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Overdoor

A wall area directly above a doorway containing a panel ornamented with carvings or figures.

overdoor, sopraporta

overdoor panel
A wall area, more or less ornamented, directly above a doorway.
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The eight portraits (two overdoors and six full lengths) were set into the panelling, which was painted a greyish white, (75) and were framed within matching, painted bolection mouldings.
'Reining toasts': portraits of beauties by Van Dyck and Dahl at Petworth
44) This can be seen, for example, in the set of overdoors in the Kaisersaal.
The minuet: painter-musicians in triple time
In 1753-54, for example, Carle van Loo painted two overdoors for the bedchamber of Madame de Pompadour at the chateau de Bellevue in which his client is shown arrayed as a sultana.
Turning Turk: Robert O'Byrne assesses two publications dealing with the impact of the Orient on Western taste
Opposite Falconet's statue, two overdoors attributed to Francois Boucher represent Cupid reformed for the time being and practising the arts of writing verse and painting pictures.
Cupid at the Hermitage
Since she is painted frontally, Nattier does not render her high-arched nose, although that feature is prominent in Vanloo's portraits of her as three sultanas, two of them conversing over their needlework (Hermitage Museum), painted in 1752 as overdoors for the Turkish Bedroom of her Chateau de Bellevue.
The marquise de Pompadour visits London
Two Lely portraits, which were originally placed as overdoors on this wall, have generously been lent from Newport, Rhode Island, and New York.
Hall of fame: the temporary return of Sir Robert Walpole's outstanding picture collection to Houghton Hall has posed unique challenges to exhibition organisers. The process of securing loans and reconstructing Walpole's hang has given rise to numerous surprises
They also wasted his time and talent by commissioning, for overdoors and other decorations, so-called allegories similar to Largilli[greave{e}]re's All[acute{e}]gorie de la Musique, with which he had dignified but not e nhanced still-life.
CHARDIN AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY
These were developed by Carlos IV, who continued to employ his father's court artist, Anton Raphael Mengs, whose beautiful Dawn and Dusk overdoors in the exhibition, reveal the influence of Boucher.
Throned in platinum: politically they were a disaster but a spectacular exhibition in Madrid makes plain that Carlos IV and Queen Maria Luisa were superb patrons of art
Because they were resistant to weathering, many Della Robbia reliefs can still be found as sculpture inserted into an architectural context, such as overdoors, represented here by a particularly fine lunette of St Brigid of Sweden flanked by two confraternity members (Fig.
Masters of majolica: a remarkably beautiful exhibition in Arezzo sets the achievements of the Della Robbias in their artistic context
The paintings had been inserted into the wainscot, the landscapes as overdoors and the View of Rubens's House as an overmantel.
Rubens's house revealed: the oldest known depiction of Rubens's house in Antwerp has recently been discovered in the Buckinghamshire County Museum. Ben van Beneden discusses the significance of this remarkable canvas
Such decorative works were often installed as overdoors or chimneypieces, and the painting has been cut, as is evident from the cropped head of the dog at the bottom.
Twenty years of building a collection: the Hood Museum of Art
Before Banks, commissions for sculptures in Britain produced busts, public statues, church monuments and decorative reliefs for overmantels and overdoors.
Thomas Banks's missing 'Cupid': the sculptor Thomas Banks is currently the subject of an exhibition at Sir John Soane's Museum. Its curator, Julius Bryant, tells the story of one of Banks's most celebrated works, purchased by Catherine the Great, which vanished during World War II

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