Example sentences for: croce

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

  • The leather school tucked away behind the church of Santa Croce’s sacristy (in what was once Franciscan monk’s cells) is still around, allowing you a glimpse at the traditional making of leather goods such as handbags, wallets, gloves, belts, and desk accessories.

  • At the back of the cloister of Santa Croce’s Franciscan monastery adjoining the church, Brunelleschi’s Pazzi Chapel (Cappella dei Pazzi) is a little gem of Renaissance elegance designed in 1443.

  • In the Gondi Chapel (left of the high altar), the Brunelleschi Crucifixion (1410), his only scultpure in wood, brings to the human body a characteristic idealized harmony, compared with Donatello’s more personal piece in the church of Santa Croce (see page 87).

  • The most cherished treasure in the Santa Croce Museum is Cimabue’s 13th-century massive Crucifixion, rescued and painstakingly restored after the town’s catastrophic 1966 flood.

  • He was "America's first great native born ballet choreographer" (Terry Teachout, Time ). Critics remember his unrelenting perfectionism (some say meanness) and his audacious style, which "typified the make-way-for-youth spirit of the era" (Arlene Croce, The New Yorker ).


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