Between the upper tiers of arches aresculptured Corinthian columns, all happily uninjured.
At a remote period of geological history the action of mighty torrents let loose sculptured these fantastic and grandiose monoliths, bored these arcades and galleries, hollowed these fairy-like caves.
It is worthy of note that the fish was also adopted as an emblem by the early Christians, and was frequently sculptured on their tombs as a private mark or sign of the faith in which the person there interred had died.
The throne of the god, and the table on which the radiated disk is placed, are elegantlysculptured pieces of furniture, and reveal a civilisation which strives after the highest refinement in its luxuries.
It is a fragment of sandstone pavement (37 × 17½ inches) on which is sculptured in relief one of those fantastic genii peculiar to Chaldæan mythology.
Above the door a row of Egyptian uræi is seen; the ceiling within is perceptibly cut into the form of a vault on which two pairs of wings, surrounding the Egyptian solar disk, are sculptured in relief.
It must be added that all the parts of the same bas-relief are seldom sculptured by the same artist, and that figures of very unequal merit are met with.
These slabs could be sculptured and polished with marvellous ease.
No people of antiquity carried as far as the Chaldæo-Assyrians their taste for elegant furniture, which is as delicately sculptured among them as the most precious bronze utensils.
Renan at Umm el-Awamid has a lintel on which two small figures of Egyptian appearance are sculptured in adoration before the winged disk supported by uræi.
This stela is sculptured on a block of sandstone, covered with bas-reliefs and inscriptions.
But if the scrupulous imitation of nature sometimes leaves nothing to be desired in these sculptured forms, ignorance of the laws of perspective has forced the artist to employ devices of childish simplicity.
A sculptured and painted frieze, representing a largely attended feast, stretched across the vast façade.
After having conducted me to a hydrotherapic closet established on the roof, Michel led me down-stairs to the dining-room lit up by electricity, entirely white, and ornamented only with a sculptured frieze of strawberry plants in bloom.
In the centre of the square stood a bronze Minerva on a pedestal on which were sculptured the Muses, and to the right and to the left stood a Mercury and a bronze Apollo, the work of Hermogenes of Cythera.
Is there another font in England more wonderful than that square black marble basin sculptured in the twelfth century with the story of St Nicholas?
It bears on its surface two sculptured figures, and the principal runic inscription.
John Stuart's magnificent work on The Sculptured Stones of Scotland.
The runes are sharply and beautifully cut into the margin of two sides of the Cross, the inside spaces being filled with sculptured ornaments, representing a conventional, clambering vine, with leaves and fruit.
There is the marvellous art expressed in the sculptured stones themselves, and there is the mysterious charm of the runes with which the stones are inscribed.
For this it was necessary to dig deeper than usual, and in doing so, the grave-digger came upon an obstacle which proved to be a block of red sandstone with sculptured figures upon it.
The sculptured stones of Meigle in Scotland have no runes.
On the east side there are no runes, but a vine is sculptured in low relief within a border.
There were several grottos, and also an ancient tomb with hieroglyphics sculptured on the rock.
The dome of the tomb of Kaitbay is of stone, sculptured all over with an arabesque pattern; and there are several other domes in different mosques at Cairo equally richly ornamented.
The monument, of white Italian marble, with the statuette of Leather-Stocking at the top, was sculptured by Robert E.
Sill lived with his sister at "The Maples," in the spacious house which stands on Chestnut Street, with sculptured lions guarding the doorway, next to the Methodist parsonage.
Four deaths were so recorded; then the sculpturedenrollment was discontinued.
He was a man who had passed his fortieth year, but he looked far more youthful; and his clean-shaven, handsome face was as clearly sculptured as a head on an antique medallion.
Her figure was beautifully shaped; her features were of pure, classic type, as clear and delicate as if sculpturedfrom alabaster.
It has been suggested that among a group of figures sculptured upon the drum of a column brought from the Artemesium (Temple of Diana) at Ephesus, one is a representation of Thanatos, Death.
The Canaanites represented their gods in the temples by symbols instead of by sculptured figures.
Then comes the group of the Wrestlers, admirably executed, and technically and anatomically correct in its sculptured delineation of straining sinews and swelling muscles.
Upon the base of the pillar on which the statue leans are the sculpturedheads of Henry V.
Nevertheless, Leviathan is of so mighty a magnitude, all his proportions are so stately, that the same deficiency which in the sculptured Jove were hideous, in him is no blemish at all.
Over the spot where they were buried their figures appeared beautifully sculptured in white marble, accompanied by that of an angel standing beside them; the epitaph read: M.
We halted awhile at the picturesque sculptured cross, where many a weary pilgrim had rested before us, with a glorious view over Loch Fyne and the mountains beyond.
After about another mile we came to a monument near the side of the road, on the top of which were sculptured the figures of seven human heads held up by a hand clasping a dagger.
The figures of their families as sculptured below them were also very fine.
It was quite modern, having been built in 1844 by Lord Herbert of Lea, and had three porches, the central one being magnificently ornamented, the pillars resting on lions sculptured in stone.
We saw another remarkable structure called "The Rock of Ages," a large monument built of stone, on each of the four sides of which was a Bible sculptured in marble with texts from the Scriptures, and near the top a device like that of a crown.
The parish church of the corporation of butchers, namely, that of St. Pierre aux Boeufs in the city, on the front of which were two sculptured oxen, existed before the tenth century.
There was an impression of sculptured rock walls, with splashes of colour here and there; of columns in a chamber beyond, and still a third chamber, whence three rooms opened off, the side doorways mere blocks of ebony in the dimness.
A rudely sculptured lion, found outside the walls, is regarded as giving evidence of Assyrian occupation, which, however, is otherwise known to have been an historical fact.
The most familiar form of the sacred tree is that employed by the Assyrians, to a certain extent as a decorative ornament, on the sculptured slabs that adorned the walls of the royal palaces.
It should ever be kept in mind, that such a church virtually writes above its sculptured portals an irrevocable prohibition to the poor--'Procul, O procul este profani.
A vision strange such towers to see, Sculptured and wrought so gorgeously, 55 Where human art could never be.
In Pisa's church a cup of sculptured gold 15 Was brimming with the blood of feuds forsworn: A Sacrament more holy ne'er of old Etrurians mingled mid the shades forlorn Of moon-illumined forests, when.
Tottering cupolas show us irreparable cracks; the halves of broken arches are outlined to-night in shadow against the mother-of-pearl light of the sky, and debris of sculptured stones are strewn about.
And there before us must once have stood a temple reverenced of the people, or some great vanished town; its fragments of columns and sculptured capitals are strewn about in the fields of lucerne.
A rose is sometimes sculptured in the centre of each face of a Corinthian capital.
In Turkey, females that died unmarried had a rose sculptured at the top of their monument.
The Church of Notre Dame of the fifteenth century is the chief architectural feature, and its magnificentlysculptured portal is of the best of late Gothic workmanship.
The tiny church dates from 1293, and in the cemetery is a sculptured cross of the time of Henri IV.
Beneath the steeple are also some ancient Gallo-Romain columns with sculptured capitals.
Its interior appointments are marvellously elaborate, including a fine sculptured pulpit in wood dating from 1643.
The Cemetery of Brise Garet, with its surrounding galleries in sculptured wood representing funeral subjects, is decidedly unique, and quite well worth making the journey from Havre to see.
It was one of the most splendid examples of the Renaissance in France, with a beautiful extent of sculptured decorations and furnishings, before it fell at the Revolution.
It is a typical Renaissance house with some finely sculptured woodwork.
There is a series of fifty-eight elaborately sculptured stalls of the fifteenth century, and, altogether, it is quite as worthy of enthusiastic admiration as many a more famous one elsewhere.
The ancient presbytery is a charming Renaissance building with a façade of sculptured wood.
I obeyed, passing between the thick curtains which she fastened in some way behind me, and found myself in the same roofed and sculptured room that I have already described.
On the further side of the curtains was a room of no great size illumined with lamps of which the light fell upon sculptured walls.
She might have crossed over to Iona and might have walked all by herself through the ruins, and in calmness regarded the sculptured stones.
And they showed him the curious tombstone of the saint, with its sculpturedelephant and man on horseback.
On the walls are the stone sculpturedarms of the Marquis of Worcester.
It has some finely-sculptured images of the Trinity, Virgin Mary, and St. Vincent, the patron saint of the church.
The white canopy above, the fall of the white below had an effect of sculptured stone.
Some lay as straight as on a sculptured tomb, and some were hooped, and some lay like a cross, and some were headless.
