To wax eloquent about someone's embossed silver, sumptuous carpets or marble statuary was to indict him.
The National Statuary Hall Collection consists of two sculptures gifted from each of the 50 states.
It should be illegal, she declared, for museums to purchase classical statuary whose provenance was unclear.
Kennedy suffered a seizure Tuesday during a luncheon for President Obama in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
National Statuary Hall inside the U.S. Capitol was once the meeting place of the House of Representatives.
Humphry Repton modified this approach, reintroducing man-made embellishments such as terraces, statuary and stately avenues of trees.
There and in Rome, he acquired paintings and antique statuary for Philip IV.
We want her statue to be in Statuary Hall, which is the principal hall of statues in the United States Congress.
Columns, curved windows, and surrounding ornamental gardens complete with a gazebo and statuary conjure the romance and prosperity of another era.
The show consists of his muscular, mostly monotone renditions of photos of broken statuary of antiquity, drawings he did in the 1980s.
As the whips made their rounds, Cantor retreated to another suite that he maintains, just off Statuary Hall, the old House Chamber.
It hangs at the Met much as it appears on the far left of Stieglitz's own installation shot of the "Statuary in Wood" exhibition.
The building is on the grounds of the San Francisco headquarters of Lucasfilm, and its first floor is decorated with statuary of Darth Vader and Yoda.
Even before the Gulf war, Mr Hussein hired Muhammad Ghani, Iraq's most prominent sculptor, to churn out a statuary sequence of the region's indigenous rulers from Hammurabi to himself.
After that point, the statue is moved out of the rotunda and either in Statuary Hall or along the Hall of Columns or in some other areas of The Capitol.
Owner Tony Pak has jazzed up his sprawling, 8, 000-square-foot second floor space with a bubbling stone fountain, koi pond, lounge pit, Asian statuary, Internet kiosks, animal sculptures and plastic floral wreaths.
The difference here is not so much between expressions of despotism and celebrations of democracy most statuary that inflates the human scale invites a deserving raspberry but in what else occupies public space.
The title of his first exhibition devoted to this material, "Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art" (1914) captures both the innovation and the contradictions of this debut.
When I was a kid, I liked walking through neighborhoods alone, looking at houses, seeing what people did to make them homes: the gardens, the statuary, the potted plants, the wind chimes.
Among the nearby statuary stands a life-size likeness of Benjamin R. (Pitchfork Ben) Tillman, the four-term United States senator who led the movement that disenfranchised black voters in 1895 and instituted Jim Crow.
Burks was first drawn to Forest Lawn Glendale because of its artwork and statuary, but once she found out that celebrities were "buried with the regular people, " she said, she began to grave hunt.
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Capture the spirit of kitschy Vegas at Caesars Palace as you sit by the Garden of the Gods pool oasis, surrounded by Greco-Roman statuary, while being offered frozen grapes by a goddess in a skimpy toga.
The thing is as solid as Egyptian statuary.
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Also striking are the photographs of religious statuary, notably a crucified Christ, which underline the empathy the impoverished Mexicans in Strand's photos must have felt for those whose suffering was as great as their own.
Almost 2 million people have visited the inaugural.senate.gov Web site, with most of the attention going to the page featuring the menu for the inaugural luncheon that will immediately follow the swearing-in in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.
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Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.
Beauty rolls in waves and seethes in eddies throughout the installations of dazzling ceramics, noble architectural fragments and statuary, fabulous carpets, enchanting miniatures from manuscripts and albums, and the extraordinarily varied and elegant calligraphy of handmade Korans, along with choice fabrics, metalwork, jewelry, and weapons.
He seemed content with making a visual record, day after day, of that naked, statuary figure, of that slow, docile flesh, of that inexpressive face and those closed or, perhaps, fastidious eyes, of a knee bending or a breast tilting or a forefinger slowly removing a speck from a cheek.
The winners, Filippo Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti, were in their early 20s, and their winning bronze panels are here side by side, along with examples of the classical Roman statuary they incorporated: one of the many marble versions of the "Boy with a Thorn" for Brunelleschi, and the muscular red marble torso of a centaur for Ghiberti.
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