How To Use Lunette In A Sentence
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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In the late cinquecento, Florentine patrons seized upon the cloister lunette fresco cycle as an ideal format for reformist didactic painting.
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According to Mariette, the fresco in the lunette on the wall opposite (on the right in the chapel) depicted Mary Magdalen in the desert.
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A perennial concern is the reconstruction of subjects of the lost lunettes above the surviving tiers of the frescoes.
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The frescoes by Giulio Romano and Penni in the lunettes and vault were retained and the altarpiece remained in place.
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On their lee sides some pans have clay dunes or lunettes composed of sandy, silty, clayey, and salty materials blown out from the pan floor.
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The best known of Poccetti's lunette fresco cycles was also one of the last commissions he undertook before his death in 1612.
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Sinon j'commencais a songer a m'installer une lunette de chiotte rembouré avec un oreillé au niveau du reservoir d'eau et une couverture ... le "Water Closed Bed"! j'v deposer un brevet tiens!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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[49] A lunette is a small picture, generally semicircular, surmounting the main picture in an altar-piece.
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
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His work includes a fresco, Autumn, in a lunette of the Royal Academy's restaurant, and he also painted landscapes, interiors, and historical scenes, but he is best known as a portraitist.
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The first thing you see on entering the galleries is a small and thoroughly exquisite work from about 1500 by Domenico Morone, depicting the Madonna and Child, who are seated beneath a lunette depicting the moribund Christ.
The Man of Sorrows Motif Over Time
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Mariette states that the fresco was in the lunette over the stained-glass, or leaded-glass, window above the altar.
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The document is dated 16 August 1531, and there is a further commission for a lunette from the two artists dared 11 January 1543.
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Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
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[314] According to the first plan, Michael Angelo bargained with the Pope for twelve Apostles in the lunettes, and another part to be filled with ornament in the usual manner -- "dodici Apostoli nelle lunette, e 'l resto un certo partimento ripieno d' adornamenti come si usa.
Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts
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He does, however, specify the scenes occupying the lateral lunettes in the chapel as Mary Magdalen in the Desert and Mary Magdalen Borne Up by Angels, which is identified with the fresco fragment in London.
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Gaspare Celio, writing in 1638, divides the work, stating that the altarpiece is by Giulio Romano and that all the paintings above the cornice (that is, in the lunettes and in the vault) are by Penni.
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Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
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The mosaic, with its hieratic Virgin and modern ships on stylized waves, is also a welcome touch of color, though perhaps if the lunette were larger and the design slightly bolder, it would read better at a distance.
St. Mary of the Lake, Door Peninsula, Wisconsin
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Dans la musique, ça existe aussi, dans le même goût il y a un barbu, riche-crasseux, lunettes de star et verve de quiche lorraine.
Madame André and the Love Graffiti
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The upper arch of the full lunette shape, although not indicated in the print, can be easily imagined as fitting over the design.
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His regiment was undergoing its training on the "firing-line," and his company furnished twelve men daily for the "lunette," a kind of detached bastion about 800 yards in front of the line in the direction of the enemy.
Bamboo Tales
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Several of Salomon's figures were obviously used as templates for the figures reclining on shells pulled by dolphins on the rear wall of the grotto, and the putti riding dolphins in the flanking lunettes.
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Giani wrote in his Preface that the Servite lunette paintings should serve as an example for narrative painting in general, and focused on their didactic function and their role as a visual stimulus to piety.
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There's a bend in the right frame rail near the front, and the lunette is a bit bent.
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The last formed the main gun deck, while other cannon were mounted on the lower, semicircular lunettes (outer towers) set around the tower's exterior.
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Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
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Held visible in an intricate glass lunette, the wafer trembled before his eyes as he prayed.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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The eastern side of the lunette is the deposition zone for wind-borne sediments.
Reading the Maps
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The concealed top-lighting from lunettes in sliced-off semi-domes in Dance's library at Lansdowne House recalls Piranesi's designs for St John Lateran made when Dance was in Rome.
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Luca Signorelli started the decorative scheme with nine lunettes on the west side of the cloister.
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The lunette to the left in the chapel, located above the marble sarcophagus with an effigy carved in the likeness of the deceased courtesan reclining on top, shows Mary Magdalen Borne Up by Angels.
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In the late cinquecento, Florentine patrons seized upon the cloister lunette fresco cycle as an ideal format for reformist didactic painting.
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At S. Vitale, above the lunettes, flying angels hold up clipei, and it is angels in this position that are also found on the marble table altar made by Bernard Gelduinus, in Toulouse, probably about 1096.
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Poccetti's second payment, on 10 December 1609, was for 60 lire, an amount which would have covered two more lunettes at his going rate.
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The ricordanze credit the Prior, Lorenzo Picciuoli, with the idea of painting the lunette fresco cycle with ‘the origin and progress of our [Servite] Order’ - a typical post-Tridentine theme in Tuscany.
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Unfortunately, the removal of this section of the picture was accompanied by the destruction of a frescoed lunette, depicting God the Father with Seraphim, which had originally surmounted the main field.
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Four figures in the quadrants of the vault and the lunettes that began the Petrine cycle are irretrievably lost - victims of time and eighteenth-century renovations.
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Castlepark House has a central pedimented two storey breakfront, made all the more distinctive by the Venetian window on the first floor which has a small lunette window, almost like a halo, above it.
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One typically Tuscan form of revival with roots in the renaissance was the cloister lunette fresco cycle.
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In a corner of the lunette depicting Solomon Sitting in Judgment is a figure of a seated man holding a pair of dividers and examining a drawing.
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In rare cases, different DIMSUFs yield diverse meanings: lune ` moon '> lunettes ` pair of spectacles' but also > lunule ` lunula, 'the white area at the base of the fingernail being crescent-shaped.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIV No 1
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Taxpayer: my allegiance is Japan, if I have to pay tax on all sources of income in both China and Japan, Lunette Ray Ban, what should I do?
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Now that a lunette's sinopia with faint sheep has come to light, the argument becomes stronger for the relief filling the chapel's remaining iconographical lacuna.
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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.
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On the ceiling Raphael painted the personifications of Theology, Philosophy, Jurisprudence and Poetry set within circular enclosures above the lunettes of the walls.
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Iacobini aptly draws a comparison between the representation of this church and that in the lunette mosaic of the southwest vestibule of Hagia Sophia.
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Brick stringcourses decorated rough stucco walls, while semicircular lunettes arched over the main floor windows.
