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Example sentences for "large picture"

  • And it is not long since, Tintoretto having executed the Passion of Christ in a large picture in oils and on canvas for the Scuola of S.

  • Alamanno Salviati, a large picture in which are Adam and Eve beside the Tree of Life in the Earthly Paradise, eating the Forbidden Fruit, which is a very beautiful work.

  • Similar to that is another that he painted after some time in a large picture in oils, with a garland of Cherubim that form a diadem around the head of Our Lady.

  • Mr. Allston's large picture is now exhibiting in the British Gallery.

  • Morse had begun a large picture to come out before the British public at the Royal Academy Exhibition.

  • The frame of my large picture, which I have just finished, cost nearly twenty pounds, besides the canvas and colors, which cost nearly eight pounds more, and the frame was the cheapest I could possibly get.

  • A large picture of the Deluge, which is at S.

  • In Ascoli he is not at all known, but he is well known in Perugia by a large picture of the Last Judgment in the church of S.

  • In the cathedral of Pisa, he painted a large picture of S.

  • In Rome the princes Albani and Colonna have some large compositions by him, and the Bonaccorsi family a greater number in the gallery of Macerata; and among them the death of Dido, a large picture of fine effect.

  • It is with very great pleasure that I announce to you the completion of my large picture, which I have exhibited privately to my English friends and a crowd of artists of all nations.

  • I have of late, since the underpainting of my large picture (at which I worked like a horse) given myself rest and recreation in the way of several picnics in the Campagna under the auspices of Mesdames Sartoris and Kemble.

  • In 1655, Giordano painted in competition with Giacomo Forelli, a large picture of St. Nicholas borne away by angels, for the church of S.

  • He despatched a large picture in the presence of Cosmo III.

  • A few years later, Juan Gomez painted from a design of Tibaldi a large picture of St Ursula, which replaced one of Cambiaso's least satisfactory Escurialian performances.

  • On one side of the altar is Canova's beautiful statue of Religion preaching; on the other the Spanish prince's large picture of the Crucifixion; but, alas!

  • A copy, with some variations, of a large picture by Rubens now at Vienna.

  • When we have the pleasure of being together at the National Gallery I think I shall not find it difficult to illustrate these remarks, as Carr has sent a large picture of the latter description" (ibid.

  • In 1526 he went, apparently for the first time, to Venice, there to buy colours for a large picture which he had engaged to paint for the church of Cividale: that picture shows his study of Palma.

  • Among other paintings it contains a large picture of the Assumption by G.

  • On the south wall a large picture represents a numerous concourse of church and civic dignitaries carrying in procession the original image to make it stay the plague, which raged in Le Puy in 1660.

  • Stefano--while still working, I say, under Jacopo, painted in a large picture a nude S.

  • It is from a large picture, which gives a beautiful representation of the interior of the choir of the church.

  • The knight is taken from a large picture in the MS.

  • Our first illustration forms part of a large picture in the great Harleian MS.

  • For we find this date at the foot of a large picture of the Woman of Samaria, in the refectory of the PP.

  • Bonaventura contemplating a Crucifix; a large picture in the Guastato.

  • In fact Armenini was a better theorist than a practitioner; nor has he any production in his native place, except a large picture of the Assumption, on which he inscribed Jo.

  • Ottaviano de' Medici a Venus and a Leda from the cartoons of Michelagnolo, and in a large picture a S.

  • The scene (of the first) is a long room in a quarter of the old palace which was called the prince's quarter, and the subject, Velasquez at work on a large picture of the royal family.

  • In painting one of his most renowned pictures, to which I shall refer again, 'The Maids of Honour,' Velasquez included himself at work on a large picture of the royal family.

  • For the burgomasters of Amsterdam, he painted a large picture with a multitude of vessels, and a view of the city in the distance; for which they gave him 1,300 guilders, and a handsome present.

  • It is related that he would sit down, when pressed for money, dispatch a large picture in a few hours, and send it directly to be sold at any price.

  • These works gave the Cardinal so much satisfaction that he procured for him the commission to paint a large picture of the Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, for St. Peter's, now in the pontifical palace at Monte Cavallo.

  • Head of St. Peter" is a study for the head of St. Peter in a large picture of the Angel delivering Peter from Prison.

  • It was intended by him to fulfil a commission from certain gentlemen of Boston for a large picture, the subject of which was to be chosen by himself.

  • I refer to his grand landscape of 'Elijah in the Desert,'--a large picture of perhaps six feet by four.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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