Language fails him to give a conception of this complex and polychromatic city in a few short pages to anyone who knows it by name alone as the cosmopolitan winter capital of fashionable seekers after health and pleasure.
The far radiance became brighter; it gathered itself at the end of the dreadful lane; it was shot with sparklings and with pulsings of polychromatic light.
The encaustic consisted of a polychromatic paste more or less opaque, containing, in addition to wax, also flint, whether as principal or secondary element it is difficult to decide.
The plants, flowers, animals, and even figures, formed a polychromaticrelief on the flat surface of the stuff.
The eye was satisfied with the rich polychromatic decoration, and did not require it to be supplemented by architectural ornament.
By this means varied tints were obtained which were in harmony with the polychromatic decoration which was so near their hearts.
The habit of covering every plain surface with a brilliant polychromatic decoration contributed to the same result.
Bourgoin, represent the polychromatic decoration of the Ancient Empire as it was left by those who decorated the tomb of Ptah-hotep.
At first, adverse criticisms were aimed at the Synchromists' polychromatic nudes, still-lives and landscapes.
By Luca also are various polychromatic medallions outside Or San Michele.
Walk round the =ambulatory=, noticing as you go the various chapels with their polychromatic decoration and their appropriate frescoes.
In the polychromatic decoration of the walls and pillars, notice the frequent repetition of the royal lilies of France, combined with the three castles of Castille, in honour of Blanche of Castille, the mother of St. Louis.
Among the lords of the French courts who favoured polychromatic ornament and bold compositions were the young Valois, Louis de Sainte Maure, Marquis of Nesle, and Henri de Guise, called "Le balafre.
Of the interior we have spoken in our first chapters on the wood engravings; for the exterior, the cover of the volume, foliage, golden flowers worked with a hot iron, and polychromatic compartments obtained by coloured pastes were multiplied.
Following comes the school of Geoffroy Tory, with gilt compartments in the style of the great French decorator; last the polychromatic bindings, in which, by the aid of colour or mastic, the alternating tones are mixed.
Four Ionic columns--fluted for half their height and their shafts purple-robed with minium tints--sustained a cymatium adorned with polychromatic ornaments that the artist seemed only to have completed the day before.
A polychromatic rug like some brilliant-flowered rectangular, tropical islet lay surrounded by a billowy sea of soiled matting.
These thoughts strayed dreamily through the mind of Prince Michael, as he smiled under the stubble of his polychromatic beard.
His polychromatic decorations fulfilled their purpose of amusing and delighting the eye without ever attempting to deceive it.
There are some architectures--that of the Greeks for example--that preserve a rare nobility even when deprived of their metal ornaments and polychromatic decoration.
A rectangular chapel decorated, in all probability, with metal plaques and glazed polychromatic bricks, crowned the whole.
He disengaged three sides of the northern palace at Kouyundjik without finding any traces of polychromatic decoration.
This polychromatic character of Greek marble sculpture is at variance with what we moderns have been accustomed to since the Renaissance.
The effect of all this color is thoroughly refined, and the work is a revelation of the beauty of polychromatic sculpture.
Our cities faced the sun in those days, towering in polychromatic splendor.
They carried slender metal tubes that spewed polychromatic death at us!
The walls are decorated in a polychromatic scheme, which is not beautiful, though undeniably striking.
The general effect of the interior is decidedly high coloured, with much polychromatic decoration and painted glass.
This small, but typically Rhenish, parish church has also a series of polychromatic decorations which completely cover its available wall space.
The men in the Tyrol wear short coats, bordered and lined with a bright colour, and they show their polychromatic prejudices further in their vests of green, yellow, or scarlet, striped with black and white.
They loved polychromatic ornaments; they covered every available surface with the gayest hues; they delighted in the juxtaposition of the most brilliant tones.
In order that the polychromatic decoration of the Egyptians should be rendered with truth and precision in its refined tones and complicated line, we begged M.
The warm and varied hues with which polychromatic decoration endows buildings help us to distinguish them in such situations from the ground upon which they stand, and to accentuate their different planes.
He began his studies for his great polychromaticstatue of Beethoven as early as 1886, fifteen years before its completion.
Bewitched as by the spinning of a polychromatic top, he could not leave the Island.
The king was so overwhelmed with grief and resentment at this disgraceful defeat, through the disloyalty of his nobility, that he returned to Edinburgh in deep dejection.
Everywhere he was received, not as a conqueror, but a deliverer.
Its simplicity suited neither the desire for richness of form, peculiar to the later Egyptians, nor the delight inpolychromatic ornament, which found only one unchannelled strip at its disposal.
The extended polychromatic treatment of the marble temple is doubtless a reminiscence of this painted wood.
As if scenting the proximity of food, one of the three stones suddenly shuddered with a polychromatic chill.
He lunched badly, looking continually at a great glass doorway decorated with pictures of boats, fishes, and sea gulls, and every time its polychromatic leaves parted, his food seemed to stick in his throat.
But this Angel the Vicar shot is, we say, no such angel at all, but the Angel of Italian art, polychromatic and gay.
