The streets are full of lilacs that trail long swirls and eddies of fragrance arabesques of fragrance like the arabesques that form and fade in the fleeting ripples of the jade-green river.
Jardin du Luxembourg II The shadows make strange streaks and mottled arabesques of violet on the apricot-tinged walks where the thin sunlight lies like flower-petals.
These designs are left in low relief, the groundwork being cut away to a slight degree and filled with black enamel, so that the arabesques show in gold on a black ground.
A rich outer border of arabesquesencloses the central design.
At the outer corners are arabesques in outline, and in the inner corners double roses stamped in gold.
There is an outer border of blind and gold lines, with solid arabesques at the outer corners, and stars in the inner corners.
The corner-pieces are ornamented in a similar way with set patterns of arabesques and flowers in red, blue, green, and yellow enamels, as also are the clasps.
Above and below the coat-of-arms are curves and arabesques in dotted gold work, picked out with silver, all enclosed in a rectangular border of a Mearne pattern.
In the centre is the Prince of Wales' feathers enclosed in a laurel wreath, and round it a very handsome border, witharabesques at the inner corners.
This border is coloured black, but it has the uncommon addition of stamped arabesques in gold upon this black.
Enclosing this is an arrangement ofarabesques and flowers, worked respectively in silver or gold guimp and coloured silks.
The Prince lighted another cigar, and watched the curls of smoke as the wind wafted them away, as though he saw in their arabesques an echo of this last thought.
It is covered by a curtain, on which texts and various devices of roses and tasteful arabesques in the style of Solomon's temple are embroidered in gold.
The frescoes in this chamber are illustrative of the Virtues of Theology, Philosophy, Poetry, and Jurisprudence, who are represented on the ceiling by Raphael, in the midst of arabesques by Sodoma.
The frescoes and arabesques executed here by Giovanni da Udine were considered at the time as among the most successful of his works.
When first opened, several small rooms in the villa, supposed to be baths, were covered with frescoes and arabesques in a state of the most marvellous beauty and preservation, but they are now greatly injured by damp and exposure.
Damaso, whence you ascend a staircase and follow the loggia on the first floor, covered with stuccoes and arabesques by Giovanni da Udine, to the door of The Galleria Lapidaria, a corridor 2131 feet in length.
Ancient statues and flowering shrubs occupy the spaces between the arches of the ground-floor, and on the first-floor is a loggia, richly decorated with delicate arabesquesin the style of Giovanni da Udine.
Vasari, who says that Raphael and Giovanni da Udine were wont to study there and copy the arabesques to assist their work in the Vatican Loggie.
The vaulting is covered with mosaic arabesques of the fourth century, of flowers and birds, with scenes referring to a vintage.
There is endless profusion of decorative work; elaborate arabesques on the pilasters of the Madonna's lordly house, elaborate capitals, elaborate loggias, an elaborate cornice.
We know that house, certainly; we never passed it without stopping our gondola, for its arabesques were as rich as a bank of flowers in spring, and as beautiful as a dream.
The walls and pilasters were adorned with arabesques that anticipated the discovery of Pompeii, and surpassed the best of Roman frescoes in variety and freedom.
Tapestry is woven from the designs of excellent masters;[42] great painters contribute arabesques of fresco or of stucco mixed with gilding, and glass is coloured from the outlines of such draughtsmen as Ghiberti.
This distinguishes him in the arabesques at Orvieto alike from Mantegna and Michael Angelo, from Correggio and Raphael, from Titian and Paolo Veronese.
First comes the abstract nude, illustrated by the "Resurrection" and the arabesques at Orvieto[212].
Pillars rose to the roof, and these were all inlaid with mother-of-pearl, with fine copper and silver arabesques of amazing complexity.
Its color verged on reddish; all its lateral surfaces were carved with elaborate arabesques and texts from the Koran.
The rapidly sinking sun flooded the room with a purple glow, and painted arabesques of gold upon the walls.
She, with flushed cheeks, gazed at the toe of her embroidered Turkish slipper, which with its gold arabesques shone forth from the hem of her blue cashmere gown.
The organ passed into the arabesques of a florid voluntary.
The paint was peeling off the rickety old carved galleries; the arabesques over the windows were chipped and worn;--the ancientness of the place rendered it doubly picturesque.
This central episode is surrounded with borders and arabesques of extraordinary richness.
The perfume-makers of the Souk des Parfums still pound their leaves and blossoms by hand in a mortar, and the saddle and shoe makers still stitch and embroider by hand the gold-threaded arabesques of their ancestors.
Moorish arabesques do not mingle well with the palmer's shells of the Italian Renaissance and the English fan-lights of the brothers Adam.
They were given a rudimentary book education, and were taught the art of Oriental embroidery with all its extravagance of capricious arabesques and threads of gold.
A great carven coffer, presumably a strong box containing the stock, ends the catalogue, if one excepts the now smoke-dimmed arabesques and horseshoe arched decorations of the walls themselves.
Research into the mysteries and principles of design applies to woven arabesques and patterns, and must include machine-made textile ornament, and all decorative needlework.
Arabesques and Grotesques have now so long prevailed in decoration, that we have ceased to criticize them on principle, and accept them gratefully, in proportion to the gay fancy and reticent genius of the designer.
The ground of some of these is silver or gold, about which such arabesques in flowers and figures as I have before named are most excellently disposed.
The arabesques are by Eugene Neureuther: and there are two admirable and spirited bas-reliefs by Schwanthaler--one representing the battle of the ships, and the other the combat of Achilles with the river gods.
We now enter the eastern corridor, 178 yards long, with the ceiling painted inarabesques by Poccetti.
In rooms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when little furniture was used, the dado was often richly ornamented, being sometimes painted with delicate arabesques corresponding with those on the doors and inside shutters.
As he laid it down it flashed in the light, A Toledo blade, with basket hilt, Damascened with arabesques of gilt, Or rather gold, and tempered so It could cut a floating thread at a blow.
Licking passions have bitten their arabesquesinto it, And the mark of them lies, in and out, Worm-like, With the beauty of corroded copper patterning white steel.
Sanzio in arabesques and stuccos, and painted ornaments in the gallery of the Vatican, in the apartments of the pope, and in many other places.
The figure sculpture is poor, and it is only the arabesques which show skill in execution.
The whole surface has been covered with exquisite arabesques like those below the reredoses in the cloister at Santa Cruz, but they have now almost entirely perished.
When they came nearer he could even distinguish the blue letters on the pall, and when they came level with him he could see the silver embroidery of arabesques quite well.
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