What is "sculptors"

Usage examples of "sculptors".

He told them why he thought there were no more sculptors: the strength expended in carving with hammer and chisel exhausted mind and body alike, in contrast to the brushes, pens and charcoal which the painter used so lightly.

That was why there were no more sculptors today, because it took a thousand times more accuracy of judgment and vision.

From here he turned into Via Pietrapiana, Street of the Flat Stones, which led through Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, in the church of which were buried the sculptors Verrocchio and Mino da Fiesole.

A mysterious plague which affected Tuscan sculptors had wiped out the very last of them.

Lorenzo de' Medici wants to create a new generation of sculptors for Florence.

Jacopo della Quercia is not known in Florence, yet he is one of the greatest sculptors that Italy has produced.

By the fourteenth century the sculptors were showing Christ in full face, with all parts of the body symmetrically disposed on either side of a central, structural line.

The club, the long lion skin, the apples had been used by former sculptors to depict fortitude.

The Wool Guild hoped that, like the Ghiberti, Brunelleschi and Della Quercia competition a century before, the Duccio block would attract sculptors from all over Italy.

The half dozen other sculptors in town, including Baccio, Buglioni and Benedetto da Rovezzano, had walked away from the column, saying that since the deep gouging had been done midway down its length it must certainly break in two at that narrow point.

He was friendly and companionable at the dinners of the Company, stopped attacking Leonardo, helped other sculptors with their designs when they were seeking commissions.

He had inside himself the power of ten ordinary sculptors, of a hundred, if necessary.

During his stay in 1505 when he had been gathering blocks for Julius' tomb he had been received with as much reserve as any of the other foreign sculptors who came to buy marble for their commissions.

Michelangelo bought himself a wagonload of logs, set up his worktable in front of the fire and surrounded himself by letters from Baccio d'Agnolo, who was going to help him build a wooden model of the façade, from Sebastiano telling him that a dozen sculptors, including Raphael, were trying to take the façade commission away from him.

But we too have suffered from the loss of contracts from agents and sculptors waiting to buy from the Pope's quarries.