Example sentences for: friezes

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

  • The center of the Parthenon was totally destroyed along with many columns and priceless carved friezes.

  • 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.

  • Six elegant columns support a pediment with decorative friezes depicting the gods on Mount Olympus and heroic battle scenes of Greek warriors fighting barbarians.

  • 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).


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