It was decorated, with the picturesque daintiness of the French Court, in panels painted in imitation of Watteau, festooned with silk, embroidered with flowers.
And he turned his back upon the girl, and stood sullenly, gazing apparently upon one of the painted panels of the wall.
Occasionally the final closure is effected by lowering timber panels in grooves between a series of piles driven down at intervals across the gap.
Footnote 147: A pair of terra-cotta variants of these panels are preserved in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House.
In the case of Luca's gallery, the side panels have been replaced by facsimiles, and the originals can be minutely examined, being only four or five feet from the ground, and very suggestive they are.
The panels simply consist of two saints, roughly sketched in somewhat low-relief upon an absolutely flat background: there is great variety in the drapery, and some of the figures might come out of thirteenth-century illuminations.
Moreover, the lower tier of Luca's panels beneath the projection and enclosed by the broad brackets, would have been in such a subdued light that some of the heads in low-relief would have been scarcely emphasised at all.
As the side panels of Donatello's gallery are equally invisible in their present position they might also be brought down to the eye level.
The doors open in the middle; there are thus four long-hinged panels of bronze, and each panel has five reliefs upon it.
The angles of the cantoria where the side panels join the main relief lack finish: something like the pilasters which cover the angles of the Judith base are required.
The four scenes from the life of St. John (Vasari says from the lives of the Evangelists) are even more interesting than the panels just mentioned.
But Donatello had to make twice as many panels as Luca.
But the size of the galleries is considerable, and they occupy so much of the end walls to which they are fixed, that it is impossible to see the sides or outer panels of either cantoria.
They are nearly life size, modelled in rather low-relief upon panels with circular tops, and of exceptional size for works in terra-cotta.
The three upper windows at the back of the apse belong to the thirteenth century, as also the rose-window in the north arm of the transept dedicated to the childhood of Christ, and the twelve panels of the triforium representing the apostles.
The edges of the carving have lost their sharp angles, and the mellowness of the middle panels are in strong contrast to the harsher tone of those of the upper portion.
The Vernis-Martin panelswere decorated by Watteau and Pater.
These carefully chosen panels were painted by Cipriani and others.
In the days of Madame du Pompadour Vernis-Martin had a great vogue, and panels prepared by Martin were elaborately painted upon by Lancret and Boucher.
After this treatment they are ready to be glued on to the panels to be "faked," and, when coated over with transparent varnish, they present the appearance of an ivory and ebony inlay.
A term used for the practice of decorating surfaces and panels of furniture with wood of various colours, mother-of-pearl, or ivory.
The top panels have done duty elsewhere, as part of the ornamental carving at the top and bottom of each lozenge is lost.
The other armchair with its cane panels in back is of later Stuart days.
Our illustration shows two panelsfrom the series of twelve bronze reliefs on the front of a church altar.
The altar to which ourpanels belong is in the church of S.
The companion panels are also filled with musical angels, some singing and others playing on various instruments.
The range of Donatello's art was phenomenal, from works of such magnitude as the equestrian statue of Gattamelata, to the decorative panelsfor the altar of S.
On the front is a row of musical angels, in which the panelshere reproduced occupy opposite ends.
How well he could represent spirited action, we see in some of the panels of the organ gallery.
In a little unfrequented ante-room, all white panels and polish, she sat down to wait.
The ceiling was painted in panels with bright hued pictures that caught the eyes of the passers-by.
The large panels of the staircase are hung with splendid tapestry, from designs by Boucher, representing the different metamorphoses of Jupiter.
Toto Meisho, a series of narrow upright panels of Yedo; several are very distinguished.
The larger, and central, one is composed of a globe representing the earth, with four panels of figures on the four sides, representing certain of the incidents of life on earth, or certain riddles of existence.
The side panels show old people being drawn away in ships manned by cherubs-old people who gaze back wistfully at the Youth they are leaving.
The panels here are much more effective under full illumination at night than by daylight.
This last group is the most colorful, and in many ways the most appealing, of all those in the two panels under the west arch.
Mural Paintings The eight panels in the dome of the rotunda are by Robert Reid.
On wall A are two fine figure studies by Robert Reid, an innovator and a really great painter, though he did not show it when he painted the panels for the Fine Arts rotunda.
Although the important places here are given to sculpture, there are a few very interesting paintings: some representative landscapes, and at the ends decorative panels by Alexander Harrison and by Howard Cushing.
The two panels in the walls over the minor doorways treat very obviously of educational subjects.
The Fountain of Youth consists of a central figure on a pedestal, and two rounded side panels with figures in relief.
These two larger panels are more pleasing than the eight representing the Seasons, both in coloring and in figure composition; and they make pleasing spots of bright color in the dome.
Mural Paintings The mural paintings in, the Court of Abundance consist of eight panels by Frank Brangwyn, perhaps the greatest living mural decorator, placed in the four corners of the cloister.
Air is represented in the two panels in the southwest corner.
Beginning on the tower side of the court, at the northeast corner, are the twopanels representing Fire.
The high attic story or frieze above the colonnade is remarkably rich, with its orange brown panels garlanded with green and red fruits, and decorated with Caryatid pilasters.
There is much that is worthy of study in the simplicity and in the color of his panels here.
Water is represented in the panels of the southwest corner of the court.
There is not even the appearance of massiveness now; the panels have gone and the depth has been notably reduced.
The only motion Let made was to lean against one of the panels on the wall, which gave a slight click.
Then the hands converged at the window lock, did something, and the two glass panelscame open.
There are secret passages and movable panels and trap-doors enough in that house to hide a man, if a regiment of soldiers was after him.
Every room there can be entered in a secret manner, and no doubt there are plenty of panels and passages which even I do not know.
There, as he expected, he found one of those movable panels which the bogus mediums prepare so cleverly.
The room was beautifully clean:[422] the doors had no panels and the windows no lattices; and all the furniture was one table and one couch.
The president and jurors of one of the newly established quaestiones formed as isolated a group as the judex of civil justice with his assessors, or the greater panels of Centumvirs and Decemvirs.
On its alabaster panelswere sculptured the conquest of some of those tribes which inhabited, from the remotest period, the vast marshes formed by the Euphrates and Tigris in Chaldaea Babylonia.
The cold wind whistled through the rotten wooden panels of the windows, for there was no glass, and the crumbling ceiling and floor threatened to give way together.
From this chamber branched to the south a narrow passage, whose sculptured panels had been purposely destroyed.
The unsuspicious air-holes you see in the panels are there for a purpose; the performer uses them to give him a purchase, so that either with his fingers or by means of a small iron rod he may slide the panels backward or forward.
The parts of these panels which come directly behind the battens are filled with iron plates pierced with holes of the shape to be seen in Fig.
Panels White muslin, cut into various shapes, to designate positions of various headquarters, such as Regiment, Brigade, etc.
It's hard, Major, to get men to show white panels when they are under fire.
As for displaying their white muslin panels to airplanes so that their positions might be known--poof!
They were too busy to fool around with panels and those dizzy air birds who never did anything but fly around and look for panels.
The first discovery that they made was that the oaken panels of the chamber were backed with sheet iron or steel.
Fall stepped forward, pressed a spring in the rough woodwork in front of him and one of the panels of the room slid silently back.
Giovanni Antonio, then, working at his leisure, finished two other panelswith much diligence, painting in each a Madonna surrounded by many saints.
By her hand are two panels in the Church of that Convent of S.
He also painted the façade of a house on their Piazza, all the compartments of the vaulting and some panels in S.
The curvilinear tracery gave place to a rigid vertical and horizontal form, with the result that windows and panels instead of being filled with curved bars of stone, were sub-divided by straight perpendicular bars and transoms or cross-bars.
The flatter roofs are sometimes lined with boards and divided into panels by ribs, or have the timbers open, and all enriched with mouldings and carvings, as at Cirencester church, Gloucestershire.
Some are of wood, others of stone; the former are mostly polygonal, with the panels enriched with foliation or tracery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
