Adjective : the sculpturesque beauty of her face. From Dictionary.com.
How sculpturesque is Dante, even in metaphor, as when he writes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
His whole face and appearance seems to have had a sculpturesque effect and to have suggested the calm and composure of marble. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
After some protracted examination and study of many of the most interesting architectural and sculpturesque structures of the Rocky-Mountain system. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
In addition, terms of plastic arts such as “chiaroscuro,” “Claudian,” and “sculpturesque,” when applied to literature, are often limited to similar content rather than to similar form (Giovannini, 1950). From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The sculpturesque is characteristic of Mantegna's work. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference
Brown, whose art is powerful, simple and sculpturesque. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Mantegna was not, however, entirely devoted to the sculpturesque. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference
In architectural proportion and sculpturesque conception this design is very poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti] Reference
And yet they reveal incomparable beauty and figures of genuine sculpturesque perfection. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Her eyes, of which the sculpturesque lids drooped a little, flashed a blue as limpid as the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
Her mouth, uneven in its line, had a scarlet eloquence more pleasing than sculpturesque severity. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
He was a magnificent draughtsman, and drew magnificent sculpturesque figures on the Sistine vault. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference
Westminster Abbey, resented the sculpturesque caricature to which their subscriptions were applied. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
The sculpturesque character of this richly fretted genus was shared by not a few of its contemporaries. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference
Another noble picture, more realistic, more sculpturesque, is of Annabel mourning on her knees in her room. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
What Mérimée gets around his singularly sculpturesque creations is neither more nor less than empty space. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays] Reference
Plastered, impressionistic and sculpturesque, there was about him a quality of the tragic, of the magnificent. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod and Sam] Reference
The sublime of sculpturesque in crag structure is here, refined and modulated by the sweetness of sea distances. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
Gothic draperies are in some degree sculpturesque, and in miniatures we find sculpture to be the ruling principle. From Wordnik.com. [Illuminated Manuscripts] Reference
He also developed a manner more pictorial than sculpturesque, which justifies our calling him a painter in bronze. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
Hanmer is a very sculpturesque passionless high-minded and amiable man ... this coldness, as you see it, is part of him. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference
Many of the pictures of Charles Ray make the hero quite a bronze-looking sculpturesque person, despite his yokel raiment. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
Greek and Roman life in an elevated and sculpturesque style, with much archæological knowledge and a great deal of skill. From Wordnik.com. [A Text-Book of the History of Painting] Reference
He had sculpturesque masses of dark wavy hair, a skin like delicate ivory, deep-set, expressive eyes, and a sensitive mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning] Reference
What is left by way of similarity is a sculpturesque refinement in Sigelgaita's portrait, not unworthy of Pisano's own chisel. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
On the contrary, the same laws govern all manner of sculpturesque composition -- scale or material making no difference whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship] Reference
One of the sculpturesque resources of the photoplay is that the human countenance can be magnified many times, till it fills the entire screen. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of the Moving Picture] Reference
It may be allowable to say, however, that American art is much better represented at Rome in the pictorial than in the sculpturesque department. From Wordnik.com. [The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni] Reference
William Story, I presume, is not to be included in this censure, as she had spoken highly of his sculpturesque faculty in our previous conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
Spartan severity of this intellect, and have noticed that the realm of this imagination is rather sculpturesque than pictorial, more Greek than Italian. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Social Essays] Reference
Civitali of Lucca was at least Rossellino's equal in the sculpturesque delineation of spiritual qualities; but the motives he chose for treatment were more varied. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts] Reference
Browning at that time, has told me that his hair -- then of a brown so dark as to appear black -- was so beautiful in its heavy sculpturesque waves as to attract frequent notice. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Robert Browning] Reference
All was grace and purity; the very folds towards the bottom of her dress hung in sculpturesque smoothness; the form of her half-seen foot bowed the herbage with lightest pressure. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
Flocks of geese waddled in sculpturesque relief against the close-cropt pastures, herded by little girls with flaxen pigtails, whose eyes, blue as corn-flowers, followed the flying train. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
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