statuary
IPA: stˈætʃuɛri
noun
- (uncountable) The craft of making statues.
- (countable) A person who makes or deals in statues.
- (collective) Statues considered collectively.
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Examples of "statuary" in Sentences
- There is a collection of marble statuary.
- Much of the statuary is by Henri Crenier.
- Groups of statuary can be placed on the altar.
- She is also depicted on statuary in the forecourt.
- He represents Illinois in the National Statuary Hall.
- The statue was mounted in the Capitol's Statuary Hall.
- The Fulton statue was installed in Statuary Hall in 1883.
- He painted and draped some of the statuary of Manuel Pereyra.
- Gompers is the subject of statuary in several major American cities.
- His statuary may be grouped on the basis of physiognomy and iconography.
- I'm never turning my back on this kind of statuary in a cemetery ever again!
- For more on Shelley's taste in statuary, see Stephen Larrabee, English Bards and
- A block north of this statuary is The Church of the Holy Name, which had a rummage sale.
- Among the statuary will be the largest image of King Tut ever found, a 10-foot statute that retains much of its original paint.
- In fact, before the Persian wars had commenced, the branch of sculpture termed statuary had attained nearly the summit of its perfection.
- 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.
- Around the fragments of the statuary was a concentration of a lot of small bones, which were collected for further examination by the archaeozoologists.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.