Example sentences for: canvases

How can you use “canvases” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).

  • On Sundays, artists offer their canvases for sale in Plaça de Sant Josep Oriol.

  • Despite the inclusion of canvases by Salvador Dali, Max Beckmann, Marc Chagall, Fernand Léger, and Piet Mondrian, the art is said to be unexceptional, since only Beckmann and Mondrian did their best work in exile.

  • An early cluster of smallish water lily paintings, two on circular canvases, that Monet exhibited in Paris in 1909 are almost saccharine in their placid beauty, visual equivalents of some of Debussy's prettier preludes.

  • Here, as in most of the city’s palaces and churches, the walls are decorated with painted panels and canvases by Venetian masters rather than delicate frescoes, too easily damaged by the Venetian climate.


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