The painters of the period, Palma and Bonifacio, began to add pastoral backgrounds to their works.
He cut away from convention, and introduced landscape asbackgrounds to his figure subjects.
Of course the painting of backgrounds and accessories was the customary occupation of the pupils.
He would not toil for ungrateful managers, or paint backgroundsmerely to supplement and enrich the exertions of the actors.
Two or three architects engaged him to fill in skies and backgrounds to their plans.
Favourite portrait-painters have, now and then, employed a staff of subordinates to paint the draperies, and fill in the backgrounds of their works, but the persons thus employed have been mechanicians rather than artists.
Poor Mr. Hoppner was deserted by the Whig ladies; he had only now the Whig lords to paint: unless he took up with landscape art, for which he had decided talent, as many of the backgrounds to his pictures demonstrate.
These were the backgrounds for the eight stories which have won her wider fame than any of her other writings.
Framed with painted backgrounds and suitable accessories their shallow wall cases may be hung like pictures.
The backgrounds for these may be either plush or wood panels or hand painted, and any style of picture framing may be used.
It commences with a Calendar, followed by a series of paintings on gold backgrounds representing scenes from the Old and New Testaments, and dates from the thirteenth century.
Duke had a fancy to have his various castles introduced with the greatest precision into the backgrounds of the miniatures executed for him in this MS.
Compared, however, with Fouquet's style, the work of Bourdichon seems like wine diluted with water, whilst the total absence of landscape from the backgrounds of his miniatures gives to his figures an unusually cold appearance.
It is only in the distant backgrounds of the slightest work, or when he is in a hurry, that Titian is vague: in all his near and studied work he completes every detail with scrupulous care.
No engravings, that I know, render the backgrounds of sacred pictures with sufficient care to enable the reader to judge of this matter unless before the works themselves.
The backgroundsstill retain a bedimmed splendor of gilding.
The landscape backgrounds are charming miniatures of towns by the side of rivers with spanning bridges.
Like them, too, they discarded gold backgrounds and tried to paint men and women as they really looked, instead of in the old conventional fashion of the Middle Ages.
His landscape backgrounds are an almost unearthly cold grey, and include the strangest forms of rock and mountain.
The backgroundsare square, with edges pointed or indented, outlined black, and lined inside white.
White is also used in groups of dots, and in fine patterns on backgrounds (see pp.
Note that where the initials have backgrounds, the line-finishings are commonly made with backgroundsto match, though their treatment is naturally much simpler (see Plates XV.
His canvas was small, his plots single and uncomplicated, his backgrounds over-elaborate, impeding the movement of the plot and overshadowing the characters.
We can trust his backgrounds and his picture of society implicitly at every point.
Russell was one of the pioneers of the new era which had as its most marked characteristic the use of American themes and backgrounds and absolute truth to American life.
Her backgrounds are meager; the human element alone interests her.
The backgroundsare traced in with Irving-like care; the character of the schoolmaster is done with artistic restraint and certainty of touch.
But on the other hand there was the firmly set tradition that the new world was barren of literary material, that it lay spick and span with no romanticbackgrounds save perhaps the Dutch Hudson and old Puritan Salem and colonial Boston.
VII In his later years Harte's backgrounds became less sharp in outline.
Velvet and satin make excellentbackgrounds for rich work; they should not be used unless of good quality.
Backgrounds can be covered over with some small geometrical pattern carried out in this way, such as is shown in fig.
Some damask linens look very well as backgrounds for embroidery; the pattern is sometimes a slightly raised diaper, which forms a pleasantly broken surface.
The geometrical open fillings of leaves and backgrounds are often composed of lines of thread thrown across and couched down at regular intervals.
Next come the furniture and draperies--the one or the other having prominence according to circumstances; then come the wall and floor, both of which are to serve as backgrounds to all that stands in front of them.
They cannot form suitable backgrounds to furniture and living objects, for they are positive, and not neutral, in their general effect.
In the majority of his pictures everything is made subservient to this; backgrounds are selected not so much for their own intrinsic features as to give prominence to the main figure: he is full of the poetry of motion.
The colours of the little girls' dresses slash the grey backgrounds of the pavement with rich streaks.
It was the gift of Hawthorne's imagination to shroud with a kind of unreality characters and backgrounds that were drawn from close observation.
Valuable for the English backgroundsof Puritanism.
The best of Stedman's nature poems are directly drawn from boyhood reminiscence or from a voyage and vacation in the West Indies, and many of his songs and ballads are derived from contemporary backgrounds and episodes.
The backgrounds are almost always intercontinental or transatlantic.
The pages are of vellum and the illuminations show the figures of saints in jewel-like colours on backgrounds of pure gold leaf.
His backgrounds are always dark, and the actors are all placed in the same line, so that there is little perspective in his pictures; yet they enchant us, from the powerful effect which results from the strong contrast of light and shade.
The landscapes are not represented with sterile and impoverished trees, as in the backgrounds of Pietro; but are drawn from nature, and finished with care.
The backgrounds to the pictures are more elaborated; sometimes diapered blue and red, sometimes gold most beautifully chased with dots and lines.
Vitruvius mentions that the ancients had some very important wall-paintings consisting of simple landscapes, and that others had landscapebackgrounds with figures illustrating scenes from the poems of Homer.
About 1634 he introduced his manner of portrait-painting, with dark backgrounds and deep shadows on the face, with a bright light on the cheek and nose passing down to the shoulder, and immediately other artists adopted this manner.
One element of textile weaving, the use of gold, both in the backgroundsand in the draperies, takes it at once out of the region of naturalism, while giving it light and splendour.
They suit carpets in passages or on staircases much better than any other kind of design, and form the best figured backgrounds for pictures.
The spaces between were mostly filled in with rich brocades or velvets of one colour, so as to make the best backgrounds for the artistic treasures grouped against them.
And it was at the Chat Noir again that Riviere revealed the further possibilities latent in shadow-pantomime, and to be developed by the aid of colored backgrounds supplied by a magic lantern.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "backgrounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
