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Virtu

noun
1.
Love of or taste for fine objects of art.  Synonyms: connoisseurship, vertu.
2.
Artistic quality.  Synonym: vertu.
3.
Objet d'art collectively (especially fine antiques).





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"Virtu" Quotes from Famous Books



... have? If you do not, you Man or you Nation, love the Truth enough, but try to make a Chapman-bargain with Truth, instead of giving yourself wholly soul and body and life to her, Truth will not live with you, Truth will depart from you; and only Logic, "Wit" (for example, "London Wit"), Sophistry, Virtu, the AEsthetic Arts, and perhaps (for a short while) Bookkeeping by Double Entry, will abide with you. You will follow falsity, and think it truth, you unfortunate man or nation. You will right surely, you for one, stumble ...
— History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg—1412-1718 • Thomas Carlyle
... O rustici! Attenti, non fiatate! Io gi suppongo e immagino Che al par di me sappiate Che io son quel gran medico Dottore Enciclopedico Chiamato Dulcamara, La cui virtu preclara E i portenti infiniti Son noti in tutto il mondo—e ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various


Words linked to "Virtu" :   appreciation, discernment, taste, perceptiveness, art object, quality, piece, vertu, objet d'art, connoisseurship


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