That may be due in part to the dull twilight in which the group is plunged, depriving all its lines of salience and relief.
He intended to front the mass of the edifice with a majestic colonnade, giving externally to one limb of the Greek cross a rectangular salience corresponding to its three semicircular apses.
The cornice has always been reckoned among his indubitable successes, combining as it does salienceand audacity with a grand heroic air of grace.
The Louvre is rich in masterpieces of this kind--the fiery study of a David; the heroic figures of two male nudes, hatched into stubborn salience like pieces of carved wood; the broad conception of the Madonna at S.
This salience restores to the column the material which it has lost; it completes it, and determines its proportion, so that it is no longer capable of either increase or diminution.
In it the chisel has merely reproduced the contours of the eyelids and the salience of the eyeball.
Again, when the salience is but the preparation for a greater development above, it seems to add to the solidity of the edifice by receiving the architrave on a far larger surface than the shaft could offer.
Gournah; but the jambs are merely the ends of the courses which make up the wall, and their salience is very slight.
Considering that the anta was really no more than a prolongation or momentary salience of the wall, such an arrangement was judicious in every way (Fig.
A wandering ray of sunlight penetrated into the temple, and, falling upon the gentlesalience of the sculptured figures, gave them a relief and animation which was almost illusive.
Secondly, the depth of the relief varied as much as it could, from the almost detached figures of the Osiride piers to the delicate salience of the carvings upon the steles and tomb-walls.
But chronology is of little help in the history of Italian architecture; its main features being, not uniformity of progression, but synchronous diversity and salience of local type.
For it is, I am compelled to think, the salienceof personality.
In one, and only one, respect, this salience of Dr.
It is a salience complete, dominating, unapproached, but one which must infallibly diminish with time.
Towers are usually placed at the rounded corners of the wall, and sometimes at intervals along the wall; they have no salience upon the exterior.
As regards the outer fortifications the four gateways were flanked by towers which projected inwards, from the inner face of the wall, and not uncommonly had a slight salience upon the exterior also.
The inner city wall, which was the first in date (it was probably built in the thirteenth century), is provided with rectangular towers which have a salience of 2 metres.
The first named was indicated as the true entrance to the building by the slight salience of its jambs and lintel, by the increased size of the columns in front of it, and by its position with regard to the steps.
Colour is everywhere; here it is used to give salience to the delicate contours of the figures in relief, there it is laid flat upon the carefully-prepared surfaces of white stucco.
The gentle salience of these buttresses forms a framework for the statues (see Fig.
And accordingly Flaubert treats the scenery of his book, Yonville and its odd types, as intensely as he treats his heroine; he broods over it with concentration and gives it all the salience he can.
Its salienceis another matter; but it has to be remembered that though the scene acts vividly, it acts slowly, in relation to its length.
As a rule motives were modelled in relief upon the ground, so that they were distinguished by a gentle salience as well as by colour, a contrivance that increased their solidity and effect.
Above a plinth with a gentle salience rises the altar itself, supported at each angle by the paw of a lion.
He gave them a slightsalience over the façade and a polychromatic decoration.
This arrangement gave a clearer salience and a more imposing mass to structures which would otherwise, on account of their monotony of line and the vast excess of their horizontal over their vertical development, have had but little effect.
There can, however, be no doubt that the engraver has given us a plan according to his lights of a wall strengthened by flanking towers, of which those with the boldest salience guard the six passages into the interior.
The latter's double chin was in singular contrast with the massive and muscular salience that gave the chief's face an expression of indomitable vigour.
The mouth, full of sharp yellow teeth and open as though about to yawn, had been slit back to the salience of the jaw at some time and had been sewn up in a sketchy fashion indicated by a white zig-zag scar like a flash of lightning.
Her eyes were bright and resolute, and the lamplight threw intosalience the curve of her jaw and chin.
