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Virtu

noun
1.
Love of or taste for fine objects of art.  Synonyms: connoisseurship, vertu.
2.
Artistic quality.  Synonym: vertu.
3.
Objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques).





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"Virtu" Quotes from Famous Books



... made to stand guard over every railway station! Again, how finely did the Roman call his heroism his 'virtus'—his virtue—his manliness. With the Italians, however, it became quite a different thing; for his 'virtu' is none other than his love of the fine arts (these being to him the only subject of manly occupation), a mere objet de vertu; and his virtuoso has no more virtuousness or manliness about him than what appertains to being skilled in these same fine arts. With us, our ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... Virtu contro al Furore Prendera l'arme, e fia il combatter corto: Che l'antico valore Negli italici ...
— The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli
... Elios, who so arrayest them!" (Paradiso, XIV. 96.) Blanc (Vocabolario, sub voce) rejects this interpretation. But Dante, entering the abode of the Blessed, invokes the "good Apollo," and shortly after calls him divina virtu. We shall have more to say ...
— Among My Books • James Russell Lowell


Words linked to "Virtu" :   discernment, piece, appreciation, perceptiveness, quality, connoisseurship, art object, objet d'art, taste


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