There was a series of medallions painted on the wall representing portraits of members of the imperial family.
Immediately they were painted out, and, for the sum of nine hundred and fifty francs, another artist was found who filled the frames of the medallions with sights and scenes associated less intimately with Napoleonic history.
Coins and medallions of even the best period of Byzantine art prove what a deep abyss separates them from the power over modelled relief shown in classical examples.
The Maison des Gens d'Armes (15th century), in the eastern outskirts of the town, has a massive tower adorned with medallions and surmounted by two figures of armed men.
This mechanism was first used by James Watt, for copying medallions and busts, and his machines are still preserved at Heathfield Hall, Handsworth.
The sideboard is most delicately carved, and the serving-table inlaid with medallions of ivory, the designs of which, by Albert Moore, represent various animals and fruits suggestive of the uses of the room.
This paper rises to a Moresque frieze of about one foot in depth, which holds hexagonalmedallions containing the ghosts of plants.
In any case, the effect is refined, as it is at Arezzo also, where the monotony of roundels, in sundry clerestory windows, is broken by figure medallions and other features in white and colour.
At Lucerne, for example, there are some small circular medallions with coats of arms not much bigger than occur on the back of an old-fashioned watchcase.
Even when it came to the glazing of a Rose window in a later Gothic style, it is not uncommon to find a series or two of medallions running round the window, as occurs at Angers.
Small Roses had sometimes, as at Auxerre, a central figure medallion round which were secondary foliage medallions set in diaper.
The Germans went a step further, and carried the medallions boldly across two lights, treating them as a single medallion window with a stone mullion instead of an iron bar up the centre.
A series of half medallions on each side of this central design contain little figures of attendant prophets--in a sense, the spiritual ancestors of the Saviour.
The composition of the windows is simple: within a border of foliage or other ornament, two or three tiers of figures, under modest canopies, separated perhaps by little medallions containing busts or demi-figures.
In the window with large circular medallions divided into four, there is no upright bar to define the border, faintly indicated by a dotted line.
The monotony of any great surface of quarry work, has led to the introduction of medallionsand the like, even where it is not desired to introduce pot-metal colour.
Decorated circular medallions occupying the centre of ornamental tracery lights are usually framed in coloured lines; occasionally the inner margin of the medallion is cusped, in imitation of stonework.
There is a tobacco jar in pewter having a shield with the Leeds coat-of-arms, and raisedmedallions of a ship and of the patron saint of the woolcombers.
The priest took a large, gilt cross, with enamelmedallions at the ends, from a table, and came out into the centre of the church with it.
How restore those medallions on the outer walls, which the taste of the first Fair Marguerite, and her Henry, placed in rows at one extremity of the court?
The exterior walls are adorned with medallions of extraordinary size, in the style peculiar to Francis I.
The chimney-piece is curious, adorned with two fine medallions of male heads, in high relief, very boldly executed.
The same may be said of the small round medallions in the main border, bearing very ancient symbols of longevity.
In the medallions of the field every element seems to have been worked out with the greatest regularity and exactitude.
Nevertheless, two hundred years after these medallionswere cut, the sword manufacture had become a staple in Amiens!
The types of the Roman medallions are often repeated upon common coin; hence they appear of less importance than the Greek; impressions of which are frequently most uncommon, and nowhere else to be found.
The Greek medallions of Roman emperors are far more numerous than the Roman; with a few exceptions, however, all medallions are rare and of princely purchase.
Medallions from the time of Julius to that of Adrian, are very uncommon, and of very high price; from Adrian to the close of the western empire they are, generally speaking, less rare.
There are medallions of Augustus and Tiberius, struck in Spain; and one of Livia, at Patræ in Achaia.
Among these are some who reached a European reputation: of these Boucher is perhaps most famous; his medallions are sought for, and highly valued.
A cup, cover, and stand, pink, with black medallions of the Princess de Lamballe and her cipher 5 15s.
A favorite decoration at Berlin was the small Watteau figure-pieces, painted in medallions or reserves.
Twenty-four dessert-plates, in medallions and grapes, each 13s.
We see also representations of the patriarchs and prophets, and in the medallionsat the sides the heads of the human ancestors of our Lord.
The pulpit is modern, with carved medallions on its sides.
The two medallions below them he believes represent "Zacharias in the Temple," and "The Adoration of the Magi.
Portraits and medallions of Chopin were executed by Ary Scheffer and Eugene Delacroix, and by the sculptors Bary and Clesinger.
Various subjects from the Old and New Testament, such as the sacrifice of Abel, the brazen serpent, the nativity, crucifixion and resurrection are represented on circular medallions on the outside.
A dark-coloured frame surrounds the gabled square of the picture, delicately traced with an ornament interrupted at intervals by thirty medallions on gold ground, each of which contains the half-figure of a saint.
Thirteenth Century medallions in the tall lancets below] YORK To one approaching York by road, especially if coming by way of Scarcroft Hill, the ancient appearance of the town seems to translate it out of the Middle Ages.
The medallions are interesting, but nothing like so fine as we shall see elsewhere.
In those on the north side of where the shrine used to stand, are medallions whose groups display miracles performed by the saint, or episodes illustrative of his healing power.
Some of the original mosaic medallions from the Sainte Chapelle, Paris, are here preserved.
Proceeding eastward to Becket's Crown, we shall be afforded an edifying opportunity to observe how much more brilliant and generally delightful are the old mosaic medallions than even the best modern copies.
Splendid as this noble cathedral now is, how much more impressive must it have been when all its windows were filled with mosaic medallions through which a warmly tinted illumination tempered the minster gloom.
The most interesting and, for various reasons, the most valuable medallions are those filling the six windows of Trinity Chapel which retain their original glazing.
Thirteenth century medallionsin the tall lancets below.
In these lancets are found some Early English glass--broad borders of grisaille enframing the rich-toned medallions within.
His figures in medallions are admired more in England than in France.
I saw at the Champ de Mars medallions made by him which are very good.
But Tassie, both James and his nephew William, also made portrait medallions of a comparatively large size, using a nearly opaque glass paste or frit, more or less resembling porcelain.
The seven larger medallions that surround the body are filled with mythological subjects in a fairly good classical style; the pale buff-coloured figures on a black ground imitate an onyx cameo.
In the British Museum is a remarkable series of medallions and plaques in a paste made in imitation of lapis lazuli, the sapphirus of the ancients.
Part of a bowl, the sides ornamented with small medallions of gilt glass.
The vase enamelled with classical medallions which has already been described in connection with the enamelled glass of the Romans (p.
It bears a series of medallions of blue enamel containing a curious design--a bird of prey seizing a duck.
Not less remarkable are the two large vases of deep purple glass, bearing on the sides and necks large medallions with Arabic inscriptions in relief on a ground apparently chipped with a tool.
Between are medallions with male and female heads--presumably the bride and bridegroom.
On the upper surface of these glass plaques a design in gold, consisting of small medallions with animals and twining branches, stands out in low relief.
To this period also belongs glass decorated with coloured medallions of glass paste.
I looked at the delicate outlines of the nose, and nowhere but in the graceful medallions of the Hebrews had I beheld a similar perfection.
The lichen hid the medallions on the vases, the medallions which bore her sculptured portrait.
One of these medallions is given in Smith and Watson’s American Historical and Literary Curiosities, i.
In this, West, who never saw Penn, seemingly followed one of the medallions or busts made by Sylvanus Bevan, a contemporary of Penn, who had a natural skill in cutting likenesses in ivory.
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