Example sentences for: florentine

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

  • Characteristic of the city’s civic consciousness, they portray the Life of Man from Adam’s creation to the rise of civilization through the arts and sciences — music, architecture, metallurgy, and the like — pursued so earnestly by the Florentine guilds that commissioned the work.

  • Inside, on the first floor, is a museum of typical Florentine domestic life from the 14th to 16th centuries, with furniture, utensils, and ceramics — the most attractive are in the Sala dei Pappagalli (Parrots’ Hall) with its trompe l’œil tapestries frescoed on the walls.

  • Donatello has sculpted a fine polychrome wood St. John the Baptist for his compatriots’ Florentine Chapel, to the right of the altar.

  • The headline was "Miss Albright cannot resist Florentine jewels."

  • His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.


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