Tabernacle frame definition: a frame, especially of the 18th century, around a doorway, niche, etc., that suggests a small building, characteristically one with a pediment and two pilasters on a base.. See examples of TABERNACLE FRAME used in a sentence.
Atabernacle framelooks structural, like a small building: An ornate top and base supported by pillars on both sides. The design was based on treatments around doors and windows, which typically reflected the classic style of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Acassetta frame, as described by scholar...
painting a picture on the same theme. It has no frame. Between these two dates, the frame assumed its place throughout Europe as an object designed and crafted independently of the picture it might hold, its appearance reflecting the dynamics of the market and the taste of a patron...
and it may be Rossi who also designed the frame. Certainly, there is a similar delicacy and sharpness, as well as a correspondence in the choice of motifs. Perhaps the owner of the palace, Antonio Gnudi, apostolic treasurer for the papal state of Ferrara-Bologna, retained themodelloand had...
Creation, tabernacle and sabbath: The function of the sabbath frame in Exodus 31:12--17; 35:1--3.This study examines the background and significance of the sabbath frame around the golden calf episode (Exod 31:12-17; 35:1-3). It does so especially in terms of the OT literature ...
Each frame had two tenons for fitting together. He did this for all the frames of the tabernacle.
tabernaclemid-13c., "portable sanctuary carried by the Israelites in the wilderness," from Old French tabernacle "the Jewish Tabernacle; tent, canopy; tomb, monument" (12c.), from Latin tabernaculum "tent," especially "a tent of an augur" (for taking observations), diminutive of taberna "...
Each biography in this edition opened with a woodcut of a frame, holding the personification of the appropriate art – for Botticelli, a Mannerist tabernacle with a female figure painting a picture on an easel, holding a palette, mahl stick and brushes. At the sides, trophies of instruments ...
Neri di Bicci(1419-91), 15 August 1454: ‘“I have undertaken the job of gilding and painting a wooden tabernacle madeall’ antica[ie in Classical form]”, and he describes the columns, the architrave, the frieze and the base.’ ...