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How To Use Glyptic art In A Sentence

  • 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.
  • We are not talking imperishable masterpieces of the glyptic art.
  • Pompadour was herself one of the few eighteenth-century practitioners of this glyptic art.
  • In Naples, Sir William Hamilton collected an extraordinary range of vases, bronze and marble statuary, glass, gems, jewellery, and glyptic art.
  • Although these specimens of antique jewelry set with emeralds may be numbered by the score or more in the museums and "reliquaries" of Europe, but very few engraved emeralds have descended to us from ancient times: This rarity is not due to the hardness of the stone, for the ancient lapidaries cut the difficult and still harder sapphire: therefore we must believe the statement of the early gem-writers that the emerald was exempted from the glyptic art by common consent on account of its beauty and costliness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873

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