He even went so far as to decorate his schoolroom with visual elements he thought would inspire learning: paintings, books, comfortable furniture, and busts or portraits of Plato, Socrates, Jesus, and William Ellery Channing.

She plays the role of giving the player furniture to decorate their estates, with the catalog players must order from is a " Cattlelog ".

Small pieces of colored and iridescent shell have been used to create mosaics and inlays, which have been used to decorate walls, furniture and boxes.

Large numbers of whole seashells, arranged to form patterns, have been used to decorate mirror frames, furniture and man-made grottos.

The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins, charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV.

Decorative cushions are likely to have a fancy cover material which are patterned style and generally used to decorate furniture.

Most of his work is in wood, especially decorative Baroque garlands made up of still-life elements at about life size, made to frame mirrors and decorate the walls of churches and palaces, but he also produced furniture and small relief plaques with figurative scenes.

As well as its use on seals and letters, the coat of arms is used in a number of ways, for example as an architectural detail, or to decorate items including buses ( in the days when municipal transport was the responsibility of the council ), street furniture, refuse collection vehicles, and even the crockery and cutlery used in the Council House.

From the early to mid-18th century, the lion mask enjoyed popularity as a favoured motif for furniture ornament, used as an arm rest support or to decorate a cabriole leg.

The term Rococo was derived from the French word " rocaille ", which means pebbles and refers to the stones and shells used to decorate the interiors of caves.

It was supposed to have special healing properties, and, as a symbol of immortality, was used to decorate images of the gods and tombs.

At The Limelight in Manhattan, Giger's artwork was licensed to decorate the VIP room, the uppermost chapel of the landmarked church, but it was never intended to be a permanent installation and bore no similarity to the real Giger Bars in Switzerland.

There was a smith to forge the rough shape, often a second smith ( apprentice ) to fold the metal, a specialist polisher ( called a togi ) as well as the various artisans that made the koshirae ( the various fittings used to decorate the finished blade and saya ( sheath ) including the tsuka ( hilt ), fuchi ( collar ), kashira ( pommel ), and tsuba ( hand guard )).

The works are displayed on the Richelieu Wing's first floor and in the Apollo Gallery, named by the painter Charles Le Brun, who was commissioned by Louis XIV ( the Sun King ) to decorate the space in a solar theme.

Around 1780 as royal historical painter, Abildgaard was requested by the Danish government to paint large monumental pieces, a history of Denmark, to decorate the entirety of the Knights ' Room ( Riddersal ) at Christiansborg Palace.

The technique of printing woodcuts to decorate fabric was transferred to printing on paper around 1400 in Christian Europe, very shortly after the first recorded manufacture of paper there, while in Islamic Spain it was much older.

Shah Jahan was very interested in Persian inscription and a Persian poet who requested a famous Persian calligrapher to decorate his palace and castles.

Garfield's single executive order was to provide government workers the day off on May 30, 1881, in order to decorate the graves of those who died in the Civil War.

The process was developed in Germany in the 1430s from the engraving used by goldsmiths to decorate metalwork.

A legend associated with Cornelius tells of a young artist who was commissioned to decorate the Corneliuskapelle in the Selikum quarter of Neuss.

The Noldor of Eregion made an alloy out of it called ithildin (" star moon "), which was used to decorate gateways, portals and pathways.

However, this was disrupted by a further commission to Michelangelo to decorate the wall above the altar with The Last Judgement, 1537 – 1541.

Flax was grown, carded, spun and woven into white fabric and thread which was used to make and decorate traditional Norwegian costume items called bunads ( national costumes ) as well as other items of clothing and household linens such as mats, curtains and bedspreads.

Continuing the style of the earlier buildings, various designers were responsible for the decoration, the terracotta embellishments were again the work of Godfrey Sykes, although sgraffito was used to decorate the east side of the building designed by F. W. Moody, a final embellishment were the wrought iron gates made as late as 1885 designed by Starkie Gardner, these lead to a passage through the building.

Mrs. Henry Parish II, was chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to decorate both the White House and a private home owned by John F. Kennedy before Albert came to work for her.

She was the first interior designer brought in to decorate the Kennedy White House, a position soon usurped by French interior designer Stéphane Boudin.

The voluptuous series was commissioned by Federico II Gonzaga of Mantua, probably to decorate his private Ovid Room in the Palazzo Te.

In 1906 Vigeland proposed a chalk model for a monumental fountain which, according to the initial will of the Oslo municipality, was to decorate Eidsvolls plass, the square in front of the Parliament of Norway.

Count Karl Khuen of Mikulov hired Mucha to decorate Hrušovany Emmahof Castle with murals, and was impressed enough that he agreed to sponsor Mucha's formal training at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.

China imported the minerals for Cobalt blue from the Islamic ruled Persia to decorate their blue and white porcelain, which they then exported to the Islamic world.

Decorative arts of Mudéjar inspiration are also found in the tile patterns of churches and palaces, such as the 16th-century tiles, imported from Seville, that decorate the Royal Palace of Sintra.

The often spectacular art of the richest earlier Continental Celts, before they were conquered by the Romans, often adopted elements of Roman, Greek and other " foreign " styles ( and possibly used imported craftsmen ) to decorate objects that were distinctively Celtic.

From time to time, women would decorate the nose pins by hanging pieces of amber and coral from strings that would dangle down to their chins.

Scenes from the Book of Esther decorate the Dura-Europos synagogue dating from 244 CE

While his father placed the Christmas tree in the front parlor behind closed drapes, Frank would decorate the tree and talk to them from behind the drapes, although they never could manage to see him.

That summer the two friends visited Oxford and finding the new Oxford Union debating-hall under construction, pursued a commission to paint the upper walls with scenes from Le Morte d ' Arthur and to decorate the roof between the open timbers.

During his reign, he gave shelter to exiled monks from the Byzantine Empire who were persecuted for their opposition to iconoclasm, and invited mosaic artists to decorate churches in Rome.

Scenes of battle and horse raiding decorate a muslin Lakota tipi from the late 19th or early 20th century.

To decorate the set, authentic 18th and 19th century furnishings were rented from private collectors, including the estate of Theodore Roosevelt.

In the north, some people ( especially the elite in the past ) also decorate their house with a Prunus mume tree ( also called mai in Vietnamese, but referring to a totally different species from Ochna integerrima ).

Pericles used some of the money from the maritime League of Delos, to rebuild and decorate Athens to celebrate this victory.

Many modern egg artists decorate their " art eggs " by etching or carving, while others paint or cover their eggs with different materials, from paper and fabric to polymer clay.

Its expense registers in the use of thin sheets of real gold leaf in all parts of the panel that are not covered with paint, a visual analogue not only to the costly sheaths that medieval goldsmiths used to decorate altars, but also a means of surrounding the image of the Madonna with illumination from oil lamps and candles.

Adults use toys and play to form and strengthen social bonds, teach, remember and reinforce lessons from their youth, discover their identity, exercise their minds and bodies, explore relationships, practice skills, and decorate their living spaces.

Although it is unclear how far back this tradition dates, some people from families that have lived in the town for generations follow the superstition that in walking under the gateway one should hold one's breath to stop the gargoyles that decorate the gateway from stealing it.

In 1773 it was proposed to decorate the interior of St Paul ’ s with historical and sacred subjects ; but the plan fell to the ground, from not meeting with the agreement of the bishop of London and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

To decorate with greens was called att maja ( to may ) and may be the origin of the word majstång, maja coming originally from the month May.

A number of paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorraine, the leading French, classicising painters, were directly commissioned from the artists during the reign of Philip IV to decorate the Buen Retiro Palace.

In 1801 one of the caryatids was removed by Lord Elgin in order to decorate his Scottish mansion, and was later sold to the British Museum ( along with the pedimental and frieze sculpture taken from the Parthenon ).

The commission came from the operai of the cathedral of Florence, who intended to decorate the buttresses of the tribunes of the cathedral with 12 statues of prophets.

There are artifacts showing lacquer was used to decorate and strengthen a shrine door from the 14th century.