Meaning of sculpture | Babel Free

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1. sculpture (work of art created by sculpting)
2. A three-dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).
   countable, usually
3. More generally (since modernism), a three-dimensional work of art of any material or of mixed materials, whether sculpted, assembled, found, constructed or created using multiple techniques.
   countable, usually
4. To make sculptures or a sculpture.
5. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
   uncountable, usually
6. an artist who carves or models in stone, clay, wood etc. beeldhouer نَحّات، مَثّال скулптор escultor sochař, -ka der/die Bildhauer(in) billedhugger γλύπτηςescultor; escultora skulptor, kujur پيكرتراش kuvanveistäjä sculpteur/-eure פסל, פסלת मूर्तिकार kipar, rezbar szobrász pemahat myndhöggvari scultore 彫刻家 조각가 skulptorius skulptors; tēlnieks pemahat patung beeldhouwerbilledhoggerrzeźbiarz, rzeźbiarka مجسمه جوړوونكى، كاڼى توږونكى ( سنګ تراش escultor sculptor скульптор sochár, -ka kipar vajar sk...
   etc
7. The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.
   uncountable, usually
8. The art or practice of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, as by chiseling marble, modeling clay, or casting in metal.
9. A printed picture, such as an engraving.
   archaic, uncountable, usually
10. A work of art created by sculpture.
11. Ridges, indentations, or other markings, as on a shell, formed by natural processes.
12. To fashion (stone, bronze, or wood, for example) into a three-dimensional figure.
13. To represent in sculpture: sculpture a lion.
14. To ornament with sculpture.
15. To change the shape or contour of, as by erosion.
16. (Art Terms) the art of making figures or designs in relief or the round by carving wood, moulding plaster, etc, or casting metals, etc

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Examples

“There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.”

“Whereas upon the humble Requeſt of Our Truſty and Wel-beloved Servant, JOHN OGILBY, Eſquire, We were Graciouſly pleaſed by Our Warrant of the 25. of May, in the ſeventeenth Year of Our Reign, to grant him the ſole Privilege and Immunity of Printing in fair Volumes, Adorned with Sculptures, Virgil Tranſlated, Homer's Iliads, Æſop Paraphraſed, and Our Entertainment in Paſſing through Our City of London, and Coronation, together with Homer's Odyſſes, and his fore-mentioned Æſop with his Additions and Annotations in Folio, with a Prohibition, that none ſhould Print or Re-print the ſame in any Volumes, without the Conſent and Approbation of him, the ſaid John Ogilby, his Heirs, Executors, or Aſſigns, within the term of Fifteen Years next enſuing the Date of Our ſaid Warrant;[…]”

“Both are Tranſlated into Engliſh, Illuſtrated with Sculptures, and Printed about two Years ago.”

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