sculpture

  • 11sculpture — sculpture, sculpt, sculp *carve, chisel, engrave, incise, etch Analogous words: shape, fashion, form (see MAKE): depict, portray, *represent …

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  • 12sculpture — [v] form a three dimensional art object carve, cast, chisel, cut, engrave, fashion, hew, model, mold, sculp, sculpt, shape; concepts 137,174,184 …

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  • 13sculpture — sculptural, adj. sculpturally, adv. /skulp cheuhr/, n., v., sculptured, sculpturing. n. 1. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the… …

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  • 14Sculpture — Sculptor redirects here. For the constellation, see Sculptor (constellation). For other uses, see Sculpture (disambiguation). The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome …

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  • 15sculpture —    Contemporary British sculpture is informed by two major ideas: the response to the work of the ‘new generation’ of the early 1960s, and the dominance of a handful of London art schools, including St Martins, the Royal College of Art and… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

  • 16SCULPTURE — The Biblical and Talmudic Periods Within the general context of the problem of representational art among the Jews in antiquity, sculpture, together with medals and seals , was in a special category. The Bible (Ex. 20:4) forbade the graven image… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 17sculpture — (skul tu r ; Palsgrave, au XVIe siècle, p. 23, écrit scoulpture, et prononce scouture) s. f. 1°   Le travail du sculpteur. •   Et quant à la sculpture, est ce que, hors de la main des Grecs, quelqu un l a jamais vue vivante ?, POUSSIN. Lett. 7… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 18SCULPTURE — s. f. L art de sculpter. Il s adonne à la sculpture. Il excelle dans la sculpture. Un chef d oeuvre de sculpture. La sculpture antique. La sculpture moderne. La sculpture en marbre, en pierre, en bois.   Il signifie aussi, L ouvrage du sculpteur …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 19sculpture — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ abstract, figurative ▪ ancient, classical, modern ▪ relief ▪ The frieze shows ancient Greek relief sculpture at its most inventive …

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  • 20sculpture —    The outcome of the Civil War led to the official encouragement of a pseudo imperial style in the visual arts, including sculpture, where religious and academicist works predominated. Nevertheless, artists such as Angel Ferrant and Antoni… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture