Under this chief composition, on a gold ground, is seen the Lamb upon a hill, with the four rivers of Paradise, and the twelve sheep on either hand.
Hence one can gaze up into the dome, with its huge letters in purple-blue mosaic upon a gold ground (each six feet long).
In the interior of the chapel four granite columns support a lofty groined vault, which, together with the upper part of the walls, is entirely covered with mosaic figures, which stand out distinctly from a gold ground.
The coudes show the Imperial Eagle embossed on a gold ground.
The aisles were vaulted, and the semi-dome of the apse was decorated with mosaics on a gold ground.
In the sacristy is a fourteenth or fifteenth-century picture on a gold ground--a figure of S.
In the chapel of the Mother of God is a Byzantine Madonna and Child on a gold ground.
The mid-day sun now flashed full upon the front, and lighted up the wondrous colors of a mosaic on a gold ground, over the entrance.
There are many flags (one with a coat-of-arms, amber and purple on a gold ground) blazing in the sunshine.
Arrived at the basilica of San Frediano, the procession halts under the Byzantine mosaic on a gold ground, over the entrance.
Nothing undoubted now remains of him; if, indeed, a picture on gold ground in the sacristy at S.
Giovanni, placed in that church, for which he also executed one of the Virgin, upon a gold ground.
Above them is a triforium, with frescoes of saints on a gold ground painted on the panels.
On the soffit and sides are frescoes on a gold ground by Primaticcio, restored in 1835 by Picot.
But all the capitals were upon the same design, all the bands of ornament were little more than blue diaper on gold ground.
Within the central cupola a gigantic head of Christ on gold groundis still visible, or was so when I saw the place in 1889; but the whole roof was in danger of falling, and the Greek Government, at the instigation of Dr.
This is painted on a gold ground, and represents a rabbit in a flowered field.
On either side are medallions with figures emblematic of Sculpture and Music, Poetry and Painting, painted en camaieu on a gold ground by Moreau.
The example illustrated is decorated with a series of crests of various families on a gold ground.
He drew this from nature, to the best of his powers, although it was a novelty to do so in those days, and about it he represented the whole of the saint's life in twenty small pictures full of little figures, on a gold ground.
This was a Madonna with the child in her arms, surrounded by many adoring angels, on a gold ground.
Subsequently he painted on a panel a St Francis, on a gold ground.
For the same church Cimabue afterwards painted a large picture of Our Lady with the child in her arms, surrounded by several angels, on a gold ground.
A two-handled vase, open-work back and cover painted with flowers, on a gold ground, seventeen inches high 250 guineas.
A cup and saucer, deep blue, with female busts in red, on gold ground 4 10s.
He tells how to make a knife handle with open work carvings, through which a gold ground is visible: and extremely handsome would such a knife be when completed, according to Theophilus' directions.
In the central design of the Crucifixion, the figure of the Lord is rendered in silver on a gold ground.
It appears from this collection that for some time after Albert Durer, the German painters continued to paint on a gold ground.
The ceiling and the frieze of this room are splendidly decorated with groups of figures and ornaments in white relief, on a gold ground, and the walls will be hung with crimson damask.
The painting at the back has fourteen subjects on a gold ground, and is dated 1345.
The vault is divided into two parts by wide coloured borders, the space between which is painted blue, powdered with gilt stars, and in each bay there are five small medallions with figures on a gold ground.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gold ground" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
