How To Use Staffa In A Sentence
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Moreover, if the staffage reminds us of the kinds of figures found in his earlier work, they do also represent the people who worked on the Thames barges.
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In the space of a week it will call at Brodick Castle in Arran, at Inveraray, at the Islands of Colonsay, Staffa and Iona, at Kisimul Castle in Barra and Dunvegan in Skye, and the Garden of Inverewe in Wester Ross.
St. Andrew's Day Special Meeting
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Here, museum officials watch expectantly as a cow examines a recently acquired landscape painting with bovine staffage.
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Wild birds form of themselves a very conspicuous and interesting feature in the staffage, as painters call it, of the natural landscape, and they are important elements in the view we are taking of geography, whether we consider their immediate or their incidental influence.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)
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Every city of any historic importance breeds a class of mortals that are born guides; they have come to belong to the "staffage" of picturesque surroundings; and in this respect Prague is happily yet unspoilt.
From a Terrace in Prague
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Two authors, Susan Staffa and Fatima Mernissi, have focused on the sultana, emphasized her life and minimized the events of the Crusade and the male supporting cast around her.
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No painting better makes the point that these works record the city's daily life than his View of the Tiber at the Ripa Grande, even though the figures in the foreground have something of a biblical air and echo the staffage of Salvator Rosa; the canvas is big, roughly one metre high and two wide, the scale at which he is most at ease.
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If, as Michiel and the 1569 inventory perhaps imply, the figures were mere staffage, added to heighten the mood, to underline mankind's vulnerability before the forces of nature, it would certainly make this masterpiece quite unique in the history of Renaissance art.
Reading the 'Tempest'
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Except for some staffage across the valley floor, the remainder of the vista corresponds to the etching with excruciating fidelity, with one notable exception.
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Instead, he resorted to artistic licence as regards scale, spatial relationships and the introduction of staffage.
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The original canvas sets Burns much more in the centre of things and reduces Scott, if he's really there at all, to staffage, one of the seated figures who accentuate the poet's height and presence by their passivity.
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And that, surely, is the point - in a painted landscape, the land, the horizon and the sky should dominate, with figures, animals and other staffage mere embellishments to decorate the view.
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