How To Use Courbet In A Sentence
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This inimitable project aside, the search for visual rather than textual material has been dominant in Courbet studies, supplanting the logocentric premise of iconography.
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` ` I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion; '' and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Ivanhoe
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Paris has never been so resplendent as this morning, and I very nearly went with G. and his mother to the Forest of Fontainebleau, which must be adorned with all the glories of a Corot or a Courbet — “Is there a lot about the glories?”
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife
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Sir Geoffrey closed with him instantly, seized him by the collar, and spurred Black Hastings, checking him at the same time, so that the horse made a courbette, and brought the full weight of his chest against the counter of the other.
Peveril of the Peak
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If both indications are continued and increased, the horse will _piaff_, that is, continue collected, in motion, without progressing, or he will make the courbette or terre à terre or rear.
Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding
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When the art market went crazy, the value of the little Courbet just kept climbing.
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Rejected by the Universal Exposition of 1867, he set up a separate exhibition in a private pavilion, next to Courbet's.
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Courbet earthily depicts the digging of the grave; Manet represents a cortège, not necessarily meant to be seen in the context of the cemetery, but en route.
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders' dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.
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They then graduate to the ‘aerial exercises’, with pesades, levades, courbettes and caprioles.
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The picturesque fishing village of Honfleur with its medieval buildings, harbor and green hills attracted artists from France and England during the nineteenth century beginning with the Barbizon landscape painters, Camille Corot, Constant Troyon and Gustave Courbet among others.
Denise Dennis: Normandy: Birthplace of Impressionism Celebrated this Summer
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The heroic farmers of Courbet and Millet lurk behind South African Zwelcthu Mthethwa's portrait of an African field-worker in sackcloth shirt and ripped pants, a machete at his side, his face deeply shadowed by a hat.
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Dog!" said the Templar, grinding his teeth, "I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion;" and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Ivanhoe. A Romance
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And his late, superb "Le Chateau de Chillon" 1874, a Swiss castle famed for its many political prisoners that Courbet may have also studied in photographs, offers a haunting lesson in the formal and evocative beauty entwined in the landscape.
The Rise and Fall of a Master
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It's a good thing the cover is not gussied up or cheapened with Courbet paintings.
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Showing alongside this exhibition is a collection of works by French landscape painters who inspired Monet's work, including Corot and Courbet.
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Et que j'te sors un beau sourire, une belle courbette sans te quitter des yeux ...
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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Dog!" said the Templar, grinding his teeth, "I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy order of the Temple of Zion;" and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette toward the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
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The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture.
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In different occasions they had shows where the horses performed courbettes on a volte or in a cross, capriols were performed and many more complicated movements were involved.
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J'ai quand meme remercier les quatres avec une courbette et un beau sourire colgate avant de descendre du podium et la j'ai eu un mini sourire Buchiesque!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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The horses performed caprioles, courbettes, and levades in hand.
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He has gone from being at death's door to doing courbettes out in the pasture!
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Courbet's realism was closely allied to the republican and democratic principles of the 1848 Revolution, which gave conservative critics an additional reason for disliking him.
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders’ dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat.
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Not knowing a pesade from a pirouette or a courbette from a capriole, I was seduced by the riders’ dashing livery of black boots, white tights, brown dress coat and gilded bicorn hat, and the ambiance of aristocratic Vienna.
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“Dog!” said the Templar, grinding his teeth, “I will teach thee to blaspheme the holy Order of the Temple of Zion;” and with these words, half-wheeling his steed, he made a demi-courbette towards the Saxon, and rising in the stirrups, so as to take full advantage of the descent of the horse, he discharged a fearful blow upon the head of Athelstane.
Ivanhoe
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The courbette, capriole, croupade, and levade are actually cavalry moves.
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The effect is that of a Rorschach test, not of Courbet's or Cezanne's sculpturesque textiles.
