单词 | maquette |
释义 | maquetten. 1. Art. A small preliminary sketch, or wax or clay model, from which a work (usually in sculpture) is elaborated. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > [noun] > model or sketch working model1844 maquette1880 modelletto1937 modello1937 1880 J. B. Matthews Theatres of Paris xii. 196 A maquette..is the miniature model..which the scene painter prepares. 1903 Athenæum 24 Jan. 122/3 M. J. B. E. Detaille has, after a long delay, executed four maquettes, each comprehending three large panels. 1926 W. J. Locke Stories Near & Far 78 The maquette or model in clay. 1951 H. Read Meaning of Art (ed. 3) ii. 240 The sculptor's maquette, or model, was reproduced, generally by other hands, either by being cast in bronze, or by being reproduced to scale by mechanical methods in marble. 1970 Country Life 31 Dec. 1280/3 This was the noble terra-cotta of a mourning woman..the maquette for the figure of the wife on the Westminster Abbey monument to the poet Nicholas Rowe. 1988 F. Spalding Brit. Art since 1900 i. 29 Much Edwardian sculpture is preferable in maquette form, for on this intimate scale it can display a fluency and subtlety of modelling. 2. In extended use: a small-scale model or template for something. ΚΠ 1958 Times 8 Oct. 6/4 One might describe his art as a prolonged maquette for some ultimate synthesis or other. 1982 F. Raphael Byron (1988) 49 The Spenserian stanza was borrowed from The Faerie Queene—thanks to his anthological volume Elegant Extracts he had the maquette with him. 1994 New Scientist 4 June 15/3 Dutton and colleagues see their maquette as a model for enzymes such as haemoglobin peroxidase and especially cyctochromes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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