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• Round the upper edge of the lunette is a broad band of oak-leaves, and fruits of various kinds. The Care of Books
• Still in their original oak frames, the importance of these lunettes lies not only in their intrinsic appeal, but also in their importance to a major interior in Beckford's last architectural project.
• He tried not to gawk as he passed through the Central Hall toward a room with an elaborately carved lunette window, where Samuelson, several other aides, and the president of the United States were waiting. O: A Presidential Novel
• One of these interiors can now be better understood as a result of the rediscovery of four lunettes commissioned for the Sanctuary at Lansdown Tower.
• Sitting under a rose and clematis arbour in one area, you see through a lunette in a pyracantha hedge to a pond, encircled by lavender, heleniums, hemerocallis, gaillardias and calamintha.
• Then, by dint of pushing and tugging, the head was got into the "lunette," the upper part of which fell in such wise that the neck was fixed as in a ship's port-hole -- and all this was accomplished amidst such confusion and with such savagery that one might have thought that head some cumbrous thing which it was necessary to get rid of with the greatest speed. The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5
• In the late cinquecento, Florentine patrons seized upon the cloister lunette fresco cycle as an ideal format for reformist didactic painting.
• According to Mariette, the fresco in the lunette on the wall opposite (on the right in the chapel) depicted Mary Magdalen in the desert.
• A perennial concern is the reconstruction of subjects of the lost lunettes above the surviving tiers of the frescoes.
• The frescoes by Giulio Romano and Penni in the lunettes and vault were retained and the altarpiece remained in place.