Perugino
noun
Pietro Vannucci, 1446–1524, Italian painter.
Peruginesque
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a word derived from
Perugino.
Example Sentences
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There were long-haired lads who fancied the sublime lay in the Peruginesque manner, and depicted saintly personages with crisp draperies, crude colours, and haloes of gold-leaf.
From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray
The figure of the Virgin, with long flowing locks of the richest and most sunny auburn, is of very great beauty and quite Peruginesque in style and conception.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
The delicious figure of the Virgin in his great window in the cathedral is thoroughly and entirely Peruginesque.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
And when somewhat later he painted the exquisite, still Peruginesque, Apollo and Marsyas, semi-medieval habits again asserted themselves with delightfully blent effects.
From Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater
How unlike the Peruginesque conception of life in its almost perverse other-worldliness, which Raphael now leaves behind him, but, like a true scholar, will not forget.
From Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater
