,,,,, He crossed the room, pulled back the heavy tapestries, and threw open the high narrow windows one by one, letting the night air into the chamber.
Its rooms include the Gallery of Maps and the Gallery of Tapestries and its very last sala is the magnificent Sistine Chapel, its walls decorated with works by artists including Perugino and Botticelli and the vaulted ceiling painted by Michelangelo.
Tapestries still hung on the walls of the living room and my mother's books still crowded the shelves in Baba's study.
Gold-stitched tapestries, which Baba had bought in Calcutta, lined the walls; a crystal chandelier hung from the vaulted ceiling.
Memory hangs curtains and tapestries on the smoke-blackened walls of her prison.
The tapestries were gorgeous, and the furniture of costly and artistic taste.
