Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term "glyptic" for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force under the English word "engraving.". From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Sculpture in stone, whether granite, gem, or marble, while we accurately use the general term 'glyptic' for it, may be thought of with, perhaps, the most clear force under the English word 'engraving.'. From Wordnik.com. [Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870] Reference
With us, wood has almost completely disappeared as a glyptic material. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
The glyptic art of Greece had been paralleled hundreds of years before it was born. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
This preposterous effort of the glyptic art has the one merit of serving as a finger-board. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
(Even in a lull, with only one drink to mix, he will not slacken his pace nor take a glyptic approach.). From Wordnik.com. [La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth] Reference
He would not confine it to glyptic art, nor indeed to art alone -- all the uses of life might be bettered by it. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Museum came from the same palace as this specimen, the carving of which is not excelled by any period of the ancient glyptic art. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885] Reference
The hieroglyphic characters were either engraved in relief, or sunk below the surface on the public monuments, and objects of hard materials suited for the glyptic art. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Greek pottery and Greek glyptic art also attracted a certain amount of favour. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
And masks to be used in mimetic dances, such as the No, received attention from many great glyptic artists. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
Nineveh or Caleh; would the glyptic art have escaped that individual development which characterizes the two peoples?. From Wordnik.com. [Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.] Reference
The best works of the glyptic art, the rarest gems, coins, and medallions of European cabinets have come to light in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Pagan and Christian Rome] Reference
The newly recovered section of the epic contains two legends which supplied the glyptic artists of Sumer and Accad with subjects for seals. From Wordnik.com. [The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform] Reference
It is the consideration of facts of this kind which enables us to understand the origin and importance of what are called "conventions" in pictorial or glyptic art. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Kalyanaraman studied thousands of seals containing a number of glyphs and each glyph having two or more glyptic elements, sufficiently large enough ciphertext symbols or characters. From Wordnik.com. [PRWeb - Daily News Feed] Reference
These legendary and gracious beasts, that inspired poets and artists and glyptic engravers -- these things of beauty have now descended into the realm of mere usefulness, into the pharmacopoeia. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
The coins already mentioned, and the numerous works of glyptic art surviving in the galleries of Europe, will help us to place ourselves at the same point of view as the least enlightened of his antique votaries. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
The engraving is of great service to the historian and student of the glyptic art, as the subjects show the transition from Assyrian, Egyptian, and Persian forms and figures, to the archaic Greek and the best period of stone engraving. From Wordnik.com. [Scarabs The History, Manufacture and Symbolism of the Scarabæus in Ancient Egypt, Phoenicia, Sardinia, Etruria, etc.] Reference
Beautiful things, made in the days when King Solomon built the Temple at Jerusalem, lined the walls, and filled the stone shelves, together with curios of that later day when Phoenicia stood first in knowledge of the plastic and glyptic arts. From Wordnik.com. [Romance Island] Reference
The foreign monarchs erected their effigies at this site, which were sculptured by native artists according to the customary rules of Egyptian glyptic art, and only differ from those of the earlier native Pharaohs in the head-dress, the expression of the countenance, and a peculiar arrangement of the beard. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Egypt] Reference
Indeed, it is characteristic of this early epoch that traces of the architectural and glyptic fashions of the land where Buddhism was born showed themselves much more conspicuously than they did in later eras; a fact which illustrates Japan's constant tendency to break away from originals by modifying them in accordance with her own ideals. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
"pieces," her little face would flood over and tighten up into the glyptic immobility of a cameo and her toes curl as they pressed the pedals. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
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