Paintings

Examples

• It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• China continued to produce beautiful paintings long after the fall of the Han rule. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Before its introduction it was not possible to reproduce cheaply in printers’ ink shaded pictures like photographs, brush drawings, paintings, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• From Egyptian tomb-paintings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And then she shewed him how, by executing various designs and paintings, she earned a pittance for her support. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There are comparatively few paintings that I can really enjoy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We wandered through the endless collections of paintings and statues of the Pitti and Ufizzi galleries, of course. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• That is one of my paintings over the chimney-piece. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Early Egyptian paintings show this going on. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is one of the largest paintings in Europe. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Genoa and her rival, Venice, were the great trading seaports of this time; their noble palaces, their lordly paintings, still win our admiration. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• During a two years' sojourn in Italy he had collected many good paintings and tasteful rarities, with which his residence was now adorned. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Two or three exquisite paintings of children, in various attitudes, embellished the wall. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• For copying paintings on glass, the solution should be applied on leather, and in this case it is more readily acted on than when paper is used. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In producing fresco paintings, a finished drawing on paper, called a cartoon, exactly the size of the intended picture, is first made, to serve as a model. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many of the paintings are found in the depths of unlit caves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Another marvel of the periodical of our day is the printing of some of the pages in the full colors of the original paintings. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• We find also a number of sculptures and paintings to enforce the idea that the Pharaohs were the actual sons of gods. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lest any space on the wall should lie empty a number of paintings were added: Tycho himself in an easy attitude seated at a table and directing from a book the work of his students. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We visited the Louvre, at a time when we had no silk purchases in view, and looked at its miles of paintings by the old masters. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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