living picture
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
Two hundred masks, bearing torches of white wax illumined this admirable living picture, worthy of the great poet who inspired it.
From Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 by Barine, Arvede
Where was she? why in her own house dressing meat for her two old children, and crying bitterly the while at the living picture of happiness she had just created.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
