living picture
Example Sentences
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In one project for Hixson’s course, which focused on socially engaged art, students dressed up to create a tableau vivant, or living picture, re-creating Raphael’s masterpiece “The School of Athens.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2017
A great living picture has two subjects, one in the foreground and one in the background.
From The Verge • Jul. 30, 2014
He has created in Mr. Cane a winning, living picture, full of pathos and triumphant dignity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then, one day, while he was chopping wood, a girl came across the yard who was the living picture of the huldre: but when she drew nearer, he saw it wasn't she.
From Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life by Bj?rnson, Bj?rnstjerne
I wish to see this perfect singer, this living picture of myself.”
From The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt by Glovatski, Alexander
