Example sentences for: painterly

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

  • "'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations."

  • The painterly impact of the “burnt sienna” glows from the arcaded Gothic Palazzo Pubblico opposite, with its splendid 102-m- (335-ft-) high Torre del Mangia (climb to its first tier at 88 m [288 ft] for a magnificent view of the city and countryside beyond).

  • "He was one of the last painterly painters," maintains Marden, adding that Rothko's great composition of purple, white, and red ( Untitled , 1953) is "like an impressionist work, because of the kind of touch involved."

  • Walcott trained to be a painter--like his schoolteacher father, who died when Walcott was a baby--and The Bounty is his most painterly book, in method and theme.

  • No longer the wild and visionary improviser, Soutine now apprenticed himself to the great painterly painters of the past: Courbet, Chardin, and Rembrandt.


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