different between sculpture vs maquette

English

Etymology

From Middle English sculpture, from Old French sculpture, from Latin sculpt?ra (“sculpture”), from sculp? (“to cut out, to carve in stone”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?sk?lpt???/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sk?lptj(?)?/, /?sk?lpt???/
• Hyphenation: sculp?ture

Noun

sculpture (usually uncountable, plural sculptures)

1. (countable) A three dimensional work of art created by shaping malleable objects and letting them harden or by chipping away pieces from a rock (sculpting).

   • There, too, in living sculpture, might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.

2. Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
3. (zoology) The three-dimensional ornamentation on the outer surface of a shell.

Translations

Verb

sculpture (third-person singular simple present sculptures, present participle sculpturing, simple past and past participle sculptured)

1. To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
2. To represent something in sculpture.
3. To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.

Translations

Related terms

• sculpt
• sculptor
• sculptureless
• sculpturelike

Further reading

• sculpture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sculpture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sculpture at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skyl.ty?/ (p is not pronounced)
• Homophone: sculptures

Noun

sculpture f (plural sculptures)

1. sculpture

Further reading

• “sculpture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• sculpteur

Latin

Participle

sculpt?re

1. vocative masculine singular of sculpt?rus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French maquette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæ?k?t/

Noun

maquette (plural maquettes)

1. A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
   • 2009, Joe Fig, Inside the Painter's Studio (page 51)

     And I thought, if I can imagine this place in real life, I can build it in the studio and then paint from the maquette as if it were a real landscape. In terms of process this was a breakthrough for me […]

Translations

Verb

maquette (third-person singular simple present maquettes, present participle maquetting, simple past and past participle maquetted)

1. (art, transitive, intransitive, rare) To prepare a maquette (of).

French

Etymology

From Italian macchietta (“speck, little spot”), diminutive of macchia (“spot”), ultimately from Latin macula (“spot, stain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.k?t/

Noun

maquette f (plural maquettes)

1. model, mock-up

Derived terms

• maquettiste

Descendants

• ? Catalan: maqueta
• ? English: maquette
• ? German: Maquette, Makette
• ? Greek: ?????? (makéta)
• ? Portuguese: maquete, maqueta
• ? Romanian: machet?

Further reading

• “maquette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).