2. Verb. (third-person singular of canvas) ¹
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Definition of Canvases
1. canvas [v] - See also: canvas
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canvases
Literary usage of Canvases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"Corot only is absent in spirit, for the sun-steeped haze and the idyllic tone of
his best canvases are not of Fontainebleau. The artists who have supremely ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Above all he excelled in microscopic canvases, wherein the wonderful reproduction
of the minutest details is a perpetual source of astonishment. ..."
3. The Art of the Prado: A Survey of the Contents of the Gallery, Together with by Charles S. Ricketts (1907)
"Time and the restorer have dealt ill with the two canvases at the Prado, — shorn
the ' Garden of Loves ' of its shape, and done badly by the tender glazes ..."
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