This statuary makes those small figures in plaster and pasteboard, which so resemble copper that, till one handles them, they cannot be distinguished, he has so rare an art of bronzing them; I bought four of him.
The new piece of Daphne, and David, of Cavaliero Bernini, is observable for the pure whiteness of the stone, and the art of the statuaryplainly stupendous.
The bit of statuary was handed to a gentleman who stood directly in front of the auctioneer.
I saw the man run out as soon as the statuary was broken, and by his manner I am sure he must be the guilty party.
A man who ran out as soon as the statuary was broken.
The statuary left the man's hand, touched the young lady's arm, and then fell to the floor with a crash, and was broken into a dozen pieces.
In the month of July a grand memorial service was held, in the Church of San Lorenzo, for the illustrious dead, paintings and statuary surrounding a catafalque fifty-four feet high.
The boy made drawings from ancient statuary and from Guercino, and was delighted with his work, writing home to his father, "While I am doing this I am the happiest creature alive.
When I say that to me it is the most elevated piece of statuary that I know, I do so remembering the masterpieces of ancient art.
When the Belvidere Apollo was carried off to France, this piece of statuary was thought not unworthy of the classic Apollo's place and pedestal in the Vatican.
He was first an apprentice to a statuaryin Bassano, from whom he went to the Academy of Venice, where he had a brilliant career.
As he used to say himself, it is impossible, or at least extraordinarily difficult in statuary to set right the faults of the blocking out.
It was carefully constructed of wood, showing the statuary in wax-relief.
Then he proceeds to make some sensible remarks upon the difficulty of getting these huge masses of statuary into the space provided for them.
Then we have no relics left of antique paintings to compare with his; and though many classical works in statuary survive, to whom among the ancients does he yield the palm in sculpture?
It has rows or ranges of statuary said to represent both the Vices and the Virtues.
The Gild of Saint Luke chafed under this ruling of the Gild Master, and surreptitiously made and delivered some statuary and paintings without any gilding whatever.
The workers in gold covered the statues with heavy ornaments of gold, it being forbidden to market statuary not so gilded.
A statuary may give a false expression to your bust, or decorate it with some equivocal emblems, by which you may happen to steal into reputation and impose upon the hereafter traditionary world.
The invention of a statuary is exhausted, and Sir William is yet unprovided with a monument.
It appears to have been their custom to personify both virtue and vice by statues and images, as is done now-a-days both by statuary and by painting; but it does not follow from this that they worshipped them any more than we do.
Above the chimney-piece is a large =bas-relief= in statuary marble representing a Roman marriage, sculptured by the statuary Rysbach.
Its museums are famous for the statuary and paintings by the great masters.
I was asked if I had seen the statuary at the "flurs" (flight of stairs) of this terrace.
Arches, fountains and statuaryabound on all sides.
On the way out from the library, Dorothy asked, "Mr. Ludlow, are all these pictures and pieces of statuary done by Italians and other foreigners?
We will go through this door and into what was the original Hall of Representatives, and is now the Statuary Hall," answered Mrs. Calvert.
Leaving Statuary Hall by the door under the arch, they traversed the corridor to the present Hall of Representatives.
The decoration of this huge place is confined mostly to the walls, but there are a few pieces of statuary on the floor.
Give mestatuary that is ornamental in prosperity, and that you can eat up if reverses come to you," sez he.
And then there wuz grottoes and fountains lit by electric lights, and groups of statuary illustratin' famous historical seens.
She believed that nature revealed herself by all forms, and that the understanding and virtue modelled the external senses of men just as the statuary impresses on the clay the outward forms of his conception.
The entry is headed:" 'Concerning a group of Statuary now in the S.
Mr. Adams glanced over his shoulder at the statuary and answered "yes" in a loud unfaltering voice.
On the first count I could understand her rejecting such a gift; for the folk of these parts know nothing of statuary and count all nakedness immodest.
He was gone on the morrow by daybreak, and late that afternoon the farmer brought me the statuary in his hay-wagon.
In fact, neither statuary nor painting was advanced by the Romans.
Grecian statuary commenced with ideal representations of deities, and was carried to the greatest perfection by Phidias in his statues of Jupiter and Minerva.
The union of original expression and skill in statuary and of ingenious constructiveness in monumental designs, which Crawford exhibited, may be regarded as a peculiar excellence and a rare distinction.
The doorway into the church has statuary about it much mutilated.
Sometimes they paint too freely, even the trunks of trees and good honest statuary coming under the brush.
The tomb of William the Silent is an elaborate erection, of stone and marble, statuary and ornamentation.
Then, on the way back to his ledge, he would stop for a moment here and there among the statuary for a gossipy "coo" with one and another pigeon friend.
But among the statuary he found some things of more interest.
To-day I saw a young man and his girl standing before that wonderful statuary from the Trocadero palace looking the goddess in the eye while both were eating peanuts.
Within, the choir stalls of the Cathedral, the high altar, the pictures, pillars and statuary are protected by high sand-bagged walls that reach almost to the roof.
The ground floor is littered with rubble, curtains have been taken down and carried away, statuary and pictures have been removed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "statuary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
