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polychrome

[pol-ee-krohm] / ˈpɒl iˌkroʊm /


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Baghramian, who was born in Iran, will present abstract, polychrome sculptures, in the niches, that “seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam,” the museum said.

From New York Times Apr. 10, 2023

The mug was described in the auction catalogue as "a tin glazed commemorative mug with polychrome decoration depicting a bust length portrait of King Charles II, crowned and wearing armour and titled 'CD2 and 1660'".

From BBC Jan. 13, 2023

They did it in the nicest possible way, sending polychrome penny postcards eastward to their relatives and acquaintances in the deadest weeks of winter.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 13, 2022

All the colorized statues are interpretations of what the polychrome scholars believe they may have looked like.

From Washington Post Aug. 11, 2022

The debris, rolling and flowing down the sides of the volcanic mountains, arching in great jets over the polychrome landscape, is more than enough to cover the impact craters.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The Y, from 1930, by Dwight James Baum, who designed the building to look like an Italian hill town, with battlements and balconies and polychromed sculptures of evangelists.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2020

“I consider his polychromed Popeye a current masterpiece,” Taschen said, “and could imagine sharing a room with it.”

From New York Times Apr. 21, 2015

Native craftsmen also lavished loving skill on the churches' ornate, polychromed interiors, hewing their sculptures from native woods and stone or molding them from a paste made of corn.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cinderella question was whether the 26-in.-high polychromed bust of a young woman holding primroses was the handiwork of one of Italy's most famous Renaissance masters.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are all dwellers in a vast picture-gallery, with frescoed dome above and polychromed sculpture and mosaic pavement on the floor below.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various




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