Crossword-Solution: SPREZZATURA
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Nonchalant aesthetic quality | 1 answer |
| The art of appearing effortlessly nonchalant | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SPREZZATURA (5)
Those abrupt transitions, whereby he sought to simulate the lordly _sprezzatura_ of the Theban eagle, 'soaring with supreme dominion in the azure depths of air,' remind us mainly of the hoppings of a frog.
The princely _sprezzatura_ of its ancient occupants, careless of these unfinished courts and unroofed galleries amid the splendour of their purfled silks and the glitter of their torchlight pageantry, has yielded to sullen cynicism—the cynicism of arrested ruin and unreverend age.
The princely _sprezzatura_ of its ancient occupants, careless of these unfinished courts and unroofed galleries amid the splendor of their purfled silks and the glitter of their torchlight pageantry, has yielded to sullen cynicism--the cynicism of arrested ruin and unreverend age.
About this time it became fashionable to paint with a certain degree of careless ease, or _Sprezzatura_, as it is styled by some; and Giordano and some Venetians are applauded for this manner.
CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION 1 Definitions of "Art" and "Beauty"--Æsthetic systems--The earliest Art--Art periods--The Grecian and Italian developments--National and individual "Inspiration"-- Powers of imagination and execution--Nature of "Genius"-- The Impressionist Movement--Sprezzatura--The broad manner-- Position in art of Rembrandt and Velasquez--Position of Landscape in art.
Quotes with SPREZZATURA (1)
I saw myself as reviving a certain mode of life, a mode that had been almost lost: the contemplative life of the country gentleman, in harmony with his status and history. In Renaissance times they had called it sprezzatura. The idea was to do whatever one did with grace, to imbue one’s every action with beauty, while at the same time making it look quite effortless. Thus, if one were to work at, say, law, one should raise it to the level of an art; if one were to laze, then …
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Appears in: New Yorker, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2022–2023).