The secretary absently drew an arabesque on the blotting-pad.
We saw in the Museum at Portici some lovely arabesque paintings, cut from the walls of the cloister.
In place of Gothic leafage we have scrollwork of the marked arabesque or grotesque character derived from Italy.
The characteristic arabesque is painted in brown enamel, with redder enamel for the flesh tints, some yellow stain, and a little blue enamel in the heraldic lozenge, all upon clear white glass.
These great circular windows, which occur at Arezzo, at Bologna, at Siena, and especially at Florence, are usually surrounded by an arabesque border.
Peter, at Cologne, is a sort of pointed canopy with ornament which looks at first like Gothic crockets, but on nearer view it is just Italian arabesque in white and stain.
Not seldom it resolves itself into arabesque only very remotely connected with architecture at all.
The festoons of yellow arabesque hanging in front of it tell out against it like beaten gold, and the rather poorish grey-blue background to the figures beneath it has by comparison an almost atmospheric quality.
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To realise its influence one need only compare the easy mastery of the arabesque displayed in the simplest piano piece of to-day with the awkward and gargoyle-like figuration of Beethoven and his predecessors.
But these figures partook of the true character of the arabesque only when regarded from a single point of view.
It was spotted all over, at irregular intervals, with arabesque figures, about a foot in diameter, and wrought upon the cloth in patterns of the most jetty black.
But I was not to be moved, and simply refused restitution, for I had long wondered why a people who displayed, in their tattooing, so great a gift of arabesque invention, should display it nowhere else.
Since the Koran forbade the representation of any living creature, Mohammedan artists developed the so-called arabesque style, based on geometric and floral motives.
These generally represent some scene from the Bible history, encircled with arabesque borders, and pious maxims in illuminated scrolls.
These pillars, and the little arches above, which spring from them, are painted in an arabesque style with gold and brilliant colors, and each side-chapel is a perfect casket of richness and elegance.
The ceiling is of arabesque sculpture, profusely painted and gilded.
On passing along the arabesque front, the gaudy glare of the gilded apartments within are reflected through any open casement with an almost painful and dazzling lustre, particularly if the sun shines, so as to repel the gazer.
It is crowned with domes, and ornamented with the usual arabesque sculpture, but it is particularly distinguished by bearing sundry poetical inscriptions composed by the imperial builder of it.
The sides of the ribs are painted red, and the recessed panels have lines of white beads painted at their edges, and in the centre an arabesque on a dark blue ground.
Charpentier is seated on a canopy surrounded by furniture, flowers; under foot a carpet with arabesque designs.
He has arrived at painting by means of the infinitely varied juxtaposition of a quantity of colour spots which dissociate the tones of the spectrum and draw the forms of objects through the arabesque of their vibrations.
The portrait of Carlyle has been painted about an arabesque similar, I might almost say identical, to that of the portrait of the mother.
Mr. Whistler has sought to vary the arabesque in the direction of greater naturalness.
The handle and crossbars, as well as the shape of the sheath, are silver-gilt, covered with minute arabesque ornamentation forming leaves and stems, and further decorated with enamel.
The stem is flanked by handles, which are inlaid with delicate arabesque in black enamel.
Spanish Christian and dating from a century later, is embroidered in silver thread and coloured silk with arabesque devices and also with four coats of arms, one of which belongs to the noble family of Fernandez de Cordova.
Through an elegant arabesque of woodwork, screened with paper, we can see the raised floor on which are spread our mattresses with red quilts.
The dome of the tomb of Kaitbay is of stone, sculptured all over with an arabesque pattern; and there are several other domes in different mosques at Cairo equally richly ornamented.
Scattered about it are repetitions of the Persian leaf or tree of life, and the border consists of kneeling hares or fawns between a Persian arabesque and a corded line.
These pictures would have served the purpose of decoration better as medallions in the centres of arabesque panels, than framed and glazed in imitation of oil paintings.
Master Sean O Lochlainn held up an intricately engraved gold button with an Arabesque pattern and a diamond set in the center.
Gold, intricately engraved in an Arabesque pattern, and set in the center with a single diamond.
In one most remarkable and indeed historical volume, the actual alliance of Spanish writing and initial illumination with Flemish subject-painting and Arabesque is clearly to be recognized.
Arabesque border from this volume, containing a medallion portrait, Plate XXXV.
He slipped incontinently from his arabesque ledge and dropped upon the floor.
It is ornamented with a great fresco in the centre of the vaulted ceiling, and others covering the sides of the apartment, and surrounded with arabesque frameworks, where Cupids gambol and chase one another.
Until a few years ago this rich work inarabesque and tiles was hidden by plaster.
Here we see Arabesque ceilings, marqueterie woodwork, stucco panelling, and the elegant horse-shoe arches.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arabesque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
