archaistic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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The superb piece, previously unpublished, displays archaistic features.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2010
From some such feeling came the Pre-Raphaelite movement of our own day and the archaistic movement of later Greek sculpture.
From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar
He has a certain archaistic mannerism in his work recalling the Aeginetan marbles, which individuality puts a Manship stamp upon his work, striking a distinctly personal note.
From Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts by James, Juliet Helena Lumbard
This figure appears to be of archaistic rather than of archaic workmanship, that is, the artist has consciously imitated the 72 archaic style.—Athens.
From A Catalogue of Sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum, Volume I (of 2) by Smith, A. H.
The tendency of the period was eclectic and archaistic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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