Lexicographical Neighbors of Mandorla
Literary usage of Mandorla
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1897)
"When the group of angels had reached its appointed place, this mandorla ...
At that point of the platform where the mandorla was to rest, an elevated place ..."
2. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Jonathan Foster (1855)
"it very appropriately called), was a halo or glory (mandorla) of copper, wherein
were numerous perforations, displaying small lamps placed on an iron in the ..."
3. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1859)
"Odoardo Bartalini for seven excellent peaches, including the Pesca Melo, the
Bianci di Nizza, the Ammirabile Belga, and Pesca mandorla, and for four ..."
4. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects: Tr. from the by Giorgio Vasari, Jean Paul Richter (1855)
"When the group of angels had reached its appointed place, this mandorla, ...
At that point of the platform where the mandorla was to rest, an elevated place ..."
5. 1: 1 Martí Guixéby Marti Guixe, Inga Knölke, Ed van Hinte, Paola Antonelli, Octavi Rofes, Jeffrey Swartz, Brigitte Rambaud by Marti Guixe, Inga Knölke, Ed van Hinte, Paola Antonelli, Octavi Rofes, Jeffrey Swartz, Brigitte Rambaud (2002)
"In his graphic description of of how his designs should be used, the outcome is
always a mandorla, an aura of satisfaction that surrounds each user's head ..."
6. Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings by Fogg Art Museum (1919)
"The Fogg Museum, the Palazzo Bufalini, and the Benson collection panels have a
landscape background instead of a mandorla of cherubs' heads. ..."
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