morbidezza

[ mawr-bi-det-suh; Italian mawr-bee-det-tsah ]

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noun

, Fine Arts.

the effect of extreme softness and delicacy in pictorial and sculptural representations.

1615–25; < Italian, equivalent to morbid ( o ) delicate ( morbid ) + -ezza -ice

The colouring was more soft and Roman, with the dull gleam of pearls, a distinguished pallor, morbidezza.

A bad painter often hits the general features, though he fall ever so short of the graces of Titian, or the Morbidezza of Guido.

She was tall, and her lovely arms showed through the black gauze of her dress with an exquisite roundness and morbidezza.

They blend the morbidezza of the senses with a rare feeling for natural and artistic beauty.

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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