maquette
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- noun
- /məˈkɛt/
- Specialized
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maqueta
- She created a maquette to help visualize the layout of the outdoor sculpture garden.
- maquette for sculpture
- maquettes and drawings
- maquette or model
Examples
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Wolfe now has four months to make the maquette and finish a clay statue.
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Here, he poses in his studio with the original maquette he crafted in 2004.
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And, by the way, how many days did it take you to build this maquette?
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So what I have made here is more like the maquette of a sculpture rather than a sculpture in and of itself.
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Wolfe had made a maquette of Bird eight years ago, but plans to make a new version, which will be reviewed by the donor, the university, and the university foundation as well as Bird.
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Detail down to the mustache: Bill Wolfe's original maquette of Indiana State University basketball legend Larry Bird included his mustache and trademark shooting form.
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There are ten paintings in the show accompanied by photos, drawings, clay maquettes, oil sketches, photo-shopped photos, and portions of a documentary film.
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Tail's command of design enabled him to transfer compositions easily from small ink or oil-painted maquettes to large, multicolored tapestries.
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That same year, he put his theory into practice in an architectural maquette that combined the geometrizing features of his "Maison cubiste" (1912) with a Gothic style derived from English country house designs (Fig. 2).
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But his maquette for a monument commemorating the defense of Paris in the recent war, a dynamic conception of a nude male hero roused from his swoon by the furious winged spirit of the Nation, was not what the Conseil Municipal had in mind.
Academic text (1995)
Synonyms
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3.2
Shaping soft material like clay into a statue or rough copy used as a guide
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A full size model of something to test or show it
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Maquette comes from French, where the ending -ette means 'small', so it began as a word for a 'small model'. Think of the familiar word model — a maquette is a tiny model artists or architects make to test a design before they build the full version.