Definition of "sculpturesque" []

• Suggestive of or having the qualities of sculpture. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The Classical style has well been called sculpturesque, the Romantic picturesque."
• "I see Louis, stone-carved, sculpturesque; Neville, scissor-cutting, exact; Susan with eyes like lumps of crystal; Jinny dancing like a flame, febrile, hot, over dry earth; and Rhoda the nymph of the fountain always wet."
• "In addition, terms of plastic arts such as “chiaroscuro,” “Claudian,” and “sculpturesque,” when applied to literature, are often limited to similar content rather than to similar form (Giovannini, 1950)."