Adjective : a lapidary style; lapidary verse.    From Dictionary.com. 

Once in a while, however, the mode produces a book as lapidarist and admirable as Norman MacLean's A River Runs Through It, published in 1976.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something Fishy in the Hamptons] Reference

In this and similar exercises in landscape "painting," the virtuoso workmanship of the lapidarist veers dangerously toward kitsch, revealing why pietre dure lost esteem after the mid-19th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intricate Objects, From] Reference

He created a form of light music which the years have striven vainly to copy. and just as the lapidarist may strive in vain to imitate a gem, so in turn they fail who strive to imitate Sullivan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert and Sullivan] Reference