Example sentences for: friezes

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

  • Countless Renaissance and Baroque sculptors have drawn inspiration from the friezes on the triple Arch of Septimius Severus (honoring a third-century emperor who died in York, England, the northernmost boundary of the empire).

  • Much of the fine statuary and carved friezes still present when Ottoman forces left have been displayed here along with four of the original Caryatid statues from the Erechtheíon.

  • Housed in a 16th-century monastery, the Archaeological Museum (Piazza Olivella) displays superb statues and sculpted metope (friezes) from Sicily’s various archaeological sites, highlighted by those from the Greek temples of Selinunte (600–500 b.c. ), on Sicily’s south coast.

  • Its refined façade of delicate inlaid colored marble and intricately carved friezes has won it the name of “golden jewel box” (scrigno d’oro), its local designer Pietro Lombardo more sculptor than architect.

  • This sprawling compound of courtyards and showy 19th-century pavilions is decorated in a pantheon of finely carved friezes, gates, and gold-leaf tableaux depicting scenes of Chinese myth and romance.


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