Probably the finest example of the numerous pendants in the form of a single figure, particularly of those whose formation is suggested by a large baroque pearl, is the triton or merman jewel in the possession of Lord Clanricarde.
The bow of the later fibulæ is sometimes in the form of a single figure, as that of a crouching lion.
But the rule only strictly applies to a single figure portrait, for when the painter goes beyond this, and executes a double portrait or a multiple group, he restricts the scope of his art.
Scenes of approaching death may be arranged to produce a similar illusion, as for instance where those present are praying, or a single figure is waiting for the life to pass from the sick person.
But no single figure of Iphigenia, as the Greek ideal of heroic maidenhood and self-devotion, exists, I believe, in antique sculpture.
As a single figure he is frequently found on the series of archaic tablets or pinakes found near Corinth, and also in company with Amphitrite (Fig.
Triton= is found as a single figure,[168] and (chiefly on B.
No less than forty of their games were won by single figure scores, viz.
We might nowadays call him a specialist, for in England he painted nothing but portraits, and very few of his pictures contained anything besides the single figure, or head, of the subject.
It is unusual in form, inasmuch as the central panel, though slightly larger than the pair on either side, contains but a single figure.
These are early instances of the comparatively rare inclusion of more than a single figure in a pure portrait.
Perhaps the most characteristic paintings of Maestro Giorgio are the central medallions of cups and deep dishes enclosing a single figure of a child or a cupid in grisaille.
The earliest cups are decorated in a quite simple fashion like those of the black-figure period, often with a single figure each side between two large "symbolical" eyes, and a single figure in a circle in the interior.
They had stigmatized him as unequal to large proportions; and he filled a large piece with a single figure of S.
The crucifixions of this artist are often repeated, sometimes with a single figure, sometimes with our Lady and S.
In short, the whole question of preceptorship rests on no better authority than a single figure.
If you would see what may be done with a single figure, study the Portrait of his Mother, by Whistler.
By the time you can really paint a single figure well, you can dispense with a manual of painting, and branch out as ambitiously as you please.
Consider it now, not as a portrait, but as a single figure.
Gulnihal, a single figure, is the only other painting exhibited at the Academy in this year.
Farewell is a single figure in olive green and plum-coloured peplis under a portico above the sea, where she pauses to take a last look at an outward-bound ship.
This I have done, having special regard to one of his Academy pictures, The Sibyl, which, being a single figure, simplifies greatly the explanation of the mode of procedure.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "single figure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
