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Statuette vs Maquette - What's the difference?

statuette | maquette |

As nouns the difference between statuette and maquette

is that statuette is a small statue, usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like while maquette is a preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.

statuette

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small statue, usually applied to a figure much less than life size, especially when of marble or bronze, or of plaster or clay as a preparation for the marble or bronze, as distinguished from a figure in terra cotta or the like.

    • See also

    * figurine ----

    maquette

    English

    (wikipedia maquette)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A preliminary model or sketch used in preparation for making a sculpture.
  • * 1993 , Will Self, My Idea of Fun
    • His presence would be an affront to my body; so, for it, there would be the rare delight of extinguishing an imperfect and distressed version of itself, a prototype, a maquette .
  • * 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
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