traceries

The traceries of Kate Smith's drawings might be similarly ambiguous but are built up through a mixture of precise delineation and wayward gesture.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

I began to notice recurring themes — the idioms of this design language — such as spirals, wormy forms, and the comma-shaped Fischblase or mouchette found in Gothic window traceries:

Wolfram Blog : Minimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity 2009

Had her aeons of suppressed longing given birth to these traceries, insubstantial proofs of her wanton passions?

Dharma and Bert marshallpayne1 2009

The same squad will be retained for both the traceries (in which Srilanka and Newzealand are other participants) and the following Champions trophy to take place in South Africa.

Extraordinary people - Dean du Plessis - The blind cricket commentator Norfolk Blogger 2009

Crivelli's painting may well be a masterpiece, but, as with so many of his depictions of Christ, it is unclear what purposes of piety or devotion are served by his unflinching, almost gruesome, renderings of a sallow corpse that is propped up by two ugly putti and whose arms are marked by anemic traceries of arteries and veins.

The Man of Sorrows Motif Over Time James Gardner 2011

One must imagine that, prior to the priest's celebration of the mass, the interiors of buildings like St Mary's were filled with the lively hubbub of the village, and illuminated by many candles as light flickered over the delicate lime, red lead and white vermilion traceries of the church's frescoes.

Holy faces from the past Alex Wright 2010

Will we read instead about an RLA working as a research fellow with the Mayo Clinic to create a new city — a carbon-netural, car-free model city in the middle of the Arabian Desert — wherein pedestrians can only navigate through aerobic and anaerobic traceries, thus helping to eradicate obesity?

Call for Urban Assault, or: Please Help Bill Thompson, FASLA 2008

When he looked down into the neon traceries of the Carcere, though, he remembered a different life and wondered if the children who went there now returned with the same scars he had.

Transcript: Child Abuse in Speculative Fiction « Coyote Con 2010

Gorean urban architecture, in the high cities, tends to be not so much a matter of flat, spreading, concentric horizontal rings, as in many cities, as a matter of towers and tiered levels, linked by soaring, ascendant traceries.

Cinnamon Roll 2010

Virginia Tenzer has noted that the surfaces against which the sword and mace rest are decorated with vegetal traceries of olive, mustard, and mulberry.

Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008