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
The sun was going down, and its last slanting rays made a living picture of her in the crude frame of logs.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)
The Chicago Evening Journal says: "It presents a truthful and living picture of the greatest of Americans."
From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.
