It was a limner he longed to be, far away from the stir and stress, not a page attending a great lady to the Court functions.
Then between the stars came the Holy City with roof and pinnacle aflame, and walls aglow with such colours as no earthly limner dreams of, and much gold.
Thou art a limner at heart--Brother Bernard tells of thy wondrous skill with the brush--and to be limner thou must learn to hunger and to love as the maid said.
The painter, or limner as he was then called, was a being of far greater interest than at the present day.
All they wanted was to see their own effigies adorning the walls of their mansions, and as long as the limner was content to be of service to them they were willing to support him, but no longer.
In truth is it," said that good and learned Italian father who had brought the limner from Pisa.
Tis a marvellous pretty infant," said the limner from Pisa, "and would do to paint for one of the cherubim in the chapel of our Ladie.
A finer subject for the pencil of that intellectual limner could hardly be found, but Valentino's prodigality was apparently never lavished on art.
Nothing is known of this talented limner beyond the fact that he combined his art with the duties of parish priest, at Castel Cavellino, and died soon after 1488.
Now, too, he began his wonderful series of small devotional pictures, embodying the Madonna in conceptions of beauty which none other but the sainted limner of Fiesole has ever approached.
My wife and daughters, happening to return a visit at neighbour Flamborough's, found that family had lately got their pictures drawn by a limner who travelled the country, and took likenesses for fifteen shillings a head.
What betrays him is the wonderful family likeness of his portraits, a kind of vapid esprit, not distantly related to silliness, with which the limner endows his unfortunate sitters, Chopin as well as Liszt and Tausig.
The reader cannot have failed to detect the limner tripping with regard to Musset, who occupied not many years but less than a year the post of cavaliere servente.
It may be necessary to assure some of our readers, that the colours here described were not given at the caprice of a limner wishing to make his page look gay.
My wife and daughters, happening to return a visit to neighbour Flamborough's, found that family had lately got their pictures drawn by a limner who travelled the country and took likenesses for fifteen shillings a head.
V To turn now to another side of Stevenson--Stevenson the Artist, the artificer of phrases, the limner of pictures.
The two young gentlemen laughed over Mr. Canticle's prophecies, and excused his loquacity because he had been a limner till the vogue for foreign painters compelled him to apply his art in another direction.
Limner to the Prince Regent, and a clever designer of book illustrations.
He called Cooper "a limner in little," and referred to him several times in his Diary.
Or should some dashing limner set to sale My Lady's likeness with a Mermaid's tail.
Or, should some limner join, for show or sale, A Maid of Honour to a Mermaid's tail?
Philadelphia was a gossipy place in the days before the Revolution, and it soon became noised abroad that the younglimner West was paying court to Betsey Shewell.
They were painted by Piero della Francesca, court limner of Urbino, whom we shall mention in our twenty-seventh chapter, and afford highly interesting specimens of early portraiture and mediaeval costume.
This is human nature: human nature as commerce and modern teaching and the cheap Press have made it; but Barbier and Legros will never pardon the limner who thus portrays them.
These three children offer one of the most perfect pictures of innocent and unmerited suffering which literature can offer, and the limner of them and of their sorrows is a fine writer.
We owed this good limner thanks for many a pleasant hour.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
