But when the breeze remained persistently unfavourable, Puvis de Chavannes, growing tired of waiting, decided to execute the panel in any case, come what might.
Nevertheless the city determined to replace the ceiling by a skylight, on condition that Puvis de Chavannes would paint the vacant panel thus made available.
For the central panel Puvis de Chavannes chose a theme already treated twice by him: The inspiring Muses acclaim Genius, Messenger of Light.
The finest composition of this series is a large panel representing a double action--Salome at Herod's table begging for the Baptist's head, and then presenting it to her mother Herodias.
We might imagine that this masterly panel was intended to represent the arrival of Messer Aragazzi in his home.
Maria Maggiore is testified by his own portrait introduced upon a panel in the decoration of the Virgin's chamber.
The margin of the Salome panel has been used for scratching the chronicle of Castiglione.
A tiny panel in the door opened to his touch and he stared out into the light.
For what specific purpose is a vertical rectangular panel adapted?
To secure these effects, a square panel is commonly divided into quarter sections by center lines.
To insure unity of design in panels, the elements composing the point of concentration and links connecting them must be related to the panel contour and to each other.
It is well to begin the design by creating a panel parallel to the outlines of the enriched surface.
The fully enriched panel and its contents should be designed in unified relation to the structural outlines, with the center line of the panelcoinciding with the inceptive axis of the structure.
To insure unity of design in panels, the elements composing the points of concentration and the links connecting them must be related to the panel contour and to each other.
The enclosed panel enrichment affords pleasing variety to the otherwise unvaried front panels.
The points of concentration for a fully enriched square panel may be in its center or in its outer margin.
We are equally justified in accenting these drawers or doors with panel decoration or other forms of surface enrichment provided that harmony is maintained.
The points of concentration for a fully enriched vertical panel should be in the upper portion of the panel.
But though change of shape affects the contents of the panel to a certain extent the points of concentration and the inceptive axes still act as our guide.
Figure 240 has again slightly modified them to apply to the vertical panelin wood.
Where may the point of concentration be located in full square panel enrichment?
This groove is to receive the panel which is planed down to fit.
This should be free to shrink in the grooves, where it is invisible, but if the mistake is made of fastening the panel edges rigidly in these grooves the panel will shrink anyway and frequently split from top to bottom.
If an especially elaborate result is desired, it can be accomplished by a raised panel with moulded edges made of 1/4-inch wood, fastened to the front with glue and small brads.
When the five parts are ready for assembling, the mortise joints are glued, the panel slipped into place and left free to shrink in the grooves.
The raised panel is not difficult to make, however, and there is little difference in the time consumed by the two methods.
The panel may be of one piece, set into the rabbet and grooves.
If gum wood is used, this panel can be decorated with chip carving or simply outlined with a veining tool.
The front panel may be made a real door, put on with small ornamental hinges.
The whole front in this case may be put together with mortise and tenon joints, as in panel door construction, or the simpler method just described may be used.
Another method of making a panel is to use thin wood which will just fit the grooves, and to fill the joints with a simple moulding mitred at the corners.
There is a different indication of transition in the little panel from S.
The panel on page 400, the Virgin girt with clouds and cherubs, distinctly recalls the work of the Della Robbia School; and again the figures opposite remind one of late sixteenth century paintings.
This is said with some reluctance in face of the all but perfect little panel from S.
In German work very commonly the base canopy encloses, as, for example, at Cologne Cathedral, a panel of heraldic blazonry.
There is a gayer touch in the less seriously decorative panelof French work in the Louvre given on page 307.
Single-light windows have sometimes a central elongated medallion or panel subject (without canopy), above and below which is ornamental grisaille.
It will be noticed that to the left of the panel one of the points joins the necking-piece, which holds the fleur-de-lys together.
Sometimes it would take the form of a panel of inscription, boldly leaded in yellow letters upon blue or ruby.
Brad strode to the panel and looked out the direct-view port He had slept longer than he had at first suspected.
The result was that he filled up the panelwith good law-abiding citizens, and that defendant and sixteen others were tried and convicted within the next ten days.
I told him that was not a proper discharge of his duties, that he must fill up the panel of the jury with good, law-abiding citizens, and not from those who stood charged with crime on the records of the court.
In that centre panel hangs Francesco dei Guinigi, who, for courtesy and riches, surpassed all others in Lucca.
He turned to Lockhart who was at the control panel with Oberfield.
In a covered panel right next to the door, Burl found the typical Sun-tap controls.
Then Burl took the control paneland switched off the station.
The two dashed to the panel which, they guessed, activated the main Sun transmitter.
He finally found the same type of control panel that he had found in the Andes station.
A facet of his panel had flashed a color at the lowest end of his visible spectrum.
The panel that controlled the engines was unattended in the center of the room.
On either side of this are two windows which, with the coat-of-arms in the centre, make a panel of the same width as the door below.
Its section is that of a lofty-pointed arch, truncated at the top, so as to give one panel in width flat, the rest being all on the curve.
Each panel has a cinquefoiled arch with a crocketed gablet and pinnacles on either side.
The tympanum has a representation of the Crucifixion;[121] and below this, in an oblong panel just over the recumbent figure, is a representation of the service at a funeral.
The roof is hipped at both ends and panelled throughout, each panel being filled in with a most ingenious star-like pattern, of the kind which one so commonly sees in Moorish work.
They never paused to take away the piece of broken shutter that held open the secret sliding door, orpanel in the wall.
Getting to her feet, she ran her fingers across the oak panel over his head, where for centuries a huntsman had been riding across a forest glade and blowing his horn.
If he had been wounded and had wanted to hide his papers, he would have remembered the castle and the secret panel in the wall.
The bundle of his hunting-knife protruded just a little; and as the girl pressed it, the panel glided silently open, revealing a space, square and dark and cobwebby.
First she closed the window; then she went to the door listening against the panel with all her senses on the alert.
I gripped the magnet, raced to the study door with it, she following more slowly to watch while I passed it along the wooden panel where the bolt ran on the other side; and nothing doing!
Sliding my hands over the broken top panel I found that it had been covered on its inner side by a piece of canvas; the screen on which that shadow had been thrown--from within the room.
She stood silent, and I added, "I know now whose shadow I saw on the broken panel of that door there, the first Sunday night.
The ground-glass panel darkened, and the door was thrown wide open.
Butting his shoulder against the panel with impatient force, the hinges broke from their rotten fastenings, and the door gave inwards.
Late one November afternoon just before Bansemer put on his light topcoat to leave the office for the day, Droom tapped on the glass panel of the door to his private office.
Then there was a resounding rap at the panel of the door.
In the illustration showing this piece when open, the rich effect of the walnut in the middle panel may be noticed; the contemporary brass handles to the nest of drawers are typical of this style.
Japanese lacquer, each panel bordered by elaborate scrollwork of chased ormolu, signed with "B.
In the centralpanel of the Restoration chair-back, canework began to be used instead of the Early Jacobean carving.
The chair here illustrated shows the commencement of the use of cane work in place of wood for the panel in back and for the seat.
The panel of a sixteenth-century Flemish virginal, carved in walnut, illustrated, shows this form of decoration.
Italian design, carved with masks, cane seat and panelin back; and cushion, covered with old Flemish tapestry.
On the back a man drives a laden camel, and on another panel is shown the traveller being received by an old man in the grounds of the same castle which appears all through the scenes.
He removes a side panel from an old piece, and substitutes another where its obnoxious presence is not so noticeable.
In the great collections to which reference has been made, in well-known pieces made by Riesener his name is found stamped on the panel itself, or sometimes on the oak lining.
The middle panel at the bottom is evidently a portion of a larger piece of carving, because the pattern abruptly breaks off, and it was most certainly not designed by the old carver to lie on its side in this fashion.
A great crack showed, and by a second heavy blow the panel gave way sufficiently to allow him to insert his hand and draw the bolt from the opposite side.
Not a second was to be lost; therefore, taking up one of the rush-bottomed chairs and raising it above his head, he advanced to the door and brought it down with a crash upon the panel just over the lock.
The commissary, noticing the smashed panel of the bedroom door, ran inside, while the men in uniform quickly searched the place.
In the panel representing the elementary use of Fire we were all struck by Brangwyn's daring and fine treatment of the ugly.
The more you think about this panel the more you find there.
But oh, most wonderful of all is the opposite panel that ought to be called Abundance.
The adaptation has been wonderfully done by Ralph Stackpole, with those figures of the American workman carrying a pick at either side and the semicircular panel just above the door and the group on top.
And the figures in the companion panel drawing their nets, they are putting their heart and soul into their work and they are having a good time, too.
Gold," panel to right, woman with wand; sits on horn of plenty pouring gold.
Panel over niches, figures with garland, by Faville.
That panelis one of the finest pieces of sculpture in the Exposition.
I opened the door, and it was as though a panel of brilliant white was of a sudden painted on the floor.
In front of him was the grey panel of dim twilight where the window stood.
These fragments illustrative of the Egyptian character are continued in the first two divisions of the cases marked 40, 41, including a panel and stud from an ebony box inscribed with the titles of Amenophis III.
This tablet, which is of white marble, is divided into three panels, the centre panelcontaining a bas-relief profile bust of John Crome.
