Sentences with phrase «as stained glass windows»

There are also period features such as stained glass windows and fireplaces, some with marble and others decorated with tiles.

He used commercial methods to produce glass paintings and collages, as well as stained glass windows for architectural use.

Set in a 19th century historic church building with original features such as stained glass windows and high ceilings.

Described — to the artist's bemusement — as stain glass windows, «African» prints, and Aztec - inspired patterns, his canvases seem to effortlessly fuse the aesthetic influences of a globalised world.

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I drive past multi-million dollar church properties filled with throngs of wealthy people (as compared to the peoples of this world, today) sitting on cushy chairs or pews, gazing out stained glass windows, and then arrive at my destination — the haunts of the homeless, many of whom have all they own in a backpack or in a shopping cart.

As an algae biologist I was initially struck by the cover graphic: a stained glass window made of diatoms, the tiny planktonic creatures whose exquisite outer shells are visible only through the electron microscope.

They recognize that AA, for instance, is tailor - made to meet the stresses and strains of alcoholism, and they accept the fact that alcoholism, as Harry Emerson Fosdick has put it, is like a stained - glass window in that it can best be seen and understood from the inside.

Say «Good Shepherd» to most Christians, at least in this country, and chances are we see the stained glass window that I saw as a child.

Many years ago, Malcolm Muggeridge referred to the cover of Time as «the most coveted stained glass window of contemporary culture.»

One is a little afraid of saying this, because most people think of saints as anemic human beings who inhabit bad stained glass windows.

And as far as «the church», why can't they just meet in a school, house, park... why do millions of dollars have to be invested in stone, carpet, iron, wood, stained glass windows, etc..

As a matter of fact, he had not said anything of the kind, but evidently the word «resurrection» conjured up in the minds of the men the stained glass windows in their parish churches back at home, where, in flagrant contradiction to St. Paul (1 Cor 15:36: «Thou fool»), the resurrection of the dead is depicted in ordinary human and terrestrial categories.

That's why as Christians we adorn our sanctuaries with stained glass windows and devote so much time and energy (or at least we should) to reading and studying the Bible.

But then again H. Maynard Smith warns that we are in danger today of passing from a sentimental view of the Middle Ages seen from a sanctuary where the sun irradiates the stained - glass windows, to a realistic view of the Middle Ages as seen from a gutter on a gloomy day.

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«Through the Round Window» is bursting with colour, which is exactly as it should be for a shop selling decorative stained glass.

We talk to Jenny Newall, a contemporary stained glass artist based in Shropshire, who creates beautiful stained glass animals and suncatchers, as well as bespoke modern windows.

The Queen praised the «tolerance» of Britain in a speech to both Houses of Parliament today, as a specially - made stained glass window was unveiled to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.

Gazing through the stained - glass windows of London's Westminster Abbey can evoke memories as diverse and vivid as the windows themselves, but to John Mauro, Penn State glass researcher, the windows sparked a quest to better understand the science behind the iconic portals to history.

Linking up with Fashionably Employed More Pieces of Me On the Daily Express as well as with Style Imitating Art because the colors in my outfit echo those in this beautiful stained glass window.

The cardigan looks like the undersea view as seen through a stained glass window.

If we truly want to know our students, we must view them as a stained - glass window with test data as only one of many pieces.

Collier's glorious collage art combines cut - paper, photographs, and watercolor, cleverly using stained - glass windows as the dominant images in church and also in the play of light and color in realistic views of the city.

Each sleeps just two people: choose from the sleek Le Bébé Cottage, with its baroque Paris feel (there's even a bright - red birdcage reborn as a swivel chair); Aunt Zoe's Place, decorated like a 1940s lakeside cabin, with restored farm sinks and stained - glass windows; and Papa Hemmingway Cottage, designed like a wilderness lodge.

Romance emanates from each Mediterranean archway, stained - glass window and rich tapestry, serving as the perfect backdrop to your declaration of forever.

King's is famous for its large stained glass windows as well as its Christmas Eve tradition.

As guests sit in the spa, they can open the stained glass windows and look out onto the Blackwood River.

With only 8 cottages on site they're specially designed by the owners to have a relaxed country feel with plenty of luxurious touches — claw - foot bathtubs from which you can sit and watch TV or just watch as the colours reflect through the stained glass window into the water; king or queen beds that you just sink into, gas log fires for a cozy night in and of course the beautiful garden surrounding the property which has been lovingly cultivated with plants or bulbs that survived the fires.

The interior is also a remarkable sight and is brimming with an array of fascinating features and eye catching exhibits, such as the picturesque stained glass windows, the enchanting crypt and the fascinating Grand Organ.

Designed by Rockwell Group, the 91 - room hotel retains some architectural elements, such as the structure's original vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows and marble staircases and fireplaces.

Colonial Rooms offer original features such as heritage bay windows, stain glass and original bathrooms from 1927.

Fine details such as dark oak paneling, and hardwood floors along with the stately library, grand master staircase, and stained glass windows were lovingly preserved during the renovation and now provide great pleasure to the guests of the Mansion at Maple Heights bed and breakfast.

All are exquisitely decorated after two - year extensive renovation, which preserved many original features such as hardwood floors, hand - painted wallpaper, stained glass windows, two original bathtubs, a bowling alley in the house basement, and many light fixtures and lamps.

Moving on to 1954 and the low - keyed eighth painting in the series (now in the Museum of Modern Art, New York)-- greys, blues, muffled yellows on a surface just over six feet high by three and a half feet wide, a motor metropolis of tightly curving ramps with headlight beams spreading like stains suggest a vision, slightly smudged, as if seen through the thick glass window of a skyscraper; at any rate remote from the scene of automotive nightmare.

They were executed as projects for some of his notable murals, stained glass windows, sculpture and large paintings.

In my own work, this same combination of qualities can be seen in a palette linked with the stained - glass window of my Catholic upbringing that serves as the basis for a rigorous investigation of light, that primary agent responsible for all photography.

Pender explores diverse sources, such as medieval stained glass windows and instruments of 19th Century «Chromo - therapists», to create her own sculpture of color and light.»

The artworks are made from materials as diverse as bamboo stalks, copper tubes, glass shards and a shopping cart; the show's catalog also documents the artist's designs for gates, fountains, stained - glass windows and other architectural elements, some of which have been destroyed.

The first includes an artist such as Paul Klee, for whom each picture is a singular and exacting exploration of a chosen poetic theme (the conflation, for example, of the structure of a stained glass window with that of a plant).

His overall images of nuns, bums, sailfish, and soldiers never seem as important as the jigsaw - puzzle or stained - glass - window configurations of pure color, built - up areas of silhouetted figures, airbrushed faces, and other techniques that send the eye racing around his surfaces, trying to take it all in.

The genesis of light as medium is age - old, with its origins stemming back to the use of radiant light, such as sunlight through a stained glass windows.

You'd have to be blind not to notice that, from a distance, Tacita Dean's commission for Tate Modern's sepulchral Turbine Hall looks like nothing so much as a vast stained - glass window — and for this reason I fervently hoped it was going to have the same effect on me as Olafur Eliasson's numinous The Weather Project (Eliasson's commission, the fourth in the Unilever series, filled this space in 2003 - 4 — and oh, how I worshipped it).

Careful lighting transforms the 13 monkey - god paintings lining the room into stained - glass windows and viewers behave as if they're in a non-specific holy space.

The second room shows the development of his early style: en plein air realist landscapes produced in Paris, erroneously described as Impressionist in almost all the literature; and a predilection for unclothed male figures, evident in his fin - de-siècle style mural and stained glass window designs.

It takes the stained glass window (or window) as main topic.

The exhibition features the 19 lithographs Wood created during the Great Depression that were printed and distributed by Associated American Artists (AAA) as well as two scale drawings of soldiers portrayed in the 24 x 20 ft. stained glass Memorial Window he designed for the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1928 - 29).

A wall of stained glass windows, made from humble «craft» materials like tape, paper, beads, and photo - gels, plays on the idea of metamorphosis with a fly as its central motif.

Each pictorial element of FROZEN YOUTH is surrounded by a black outline, often described as corresponding to stained glass windows.

Mr. Wiley has also ventured into sculpture, and his coming show at the Brooklyn Museum will include six stained - glass windows as well as a few bronze heads that can put you in mind of the portrait busts of Jean - Antoine Houdon, who flourished during the French Enlightenment.

Now, he's garnering major - league art world attention with larger works in high - profile exhibitions such as MoMA PS1's latest edition of «Greater New York» and the 2017 Whitney Biennial, where he's installed a gallery - spanning faux stained - glass window.