Time had been conceded, and more time, and still the draperies remained unfinished, and still the picture was not fit to leave the painter's studio.
Flowers pervaded the house, and harmonised admirably with the elegant simplicity of the furniture, the draperies of delicate chintz and soft India muslin.
The head had been successful, but shoulders, arms, and draperies were still unfinished.
The flowing draperies had a conventual air, as of an abbess of some severe order; but the uncovered head, with its coils of soft brown hair, was like the head of a Greek statue.
The attenuated form of the Redeemer showed in sharp relief against the olive-velvet draperies of the bed.
Do you suppose Millet could have breathed an hour in your studio with its velvets and tapestries and lacquer work, with its draperies and screens and rugs, and carefully shaded windows?
Mrs. Sandford threw some rich draperies round her figure, and twisted a silk scarf about the back of her head; and the children exclaimed at the effect produced.
Lady Jane Grey and the lords who came to offer her the kingdom The draperies were exceedingly well executed and did Mrs. Sandford great credit.
They were arranged, at any rate, to appear as if they grew out of her shoulders; she was arrayed in flowing white draperies over her own little cambrick frock; and then she was ready.
All agreed; agreed also that something in the shape of artistic draperies was needed for the practice.
From the heap of shimmering draperies upon the floor by the couch, which covered the swooning body of the actress, a head suddenly protruded.
The light in her eyes was extinguished, they became dull and glassy; and in a feeble, childlike fashion she brushed past the Teacher, now unimpeded by any obstacle, and passed through the draperies into the corridor beyond.
The amplitude and nobleness of the draperies recall those of Raphael.
The draperies are as admirable as those of a fragment of the Panathenaea, which is in the Louvre.
She was amazingly arrayed in a gown that was a poem composed in France--silky, creamy muslin, curving from throat to hip, and from hip to foot in sleek full folds like the draperies of a statue.
Shimmering leaf-green draperies swept the decks, under a long coat of pale-grey velvet, and her poem face was shadowed by a plumed, grey hat.
He reached it, and recognized the red draperies which formed a wall around the tent.
Hieyas' tent was pitched in the centre of an open glade, which had been cleared into a square space, hung round with scarlet draperiessuspended from pikes.
The draperies of the four standing figures and of the Christ have the distinctive folds that are so thoroughly characteristic of our painter, and the borders to the garments are equally noteworthy.
The picture composes perfectly without it, and a very close inspection convinced me that it was not originally in the design, and that the draperiesof S.
The attitude is not his; the draperies have entirely different folds; the hands are quite different in their structure; and the hair is painted with entirely altered technique.
The figure of the Saviour is inaccurate and badly drawn, the face is quite unsatisfactory, the mandorla clumsy and rigid, the angels poor and lacking in expression, and theirdraperies feeble.
St. Joseph Justus is nude, as is also Our Lord, the other five children have slight draperies about them.
Giovanni Columbini can be traced through the draperies of the Magdalen.
A little closer examination revealed the strange inequality in the surface of the picture, the stringiness and lumpiness of the draperies and the streaky character of the background.
They are more certainly interested one in the other, and in conversation one with the other; while as regards their draperies there is a broad, full sweeping treatment that is very marked, and deserves careful attention.
As did Tintoret and Paul Veronese, among the Venetians, while not halting to change the brocaded silks for the classic draperies of Athens.
Natalie went out, her draperies trailing behind her.
Its curious draperies caught Win's observant eye and he walked around it thoughtfully.
Fran's attention was held for an instant, but after all it seemed only reasonable that draperies should be purchased at a draper's.
Such a mass of canopies and heavy draperies concealed the ignoble framework of the hearse that it shivered and swayed from top to bottom at every step, as if oppressed by the majesty of its dead.
On one side was an immense bed with green velvet draperies and canopy, having a plume of feathers like a hearse at each corner; and on the opposite side the deep-cut windows with a sort of bench of black oak between them.
Looking up, I saw the Figure I had followed standing still; and I fancied that the sombre draperies in which it was enveloped showed an outline of glimmering light.
Surely draperies never did fly like that--at least William Hogarth never painted them so.
Certainly he was fonder of fritter than of breadth; and his draperies are often meagre in effect from the multiplicity of their folds, and his attempt at rendering texture in marble.
In an earlier chapter mention has been made of stuffs that were in use in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for bed and window curtains, draperies and upholstery.
The draperies were intended to cover the two head-posts, so that they were left plain.
A tall figure in shining raiment bore down upon them--a confused vision of soft white draperies and gleaming jewels under a cashmere cloak.
Some of these wooden blocks are supposed to have been, in a coarse attempt at imitation, furnished with real hair, and to have been clothed with real draperies in order to conceal the imperfection of the form.
The female divinities were clothed indraperies divided into few and perpendicular folds, their attitudes advancing like those of the male figures.
The outlines have been neatly incised and covered up with black paint; the details also of draperies and single parts of the body are done by incision, and sometimes painted over in white or dark red.
In both kinds of paintings draperies or the muscles of nude figures were further indicated by the incision of additional lines of the color of the surface into the figures.
A few moments more and the embroidereddraperies were put aside and Naaman stood upon the threshold of the great chamber.
The heavy silken draperies of the doorway were put aside and a woman entered the chamber.
She had him represented pale, and ready to expire, in a picture placed at the foot of her bed, under draperies of gray cloth, with which the chambers of the Princesses were always hung in court mournings.
While our eyes are delighted, on the other side, with soft draperies and fine colours, and combinations of grace and elegance, that are fit to put a man in Elysium!
The white and rosy and blue draperies and scarfs that were floating around the forms of the ladies, were met and set off by the grey and white of the cadets and the heavier dark blue of the officers.
It was a little dark room, lit only by a skylight, on which the blacks had rested many a day, and hung all round with heavy draperies of cloaks and other garments, which at this moment had something weird in their familiar aspect.
Draperies and groceries were disposed from the same counter, with only an occasional inconvenience resulting from homely odours of tea or candles clinging to the materials with which they had long rested in closest neighbourhood.
Gautier seems to write with a brush rather than with a pen; he loves draperies and effects of light.
The churches at certain festivals are hung with draperies of costly hot-house flowers; the communion-tables heaped with them.
I fell seated, with all mydraperies in most modest order, which was very fortunate, but certainly I never was more frightened or confused.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "draperies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
