What is "terra-cotta"

Usage examples of "terra-cotta".

At any rate, the work is now little more than a ruin, and the terra-cotta Pieta is among the least satisfactory groups on the Sacro Monte.

This, having regard to the terra-cotta figures alone, is by far the finest work on the Sacro Monte, and it is hardly too much to say that no one who has not seen it knows what sculpture can do.

There is no important work by Gaudenzio Sceti remaining on the Sacro Monte, but there is a terra-cotta crucifix with a Virgin and a St.

Frank McGlynn lowered his voice, as if Gordon Spangler might be here, among the gnomes and terra-cotta bunnies-a watchful but motionless figure all but hidden by lilacs.

My kitchen is pure, unrenovated 1940s but painted cream with terra-cotta trim to compensate.

Starting, in pursuance of this aim, with a single specimen,her nephew, Willie Partridge, who was working on a new explosive which would eventually revolutionise warshe had gradually added to her collections, until now she gave shelter beneath her terra-cotta roof to no fewer than six young and unrecognised geniuses.

Although it was fall in the land I came from, Miller Damon was lush with blooming vines and flowering cactuses and ivies with shiny leaves that climbed the sandstone-colored bricks of the low buildings with their terra-cotta roofs.

She glanced up at him and found his gaze focused on i the big dracaena knocked on its side, its terra-cotta pot a :i!

Sacro Monte the tableaux are produced in perpetuity, only the figures are not living, they are terra-cotta statues painted and moulded in so life-like a way that you feel that, were a man of flesh and blood to get mixed up with the crowd behind the grating, you would have hard work to distinguish him from the figures that have never had life.

The draperies of all the other figures are painted, either terra-cotta or wood, but with these two they are real, being painted linen or calico, dipped in thin mortar or plaster of Paris, and real drapery always means that the figure has had something done to it.

Returning to the terra-cotta figures in the Magi chapel, there is nothing about them to find fault with, but they do not arouse the same enthusiasm as the frescoes.

The terra-cotta figures are ascribed by Bordiga to Ravello, and the frescoes to Testa, whose brother, Lorenzo Testa, was Fabbriciere at the time the chapel was erected.

The scene comprises twenty-three terra-cotta figures, few of them individually good, but nevertheless effective as a whole.

Of the terra-cotta figures, the one to the extreme left is certainly by Gaudenzio Ferrari, being another portrait, in nearly the same attitude, of the extreme figure to the left in the Crucifixion chapel.

It was dated November 1616, so that the terra-cotta figures probably belong to this year or to those that immediately preceded it.