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Virtuosity   Listen
noun
Virtuosity  n.  
1.
The quality or state of being a virtuoso; in a bad sense, the character of one in whom mere artistic feeling or aesthetic cultivation takes the place of religious character; sentimentalism. "This famous passage... over which the virtuosity of modern times, rejoicing in evil, has hung so fondly."
2.
Virtuosos, collectively.
3.
An art or study affected by virtuosos.





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"Virtuosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... perversity. I can merely say in self-defence that, on the outside, Santa Maria sopra Minerva no more promised an inner beauty than Il Gesu, which is the most baroque church in Rome, without the power of coming together for a unity of effect which baroque churches sometimes have. It is a tumult of virtuosity in painting, in sculpture, in architecture. Statues sprawl into frescoed figures at points in the roof, and frescoed figures emerge in marble at others. Marvels of riches are lavished upon chapels and altars, which again are so burdened with ...
— Roman Holidays and Others • W. D. Howells
... be both fluid and ethereal. It appears that the accentuation of lines according to rule that is seen later on, where forms are synthetized—sometimes to an excessive degree—was only a derivation of the work of Wang Wei and caused by the intrusion of calligraphic virtuosity into ...
— Chinese Painters - A Critical Study • Raphael Petrucci
... of having cut out other men, and especially the pathological perversions of the sexual appetite, form the chief object of the thoughts and conversations of pornographic minds. Each tries to outdo the others in sexual enormities, and the virtuosity of these gentlemen in this domain is only surpassed by their ignorance and ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel


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