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Example sentences for "cartoons"

Lexicographically close words:
cartons; cartoon; cartooned; cartoonist; cartoonists; cartouch; cartouche; cartouches; cartridge; cartridges
  1. These cartoons played the same part in the art of the Cinquecento as Masaccio's Carmine frescoes in that of the preceding century; it is the universal testimony of contemporaries that they were the supremely perfect works of the Renaissance.

  2. Pungileone supposes him to have returned to Rome in 1521, two years before his death, and there to have acquired a number of the cartoons and drawings of his friend Raffaele.

  3. There is something pathetic about the way in which, wherever the political Bolsheviks get into office, they print the verses and cartoons of the artistic anarchists.

  4. The cartoons of May's which he reproduces will not compare with the artist's later drawings, but it is not possible to estimate the value to May of the training he obtained in this early political work.

  5. With cartoons under title "Don't be a Mr. Block .

  6. This done, he painted some large figures on that part of the walls where there is the Birth of Venus, but after the cartoons of Vasari, and many little figures in a landscape, which were executed very well.

  7. And, withdrawing--for he was still working with Andrea del Sarto--to draw the cartoons at S.

  8. Here is many a rare Reynolds which Mr. Tom Taylor might find worth making a note of, and here are walls covered with noble cartoons of the severe Munich school.

  9. Preparations are making to remove the cartoons of Raphael from Hampton Court to the new north fire-proof gallery in the South Kensington Museum, formerly occupied by the British pictures of the National Gallery.

  10. In a great long hall, like a gallery, I saw the eight cartoons of Raphael that were made for the arrases in the Vatican.

  11. There are other cartoons in the same gallery by Mantegna representing the "Triumph of Caesar.

  12. As to the cartoons from which the tapestries were copied, these lay neglected in the manufactory at Arras till 1630.

  13. The cartoons were sent to Arras and copied in tapestry.

  14. Raphael was commissioned by the Pope to paint cartoons for certain pieces of tapestry to be made in Flanders.

  15. The cartoons were all riddled with needle prickings, and intersected by narrow bands, but William III.

  16. He was a great help to Raffaello, therefore, in painting a large part of the cartoons for the tapestries of the Pope's Chapel and of the Consistory, and particularly the ornamental borders.

  17. And after he had conceived this desire, hearing the renown that Leonardo and Michelagnolo had in that art on account of the cartoons executed by them in Florence, he set out straightway to go to that city.

  18. And because that people looked with little favour on Florentines, Rosso would not trust himself to them, and went off to Borgo a San Sepolcro, leaving the cartoons and designs for his work hidden away in the citadel.

  19. That they are his is maintained by some who still remember having seen them painted; and we have also testimony in the cartoons which are still to be found in the possession of his successors.

  20. Whereupon Rosso began his cartoons in a room that they had allotted to him in a place called Murello; and there he finished four of them.

  21. Jack had consequently taken an opportunity to see the Fair and remained to earn his living as best he could by contributing cartoons to the newspapers, writing paragraphs in a funny column, and occasional verse of the humorous order.

  22. Kim" was the name signed to some clever cartoons that had been appearing all that winter in a rival paper, about which there had been more or less talk in the circles where Milly moved.

  23. In the first place, after a design has been drawn, in which the effect of the window as a whole can be carefully considered, cartoons of the figures and ornament are made of the exact size of the intended painting.

  24. The execution of these cartoons is almost entirely due to Gian Francesco Penni, and the borders of the tapestries were designed by Giovanni da Usline.

  25. How he must have revelled in the contemplation of Masaccio's noble frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel--the training school of generations of painters--which ten years later were echoed in his tapestry cartoons for the Sistine Chapel!

  26. The invention in the Cartoons comes next under Mr Fuseli's observation.

  27. In the first year of his reign, Charles was indebted L6000 to the establishment for three suits of gold tapestry; Five of the Cartoons were wrought here, and sent to Hampton Court, where they still remain.

  28. Cartoons of Raphael were estimated only at 300l.

  29. The New York Times and Thomas Nast's cartoons in Harper's Weekly were most important factors in the overthrow of the Tweed Ring in New York City, and in the elections of 1884 and later, newspapers exerted an unusual power.

  30. The New York Times and the cartoons of Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly were the chief agents in arousing the people of the city to their situation.

  31. The cartoons of Nast in Harper's Weekly, especially, held him up to merciless ridicule.

  32. Make a collection of cartoons that you think are particularly good, and explain what each means.

  33. Poster of an Exhibition of Raemaekers cartoons in Milan.

  34. It is by his cartoons that he will be remembered, a great universal figure, with an irresistible passion for freedom which found full expression in his numberless masterly drawings.

  35. Poster of an Exhibition of Raemaekers' Cartoons in Milan.

  36. Here also are several of Beccafumi's cartoons for the pavement of the Duomo, chiefly scenes from the history of Moses and Aaron, with one from that of Elijah.

  37. Capella Sistina than in the Stanze and the Cartoons of Raffaello, which being oftener pathetic or intellectual than sublime, suffered less by neglecting it.

  38. One of these cartoons is still to be seen at the present day in Siena, and some of the sketches, by the hand of Raffaello, are in our book.

  39. Besides this, he made the cartoons for many tapestries, which were afterwards woven in silk by the Flemish master, Giovanni Rosto, for the apartments of his Excellency's Palace.

  40. Artists lent their aid to spread the new ideas, and many cartoons made the doctrines and the aims of the Reformers plain to the common people.

  41. Many of these Reformation cartoons are to be found in G.

  42. Modern newspapers are illustrated, and have cartoons of the leading events of the day.

  43. Sometimes she made one of her cleverest cartoons in fifteen or twenty minutes.

  44. For months I have admired the cartoons signed 'Het' in the New York papers, for they were essentially clever and droll.

  45. We have recently seen, at Hampton Court, the seven cartoons of Raphael, which should not be looked at, still less criticised, but on bended knee.

  46. He offered to pay for the cartoons not yet drawn, but the artist declined to accept further payment when he was told in confidence the reason for the cancellation of the commission.

  47. The Leipziger Volkszeitung has declared that Raemaekers' cartoons show unimpeachable art and great power of execution, but that they all lack one thing.

  48. Before the war had been in progress many weeks the cartoons in the Amsterdam Telegraaf attracted attention in the capitals of Europe, many leading newspapers reproducing them.

  49. In none of these cartoons is his sæva indignatio rendered with more sheer beauty of design, or with a craftsmanship more exquisite, than in this monument to the sea-mined prey.

  50. Dutch editors have been admonished and punished under pressure from Berlin; the brilliant artist of these cartoons is in danger on his native soil.

  51. A Teuton paper has declared that Raemaekers' cartoons are worth at least two Army Corps to the Allies.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cartoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.