuted; the sculptured windows, whose embrasures are so deep as to form boudoirs—for wh... ...ng of images?” cried Pardaillan, as Christophe stopped before the charming sculptures of the balustrade which unites, or, if you prefer it, separates ... ...of the Tuileries with the Louvre by his unfinished galleries, the precious sculptures of which have been so cruelly neglected. Even if the map of Pari... ...ries. The house, of one story only above the ground-floor, was capped by a sculptured frieze, above which rose a roof with four sides, the peak being ...

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...ial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on t... ...a of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every co... ...he form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar. But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the la... ...hark’s tooth, of his one poor jack knife, he will carve you a bit of bone sculpture, not quite as workmanlike, but as close packed in its maziness of... ..., all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all. Nay, it is an ad... ...of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the Temple of the Philistines, has b... ...erah, some fifty years ago, there was discovered upon the granite ceiling a sculptured and painted planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dol... ...s a modern Kentuckian in his socks; and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest Egyptian and Nineveh tablets, by the relative prop...

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...mazed. In the entrance hall stood the larger figures of the Greco Buddhist sculptures done, savants know how long since, by forgotten workmen whose ha... ...ement. The office was but a little wooden cubicle partitioned off from the sculpture lined gallery. Kim laid himself down, his ear against a crack in ...

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... patronized Art, and it was a pleasure to hear him speak upon pictures and sculptures; he knew a great deal about them. ‘He is an authority.’ Her humo... ...led by de- grees to fancy himself sounded regarding Miss Asper: a piece of sculpture glacially decorative of the domestic mansion in person, to his th...

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...lls of the Louvre, down the stair- cases, along the cool, dim galleries of sculpture, and out into the enormous court. Newman looked about him as he w... ...up the broad street and see the Arch of Triumph vaguely massing its heroic sculptures in the summer star- light. Sometimes Newman kept his promise of ...