statuary means the craft of making statues.
statuary is pronounced /ˈstæ.t͡ʃʊə.ɹi/.
Etymology
From Latin statuāria (ars) (“(art) of sculpture”), feminine of the adjective statuārius (“of statues”).
noun
- The craft of making statues.
- Statues considered collectively.“Simply on aesthetic grounds I can almost applaud the Victorians’ fig obsessed Bowdlerisation of Greek and Roman statuary.”
- A person who makes or deals in statues.
adj
- Of, relating to, or characteristic of statues.“He [Francis Bacon] lyeth interred in the Church of St. Michael at St. Albans in Hartfordſhire, and hath there a fair ſtatuary monument erected for him of white Marble at the coſt of Sir Thomas Meautis, his ancient ſervant, who was not neerer to him living then dead: […]”