Tanagran.

Brit.

/ˈtanəɡrə/, U.S.

/ˈtænəɡrə/

Etymology: < Tanagra, the name of a city of Boeotia in ancient Greece.

Used attributively and absol. to designate terracotta statuettes of the 5th to 3rd centuries b.c. found in the neighbourhood. (See also quot. 1899.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > school or style of sculpture

Phidiana1650

Pergamenian1680

Praxitelean1820

Romayne1860

Phidiac1865

Nara1875

Tanagra1878

Phidiacan1885

Rodinesque1901

Daedalic1931

1878 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1911) II. 195 M. Grean was resettling some of his Greek (Tanagra) specimens.

1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray vi. 112 She had all the delicate grace of that Tanagra figurine that you have in your studio.

1893 E. R. Perkins tr. C. Diehl Excurs. Greece x. 368 It is very difficult..to determine the exact date of the Tanagra figurines.

1893 E. R. Perkins tr. C. Diehl Excurs. Greece x. 369 The Tanagra statuettes vary considerably in size.

1899 C. A. Hutton Greek Terracotta Statuettes ii. 17 That aspect of individuality which is the great charm of the Bœotian statuettes from the Tanagra district, and which is so characteristic of them that any specially pretty figure, whatever its provenance, is popularly known as a ‘Tanagra’.

1915 V. Horsley in S. Paget Sir V. Horsley (1919) 309 Some wonderful Greek sculptures small scale, and large Tanagras.

1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 237/1 The shrewd eye may detect an alluring bit of jade or enamel, a Tanagra figure, or some other trinket of beauty or worth.

1927 Glasgow Herald 22 June 10 The style of the Tanagra heads of ancient Greece.

1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 469/1 Tanagra figures have been much admired..and much faked,—many of the fakes appearing..in the late 1870s and early 1880s not many years after the first discoveries of genuine Tanagra statuettes.

1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions ii. xv. 240 Shushila-Bai was as small and exquisite as a Tanagra figurine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	tanagra
释义	Tanagran. Brit. /ˈtanəɡrə/, U.S. /ˈtænəɡrə/ Etymology: < Tanagra, the name of a city of Boeotia in ancient Greece. Used attributively and absol. to designate terracotta statuettes of the 5th to 3rd centuries b.c. found in the neighbourhood. (See also quot. 1899.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [adjective] > school or style of sculpture Phidiana1650 Pergamenian1680 Praxitelean1820 Romayne1860 Phidiac1865 Nara1875 Tanagra1878 Phidiacan1885 Rodinesque1901 Daedalic1931 1878 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 29 Aug. (1911) II. 195 M. Grean was resettling some of his Greek (Tanagra) specimens. 1891 O. Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray vi. 112 She had all the delicate grace of that Tanagra figurine that you have in your studio. 1893 E. R. Perkins tr. C. Diehl Excurs. Greece x. 368 It is very difficult..to determine the exact date of the Tanagra figurines. 1893 E. R. Perkins tr. C. Diehl Excurs. Greece x. 369 The Tanagra statuettes vary considerably in size. 1899 C. A. Hutton Greek Terracotta Statuettes ii. 17 That aspect of individuality which is the great charm of the Bœotian statuettes from the Tanagra district, and which is so characteristic of them that any specially pretty figure, whatever its provenance, is popularly known as a ‘Tanagra’. 1915 V. Horsley in S. Paget Sir V. Horsley (1919) 309 Some wonderful Greek sculptures small scale, and large Tanagras. 1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 237/1 The shrewd eye may detect an alluring bit of jade or enamel, a Tanagra figure, or some other trinket of beauty or worth. 1927 Glasgow Herald 22 June 10 The style of the Tanagra heads of ancient Greece. 1960 R. G. Haggar Conc. Encycl. Continental Pottery & Porcelain 469/1 Tanagra figures have been much admired..and much faked,—many of the fakes appearing..in the late 1870s and early 1880s not many years after the first discoveries of genuine Tanagra statuettes. 1978 ‘M. M. Kaye’ Far Pavilions ii. xv. 240 Shushila-Bai was as small and exquisite as a Tanagra figurine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1878
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