The royal party supped in a sombre room of oval shape, dark with tapestries and splendid with gold.
Magnificent tapestries covered the walls with glowing colour, and upon one of these, in barbaric bad taste, was hung a single great picture by Titian, Philip's favourite master.
On the walls there were broad tapestries of bold design, showing green forests populated by all sorts of animals in stiff attitudes, staring at one another in perpetual surprise.
Many pieces of rare Gobelins were sold because of royal vicissitudes previous to 1870, but since then no tapestries have been available to the public.
That evening the hotel clerk handed Mr. Fabian a legal looking envelope, which, upon being opened, proved to contain the passes necessary for visitors to enter and see the famous tapestries woven by the Gobelin Society.
Among bronzes, ivories, tapestries and other art objects, Mr. Fabian pointed out various bits of costly and famous work.
The same colours are met with in the large embroidered curtains of the time; it is probably due to the influence of the tapestries and the Chinese embroideries then so much in vogue.
Sampler Design: the Human Figure Whilst embroideries in imitation of tapestries deal almost entirely with the portrayal of the human figure, samplers of the same period, and that the best, for the most part avoid it.
The foreign origin of the tapestries (even those which were manufactured in England being made and designed by foreigners) accounts for the foreign flavour which pervades their backgrounds and accessories.
She led him to chambers hung with tapestries wrought by fair, forgotten grandmothers, who over their work had dreamed their eventless lives away.
Tapestries of rich stuffs were about him, and the skins of wild animals beneath his feet.
It is the brains of dreamers such as these which clear the mental life of the community; and it is in these brains are the mysterious looms which weave the tragic and sorrowful tapestries of Celtic thought.
I think she often sighed for pretty papers and cretonnes, for Sevres and colored prints, but she took her tapestries and old masters and majolica as decreed by a power she couldn't question.
On the contrary, the library or living-room into which I was ushered was as large as would be found in the average big house, and, notwithstanding its tapestries and massive furniture, was bright with sunshine and flowers.
They are behind those goblin faces you see outlined on the tapestriesunder the ceiling.
The streets are all strewn with reeds, mint, and iris, and are hung overhead with curtains and tapestriesof fancy silk and satin stuffs.
Silken stuffs are taken out and hung aloft as decorations, and they spread tapestries to walk upon and drape the streets with them, while they wait for the King's approach.
The beautiful drawing-room opens into a series of state-apartments lined with choice woods and hung with Gobelin tapestries representing the cartoons of Raphael.
The tapestries represent Blenheim and other battles, and there are one hundred and twenty copies of famous masters, made by Teniers.
At every moment Narcisse craned his neck to see if the little papal cortege were not emerging from the Gallery of the Tapestries to pass them on its way to the gardens.
The cold stucco of the walls was hidden by a series of lofty tapestries depicting the story of Cupid and Psyche, marvels which had remained in the family since the days of the Renascence.
And tapestries wrought by hands that have been dust for hundreds and hundreds of years.
The Gobelin tapestriesthat are loaned by the French Goverment are absolutely priceless.
Before leaving the Accademia for the last time, one should glance at the tapestries near the main entrance, just for fun.
The top floor is given to tapestriesand embroideries.
The tapestries in these rooms are all old and charming in color, of old rose and pink.
There are some curious old tapestrieshung on the walls of the nave, a handsome carved pulpit and some fine glass of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
The room was oddly shaped, with eight equal sides; the ceiling was of a light and brilliant blue, powdered with many golden stars, and the walls were hung with smart tapestries which commemorated the exploits of Theseus.
Are there, even at the present day, any embroideries or tapestries of more wonderful delicacy or in more exquisite taste?
What forgotten looms wove its tapestries and draperies?
The furniture was covered with tapestries mostly from the needle of the countess.
The furniture, tapestries and ornaments were all of an epoch two centuries back, and the whole picture fascinated Patty beyond all words.
They feel sorry for other houses where the carvings and tapestries have to stay back in their own old times.
But we're modern, and so we make the carving and tapestries give way to us.
There were the long tapestries hanging opposite him, with the tall three windows dividing them, and the suits of steel armour that he remembered.
The most famous Burgundian tapestries hung on the walls.
Immediately, tapestries were spread and every one was alert with the last preparations.
It was decided after deliberation that they should be sold and the proceeds applied to the purchase of tapestries for the chapel of Dijon, and the treasurer was deputed to see about it.
The tapestries were painted in Rome and in the Vedder villa, Torre Quattro Venti on Capri, where the artist and his wife and daughter pass their summers.
These tapestries are in a state of remarkable preservation, both as regards color and texture.
The tapestries in the church of St. John are known to have cost originally thirty thousand dollars, and were from the famous manufactory of De Vas Freres of Brussels, for whose looms Rubens did not disdain to work.
Houses often lacked comforts in the way of furniture, but made a brave showing in tapestries and paintings.
Gold work was of scant importance, but the making of tapestries was rather notable; they were combined with the paintings of leading artists, many of which were supplied by Goya.
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