sculpturesque

[ skuhlp-chuh-resk ]

/ ˌskʌlp tʃəˈrɛsk /

suggesting sculpture: the sculpturesque beauty of her face.

Origin of sculpturesque

First recorded in 1825–35; sculpture + -esque

sculp·tur·esque·ly, adverb sculp·tur·esque·ness, noun

Plastered, impressionistic and sculpturesque, there was about him a quality of the tragic, of the magnificent.

Penrod and Sam |Booth Tarkington
The national games, the religious pageants, the theatrical shows, and the gymnastic exercises of the Greeks were sculpturesque.

Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol II of 2) |John Addington Symonds
Decorative accessories of this sculpturesque kind are largely used in the paintings of Andrea Mantegna of Padua.

Illuminated Manuscripts in Classical and Mediaeval Times |J. Henry Middleton
What is left by way of similarity is a sculpturesque refinement in Sigelgaita's portrait, not unworthy of Pisano's own chisel.

Renaissance in Italy Vol. 3 |John Addington Symonds

The Synagogue of sculpture has her eyes bound, the sculpturesque expression of eyelessness.

The Mediaeval Mind (Volume I of II) |Henry Osborn Taylor

sculpturesque

/ (ˌskʌlptʃəˈrɛsk) /

resembling sculpture

sculpturesquely, adverb sculpturesqueness, noun