sculptured painting

noun

A painting in which materials are used to add relief in a third dimension.

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Meanings

nounsculptured painting (plural sculptured paintings)

plural sculptured paintings

  1. artA painting in which materials are used to add relief in a third dimension.

    A sculptured painting in the grand temple of Karnak furnishes the explanation; wherein they appear filled by great trees or masts, their elevation inferring they were spliced as our present masts.

    1824, Edward Upham, Rameses: an Egyptian tale, with historical notes of the era of the pharaohs, page 315
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