| 单词 | sculpturesque |
| 例句 | It was chiefly of white velvet, whose trailing heaviness blent with purple lengths of the same lustreless and sculpturesque fabric. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z In two narrow spaces at each side of the head, are introduced the crocus and celandine, and the snowdrop and violet, treated with a rare union of natural beauty and sculpturesque method and subordination. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Much has been said about the sculpturesque character of Leconte de Lisle's poems. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z By the choice of this posture the artist was enabled to model his figure on magnificent sculpturesque lines. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z As for the old west front, the coloured drawing of Mr. Collins gives an excellent idea of its rich sculpturesque beauty. Cathedral Cities of England His odes are the most sculpturesque and faultless in the language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" His hair was so beautiful in its heavy sculpturesque waves as to attract frequent notice. The Brownings Their Life and Art They aim, with unflinching consistency, at a realization of beauty so abstract that the forms by which it is interpreted to the imagination are almost wholly sculpturesque. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z What the Italians call the “eyes of the folds,” are particularly beautiful in woollens, and lend themselves to sculpturesque art. Needlework As 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. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) Her eyes avoided his, and for one unguarded instant the full sculpturesque lips were tense and rigid. The Bondwoman There can scarcely be a more sculpturesque sight than that of a finely formed, well-grown young Indian struggling on his scaffold with an unusually powerful fish. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The sculptors admitted that he had ideas in his groups, but he was not sculpturesque. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History He had sculpturesque masses of dark wavy hair, a skin like delicate ivory, deep-set, expressive eyes, and a sensitive mouth. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Her mouth, uneven in its line, had a scarlet eloquence more pleasing than sculpturesque severity. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange 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. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Instead of extravagance and grotesqueness, instead of the diversity, the rich ornamentation, the heaven-soaring pinnacles and spires of Gothic imagination—we have in the Helena sculpturesque repose, simplicity, dignity and proportion. The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust' On the contrary, the same laws govern all manner of sculpturesque composition—scale or material making no difference whatever. Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship His whole face and appearance seems to have had a sculpturesque effect and to have suggested the calm and composure of marble. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies All Gothic draperies are in some degree sculpturesque, and in miniatures we find sculpture to be the ruling principle. Illuminated Manuscripts 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. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Mantegna was not, however, entirely devoted to the sculpturesque. A Text-Book of the History of Painting The picturesque, in short, domineers over English tragedy; the sculpturesque, or the statuesque, over the Grecian. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg A worthy memorial to Shakespeare will not satisfy the just working of the commemorative instinct, unless it take the sculpturesque and monumental shape which the great tradition of antiquity has sanctioned. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays But certain it is that Netherlandish illumination, in its border foliages, after the taste for the larger vine and acanthus leaf had superseded the ivy, the drawing is studiously sculpturesque. Illuminated Manuscripts Her sculpturesque face and figure, her great dramatic passion, and the brilliancy of her voice produced a profound sensation in London. Great Singers, Second Series Malibran To Titiens Such a combination of hard sculpturesque modelling with extreme tenderness of feeling has a charm of its own. The Book of Art for Young People The folds of her dress, as well as those of Joseph's garment, are arranged in the long beautiful lines artists call "sculpturesque." Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation Hanmer is a very sculpturesque passionless high-minded and amiable man ... this coldness, as you see it, is part of him. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Delightful for a sense of air through the cool and spacious room, and for the sculpturesque solidity of the group composed of the woman, the churn, and the cat. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 One of the sculpturesque resources of the photoplay is that the human countenance can be magnified many times, till it fills the entire screen. The Art of the Moving Picture I have often wondered whether it is this general beauty of form in the waders which has turned their aesthetic tastes, apparently, into such a sculpturesque line. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 A strong bust, sculpturesque, supporting a head that engaged the young man's wrapt attention. The Torrent Entre Naranjos 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. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts In architectural proportion and sculpturesque conception this design is very poor. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Another noble picture, more realistic, more sculpturesque, is of Annabel mourning on her knees in her room. The Art of the Moving Picture Without so much of them he might have made a sculpturesque romance as clearly and nobly definite as "The Scarlet Letter"; with them he has made a most picturesque romantic novel. A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction Say that a dozen times in his life a man has a complete sculpturesque vision—a vision in which the imagination recognizes a subject and the subject kindles the imagination. Roderick Hudson He also developed a manner more pictorial than sculpturesque, which justifies our calling him a painter in bronze. Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts She was stylishly dressed, as Bartley saw, and her smooth, yellow hair was sculpturesquely waved over a low, white forehead. The Rise of Silas Lapham Many of the pictures of Charles Ray make the hero quite a bronze-looking sculpturesque person, despite his yokel raiment. The Art of the Moving Picture Such a reader will have felt the Spartan severity of this intellect, and have noticed that the realm of this imagination is rather sculpturesque than pictorial, more Greek than Italian. Literary and Social Essays The Classical style has well been called sculpturesque, the Romantic picturesque. A History of English Literature The forms which throng Asgard may not be so sculpturesquely beautiful, so definite, and fit to be copied in marble and bronze as those of Olympus. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 He has, however, two busts of Mrs. Somerville, from which I received the impression that she is handsome, but Mrs. Smyth tells me she is not so; certainly she is sculpturesque. Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals There were, indeed, no Greek heads; but the bronzed lithe figures, naked save for loin-cloth and sandals, and most sculpturesquely muscled, might well have inspired some vase-design of dancing fauns. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Her eyes, of which the sculpturesque lids drooped a little, flashed a blue as limpid as the sky. Angel Island 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. Demos What M�rim�e gets around his singularly sculpturesque creations is neither more nor less than empty space. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays It may be allowable to say, however, that American art is much better represented at Rome in the pictorial than in the sculpturesque department. The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni Her countrywomen have no anxious vanities, because, for one reason, they are generally “sculpturesque,” and are very little altered by mere accidents of dress or arrangement. The Colour of Life; and other essays on things seen and heard Her mouth—that double sculpturesque ripple of which the upper lip protruded an infinitesimal fraction beyond the lower one—drooped like Clara's; but it drooped with a different expression. Angel Island Plastered, impressionistic and sculpturesque, there was about him a quality of the tragic, of the magnificent. Penrod and Sam |
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