paintery

Example Sentences

• "Now the lie of these involved waters becomes plain -- you can see the parklike Diurgården island to the east with its marvellous open-air Skansen museum of all the old village architectures of the country, with its wild riding woods and its leisurely villa-palaces built for an ampler age, and also what must be the most spacious studio a private painter has ever attained, the enormous royal paintery at Waldermarsudde of fin-de-siecle Prince Eugen, friend of Zorn and devotee on a truly royal scale of his art."
• "The blazing sun of July 24th was beating down on the wrecked plant, when a hole was noticed in the roof of the top story paintery in the Statler wagon factory."
• "The Jesuits in Japan were to disband the seminaries, the press and the paintery; to dismiss 200 of the 300 d juku and two-thirds of the servants; to withdraw from the various housestojust two or three, from which they were to make sorties to the Christians as best they could; to stop all building work, and all but absolutely essential present-giving, and to reduce almsgiving, in order to bring total outgoings for the following twelve months down from 12,000 to 5,000 or 6,000 ducats."
• "Domenichino's Jerome, surpasses in worth all the rest, and it is here that the ambitious artist loves to spend his day in improving his taste, and in increasing his admiration of these chefs d'ceuvre of the greatest paintery, since the restoration !"
• "He was an unfeigned lover of the Muses (or some of them : not musick or paintery), and writ much upon poesy, whether antient or modern, heroick, lyrick, or symbolicall."
• "I saw crazy quilts of the most brilliant colors of silks, so arranged to look like some great paintery."