sculptured painting

English

Noun

sculptured painting (plural sculptured paintings)

  1. (art) A painting in which materials are used to add relief in a third dimension.
    • 1824, Edward Upham, Rameses: an Egyptian tale, with historical notes of the era of the pharaohs, page 315:
      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.
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