Example sentences for: canvases

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

  • Courbet was painting his vast canvases of provincial life, and Manet his Déjeuner sur l’Herbe.

  • Rothko's journey into literal and figurative darkness left behind a shimmering trail of canvases that mark for many people the high-water mark of spiritual beauty and emotion in modern art.

  • No paintings in the show are more ravishing than the brace of monumental canvases Rothko painted in 1957 in a garage in New Orleans, while teaching at Tulane University.

  • Room 21: Vittore Carpaccio depicts in nine canvases the bizarre Story of St. Ursula, a British princess, said to have led 11,000 virgins on a pilgrimage to Rome, all of whom were raped and slaughtered on their way back.

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


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