living picture
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of living picture
First recorded in 1870–75
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
But likewise the example with which Byzantine domination in Italy opens will suffice to represent to us in a living picture the permanent relation of the Popes to the eastern or Greek empire.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
The living picture filled me with melancholy, and I went in dreams to some lonely desolate place, where all was sand and silence.
From All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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