It is an Entombment of Christ, with a landscape distance, of whose technical composition and details I shall have much to say hereafter, at present I speak only of the thought it is intended to convey.
And yet it is a most wise and humane provision; and many years ago, there is a tradition, an entombment alive was prevented by it.
It was the original intention to erect a monument, but the enterprise of the projectors of this royal entombment failed at that point.
On the lower part is the murder; on the upper, the entombment of the saint, very similar in style to the later Limoges work of the thirteenth century.
The upper compartment represents the entombmentof the bishop.
Here, amidst the luxuriant vegetation of a semi-tropical climate, lived and died the Iguanodons, and here the pick of the miner rescued them from their long entombment to form part of the treasures of the museum at Brussels.
This paper directs that the place of entombmentbe opened by the first of January, 1988, or as soon thereafter as possible.
There, Mr. President," said Cobb, after a long recital of his life and the facts attending his entombment on Mt.
Lower down on the left we assist at the Entombment and at the Deliverance of the Just from Limbo, and further away we witness the Resurrection and, in the far background, the manifestation of Our Lord to Mary Magdalene.
Some writers consider the "Entombment of Christ," in the Manfrini Palace, as the greatest work of Titian.
Chapter XVIII: Entombment of the Báb’s Remains on Mt.
One of the most curious facts connected with the entombment was that the two men had not lost account of time, but knew almost exactly what day and hour it was.
The entombment follows, and when treated as a strictly historical scene, the Virgin Mother is always introduced, though here as a less conspicuous figure, and one less important to the action.
We doubt, however, if the Prado Entombment is as finely wrought as the same subject by Titian in Paris; but it sounds a poignant note of sorrow.
The accounts of the Entombment given by the three 1 According to Luke xxiii.
It has, above, a Crucifixion; below, Entombmentand Holy Sepulchre.
Frequently a temporary return of marine conditions permitted the entombment of such salt water genera as Lingula, Orbiculoidea, Productus in the thin beds known as "marine bands.
Therefore, if the demands of affection and sanitation are both to be met, entombment is to do it, or it cannot be done.
Happily, better than any other method of disposing of the dead that has ever been devised, entombment has met the demand of affection.
It remains to be considered whether entombment can be made sanitary.
In the Entombment at Padua it is combined with high-relief.
The argument is that of one who probably thinks that the Entombment at Padua is made of terra-cotta, and who forgets that Donatello executed a number of works in stone for the Marchese Gonzaga about 1450.
I sometimes question whether the original wooden-figured entombment was in the chapel in which the present modern figures are seen, but it probably was so.
That the present Pieta and the adjacent Entombment chapels were once one chapel, may be seen by any one who examines the vaulting inside the first-named chapel.
The earliest really good rocks I know are in the small entombment by Roger Van der Weyden in our own National Gallery.
I may take this occasion for dealing summarily with the Entombment in the National Gallery.
I am inclined to think that the Entombment was the production of a second-rate craftsman, working upon some design made by Michelangelo at the advanced period when the Passion of our Lord occupied his thoughts in Rome.
It was the opinion of Mr. Chadwick, after examining some hundreds of witnesses of all kinds, that entombment in vaults was a more dangerous practice than interment in the earth, because of the liability of the coffins to burst.
The entombment may also be made by an air-tight surrounding of concrete.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "entombment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: burial; funeral; interment
