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morbidezza
[ mawr-bi-det-suh; Italian mawr-bee-det-tsah ]
noun
, Fine Arts.
- the effect of extreme softness and delicacy in pictorial and sculptural representations.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of morbidezza1
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Example Sentences
The colouring was more soft and Roman, with the dull gleam of pearls, a distinguished pallor, morbidezza.
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A bad painter often hits the general features, though he fall ever so short of the graces of Titian, or the Morbidezza of Guido.
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She was tall, and her lovely arms showed through the black gauze of her dress with an exquisite roundness and morbidezza.
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They blend the morbidezza of the senses with a rare feeling for natural and artistic beauty.
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Both are marked by the same morbidezza, the same pliancy, as of acanthus leaves that feather round the marble of some Roman ruin.
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