| 单词 | antic work |
| 释义 | > as lemmasantic work 1. Architecture and Decorative Arts. Designating a style of decorative painting or sculpture consisting of the interweaving of human and animal forms with flowers and foliage; grotesque in composition, shape, or ornamentation. Frequently in antic work. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [adjective] > types of artistic treatment or style antica1536 Moresque1611 barbaric1667 massive1723 popular1730 maniéré1743 regency1811 tedesco1814 massy1817 Barbaresque1831 sensualistic1838 broad1849 conventional1851 expressional1856 tight1891 stylized1898 distressed1940 pop1956 transgressive1969 a1536 Building Acct. in E. Law Hist. Hampton Court (1885) App. C. 352 To Robert Skyngke..moulder of Antyke-worke, for a trayle of antyk sett in the great Joull-pece in the Kynges new Hall. 1536 MS Accts. Masters of Wks. IV. f. 84, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Antik In flanderis roundis & squair antik peces..paintit glas in bordouris in antik faces. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxvii. 89 All voyde places..he filleth-vp with antike Boscage or Crotesko works. 1623 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. VII. O.T. xviii. 55 Like some anticke statue, in a posture of impotent indeuour. 1656 P. Heylyn Full Relation Two Journeys i. ii. vii. 91 Le pont de Nostre dame, which is all covered with two goodly ranks of houses: and those adorned with portly and antick imagery. 1703 City & Country Builder 5 Antick, or Antique-work..a confused Composure of Figures of different Natures, and Sexes, etc. As of Men, Beasts, Birds, Flowers, Fishes, etc. And such like Fancies as are not in Rerum Natura... This Work which we call Antick, the Italians call Grotesca..and the French Grotesque. 1958 J. Summerson Archit. Brit. 1530 to 1830 (ed. 3) xi. 102 The tower..to whose five storeys the five orders, heavily crusted with antic-work, are pedantically and precariously applied. < as lemmas |
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