The bas-relief is one of two lunettes placed over opposite doors in the cathedral of Florence.
Any marble revetment which may once have covered the walls has disappeared, but mosaics depicting scenes in the Saviour's life still decorate the vaulting and the lunettes of the arches, whilst figures of saints appear upon the soffits.
All the domestic groups, composed of women and children, which fill the lunettes and groinings between the windows in the Sistine Chapel, have a charming twilight sentiment of family life or maternal affection.
In the lunettes above the windows and the arched recesses or spandrels over them are depicted scenes setting forth the genealogy of Christ and of His Mother.
Above them inlunettes are four Evangelists and four Latin Fathers, with four Sibyls.
On East Cemetery Hill there are a number of lunettes at the position held by the Union batteries.
The Shuishi Valley was defended by a series of strong lunettes connected by advance works, within fifty yards of which the Japanese had advanced their parallels.
Deal, the largest and most complicated of the series on the east coast of Kent, has a central circular tower with a diameter of 58 feet, and from it project six small inner lunettes and six much larger outer lunettes.
In conclusion I will enumerate the series of eighteen large pictures on the side-walls and in the lunettes at each end of the room, representing, with some few exceptions, the benefits conferred on Rome by Sixtus.
Below the lunettes the walls are covered with whitewash, under which some decoration is evidently concealed.
The roof is a barrel-vault, gorgeously painted in fresco, as are the wall-spaces above the bookcases, and the semicircular lunettes at the ends of the room.
The semi-circular lunettes in the upper part of the wall under the vaults are all treated alike, except that those on the sides of the room, being larger than those at the ends (fig.
Thank you, mother," rejoined the sweet girl, "Colonel Lunettes will make allowance for your natural partiality.
Uncle Lunettes has spent so many years abroad, that he is, of course, quite au fait in all such things.
Julia says she shall never be perfectly happy until she makes tea for Colonel Lunettes, from her beautiful china, and Mr. Benton says Colonel Lunettesis the only man in the world of whom he is jealous!
Lunettes is too gallant not to lay down his arms when ladies are his assailants!
Will Colonel Lunettes oblige Mr. Alloway by making his compliments acceptable to the Misses Lunettes, together with the most sincere expressions of his disappointment?
Two more lunettes yet remained to finish, but as these were of a later date, we will reserve them for a future chapter.
The roof is vaulted and covered with exquisite decorative frescoes, but in the lunettes of the two largest arches are the domestic scenes of cooking and laying the cloth, spoken of at page 90.
The Robbias prepare their delicately-toned reliefs for thelunettes above the doorways.
Maria di Monte Santo, and the lunettes of the same chapel, were engraved by Frezza.
This was the decoration of the ceiling and lunettes in the Hall of Constantine, the lower part of which had been illustrated by the pencils of Giulio Romano and Perino.
The light might shine through the lunettesand be reflected up to the surface," was Matt's answer.
Matt continued to remain in the tower, his eyes at the lunettes and his hand on the steering device.
It is interesting that lunettes and cross-vaults of masonry were employed by the Romans and the Goths of Europe.
That the Indian had lunettesand probably had cross-vaults was a mere coincidence.
If lunettes were employed opposite each other on each side of a wigwam roof, for which arrangement we have no evidence, the roof must have resembled what we call a "cross-vault.
In the entrance hall, formerly the chapel, are frescoes by Mainardi; four Saints in lunettes and, over the door, a Madonna and Child blessing those that enter.
In two large lunettes on either side are two admirable frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio, which have a freshness and simplicity that we hardly find elsewhere in his work.
Leighton, besides agreeing finally to paint frescoes on the lunettes at each end of the court, made cartoons in 1868 for two of these side spaces, one of the figure of Cimabue, the other of Niccolo Pisano.
When the court is completed, there will be four lunettes of a similar size.
The tiercerons are still important since they mark the intersection of the window lunettes and carry the weight of the vault down to the piers.
At intervals this vault is cut by lunettes or groined bays but it is fundamentally an annular tunnel vault.
Such an arrangement of window cells as that in these vaults practically converts the chevet into a ribbed half dome pierced with lunettes which do not rise to its crown.
It is, in fact, less developed than that at Saint Sernin, the transverse panels being considerably lower than the concentric portion of the vault thus forming simple lunettes above the window heads.
Even without any prototypes, however, this arrangement of bays is a direct outcome of the use of an annular tunnel vault intersected by lunettes or transverse tunnels opposite the apsidal arches.
The mosaics in the lunettes of the five doorways are, with one exception, poor in craftsmanship, but interesting in their storiation.
The story of the Baptist's life is told in the lunettes and on the walls.
Five mosaics in the three lunettes under the cupola tell the story of Cain and Abel, and under the vaultings between the first cupola and the central vestibule is the story of Noah.
In the other lunettes we see very gorgeous decorative work of arabesques and stags at a fountain and two doves drinking from a vase.
During the night of the 13th--14th, the crest of the glacis in front of both the lunettes Nos.
Both lunettes were now furnished with batteries of mortars and guns to silence the fire from the ravelines and counter-guards of the front of attack, against which five dismounted and counter-batteries were also directed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lunettes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
