Example sentences for: tapestries

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

  • 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.

  • Seventeenth-century tapestries depicting heroic scenes from the life of Alexander the Great adorn the walls.

  • The Museu de Lamego in the old bishop’s palace houses a fine collection of Flemish tapestries and religious statues, as well as paintings by Grão Vasco of the Viseu school (see page 56).

  • The gabled Governor’s Wing numbers ten luxurious apartments with fine furniture, tapestries, silks, brocades, silverware, and delicate porcelain.

  • 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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