These cast a flickering, uncertain light over the clearing, and in that light they saw throngs of naked, painted figures along the fringe of the clearing.

"Nobody has ever seen any painted figures of this scale before on ancient Peruvian textiles," he commented.

The energy of the city put Beckmann's talents, as well as his weaknesses, into high relief, much the way he emphasized his painted figures with thick black outlines.

They house many life-sized, painted figures (sculpted in mud to appease the Alusi (deity) and Ala, the earth goddess, with other deities of thunder and water).

This exhibition consists of 85 hand-carved and painted figures, made with wood from fallen cottonwood trees.

Smoothly the little painted figure lifted across two squares to menace Joram's blue abbot.

Gaulli's ceiling is a masterpiece of quadratura (architectural illusionism) combining stuccoed and painted figures and architecture.

Then the wild men of the sea plunged through the fringe of foliage and fell on the naked painted figures that rose out of the gloom before them.

In fact, inscriptions are quite rare and only ever used to name painted figures.

The style of these sculptured figures was solid and natural, not "elongated" (made longer) like most Medieval sculptured and painted figures.