How To Use Statuary In A Sentence
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Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses.
Caesars’ Wives
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There is no floral chintz, no shelves packed with knick-knacks; there's no ornate wrought iron, no statuary, no bookshelves.
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The 1869 New York City Register listed Fiske as a manufacturer of ornamental ironwork; fountains, vases, statuary, settees and chairs, and cast-iron and wire railings, iron stable fixtures, copper weathervanes.
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On display are marvelous examples of statuary, jewelry, architectural elements, cylinder seals, and various decorative objects.
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The courtyard was shabby, with dying plants, chipped and broken statuary.
THE GOLDEN LION
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If we can demonstrate the fact that we call invent anything, mould a piece of statuary or write a book as well as anyone, then we shall do more to solve the negro problem than all preaching and complaining can do?
The Woman's Era, Vol. 2
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In fact, before the Persian wars had commenced, the branch of sculpture termed statuary had attained nearly the summit of its perfection.
Mosaics of Grecian History
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Through the wide variety of historical photographs, paintings and statuary included, we see correspondences of silhouette, construction, color and embellishment that teach us how to "read" a design—the way, for instance, the ornate embroidery of a matador's bolero brings drama to an evening gown, or how voluminous gathers of fabric, thrillingly elegant in a sleeve or skirt, are actually a translation from the festive dress of Spanish laborers.
Fashion's Eternal Flame
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Etruscans in an art in which afterwards they attained to such marvellous perfection, and the only relics now remaining of the fictile statuary for which Veil was so celebrated.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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In that case, give the shoes a thin coating of jewelers 'grade protective lacquer, which is invisible when dry-In either the polished or unpolished state the shoes can be given a "statuary bronze" coloration chemically.
Modern Mechanix
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Altar-tombs with cumbent effigies were painted so as to correspond in tone with the colours displayed on the walls; the pavement of encaustic tiles, of different devices, was interspersed with sepulchral slabs and inlaid brasses; and screen-work, niches for statuary, mouldings, and sculpture of different degrees of excellence, abounded.
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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During the course of the late third or early fourth century AD, re-use of marble statuary, rather than new production or new acquisitions sets in.
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In the Renaissance garden, elemental forces of nature were represented by fountains, statuary, and artificial grottoes.
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For Jill, in the twinkling of a star, had let fall the enveloping cloak, standing for one second like some exotic bit of statuary in her black billowing satin trousers and infinitesimal coatee over a silver-spangled frothy vest, her great eyes dancing with glee over the face veil.
Desert Love
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Nancy finished what she termed furnishing: out went the horsehair, the hideous chandeliers, the stuffy books, the Recamier statuary, and an army of upholsterers, wood-workers, etc., from Boston and New York invaded the place.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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Not less reminiscent of many bygone ages are the ornamentation and decorative details; and in the rooms, statuary plundered from the Greek islands or brought by the
Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands
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They see him in one role only: the stern disciplinarian driven by an unshakable belief that God and he are as one, a man so prudish he can't tolerate unclothed statuary.
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So we left the question of statuary for another day and contented ourselves with packing a trolley with roses, clematis, honeysuckle, a climbing hydrangea, hardy geranium, and astilbe.
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Stylistic borrowings from the exposition's classical columns, bold statuary, and reflective sheets of water soon found their way into new American gardens.
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She took us down another stairway into a vast hall filled with paintings and statuary, where a man in a dark blue suit and silver braid (I suppose that's what you'd call a footman in livery), stood stiffly as the statues around him.
The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way
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The recumbent effigies of souls at rest gave way to an upright statuary of men and women reflecting on their moral duties.
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We were shown one slide after another of oil paintings and statuary that had been cleaned and brightened with laser light, each at an average cost of $80,000.
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'Give me a shilling!' was her reply, while the slaver drivelled unrestrained from her mouth, rendering utterly disgusting a chin that a statuary might have wished to model.
Camilla
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`That statuary group is going to be crated up at Heathrow seven days from today," he said.
THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
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Once in Italy, he drew incessantly, copying antique statuary as well as more recent work by Michelangelo and Raphael.
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The statuary of Yan Xiu is on the top of the column ( bronze ).
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London, and Paris may be more reluctant these days to risk openly displaying legally dubious offcut statuary from
Off With the Heads
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A fashion has prevailed for some years (introduced by the doctors of the perspective and statuary school of action) which sometimes increases the difficulty of giving verisimility to the scene, or rather destroys it altogether.
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
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In terms of function, it has long been known that such statuary represented the individual as a worshiper and was to be placed in a temple.
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They were troubled by his choice of images for what they believed to have been his private collection of statuary.
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Originals or copies of Greek statues, objects of gold or silver, ivory or tortoiseshell, intaglios, cameos, and vases of precious stone accumulated in Roman palaces and villas, and statuary adorned their gardens.
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They rip up bin bags, deposit vast quantities of guano on our favourite statuary, and even attack people.
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We carry an extensive range of garden statuary and superb antique staddle stones.
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Among the statuary will be the largest image of King Tut ever found, a 10-foot statute that retains much of its original paint.
Blisstree
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I came first to the Flat Garden, with its bonsai azaleas, temple statuary, and a stunning view of Portland.
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THIS SPRING, GRAND Mufti Ali Gomaa sent shivers down the spines of archaeologists and tour operators worldwide as he issued a fatwa calling the statuary haram.
Undefined
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While hard landscaping, water features, sundials, statuary and the like will constitute fixtures and fittings, free standing furniture can be taken with you when you move.
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He showed us his favorite statue, that of an old philosopher turned mendicant, and I think I shall always associate him - in his shabby but clean old gray suit - with this particular piece of Buddhist statuary.
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Really, there are not pages enough in this paper to list it all: A bamboo grove, stained glass, carved statuary in stone and wood, inlaid tables, more.
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Small-town main streets are lined with delicate, statuary-festooned temple compounds, the roadside stands along the way are mostly seasonal ones for durian and jackfruit (which I sample along with, strangely enough, an avid Chinese couple from Los Angeles), and the pit stops now include one called Babi Guling (Suckling Pig) Obama.
One Hour Out: Bali
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The home - made statuary gave an artistic air to the room.
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Almost 300 fragments of plaster casts of ancient statuary were excavated in a cellar-like area forming the substructure of a hall or terrace within the great bath complex at Baiae, the Roman seaside resort near Naples.
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The quiet square evokes the classical arcades and statuary of antiquity (the sculpture is a torso of Aphrodite).
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Now they span nearly 150 acres with sweeping lawns and vistas interspersed with statuary, tempiettos, and benches.
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As in statuary to the artist the partly undraped figure is suggestive only of beauty, free from indelicacy, so to the saint the personal excellencies of Jesus Christ, typified under the ideal of the noblest human form.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Both use strawflowers for bird's nests, and both also include marble or porcelain animal figurines, which could represent actual animals or garden statuary.
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Last time that I went to the NawthShaw (underwritten BY The Shaw Group by now, I'm sure), only ONE piece of "statuary" made an impression on me.
Your Right Hand Thief
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The great Roman porticoes derived their luster from the fame of the statuary they displayed.
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Day two at the Slieve Donard Hotel in Newcastle sees the sale of furniture, silver, china, glass, fine art and garden statuary.
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In their gardens were wooden benches, pieces of statuary, gravel walks through small shrubberies.
LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
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Nicholas Micros's cast aluminum and plaster sculptures bear the imprint of his study of figurative and monumental statuary.
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There were marble craters (mixing bowls) and candelabra, statuary, busts, reliefs, column capitals and bases, and 60 to 70 marble column shafts.
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Coughing on the dust, they returned and closing the door, braced the benches against it and then piled some broken statuary swiped from the corridor against the benches.
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They seem to speak for a civilization, not just an artist, much like the stone heads on Easter Island or the hieratic statuary of Egyptian art.
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There will be a display of bronze statuary in this museum next week.
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The bronzes included statuary and furnishings - a statue of a winged Eros, a head of Dionysus on a herm (rectangular shaft), and large statuettes of Eros playing a lyre, of three dancing dwarfs, a satyr, an actor, Hermes, and a dog.
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Around the fragments of the statuary was a concentration of a lot of small bones, which were collected for further examination by the archaeozoologists.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Roman Baths Report 3
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In others the softer shells and bones are dissolved, and only sharks teeth or harder echini have preserved their form inveloped in the chalk or lime-stone; in some marbles the solution has been compleat and no vestiges of shell appear, as in the white kind called statuary by the workmen.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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For more on Shelley's taste in statuary, see Stephen Larrabee, English Bards and
Notes on 'The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality'
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Bronze statuary went to an ironworks in Alabama for touch-up.
A Well-Maintained 100-Year-Old
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The great Roman porticoes derived their luster from the fame of the statuary they displayed.
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Combining art and mass education, Lutheran artists also carefully redefined their own social role, now that the creation of statuary, frescoes, and altarpieces was condemned as ‘idolatrous’.
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The site was later named Battery Park and decorated with commemorative statuary and cannonry.
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They were used by the statuary and ornamentist rather than by the architect, and we cannot say for certain where they got them.
A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1
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Which was hardly surprising: every line of sight ran up against gilded statuary or supernumerary columns.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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In the Hippodrome, for example, statuary was marshaled to depict Constantinople as the New Rome.
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As archetypes they are as apprehensible as Greek statuary.
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There were marble craters (mixing bowls) and candelabra, statuary, busts, reliefs, column capitals and bases, and 60 to 70 marble column shafts.
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For evidence of good standing in the realm of higher culture, he amasses painting, statuary, and artistic bijoux, as his stocks and bonds certify to his standing in the economic world.
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She ignored the statuary and the pedigreed paintings in favor of the hostas and iris and azaleas that were her real love.
BAD MEDICINE
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Exterior view of lone figures scurrying across empty squares dominated by heroic statuary.
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By puncturing their smug self-righteousness and their pretense to impossibly high standards, Flashman shows them as genuinely great men and women, not the panegyrical statuary of Victorian literature—and he shows them as such by describing their response to him.
Archive 2009-03-01
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In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art.
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Mountjoy had been planned and planted in the years of which he knew nothing; generations of skilled and patient husband-men had weeded and dunged and pruned; generations of dilettanti had watered it with cascades and jets; generations of collectors had lugged statuary here; all, it seemed, for his enjoyment this very night under this huge moon.
The Complete Stories
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I'm never turning my back on this kind of statuary in a cemetery ever again!
TEN FOR TEN: MY FAVORITE ALIENS
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A block north of this statuary is The Church of the Holy Name, which had a rummage sale.
September 29th, 2007
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The white statuary blockings carved with rosettes above terminal figures headed by a boy's head, each turned slightly differently and headed with ionic capitals which support the blockings.
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Standing a bit over 6 feet tall, the bronzes had received a light, slightly pinkish, gray-ocher patina that strongly evokes classical statuary.
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Crudely outlined heads and torsos are presented in simple, frontal poses and often resemble classical statuary more than living men.
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The artist has no doubt found inspiration in Greco-Roman statuary and reliefs, because figures and forms are as flat as a classical frieze.
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Wall painting and statuary began, and representational art became a major element.
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Which was hardly surprising: every line of sight ran up against gilded statuary or supernumerary columns.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Crudely outlined heads and torsos are presented in simple, frontal poses and often resemble classical statuary more than living men.
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The place was a mess of brambles and graffiti, but amidst the wreckage I found a fine piece of Victorian statuary.
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According to William Edmondson, the angels told him to begin making the tombstone statuary that's now gathered into an exhibition at the Museum of American Folk Art.
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In an interview for the show's catalogue, the artist says that the work was inspired by visits to the British Museum's galleries of ancient Greek and Roman statuary.
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Among the classically inspired statuary, saints, such as St. Fiacre, the patron saint of gardeners, are popular, Galvan says.
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It was a centre of cultural production, as we call it, where they made tombs and brasses and all kinds of statuary and things like that, because they were near the cathedral.
