Peruginesque
- a word derived from Perugino.
Example Sentences
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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
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 Pater, Walter
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 Thackeray, William Makepeace
The woman who waits on the right is Peruginesque in type and attitude, although with the robust physique that belongs to Signorelli.
From Luca Signorelli by Cruttwell, Maud
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 Pater, Walter
