No more beautiful specimen of the "giallo antico" similar to that used in Augustan Rome could be desired than slabs in the entrance to the National Gallery.
It had long been known that Rome was full of the beautiful "giallo antico," sometimes yellow, sometimes rosy in colour, but always of exquisite texture and even to work.
There with his Pomeranian Giallo within fondling distance, the poet, seated in his arm-chair, fired comments upon everything.
It was Giallo who led to the profound couplet-- He is foolish who supposes Dogs are ill that have hot noses.
Every little fantasy finds its place and propriety in them, like a flower on the earth's broad bosom.
There are whole histories, carved in stone figures, within the vaulted arches of the three entrances in this west front, and twelve apostles in a row above, and as much other sculpture as would take a month to see.
Whereupon Giallo walked up to his master and caressed his hand.
Then, lowering his voice, he laughingly added, "I hope Giallodid not hear me.
Giallo knows all about it, and quite approves of the arrangement.
I dare say it is, butGiallo and I prefer our ease to being battered.
Giallo and I, however, have registered an oath not to encourage so base a fashion.
There, you see, he gives consent; for this is the way Giallo expresses approbation.
In the Arch of Constantine are several magnificent giallo antico columns and pilasters, which are supposed to have belonged to the triumphal arch of Trajan.
In the Church of St. John Lateran there is a splendid pair of fluted columns of giallo antico, which support the entablature over a portal at the northern extremity of the transept.
For pavements and the sheathing of interior walls giallo antico was used more frequently than almost any other kind of marble; hence it is mostly found in fragments of thin slabs, with the old polish still glistening upon them.
One of the most beautiful and highly-prized marbles of ancient Rome was the species which is familiar to every visitor under the name of Giallo antico.
The floor was of mosaic, in which porphyry, and serpentine, and gialloantico blended their soft lustres in patterns of wonderful variety and grace.
Passing the Propylæa the visitor entered the sacred area, paved with white marble and surrounded by fifty-two fluted columns of Numidian giallo antico, with its soft tints of rose and gold.
The great prisoner was made to stand in front of the balustrade on the spot marked by a circle of giallo antico on the floor.
Giallo and I have enjoyed it immensely; and a better critic than Giallo is not to be found in all Italy, though I say it who shouldn't.
Until the house crumbles down upon it, it shines indestructibly, and, with a little dusting, looks just as brilliant in its three hundredth year as the day after the final slab of giallo antico was fitted into the wall.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "giallo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
