Statuary Meaning
/ˈstæ.t͡ʃʊə.ɹi/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe craft of making statues.
nounStatues considered collectively.
Sentence Examples
The garden is full of beautiful and grand marble statuary.
Statuary is a group of statues or the art of making statues.
The museum gardens are decorated with beautiful classical statuary.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum displayed a collection of beautiful Roman ____ made of white marble.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beautiful ____ in the park includes many carved figures of famous local historical leaders and poets.
Word Origin & History
From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary."
— 2012, Ruth Ramsden, chapter 9, in Blue Murder at the Pink Parrot, London: Cutting Edge Press, →ISBN, page 137:
"He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]"
— 1655, [Hamon L’Estrange], The Reign of King Charles: An History Faithfully and Impartially Delivered and Disposed into Annals, London: […] E. C. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, […], page 64:
"There is the lady’s own book, complete without a teacher—showing how the waist should be boddiced; the parasol handled; the statuary attitudes; the Parisian curtsy; the prettiest toss of the head, and swing of the train."
— 1862, James B[owen] Everhart, “Women”, in Miscellanies, West Chester, Pa.: Edward F. James, page 32:
"Characteristically, the photo series ends with the trainer having successfully contorted the boy’s body into a classical, statuary pose, even as the boy forces a pained smile for the camera."
— 2004, Keith A. Livers, “Lev Kassil’: The Soccer Match as Stalinist Ritual”, in Constructing the Stalinist Body: Fictional Representations of Corporeality in the Stalinist 1930s, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., →ISBN, page 168:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The museum displayed a collection of beautiful Roman ____ made of white marble.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The beautiful ____ in the park includes many carved figures of famous local historical leaders and poets.