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Example sentences for "fine picture"

  • If this is lost sight of and the eye is tricked into thinking that it is looking at real nature, it is not a fine picture.

  • Going time after time to the same place, even if similar weather conditions are waited for, although well enough for studies, is against the production of a fine picture.

  • If knowledge of the rhythmic properties of lines and masses will not enable you to compose a fine picture, you may well ask what is their use?

  • But notwithstanding all the relative advantages, a Raphael could not make a fine picture out of a man in character.

  • Nicholas Poussin has a fine picture on the subject, but unfortunately for the repose a couple of cupids are in action beside the sleeping goddess, while the heads of two satyrs are dimly seen.

  • Thomson's fine picture of Fast Castle is distinctly marred by a wide irregular column of water shown splashing up against a rock.

  • On account of a neutralizing effect of this kind, Loefftz's fine picture of the Dead Christ at Munich is much weakened, for there is no stronger expression on the part of the Virgin than patient resignation.

  • Above "The Hay Wain" in the National Gallery hangs James Ward's fine picture called "View of Harlech Castle and surrounding landscape.

  • The Munich Secessionists would call it commonplace, and the most old-fashioned member of the selecting committee of a current Royal Academy Exhibition would see in it only a fine picture, forcibly painted but too insistent on detail.

  • Mr. Beckford next showed us a Titian, a portrait of the Constable Montmorency, in armour richly chased with gold; a fine picture, but sadly deficient in intellectual expression.

  • The outer Sacristy contains a fine picture of the Holy Family by Giulio Romano.

  • In the sacristy is preserved a fine picture by Giulio Romano of the Flagellation--especially appropriate in the church of the Colonna.

  • The Virgin and Child enthroned between St. Augustine and his mother St. Monica, as in a fine picture by Florigerio (Venice Acad.

  • There is a fine picture of this subject, by Andrea Sabattini of Salerno, the history of which is rather curious.

  • A fine picture, in which De Crayer approaches very near Rubens.

  • The east wall of this chapel, beyond the tomb of Charles the Bold, has a fine picture of Our Lady of Sorrows, enthroned, surrounded by smaller subjects of the Seven Sorrows.

  • The charming little marine in the picture is undoubtedly by the hand of Willem van de Velde the younger, and adds greatly to the interest of the painting because it is of itself a fine picture of that great master.

  • English throne, had a fine picture-gallery, of which the portrait-painter, Robert Duval was the director.

  • A fine picture of San Felice, from his hand, placed at Castelfranco, was engraved in 1712.

  • Opposite to this of Gentile is a fine picture of Gian Bellini, which, however, superior in the softness of its tints, is considered scarcely equal in point of beauty and other qualities of the art.

  • This occurred in my own time at Rome, respecting a fine picture of the Nativity of Jesus Christ, in the Rezzonico collection.

  • In the parish church a fine picture of Guerinoni (Bergamasque School, about A.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fine black; fine bread; fine church; fine condition; fine fellow; fine flower; fine gentleman; fine gold; fine grasses; fine picture; fine place; fine point; fine ship; fine sieve; fine state; fine stream; fine twined; fine view; fine voice; finely granular; finely situated; must then; seven fathoms; water cure; winged flies; young creature