The Prado has been strangely indifferent to Zurbaran, who is far more fully represented in the galleries of Andalusia; but it has in its baker's dozen two important and characteristic works, both visions of San Pedro Nolasco.
They applauded the obviously poetic touches, the palpably dramatic situations, and when, in the Alhambra act, a gypsy air was sung, the galleries delightedly caught it up and chorused it over again.
To this, as to all galleries and monuments under State control, the public was invited free of charge for the week to come.
Any other than myself would have been hopelessly entangled in these galleries and perished miserably some days hence.
The galleries were supported by a series of interlaced oriental arches, rich with tracery and filigree.
But as space was required, they were cut out on other levels, till some of the galleries got to be as much as three hundred feet below the surface.
Entrance galleries cut into the solid rock lead to distant central chambers where are deposited the sarcophagi which contained the bodies of the dead.
At first these galleries were on a certain level, twenty to thirty feet below the surface.
Lieutenant Warren spent two months in survey-work east and west of Jordan, and then concentrated his energies on Jerusalem, where he laboured at shafts and galleries almost incessantly, till he was invalided home, in May of the year 1870.
Galleries in theatre form, iron column churches, lanterns, and most other things that perplex church builders, are discussed.
It is seen in many galleries and collections in its original size, and a small copy is much used in private houses.
Canova now worked with untiring devotion; he was often seen before the statues on Monte Cavallo, with sketch-book in hand, as soon as it was light enough for him to see, and he studied faithfully in the museums and galleries of Rome.
The walls were stone-colour, and the wood-work of the roof and light galleries were buff, picked out with the brightest scarlet.
The galleries in which the patients were walking were prettily decorated with flowers cut out in paper, giving it a very gay appearance; and when the patients become desponding, they have a dance in the great hall, to revive them.
All round the room and the galleries were matted inclosures, fitted with numerous neat beds and cushions for reposing on, where lay a dozen of true believers smoking, or sleeping, or in the happy half-dozing state.
See Mrs. Jameson's Hand-Book to the Public Galleries in and near London; also the Catalogues of the various Public Galleries of Europe.
Public Galleries of Art are now regarded by the most enlightened men, and the wisest legislators, as of incalculable benefit to every civilized country.
You may look the galleries of Europe through, and so far as I know, or as it is possible to make with safety any so wide generalization, you will not find in them a childish or feeble drawing, by these, or by any other great master.
Hondecoeter's best pictures have remained in Holland, and The Hague and Amsterdam galleries possess his most interesting canvases.
Pictures of this school, however, do not abound in the Dutch galleries till we come to the artists who lived a century later.
Then come the Van der Hoop Museum and two galleries of modern pictures, one of which is called Waterloo Hall, because of The Battle of Waterloo, by J.
Although his two most important works are in the galleries of Vienna and Berlin, and splendid examples hang in the Louvre, Dresden, and Cassel, the Mauritshuis owns two very fine examples.
The Dutch galleries differ from many other great European galleries, such as the National Gallery, the Louvre, the Hermitage, and the big German galleries, by being devoted almost exclusively to works of the Dutch and Flemish masters.
Metsu, like many other Dutch masters, is poorly represented in the great public galleries of his own country.
He may be studied under all his different aspects in the galleries of the Louvre, The Hague, and Amsterdam.
None of the principalgalleries of Europe possesses any examples of her pictures, insects, etc.
Ruskin now made frequent trips to the art galleries of the Continent, and produced four more volumes of Modern Painters during the next seventeen years.
Then there were other things to do, besides opening galleries on Sundays and promenading East-end workmen in company with young men from Toynbee Hall!
The progress made under Mr. Aston’s pastorate is seen from the circumstance that it was found necessary in two or three years to increase the accommodation by the building ofgalleries on the west and south sides.
We by no means wish to convey a false impression by these remarks, for the lines of these galleries are very graceful, and yet sufficiently angular to be quite in keeping with the style of the church.
Large galleries run round nearly three sides of the body of the church, and at the south end there is a double tier for school-children.
The church will hold 1,700 persons, and the galleries add to the auditorium, but are no assistance to effect, and compel the use of a stilted and old-fashioned pulpit.
Three large galleries partly enclose the church, and entirely cover the space of the aisles.
The interior effect is very heavy, owing to the flatness of the nave ceiling and the galleries which surround three sides of the church; but much evidently has been done to relieve this, especially with the exposed timbers of the aisle roofs.
This is the largest chapel we have yet seen in West London; and the space within is economised to the utmost extent by gallery accommodation, there being double galleries on three sides, two having nine rows of seats.
The church is cruciform in plan, with thegalleries free of the transepts.
At first sight these galleries look almost unsupported, the iron columns are so slender as well-nigh to escape observation.
Large galleries surround three sides of the church, and at the west end a double tier.
In the twelfth century, when the two western towers were constructed, Fulbert's long galleries were extended and connected with them.
But an important check had been given to the besiegers, who contented themselves for some days with driving their galleries and mines.
These galleries are filled with washerwomen, who crane over and dip their many-coloured rags into the yellow stream.
It is at Reims, Le Mans and Bourges, and most of all at Chartres, that are to be found the largest and most complete and therefore the most gorgeous galleries of the deep, rich mosaic glass of that date.
But, none the less, the enemy succeeded in a few days in pushing their trenches and galleries right up to the walls of the ravelin of the Porte des Épars.
Witness our privategalleries and the opera, but we say, like the parvenu in Emile Augier's delightful comedy Le Gendre de M.
The galleries and the park afforded a diversion, and then Paris, dear Paris, the American Mecca, was within reach.
The galleries themselves, however, are so grand, that the sight of them alone may be esteemed a sufficient inducement for a visit to the Louvre; and indeed they seem to rejoice that their more attractive inmates have departed.
For example, a minute species (Solenopsis fugax) lives in a compound nest with various species of Formica, forming narrow galleries which open into the larger galleries of its host.
It begins to dawn upon me, now, that possibly, what I have been taking for uniform ugliness in the galleries may be uniform beauty after all.
If this were set in the midst of the tempest of pictures one finds in the vast galleries of the Roman palaces, would I think it so handsome?
These things win me more than Italy's hundred galleries of priceless art treasures, because I can understand the one and am not competent to appreciate the other.
This, however, was not to be done until after they had laid down their arms and showed the Hebrews all the galleries where the prisoners were at work.
At last the mines were opened and Joshua himself seized a lamp and pressed forward into the hot galleries where the naked prisoners of state, loaded with fetters, were hewing the copper ore from the walls.
He would walk through the galleries with one leg dragging a little--the visible sign, I would say to myself, amused to see that he could turn romance into reality as easily as reality into romance.
I began to notice in the galleries and on Thursday nights that Bob became more and more engrossed in the question of his health and quicker to fly at a sniff or a sneeze.
And sparks of originality gleamed here and there; the passion for adventure had not flickered out--at every step through the galleries some subject for the discussion we exulted in stopped us short.
The newspaper work I was doing then took me the rounds of the London galleries on press days and, as he was the art critic of the Pall Mall, I was continually coming across him busy about the same work in Bond Street or Piccadilly.
A new variety of task was set me that left so little leisure for the galleries that I gave up "doing" them for my London papers.
Then, on tiptoe, the old professor would pass the swinging doors of baize and silently mount the gray iron stairs to the narrow galleries of the book-room where the life of his waking hours was lived among his unresponsive loves.
I had often traversed the galleries of the Louvre; but now I was armed with a criterion that would give my criticisms indisputable authority.
Open to them the museums of comparative anatomy, but close the galleries consecrated to the fine arts!
The Immanuel Church in Stockholm, one of the largest I ever saw, with two galleries and three aisles, was filled to its capacity.
There was a sound that gave the impression that the galleries were giving way under the immense throngs of people.
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