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Sculptor

Sculptor

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A faint group of stars in the southern sky near Phoenix and Cetus
  • proper noun
translation icon : Escultor
  • The Sculptor constellation is located in the Southern Hemisphere near Phoenix and Cetus.

Examples

  • Walker, Roslyn Adele. 1998. Olowe of Ise: A Yoruba Sculptor to Kings. Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Cool HammyBot card of the week: Jace, the Mind Sculptor.

    Blog text (28)

  • As months passed, Sculptor Ziolkowski's marble cutting became the biggest show in West Hartford.

    Blog text (24)

  • Jace, the Mind Sculptor.

    Blog text (28)

  • There, stripped to the waist, Sculptor Ziolkowski hacked and chiseled.

    Blog text (24)

  • Sculptor Peter Gilbert, 1968 (photograph Ann Zelle)

    Academic text (2011)

  • Bret Mison, Tony Alderson, Sculptors

    Fiction book (1991)

  • Sculptor Gay Malin made a mold of the skull and inserted pegs cut to average tissue thickness.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The head of the Man with the Broken Nose is recalled from Rodin's moment of self-discovery and placed on the shoulders of the self-referential figure in The Sculptor and his Muse.

    Academic text (1995)

  • Baade's work with Hubble on two newly discovered galaxies in Fornax and Sculptor convinced him they were actually dwarf elliptical galaxies, then an unknown concept.

    Academic text (2002)

Surface Forms

Sculptor main

Morphology

Sculptor = sculptor (opaque) = sculpt + or

As a constellation name, the connection to the common noun 'sculptor' is nominal and not meaningfully inferable from the component parts alone.

Etymology

Sculptor comes from a Latin verb that means 'to carve' and shares the same root sculpt as sculpture, which is made by someone who carves. The constellation was named after this idea, as if an artist had 'carved' a shape among the stars, which is why the sky pattern is called Sculptor.