Example sentences for: tapestries

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

  • The museum was designed in 1975 by the architect Josep Lluís Sert to house a large collection of paintings, drawings, tapestries, and sculpture by the Catalan surrealist.

  • The collection covers all aspects of Coptic art and worship, from vestments, tapestries, early handwritten bibles, and painted icons, to ornate stone niches and wood-carved ceilings taken from churches all across Egypt.

  • Mycenaean figurines and pottery, Classical Greek and Roman sculpture, and Byzantine icons, frescoes and tapestries are all well-displayed and illustrate very effectively the varied influences that make up the history of the city.

  • 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.

  • He brought the same zeal to his own collections, asking Picasso to weave tapestries out of his own paintings, and Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger to create murals for his Fifth Avenue apartment.


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