Use painting in a sentence
Sentences ending with painting
- Mr. Reginald Farwell, who was there, afterwards declared that she seemed to have stepped out of the gentle landscape of an old painting. [9]
- With throbbing heart, unable to utter a single word, Ulrich opened the door of the studio, bowing low before the monarch, who without vouchsafing him a single glance, walked solemnly to the painting. [10]
- We begin here to enter the portals of Dutch painting. [4]
- We forget that the creation of the novel should be, to a certain extent, a synthetic process, and impart to human actions that ideal quality which we demand in painting. [4]
- I want to speak with him about this curious painting. [10]
- Some of these pictures are mosaics, and so artistically are their thousand particles of tinted glass or stone put together that the work has all the smoothness and finish of a painting. [5]
- It is the master-stroke of this imcomparable painting. [5]
- And then there is painting. [5]
- Your pupil Navarrete has become faithless to you and the noble art of painting. [10]
- The chapel here had gained greater importance to him when the Blombergs placed above the altar the Madonna and Child which he, who tried all the arts, had copied with his own hand from an ancient painting. [10]
Short sentences using painting
- And art, painting! [9]
More example sentences with the word painting in them
- Coello called the youth to the easel, and pointing to the sketches in color, containing numerous figures, on which he was painting, said: "Look here, my son. [10]
- I used to worship the mighty genius of Michael Angelo--that man who was great in poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture--great in every thing he undertook. [5]
- In Italy the worlds of music and painting were for the first time opened to him. [4]
- She said granny-aunt's withered old face had two red spots come to it, as if she had been painting her cheeks from a pink saucer. [6]
- Apollodorus forced a whole talent of the yellow curse upon me for painting his men's room. [10]
- Willis kicked hard when it came to painting the oriel yellow, but an architect always takes it for granted he knows it all, and a--" "Fenelon," said Mrs. Cooke, "luncheon is waiting. [9]
- In fancy I was painting her still. [10]
- Sometimes he would walk with her to lunch and make her eat something sustaining, and they talked freely then, though little was said while he was painting her. [11]
- Where did this virile, blood-full, throbbing Russian literature come from; this Russian painting of Verestchagin, that smites us like a sword with the consciousness of the tremendous meaning of existence? [4]
- There were some unique auxiliaries to the painting which added to its spirited effect. [5]
- Suppose we were to remain in this magnificent palace, and to represent ourselves the beautiful groups which the great artists of the past have produced in painting or sculpture; but let us choose those only that are least known. [10]
- You would want to make a statue of her, or a painting, I know. [6]
- I just wanted to ask, who is it that's painting down there? [5]
- The blame for this untimely painting did not lie with the ship's officers, but with custom. [5]
- Some were painting themselves, others cleaning their rifles and sharpening their scalping knives. [9]
- I shall remember the Transfiguration partly because it was placed in a room almost by itself; partly because it is acknowledged by all to be the first oil painting in the world; and partly because it was wonderfully beautiful. [5]
- I drew with the red chalk, and mixed the colors with the grinder, and all the while I could not feel the painful sense of painting a corpse. [10]
- To be sure, the poor wretches in the painting were on a raft, but to think of fifty people in one of these open boats! [6]
- The supes started the panorama grinding along again, and he says: "'Ladies and gentlemen, this exquisite painting represents the raising of Lazarus from the dead by our Saviour. [5]
- A painting in the dining-hall verged upon the indelicate --but then the Margravine was herself a trifle indelicate. [5]
- We had had the best instructors in drawing and painting in Germany--Haemmerling, Vogel, Mueller, Dietz, and Schumann. [5]
- It is said that its face shows painting done by the Indians, and hieroglyphics which nobody can read. [4]
- They know their story by heart--the history of every statue, painting, cathedral or other wonder they show you. [5]
- The afternoon was spent on the sea-shore, which is very beautiful at Audierne, and there I watched my friends painting sea-scapes. [11]
- Sophonisba Anguisciola still spent all her leisure hours in the studio, painting or conversing with Moor. [10]
- The likeness was so close that the photograph might seem to have been copied from the painting, the dress only being changed. [6]
- The artist had shrewdly heightened the delusion by painting dust on the creatures' backs, as if it had fallen there naturally and properly. [5]
- He did not see the fair Carmen again, and in a few weeks the appointment was forgotten, for painting under Moor's instruction absorbed him as nothing in his life had ever done before, and few things did after. [10]
- An artist, in search of hints for a painting of the deluge, would here have found them in abundance. [5]
- At Arras I saw a painting of myself kneeling in armor before the King and delivering him a letter; but I caused no such things to be made. [5]
- Monsieur Soury says romance is the mortal enemy of history; but this sentence may have no more justice than the one with which I think myself justified in replying: Landscape painting is the mortal enemy of botany. [10]
- His countenance had put on an expression of eager attention, and he once more took up the painting attributed to Apelles, sat down with it on the couch, and appeared wholly absorbed in the contemplation of the picture, which hid his face from the bystanders. [10]
- Jethro postponed two political trips of no small importance to be present at the painting of that picture, and he would sit silently by the hour in a corner of the shed watching every stroke of the brush. [9]
- Falsehood vitiates a poem, a painting, exactly as it does a life. [4]
- Rushing to the picture, he thrust his maul-stick through it, then kicked easel and painting to the floor. [10]
- It was not part of her sorrow that he had given himself to painting and sculpture. [11]
- She had been painting the grass under the snow. [4]
- Never before had painting seemed so empty to him, never before had millinerizing seemed so void of interest to her. [5]
- He does some painting himself when he travels in his Pullman in the Rockies. [11]
- King Philip, pondering over complicated political combinations, would be a fascinating historical painting, but no likeness. [10]
- What's the use of painting the fire round a poor fellow, when you think it won't do to kindle one under him,--as they did at Valencia or Valladolid, or wherever it was? [6]
- He was aware of painting the character too vividly, and he warned March not to accept it exactly in those tints, but to subdue them and shade it for himself. [8]
- What's the good of painting and statuary, if you can't do the big things? [11]
- I'm a sort of man of all work--I thought of painting it white, with the pillars green. [9]
- True, they did not venture into the cathedral, probably from fear of his Majesty the Emperor, and whoever had undertaken to lay hands upon the altar painting and the Madonna in our chapel would have paid for it--I am not boasting--with his life. [10]
- The rest of my days will be spent in patching and painting and puttying and caulking my priceless possession and in looking the other way when an imploring argument or a damaging fact approaches. [5]
- She took up music again, and languages, drawing, painting, and the other long-discarded delights of her maidenhood. [5]
- The gloomier the mood that pervaded his own soul, the more sunny and bright the painting seemed. [10]
- We had the misfortune of seeing a painting of his in a collection belonging to one of the French princes, and exhibited at the Art Museum. [6]
- I have my long walks, my fishing and rowing, and sometimes hunting, with Juste and my sweet sister Georgette, my drawing, painting, music, and needlework, and my housework. [11]
- How deeply the lad's sensitive nature was impressed by the airy rooms, the open verandas supported by many pillars, the brilliant hues of the painting, the artistic household utensils, the soft cushions, and the sweet perfume everywhere! [10]
- That man will know a painting next time he sees one, and then he won't rest till he has bought a chromo, and so he will go on. [4]
- We are not infallible judges of pictures, but of course we went there to see this wonderful painting, once so beautiful, always so worshipped by masters in art, and forever to be famous in song and story. [5]
- Here in Milan, in an ancient tumble-down ruin of a church, is the mournful wreck of the most celebrated painting in the world--"The Last Supper," by Leonardo da Vinci. [5]
- Swiftly-changing visions broke in again and again on her sincerely devotional thoughts and her restless half-sleep, painting to her fancy now wondrously bright images, and now most horrible ones--now pictures of exquisite happiness, and again others of dismal melancholy. [10]
- He sees that his invention or his painting or his book is--apparently--a trifle better than you yourself can do, therefore why shouldn't you be willing to put your hall-mark on it? [5]
- He could not help laughing at his "masterpiece" and hurried out on the balcony with the wet painting, to show it to Carmen. [10]
- Then, bending forward, he stared at the painting, panting as he might after racing for a wager. [10]
- The sitting- room had been that of the late Countess also, and on the wall was an oil- painting of her, stately and distant and not very alluring, though the mouth had a sweetness which seemed unable to break into a smile. [11]
- If the screen had been intended to stay there, we should have agitated the subject of painting it. [4]
- And there he had achieved a rare masterpiece of skill, painting Dame Ursula's reprobate malice in such strong colors to her father that Master Pernhart was in fear lest he should bring upon himself another fit. [10]
- Never had he guided the brush so joyously; in painting this picture he only wished to give, to give--give his beloved father the best he could accomplish, so he succeeded. [10]
- I see you've given up your painting and sculping to do this! [11]
- There is a genius for religion, just as there is for painting or sculpture. [6]
- One of the first men in the town, and a connoisseur, had honored him with a fine commission, and the prospect of painting something dead had pleased him. [10]
- At last, Carnac, feeling he was making small headway with his painting, determined to go again to New York and Paris. [11]
- After a time do we just live, or try to live, on literature warmed over, on pretty coloring and drawing instead of painting that stirs the soul to the heroic facts and tragedies of life? [4]
- At last one day the painting was finished, and she looked up at him wistfully when he told her he would not need another sitting. [11]
- The treatment was daring, and it cut me like a knife that the whole painting had a red glow: the dress was red, the light falling on the hair was red, the shine of the eyes was red also. [11]
- While painting his courage rose, for the hair, flesh, and dress seemed to him to become true to nature and effective. [10]
- It was the costume I wore at Chantilly, and Monsieur le Prince complimented me, and the next day the painter himself came to our hotel in the Rue de Bretagne and asked the honor of painting me. [9]
- He had often brought pictures under Caesar's notice, for he was the first living authority as a connoisseur of painting, and as having written many descriptions of pictures. [10]
- Scrubbing, painting of blinds, and other perturbing processes did all they could to make it uncomfortable. [6]
- He was standing before the easel after dinner, engaged in painting, when the door of the corridor leading to the treasury was suddenly flung open, without the usual warning, and Philip again entered the studio. [10]
- What a prospect--to be reared there with aristocratic companions, and instructed in the art of painting. [10]
- This ship would be going into dock for a month in Sydney for repairs; but no matter, painting was going on all the time somewhere or other. [5]
- Why shouldn't there be color on the exterior, gold and painting, like the Fugger palaces in Augsburg, only on a great scale? [4]
- I drew him away from the only work he ever enjoyed--his painting. [9]
- He was painting at the time, I remember, and he testily and unprofitably drew his brush across the face of a Copt woman he was working at, and bit off the end of a cigar. [11]
- It was only another delusion--a painting by some ingenious artist with little charity in his heart for tired folk. [5]
- Granvelle, who appreciated and was interested in music as well as in painting and sculpture, found real pleasure in listening to Barbara, yet while doing so he did not forget that she might be of service to him. [10]
- Masterpieces of painting and sculpture were the ornaments of the room. [10]
- The painting began, and for half an hour or more was continued without a word. [11]
- For fiction is an art, as painting is, as sculpture is, as acting is. [4]
- But I notice also that they may become fixed and permanent in any stock, by painting and repainting them on every individual, until at last Nature adopts them and bakes them in her porcelain. [6]
- Evidence is on all sides of a fresh, new, wonderful artistic development in America in drawing, painting, sculpture, in instrumental music and singing, and in literature. [4]
- Some painting by a master looks down upon us from its old canvas, and leaves a lasting copy of itself, to be stored in memory's picture gallery. [6]
- He was painting a barn--it was his own barn--and yet he was informed that his work must stop; he was a non-union painter, and couldn't continue at that sort of job. [5]
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