"Entombment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... original paintings and statues. He was a passionate admirer of Raphael, and had great success in reproducing his works. Amsler's principal engravings are: "The Triumphal March of Alexander the Great,'' and a full-length "Christ,'' after the sculptures of Thorwaldsen and Dannecker; the "Entombment of Christ,'' and two "Madonnas'' after Raphael; and the "Union between Religion and the Arts,'' after Overbeck, his last Work, on which he ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... reconciling this with the proximity of perpetual congelation, was one chief cause of the several theories of sudden revolutions of climate, and of overwhelming catastrophes, which were invented to account for their entombment. I am far from supposing that the climate has not changed since the period when those animals lived, which now lie buried in the ice. At present I only wish to show, that as far as QUANTITY of food ALONE is concerned, the ancient rhinoceroses might have roamed over the STEPPES of central Siberia ...
— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin
... The Entombment of our Lord, an unfinished painting on wood, the figures of our Lord and the men very much repainted, the three women and the background by the master. No. ...
— Michael Angelo Buonarroti • Charles Holroyd
... churches, where the Holy Sepulchres are displayed; and in the afternoon all Madrid resorts to the Plaza del Sol and the Carrera San Geronimo, to show off their gayest costumes in a regular gala promenade. Finally, on Saturday morning—why forty-eight hours only is allowed for the supposed entombment does not quite appear—the bells clang forth, noise and gaiety pervade the whole city, and the day ends with a cock-fight and the reopening of the theatres, and the first grand bull-fight of the ...
— Spanish Life in Town and Country • L. Higgin and Eugene E. Street
... in the third compartment, by the same artists, represents the Entombment and the Ascension, and is the gift of C.L. Higgins, Esq., of ...
— Ely Cathedral • Anonymous
... This toleration of an older and cruder, in subordination to a purer, faith is a very common feature in religious evolution. In Catholic countries, to this day, we may watch, in Holy Week, the Adonis feast described by Theocritus, {105d} and the procession and entombment of the old ...
— Custom and Myth • Andrew Lang |
