Of later mural tablets we need say but little, for there is hardly a cathedral or parish church in the kingdom which is not the proud possessor of one or more specimens.
The floor brasses, as a rule, are flat but often deeply engraved, whilst the mural tablets are lightly engraved and frequently embellished with a sculptured framework.
But in spite of drawbacks, The Peacock Room is the "noble work" he called it to his mother, the one perfect mural decoration of modern times.
Turn to the left, and inspect the archway in the wall, and the curious mural paintings.
The mural paintings in the garden have been attributed to Luis de Vargas; but they are unfortunately almost obliterated.
But the most attractive and striking of the mural decorations are the paintings, the wonderful variety and delicacy of which are only surpassed by the more astonishing wonder of their preservation.
The House of Meleager takes its name from one of its mural decorations illustrating the story of Meleager and Atalanta.
This house was finished in gay colors and embellished with mural paintings, one of which--a representation of Actaeon surprising Diana at her bath--is singularly well preserved.
All of the most precious works of art which were or could be detached, including many exquisite little mural frescos, have been removed and deposited in the museum at Naples.
Mural tablets in brass on either side of the Melbourne monument to the crew of H.
They, too, like the Egyptians, embellished their tombs with mural paintings.
The mural decorations at the Prince Eitel are so gloomy they give you a chill.
You'd see the paintings on the walls of the assembly hall of the McKinley High School--the first mural paintings in any school in Chicago.
Near by is a mural monument to his wife, Katherine, and another to Mary, wife of Sir William, the historian, and daughter of Sir W.
I vainly sought in the towns of the Adriatic for those mural inscriptions of Viva Gesù!
At Faenza, these mural inscriptions evinced a certain degree of fanaticism, but the fanaticism of the dramatic art: Viva la Ristori!
The recess on the east side of the north transept contains a mural tablet in memory of Dr.
This was found, in 1840, to contain a mural painting of the Crucifixion, with the Blessed Virgin and St. John at the foot of the cross.
Just opposite it is a mural monument commemorative of William Streaton, who died in 1609, after having been no less than nine times mayor of the city.
Mural paintings by the latter prior representing the legends of the Virgin adorn the walls.
There are some ancient mural paintings, which may be seen when going to the library.
In the former there is some mural painting much restored--a facsimile of the ancient picture--and over the chapel is a museum.
An interesting mural painting has been discovered representing the Resurrection.
The second pillar from the east on the south side is called Pike's Pillar, and retains faint traces of a mural painting of the Annunciation; the nave aisles have some good vaulting.
An ancient mural painting should be noticed, representing the conversion of St. Hubert.
This bridge was an ante-chapel to that in which the relics were stored, and is adorned with mural paintings.
We will now examine the mural paintings in the nave, which are of Norman date.
Our friend here, the Calton, with his mural crown!
Who other than Mrs. Sigourney could have transformed an ordinary stone wall into a "mural parapet"?
But what these mural paintings must always have had is real artistic existence, great dignity of slow but rhythmic movement, and splendid grouping.
In the month of April 1858, a neat mural tablet was erected within the Communion railing of the Church at Haworth, to the memory of the deceased members of the Bronte family.
They consist of seven walled courts or yards, three smaller chambers, and two very small mural huts and chambers.
The mural huts are placed at the north-west angle of the west court and the south-west angle of the south court.
To take specific examples, who would imagine from themural paintings of Blashfield or the decorations by Mowbray in the University Club of New York that either had been a pupil of Bonnat?
The public of our American exhibitions knows only vaguely and by hearsay what our mural painters have done and are doing.
He is a mural painter by avocation and capable, on occasion, of a monumental formality.
American mural painting has grown steadily more monumental in design, and at the same time it has grown richer and fuller in color.
But it is in our mural painting even more than elsewhere that the conservative or reactionary tendency of American painting is most clearly marked.
But it is not only in mural decoration that serious figure-painting is being done in this country.
But design is something more than the essential quality of mural decoration--it is the common basis of all the arts, the essential thing in art itself.
The regular visitor to the Paris salons might know almost all that has been done in France in the way of mural painting.
The painter of mural decorations is in the old historical position, in sound and natural relations to the public.
These were generally extra-mural and unconnected with churches, the practice of interment in churches or churchyards being unknown in the first centuries of the Christian era.
In the same way, the revived attention paid to the various forms of pottery for the interior and exterior of buildings belongs rather to the question of mural decoration than of pottery.
He became president of the Society of Mural Painters, and of the Society of American Artists.
Most recently he has been engaged on a large mural decoration, best fitted, perhaps, for a music room, showing Pan seated on a tree trunk by a lake, making into a pipe the broken reeds in his hand after Syrinx eluded him.
Mr. Elliott, receiving his commission to do a great mural painting for the new National Museum in Washington, again went to Rome four years ago.
Here, in the Via Flaminia, he painted his first important mural decoration, for the dining room of Mrs. Potter Palmer's Chicago Lake Shore mansion.
