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Definition of Toreutic
1. a. In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.
Definition of Toreutic
1. Adjective. (arts) In relief; relating to sculpture in relief, especially of metal. ¹
2. Adjective. Relating to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Toreutic
1. pertaining to a type of metalwork [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toreutic
Literary usage of Toreutic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hand-book of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate by George Ripley, Bayard Taylor (1852)
"... Marquetry; next to toreutic art, (with which it must not be confounded,) that
branch most practised by the ancients. It consisted in laying thread. ..."
2. Hand-book of Literature and the Fine Arts: Comprising Complete and Accurate by George Ripley, Bayard Taylor (1852)
"... resembling the modern Buhl, Marquetry; next to toreutic art, (with which it
must not bo' confounded,) that branch most practised by the ancients. ..."
3. Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers, and Their Work: A Handbook by Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1881)
"... was a worker in marble and bronze, an architect, and a toreutic artist.
He also wrote a treatise on the proportions of the human body, called Kca/uv, ..."
4. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"[When we confound the toreutic art, as it is rightly explained §. 173. 311, and
which works with more or less delicacy and minuteness on ..."
5. Ancient Art and Its Remains: Or, A Manual of the Archaeology of Art by Karl Otfried Müller, Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1852)
"[When we confound the toreutic art, as it is rightly explained §. 173. 311, and
which works with more or less delicacy and minuteness on the surface, ..."
6. History of Sculpture, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time: From the by Wilhelm Lübke (1872)
"Nevertheless, as a rule, toreutic works are distinct from other artistic styles,
... The noblest toreutic work consists in the fashioning of various ..."
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