The old Broad Street Theatre, on the site of which now stands Monumental Church, was the scene of his beautiful mother's last appearance before the public.
The centre of the building is occupied by a monumental chateau d'eau (reservoir).
The lightest of the monumental stone quarried at Quincy is called gold-leaf; it is bluish-green gray, speckled with black and light yellow brown.
Dipping these brooms from time to time into the basins of water, they waved them in beautiful harmony with their own harmonious movements, sprinkling the ancient monumental slabs over which they were stepping.
And here we approach and stand close beneath one side of that monumental fane that bears upon it for all generations the name of Origen.
They abound with monumental fountains profusely adorned with groups of sculpture, and supplied the model for those of half the palaces of Europe.
Still the temples have their façade, as richly decorated and as monumental in its character as those of the most sumptuous edifices of Thebes.
The grave of Shakespeare is in the chancel, covered by a plain flagstone, while above, on the wall to the left, is the monumental bust which is the most trustworthy representation of the poet.
The monumental sculptures and paintings tell us of war-galleys of Egypt in the Indian seas, and of Ethiopian tribute paid in ebony and ivory and gold, in apes and birds of prey, and even in giraffes from inner Africa.
Egypt is, beyond all other lands, the land of ruins, surpassing all in gigantic and statelymonumental remains, the result of immense human labor.
A little farther on the street expands into Monumental Park or the Public Square, containing a Soldiers’ Monument and a statue of General Moses Cleveland.
Bloxam remarks that it is "the only instance of the monumental effigy of a bishop, prior to the Reformation, in which the cappa pluvialis, or processional cope, is represented as the outward vestment instead of the casula or chesible.
Continued displays of nerve," murmured Matt, "and of themonumental order.
It is a question as to whether any of the great monumental calvaries of Brittany can be considered really artistic.
He had designed a monumental urn with this inscription: "Stranger, beneath this cone in unconsecrated ground a friend to the liberties of mankind directed his body to be inurned.
His monumental work, bridging the old world and the new, is an historic exposure of the crimes and futility of Christianity.
After an interesting discussion of the several movements, the writer adds: 'In a word, the symphony is of monumental significance.
Starting at Gien, the valley of the Loire begins to offer those monumental chateaux which have made its fame as the land of castles.
In his time--fifteenth century--Colombe had no rivals in the art of monumentalsculpture in France, and with reason he has been called the Michel Ange of France.
Near Oudon is one of those monumental follies which one comes across now and then in most foreign countries: a great edifice which serves no useful purpose, and which, were it not for certain redeeming features, would be a sorry thing indeed.
In former days it was evidently a tolerably common animal of chase in Upper Egypt as there are representations of it on the monuments, drawn with the quaint truthfulness which distinguishes the monumental sculpture of that period.
It combines the dignity and monumental qualities of the first of the Virgins at Amiens, with the living buoyancy of the Virgin on the Gilded Portal.
Figure sculpture, then, is only considered when strictly of a monumental character.
The figures are always narrow, and much elongated, from a monumental sentiment which governed the design of the period.
Mr. Bryce could scarcely have conferred on the American people a greater benefit than he has done in preparing the revised edition of his monumental and classic work, 'The American Commonwealth.
The monumental works within the field are those of S.
By the promulgation of two monumental documents the road was thrown open to thoroughgoing absolutism.
A monumental collection of laws relating to Spanish administrative affairs is M.
Footnote 241: Two monumental works dealing with the earlier portions of English legal development are F.
I gathered from this conversation that there is no great enthusiasm about the monumental affair among the British public.
Except in Westminster Abbey, I do not remember ever to have seen an old monumental statue with the nose entire.
Beholding its expression, it really was impossible not to have faith in the high character of the individual thus represented; and I have seldom felt this effect from any monumental bust or statue, though I presume it is always aimed at.
These crypts, or crypts like these, are doubtless what Congreve calls the "aisles and monumental caves of Death," in that passage which Dr.
I think I have seen nowhere else such well-preserved monumental knights as these.
Make things monumentaland yet real; set down the lights and the shadows as in reality.
A portrait is the most truly historical picture, and this the most monumental and historical of portraits.
While he was making the intricate bas-reliefs, the selective genius of Luca della Robbia was composing the Florence Lunettes,[193] monumental in their simplicity.
In spite of difficulties not of their own making, they were able to create, with a coarser material and in a less favourable climate, what was perhaps the highest achievement ever attained by monumental sculpture.
Monumental childhood almost ceased to exist in Italian plastic art, and, after Michael Angelo, degenerated into stout and prosperous children lolling in clouds and diving among the draperies which adorned the later altars and tombs.
The monumental type of sculpture became more rare, bric à brac more common.
Bradley's monumental work may be said to head the list.
Either in one of the compartments of a painted window of the church, or upon a monumental marble to one of the Holts, is the Ulster badge, as showing the rank of the deceased, and painted red.
Add to this that the Sir Richard Baker in question was twice married, and that a monumental erection of the costly and honourable description mentioned by F.
Among the communicants of the Monumental Church have been numbered many of the most prominent men in the Virginia capital, and men famous in the early history of the country were attendants from time to time.
A great lagoon opposite the main terrace was continued in a vista through the forest off to the horizon, broken by a monumental sculpture which was reflected in the water.
The frescos in the Antwerp town hall by Leys, illustrating the charters and the privileges of that city in olden times, are called by Max Rooses, "monumental creations by a great master of the art of painting.
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the monumental figures in the religious history of Germany, undoubtedly the most considerable in the two centuries following the death of Luther.
