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单词 glyptic
释义

glyptic

/ˈɡlɪptɪk /
adjective
Of or concerning carving or engraving.In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art....
  • These statues are generally unlike images in two-dimensional narrative art, whether political or religious, and they are also unlike images of deities or super-natural beings known primarily from the glyptic arts.
  • Pompadour was herself one of the few eighteenth-century practitioners of this glyptic art.

Origin

Early 19th century: from French glyptique or Greek gluptikos, from gluptēs 'carver', from gluphein 'carve'.

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