It is probable that these columns belonged originally to the baldachinover the high altar.
The most striking object in the interior is the magnificent Romanesque baldachin above the high altar.
Returning to the nave, one finds nothing more worthy of admiration than another smaller baldachin over an altar between it and the north aisle.
The subjects and figures on the columns of the baldachin are too delicate to be noticed from a distance, and it was not until A.
The bronze that formerly ornamented this temple was made use of to fabricate the baldachin of St Peter's.
Its interior will be of pure gold, very massive, and it hath a Baldachin of velvet, embroidered with our ducal arms.
To protect the altar a baldachin has been erected over it.
Thus altered, the dolmen served as a baldachin or canopy over the stone Christian altar that is still in place beneath it.
Each day at the maghrib he standeth beneath a baldachin of purple and giveth the people an assurance of his favour, while all fall down and kiss the hem of his crimson garment so that they may be blessed.
The ends of this car were adorned with ostrich plumes and rams' heads, while above a costly baldachin towered an eagle, and there also was the ureus serpent, symbol of the pharaoh's dominion.
The litter stopped before a baldachin under which was an ebony throne on an elevation.
In fact he recognized beneath the purple baldachin his mother among court ladies, and opposite, on a low stool, the vice-pharaoh, Herhor.
The assembled guests greeted the prince with a joyful shout, and when Rameses occupied his place beneath a baldachin whence there was a view of the court, his retinue sat down at the tables.
Eight negroes brought a litter adorned above the baldachin with ostrich feathers; the prince took his place in it, and advanced to the capital of Sochem, where he dwelt in a government palace.
The rosy-coloured damask curtains, which form a baldachin over it, are tied to the branches of enormous jasmine trees by heavy golden tassels.
In front stood the throne covered with purple, and round about it a triumphal baldachin made of banners, shields, and morning-stars.
The font is surmounted by a baldachinin Kersanton stone of 1680.
On the north side is an extravagant baroque porch, with a stone crown or baldachin above it.
In order to show the figures on the roof of the baldachin as much as possible, the two eastern columns are much lower than the western, the whole roof having thus a slope up towards the west.
I take the shrine to be a work of the thirteenth century, though the baldachin is no doubt of later date.
The whole of the work is therefore before this date; and probably the Retablo and the baldachin date from the period between the two dates last given, viz.
A late iron screen between the columns of the outer baldachin makes it rather difficult either to see or to sketch this interesting work carefully.
There is nothing more specially worth noticing in the fabric; but fortunately the choir still retains precious relics in the Retablo behind, and the baldachin above, the high-altar.
It is true that the magnificent baldachin and Retablo at Gerona, the screens round the Coro at Toledo, and the beautiful painted Retablo in the old cathedral at Salamanca, are earlier than this; but these are exceptions to the rule.
The staffs of the baldachin were supported by four nobles, among whom was Zagloba; before the baldachin walked sweet-faced young girls scattering flowers.
When all the pillars were dressed in damask, five enormous bouquets of feathers had to be placed on the great baldachin above the grand altar.
When he sat down in his boat, which was furnished with a baldachin and curtains, he drew a deep breath and draining a large goblet of wine, thought, "Brr!
The assembled guests greeted the prince with a joyful shout, and when Ramses occupied his place beneath a baldachin whence there was a view of the court, his retinue sat down at the tables.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baldachin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: canopy; corporal; cover; shade
