"ancestor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Only the living room is unfriendly, mainly because of the glum ancestor portraits on the walls.
- The sale of more than 1,490 lots will also offer porcelains, prints, genre paintings, ancestor portraits, folk art and furniture.
- Two large ancestor portraits of a husband and wife painted in watercolour on silk date from the 18th century.
- The paintings were "ancestor portraits."
- With dog videos in the living room, dog magnets on the refrigerator and an ancestor portrait that is a soulful canine face, it's like a Goldilocks tale redone with Weimaraners.
- One is being inaugurated with a show of Qing-dynasty Chinese ancestor portraits organized at the Freer and Arthur M. Sackler Galleries in Washington, where it appeared last summer.
- The show's 64 ancestor portraits, trade signs, weather vanes, quilts, gypsum figures and decorated tin vessels, all produced over the last 200 years, reflect folk art's most important themes.
- They put hunting prints and faux ancestor portraits on the walls, period furniture in the "study" (as the den came to be known), silver candlesticks on the mahogany dining-room table.
- Related genres of commemorative art for the dead take many forms, such as the moai figures of Easter Island, apparently a type of sculpted ancestor portrait, though hardly individualized.
- Wolff refers to the painting as a "generic ancestor portrait" whose subject's "knowing smirk" has often made him wish that she were in fact a relative.
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