The inside contains sixteen arches, forming alcoves each containing a painted scene.

The door usually carries a painted scene in the area beneath the face.

He stared down into the painted scene of powdered ladies and mincing gallants on the fire screen.

A painted scene, interpreted as either one of heroization or investiture, points to its probable royal character.

I viewed the town on my left hand, which looked like the painted scene of a city in a theatre.

Besides the little noises of their horses and equipment, the whole great valley kept the brooding quiet of a painted scene.

He had no wish to make an arena a second time of a world that had become a mere painted scene to him.

On weekdays, the four panels are closed and display a drab painted scene involving 72 saints.

He couldn't follow it on around the mountain, because that too was a painted scene.

But it was a painted scene, with a cardboard bed and chair, and a picture of a view in the window.