The naive expression of life which the old poet gives to the sculpturesque shapes in the palace of Alcinous, is fresh as the first look upon a new world, which is indeed now rising.
Such a transforming power lies within him, yet is granted also by a deity; the godlike in the man now takes on a bodily, or rather a sculpturesque appearance, and prophesies Greek plastic art.
In sculpturesque arrangement both masters show the same degree of feeling: any of these dogs of Mulready might be taken out of the canvas and cut in alabaster, or, perhaps better, struck upon a coin.
Hugh Miller remarks--"The sculpturesque character of the nobly-fluted Sigillarias was shared by not a few of its contemporaries.
The sculpturesque markings on the stems of these fossil plants indicate their alliance to the ferns and lycopods of the present epoch.
The sculpturesquecharacter of this richly fretted genus was shared by not a few of its contemporaries.
Decorative accessories of this sculpturesque kind are largely used in the paintings of Andrea Mantegna of Padua.
This led to the introduction into manuscript ornaments of imitations of classical reliefs of gilt bronze or veined marbles, such as occur so often in the very sculpturesque paintings of the great Paduan, Andrea Mantegna.
The sublime of sculpturesquein crag structure is here, refined and modulated by the sweetness of sea distances.
Here the network of arches are not real galleries, but only sculpturesque simulations; each arch is simply placed on the top of the other, without architrave or frieze.
His sculpturesquetastes outweighed his talent for architecture.
But that the sculpturesque decorations were done by the Comacines, and not by the Greek mosaicists, is suggested by several remains of the ancient decorations of the church, which are preserved on the walls of the stairway descending to it.
Then the art of sculpturesque architecture, which is the handmaid of religious enthusiasm, began to revive, and the Comacine Masters again had palmy days.
Whence, out of the dark ages, sprang the skill and knowledge to build such fine and sculpturesque edifices, when other trades were in their infancy, and civic and communal life scarcely organized?
The striving after sculpturesque beauty, and, in connection therewith, the repression of all individuality, became in him almost a religion.
In the stern, sculpturesque modelling of his naked figures he displays remarkable power.
Many of the pictures of Charles Ray make the hero quite a bronze-looking sculpturesque person, despite his yokel raiment.
One of the sculpturesque resources of the photoplay is that the human countenance can be magnified many times, till it fills the entire screen.
If the Homeric Achilles has the superiority of sculpturesque and dramatic splendor, the Homeric Ulysses excels him on the ground of permanence of type.
The sculpturesqueis characteristic of Mantegna's work.
He was a magnificent draughtsman, and drew magnificent sculpturesque figures on the Sistine vault.
But the sculpturesque side of his art came from Squarcione, from a study of the antique, and from a deeper study of Donatello, whose bronzes to this day are to be seen within and without the Paduan Duomo of S.
David had studied the marbles at Rome, and he used them largely for models, reproducing scenes from Greek and Roman life in an elevated and sculpturesque style, with much archæological knowledge and a great deal of skill.
The academic system has adopted the word "decorate" for flat tone relations and non-sculpturesque effects, as if everything not standing out in full relief must belong to decoration.
The other painters made their figures stand out in solid modelling, replacing composition with sculpturesque realities.
All this is in perfect concord with the Greek conception of art, the sculpturesque ideal.
The Greeks cannot have made sculpture unapproachably complete without possessing a genius wherein the sculptor's bent of mind was specially predominant, and thus infusing somewhat of the sculpturesque into the sister arts.
Her eyes, of which the sculpturesque lids drooped a little, flashed a blue as limpid as the sky.
Matteo 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.
It may still be argued that such conceptions as sorrow for sin and mortification of the flesh, unflinchingly portrayed by haggard gauntness in the saints of Donatello, are unfit for sculpturesque expression.
What is left by way of similarity is a sculpturesque refinement in Sigelgaita's portrait, not unworthy of Pisano's own chisel.
It was commonly used to complete sculpturesque effects, and it never freed itself from this subordination.
We must close our eyes for a moment and reconstruct this combination of architectural and sculpturesque lines.
Her eyes avoided his, and for one unguarded instant the full sculpturesque lips were tense and rigid.
Flaxman had a high sense of sculpturesque style and simplicity, and great feeling and grace as a designer, but he can hardly be reckoned as a book decorator.
It was a very clear-cut, sculpturesque face indeed, but in spite of all Hiram's efforts at softening, it somehow managed to look most terribly inexorable.
Well, that now I call a real compliment, because of course you regard me dispassionately from a sculpturesque point of view.
His literary form was as severe and sculpturesque as that of Alfieri himself, whilst the most subjective and introspective of the Romantic poets did not so much color the world with his own mental and spiritual hue as Leopardi.
If I liked anything better, it was sculpture a little, and architecture yet a little more"; and it is interesting to note how all his tragedies reflect these preferences, in their lack of color and in their sculpturesque sharpness of outline.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sculpturesque" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: monumental; statuary; statuesque
