2. Proper noun. Used to denote a style of terracotta statuary from 5th-3rd centuries BCE. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tanagra
1. a terracotta figurine [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tanagra
Literary usage of Tanagra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"The young or female of tanagra Sayaca? Var. Spotted Emerald Tanager, Lath. ...
tanagra Chloroptera, Vieil. Above, pale yellow; quills and tail green ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Unlike the tanagra figures, which are rather pictorial in style and deal with
... Many of them stand on moulded pedestals, while the tanagra figures have ..."
3. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias, James George Frazer (1898)
"On an archaic sepulchral relief found at tanagra and now in the National Museum
at Athens, which represents two beardless naked men, ..."
4. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1860)
"Cimon, by his con duct before the battle of tanagra, ... strengthen himself by
a coalition with Cimon, or fourth year after the bailie of tanagra. ..."
5. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
"From Athena to Thebes or Chalkis via tanagra. To THEBES or CHALKIS, in 2-3 days,
... Travellers hound for tanagra turn inland at Skala ..."
6. Catalogue of Greek Coins: Central Greece (Locris, Phocis, Boeotia and Euboea) by Barclay Vincent Head, Reginald Stuart Poole, British Museum Dept. of Coins and Medals (1884)
"Of this we possess, indeed, no direct evidence, but it may be inferred from the
fact that the money of tanagra, and of tanagra only, is now frequently ..."
7. Catalogue of the Terracottas in the Department of Greek and Roman by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1903)
"tanagra (C 237-336). 237. Actor. He stands on a plinth with feet close together,
... tanagra, 1882. Back flat. The figure is executed in the style of the ..."
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