Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great Sala di Cosimo I of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where he and his assistants were at work from 1555, and the frescoes he started inside the vast cupola of the Duomo, completed by Federico Zuccari and with the help of Giovanni Balducci.

In the Monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore ( Siena ) he painted eight frescoes, forming part of a vast series of the life of St. Benedict ; they are at present much injured.

There are iconographic depictions of lute-like instruments in the 11th-century frescoes of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev, once the capital of a vast medieval kingdom of the Rus '.

In Naples, his main work were twenty large frescoes illustrating the Life of St Benedict in the cloister of the monastery of Santi Severino e Sossio ( now the State Archives ), which are open to the elements though covered and are now greatly decayed ; they present a vast variety of figures and details, with dexterous modeling and coloring.

Correggio at Parma took the illusionistic ceiling a step farther in his frescoes of Christ and the Apostles for the cupola at the San Giovanni Evangelista and in the Assumption of the Virgin in the dome of the Cathedral of Parma, which is Correggio's most famous work ( 1520 – 24 ); in these frescos Correggio treats the entire surface as the vast and frameless vault of heaven in which the figures float.

Many of the latter were destroyed in their turn, during the burning of the vast Ch'in palace some ten years later ; ;

In the latter part of the 20th century, this has been further revolutionized by the development of vast warehouse-sized, out-of-town supermarkets, selling a wide range of food from around the world.

The streams and waterfalls, the latter mainly in Upper Galilee, along with vast fields of greenery and colourful wildflowers, as well as numerous towns of biblical importance, make the region a popular tourist destination.

Napoleon's campaigns acquired Italian pieces by treaties, as war reparations, and Northern European pieces as spoils as well as some antiquities excavated in Egypt, though the vast majority of the latter were seized as war reparations by the British army and are now part of collections of the British Museum.

The former is described by a few equations, whereas the latter requires the specification of vast amounts of initial data on some hypersurface.

Both are enormous, the latter to hold part of the bibliophile Marquess's vast library.

Although the Duke lost his political influence in the latter stages of the war he still possessed vast prestige abroad, yet his failure to communicate his innermost convictions to his allies or political masters means he must bear some responsibility for the continuance of the war beyond its logical conclusion.

Sejanus was so great a person by reason both of his excessive haughtiness and of his vast power, that, to put it briefly, he himself seemed to be the emperor and Tiberius a kind of island potentate, inasmuch as the latter spent his time on the island of Capreae.

The difficulty with the latter process is that there is sometimes a vast disconnect behind the skills, education, and understanding of the two groups.

The text is that of Robertus Stephanus ( 1550 ), but the notes, besides including all previously existing collections of various readings, add a vast number derived from his own examination of many new manuscripts, and Oriental versions ( the latter unfortunately he used only in the Latin translations ).

He became CEO of Magna International Developments ( MID ), controller of Magna's vast real estate and horse track holdings, the latter through Magna Entertainment Corporation.

The circus was the only place where the emperor showed himself before a populace assembled in vast numbers, and where the latter could manifest their affection or anger.

With regard to the latter, however, Northern Rhodesia was the wealthiest of the three member states ( due to its vast copper mines ) and actually contributed more to the overall building of infrastructure than the other two members.

The Aiel Waste is a vast, arid land to the east of the Westlands, separated from the latter by the mountain range known as the Spine of the World, or the Dragonwall, to the west, the chasms and precipices of Shara to the east, the Blight in the north, and the Sea of Storms in the south.

The latter, the vast majority of them loyal to the empire, vehemently opposed the territorial losses.

Among d ' Indy's other works are other orchestral music ( including a Symphony in B, a vast symphonic poem, Jour d ' été à la montagne, and another, Souvenirs, written on the death of his first wife ; he later remarried ), chamber music, including two of the finest string quartets of the latter 19th century ( No. 2 in E major, Op.

The vast majority of our knowledge of Illyrian is based on Messapian, if the latter is considered an Illyrian dialect.

The vast majority of sources reacting to the events made ample mention of Nazi backing for Călinescu's killers, with the exception of German media ( the latter alleged that Polish and British political forces, as a means to pressure Romania into abandoning its neutrality — this version was supported by, among others, Hans Fritzsche ).

Like the vast majority of marine diesel engines, it is capable of running on diesel or heavy fuel oil, the latter of which is used most often.

In the latter half of the 19th century, the U. S. oil ( kerosene ) industry was born in western Pennsylvania, which supplied the vast majority of U. S. kerosene for years thereafter.

... new sites should be offered in a vast and varied park system to accommodate experimentation and innovation in both design and program .” ( Master Plan, 1971 ) Because of the Gas Plant structures and the magnificent setting, GWP complements the rich heritage of Seattle ’ s Post-Victorian parks and offers expanded programs in ways that the latter cannot.

This book, which roused a vast amount of excitement and controversy at the time, exercised an immense influence on opinion within the Roman Catholic Church, and the principles it proclaimed were put into practice by the rulers of that Church in various countries during the latter part of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.

An example of the latter would be The vast majority of languages have nasal consonants.

The vast majority of immigrants came from Spain and Italy but also Basque and Danish people settled, the latter constituting a very active community.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.

Our most elemental and unavoidable impressions, he says, are those of being involved in a large arena of powers which have a longer past than our own, which are interrelated in a vast movement through the present toward the future.

So we are faced with a vast network of amorphous entities perpetuating themselves in whatever manner they can, without regard to the needs of society, controlling society and forcing upon it a regime representing only the corporation's needs for survival.

We are learning how to do these things in some of the vast organized structures of modern society ; ;

When these fields are surveyed together, important patterns of relationship emerge indicating a vast community of reciprocal influence, a continuity of thought and expression including many traditions, primarily literary, religious, and philosophical, but frequently including contact with the fine arts and even, to some extent, with science.

These data are not of the precision obtainable by the methods previously mentioned, but the vast number of approximate values available will be useful in many areas.

In contrast are the vast open stretches of ranch country and oil wells.

Your competition is now proportionately greater -- you are competing not only against manufacturers in the same field but also against a vast array of manufacturers of other appealing consumer products.

Other theories of origin are compatible with the formulaic theory: Beowulf may contain a design for terror, and The Iliad may have a vast hysteron-proteron pattern answering to a ceramic pattern produced during the Geometric Period in pottery.

the author possesses an uncommonly fine English style, and he is dealing with subjects of vast importance that are highly topical for our time.

This means that the individual atoms can be treated as if each were in isolation, as the vast majority of the time they are.

A vast number of engraved stones are in existence, to which the name " Abrasax-stones " has long been given.

The most striking feature is the existence of two great lines of depression, due largely to the subsidence of whole segments of the Earth's crust, the lowest parts of which are occupied by vast lakes.

It has been estimated that during his entire career Aalto designed over 500 individual buildings, approximately 300 of which were built, the vast majority of which are in Finland.

The types of materials that can be bonded are vast but adhesives are especially useful for bonding thin materials.

The main sculptures are not integral friezes but are treated as independent trophies applied to the vast ashlar masonry masses, not unlike the gilt-bronze appliqués on Empire furniture.

The vast majority of bird species are socially monogamous, usually for one breeding season at a time, sometimes for years, but rarely for life.

They are responsible for the vast majority of published standards and specifications.

Among the vast number of different biomolecules, many are complex and large molecules ( called biopolymers ), which are composed of similar repeating subunits ( called monomers ).

In such pre-industrialized, or poorly developed infrastructure regions, many barges are purpose-designed to be powered on waterways by long slender poles thereby becoming known on American waterways as poleboats as the extensive west of North America was settled using the vast tributary river systems of the Mississippi drainage basin.