dossal

How To Use dossal In A Sentence

• Very beautiful, likewise, are the Maries that he made on the altar-dossal, lamenting the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
• The dossal was up - in all its purple glory.
• Another work with Petrine iconography is a thirteenth-century dossal for, most likely, the little Florentine church.
• a _dossal_ -- a decorated curtain of as rich material as circumstances will allow. The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness
• And the Earl's old hawk, with its feathers all stiff and sparse, perched on the dossal of the Earl's chair and the floor was pranked with rushes and sweet herbs -- the first of the spring; and Githa's feet were on her stool, and she leaned her proud face on the small hand which proved her descent from the Dane, and rocked herself to and fro, and thought of her son Wolnoth in the court of the Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete
• I was a pastor several years ago, but never knew if we had dossals.
• The Frontispiece shows the high altar of Westminster Abbey vested for Lent in a frontal, frontlet, and dossal of white linen.
• Wherefore he presented the scene that he had wrought in bronze to Cosimo de 'Medici, who after a time had it placed on the dossal of the altar in the old S.cristy of S. Lorenzo, where it is to be found at present; and that of Donato was placed in the Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi
• Altar cloths and Communion lines were replaced regularly, it seemed, and dossals or backdrops have come and gone.
• Interesting are also some easel works by Titian, Tiepolo, Giorgione and by Tintoretto himself, as well as the dossals by Giovanni Marchiori and the wooden sculptures by Francesco Pianta.