The founder of the restored temple, as the long inscription in Gothic letters along the friezes of the transept tells us, was Francisco de Rojas, commendador and ambassador at the court of Maximilian I.
In this system of Geometric patterns zones or friezes are reserved for designs into which human and animal figures enter.
A gulf separates these works from the friezes of the Parthenon and the Mausoleum.
The most attractive details in the palace at Urbino are friezes carved of this material in choice designs of early Renaissance dignity and grace.
The details of the columns and friezes are classical; and the façade, strictly corresponding to the structure, and very honest in its decorative elements, is also of the earlier Renaissance style.
The low relief friezes on the corner pavilions represent "The Signs of the Zodiac," and are by Hermon A.
While the two friezes are meant to be decorative primarily, the artist has employed in each case a symbolism in keeping with the crowning figure.
The bas-relief friezes about the bases of the vestibule columns are also by Haig Patigian.
The soffits of the arches and domes are covered with diaper mouldings, with rich friezes and dentils along the edges.
From the apse radiate chapels adorned with dental friezes and short attached columns.
It is adorned with Corinthian columns and sculptured friezes on the entablature, but all are in a decayed condition.
The statues are in white marble, the tablets andfriezes in bronze, and the pedestal in granite.
Within the entrance is the Cour d’Honneur, decorated on the east side with friezes and designs in fresco by Caravaggio, retouched in 1865, representing the triumphal procession of Bacchus.
Beautiful carvings enrich the friezes everywhere, and small heads in medallions all the spandrils.
I found remains of a very massive gateway, with fragments of older columns and friezes built up into the side work.
All down the hill, descending to our camp, were fragments of columns and of decorated friezes of temples, that had evidently been rolled or had slidden down from their places.
It was largely employed both by the Greeks and Romans and formed the principal decoration of altars, friezes and panels.
Friezes from Tadmor and Persepolis-- From Balbec, and the stilly, clear abyss Of beautiful Gomorrah!
At each base the figures of the harvesters carried out the agricultural idea with elemental simplicity in friezes that recalled the friezes on the Parthenon.
For the finishing of the friezes the skill of the artist was needed, and there Calder found able assistants in the two young sculptors, Roth and Lentelli, who worked devotedly themselves and directed groups of students.
They watched blocks of marble and stone being chiselled into cornices, friezes and capitals ornamented with foliage and flowers, until, with despair in their hearts, they slowly returned to their mud huts in the plain.
From the designs of some of the ornamental friezes of Nineveh, we find these principles illustrated.
These friezes show the pine cone alternating with a modified form of the lotus: the significance of which symbols we have explained.
A fine spray aromatized with saffron fell from the friezes above in imperceptible mist, at once cooling and purifying the air.
There are garlands of girls used in the friezes at the base of the minarets, caryatides repeated in the vestibules, and everywhere a wealth of ornamentation suggestive of a bountiful harvest.
Minarets and sculptured friezes and the floral designs so abundantly used in the decoration are seen in fairy-like grace.
The friezes about the base represent the triumph of light over darkness, and the merry play of waters suggests perpetual activity.
The supporting shaft conveys an impression of buoyancy and there are friezes above and below the bowl of the fountain similar to those of the Rising Sun.
On the inner facade of the arches are grills of amber glass, forming a strong background for the decorative friezes and sculptured eagles, the latter being symbols which predominate throughout the Exposition.
The strength and solidity of the pillars and columns, supporting capitals and friezes of a peculiar and decided Byzantine taste (animals, dragons, etc.
All the doorways mentioned above have cornices, and in those at Palmyra and Baalbec richly carved friezes with side corbels.
Dogs were held in considerable veneration by the Egyptians, from whose tyranny the Israelites had just escaped; figures of them appeared on the friezes of most of the temples, and they were regarded as emblems of the divine being.
The battle between Theseus and the Amazons is a favourite subject on the friezes of temples (e.
Friezes and bands were commonly ornamented with the foliated scroll or rinceau (a convenient French term for which we have no equivalent).
Relief carvings in the friezes and metopes commemorated the favorite national myths.
Some of the friezes executed by Greek artists for semi-Greek peoples, such as those adorning the tomb at Trysa in Lycia, have two planes, the figures in the background being at a higher level.
The series of known Lycian tombs has been in recent years enriched through the acquisition by the museum of Vienna of the sculptured friezes which adorned a heroon near Geul Bashi.
Mirrors became larger, the decoration of rooms had ornamental friezes with lower portions of the walls panelled, and the bedrooms of ladies of position began to be more luxuriously furnished.
The decoration of the inner halls is sometimes exquisite, the beams and friezes being beautifully worked.
The decorations are exquisite, and the carving of the friezesunique of its kind.
A sombre blue over-arched the labyrinth of pillars and ruins, of friezes and statues, of groves and glades which lay dreaming in the pale light of the moon.
Be gracious to him, enter into his vagaries, point out to him old temples and forgotten tombs, newly dug-up friezes and musty crypts!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "friezes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
