braccio
Americannoun
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braccia
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Etymology
Origin of braccio
First recorded in 1750–60; from Italian: literally, “an arm,” from Latin bracchium; see brace
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The show also features numerous loans from private collectors and institutions, most notably a rare figural lira da braccio from Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum and an exquisitely decorated hurdy-gurdy from London’s Victoria & Albert Museum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The exhibit also approaches issues of gender, through the elaborately decorated 1511 lira da braccio, a bowed string instrument of the Renaissance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Venetian braccio was longer than the Florentine, which would have made Galileo’s measurements much more nearly accurate.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
A few years later when he was in Rome, he sought out a shop which sold measuring sticks and acquired a Florentine braccio.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
They are the chief persons of the obsolete commedia a braccio, and have their nationality and peculiarities marked by immemorial attribution.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
Indeed, in Florence and Venice two different braccia were used for different purposes.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
He therefore painted, for places below the work of Pordenone in the principal chapel of S. Rocco, two pictures in oils as broad as the width of the whole chapel—namely, about twelve braccia each.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari
For the above-named Catholic King he has executed a Christ in marble, more than three braccia high, with the Cross and with other Mysteries of the Passion, which is much extolled.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol. IX (of 10) Michelagnolo to the Flemings by Giorgio Vasari
Then on the outer side there must be another vault, which must be two braccia and a half thick at the base, in order to protect the inner one from the rain.
From Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 02 (of 10), Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by Gaston du C. De Vere
And he made a statue in marble of four braccia, a very beautiful figure of S. Catharine the Martyr, which was sent to Taormina, a place twenty-four miles distant from Messina.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari
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