单词 | sculptor |
释义 | sculptorn. 1. One who practises the art of sculpture; chiefly, an artist who produces works of statuary in stone (esp. marble) or bronze. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraver sculptor1634 under-engraver1656 engraver1705 scratcher1736 scraper1763 print cutter1766 block-cutter1859 burinista1864 point-draughtsman1872 cutter1880 print trimmer1892 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > sculptor or carver imagerc1400 carverc1405 graver1430 cutter1572 scraper1591 insculptor1598 sculptor1634 sculptress1662 sculpturist1689 sculpturer1732 chiseller1883 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 59 A Pegasus: an inuention of the Sculptor, to expresse his workemanship. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Sculptor, a graver or carver. 1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 209 Here are many Sculptors both for Ivory and Wood. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 25 Sept. (1837) II. 87 His sculptors could have made no other figure so proper for that purpose as this statue. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 231 Jacopo della Quercia, a sculptor whose works are now to be sought in Siena, Lucca, and Bologna. 1893 Academy 13 May 413/1 The fronts of the mansion were decorated with statues by skilled sculptors. ΚΠ 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus ii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 110 Sculptors in their strongest shadows, after this order do draw their double Haches. c1700 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) I. 21 He brought over Winceslaus Hollar, the Sculptor. 3. Astronomy. (See quot. 1852.) ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > constellation > Southern constellations > [noun] > Sculptor sculptor1852 1852 J. R. Hind Astron. Vocab. 52 Sculptor, an abbreviation for Apparatus Sculptoris, one of the southern constellations introduced by Lacaille. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1634 |
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