单词 | hermaean |
释义 | Hermaeanadj. Of Hermes; applied to ancient statues consisting of a block or pillar surmounted by a head: see Herma n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > statuary > [adjective] > kind or size of statue pedestrial1611 colossean1644 iconic1656 colossal1712 heroic1712 pedestrian1722 Persian1728 heroical1770 Hermaean1813 Hermaic1820 lifelike1836 polylithic1839 stolated1856 life-size1859 Heraclean1883 1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey 663 It was a small many~breasted figure, hermæan in the lower extremities, or, with the legs and feet not cut out. 1816 J. Dallaway Of Statuary & Sculpt. 7 In a short time artists arose who ventured to engraft a head upon these blocks, and to distinguish by features the one from the other..that description of statue was called ‘terminal’, or ‘Hermæan’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1813 |
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