At the very beginning of the sixteenth century, Balthazar Peruzzi, the decorator of the papal theatre, had carried his art to such perfection, that the greatest painters of the day were astonished at his performances.
I met your decorator the other day," he said, "and he wore a very puzzled expression.
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Though we have run from the House of Suddhu to the barrack-yard, we have not yet lost sight of Mr Kipling, decorator and colourman in words.
Now we see him in the double character of cook and salamander, and anon he develops a special faculty as a clever table-decorator as well.
Gold, on the contrary, affords to the decorator one of his greatest resources.
At first the painter and decorator had been churlish enough to him, but, finding that Jan was skilful with a brush, he employed him again and again to do his work, for which he received instead of giving thanks.
But an innkeeper stands above a painter and decorator anywhere, and especially on his own hearth, and Master Chuter did not mean to be put down.
In short, the careful and cultivated decorator finds it as imperative to guard against exaggerated simplicity as unsupported prettiness.
The decorator suggested that they could get on with the rest of the work, so on a duly-appointed day several gentlemen, dressed in lily-white garments, arrived and began to work their will upon the empty room.
He found the decorator busy over two or three large sketches for panels.
A little experimenting will tell the decorator what proportions to use.
When this is done the decorator should have a comparatively easy time, and a remarkably interesting one, for conventional work is adapted especially to wonderful color combinations.
Here the decorator is cautioned to see that the oil is perfectly even, free from spots and scratches, as these faults would be noticeable after the color is applied.
If the design is carefully drawn on the china, it will assist the decorator in easily placing the tints where they belong.
It will not be amiss to remind the decorator that in china painting all deep shadows are painted in for first firing and the lighter tints applied for second and third firings.
It is well to remind the decorator here that the one great fault that the artist has to guard against is, using too strong a red for faces.
I have not mentioned the plate or dish type of vessel, which has on the whole, perhaps, received the most attention from the decorator of surfaces, perhaps on account of the more pictorial conditions its functional form presents.
The idea of having a successful decorator like Mr. Ashby plan to take us in his business when we are through school, is enough to turn anyone's head.
Saturday morning the girls were going to visit Mr. Ashby's famous decorating establishment, and get a glimpse first-hand of what a modern decorator must do and know to succeed.
That was the ambition of the householddecorator of Elizabethan days.
Beside Wacht's new possession the noble decorator and gilder's garden formed a most ridiculous and extraordinary contrast.
The unfortunates were buried under this heap, so that all that could be seen of them were four black legs and two buff-coloured ones; the latter were the gala stockings of Herr Pickard Leberfink, decorator and gilder.
Close at his heels followed Monsieur Pickard Leberfink, decorator and gilder, clad in all sorts of gay colours, so that he looked not unlike a spring-chafer.
The man who thus interrupted his meditations was no less a personage than Herr Pickard Leberfink, a decorator and gilder by trade, and one of the drollest men in the world.
I would like to ask you to let my decorator take charge of the furnishing of your studio.
Your decorator may be a very able man, but that isn't the question.
Whatever it be, it is the part of the decorator to feel the want and to meet it, to grasp the situation and to accept it.
Given a window of four or five lights, the decorator has no choice but to design a four or five-light window.
I find that he was employed as a decorator and paper-hanger by Sir Walter Scott, and he says that Sir Walter directed everything personally.
Hay, was house painter and decorator to the Queen.
The best decorators refuse to mix styles in one room and they thus save people from many mistakes, but a decorator without a thorough understanding of the subject, often leads one to disaster.
In later times the work was divided, and the decorator or gilder was sometimes a more important person than the painter.
It certainly did; and the Girl and the decorator hastened to say so.
Then you and the decorator can make us home-like, and to-morrow we will begin to live.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "decorator" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
